Swamp Musings

While I was 'enjoying' the few days of the ungood food and had to stay near the facilities, I read Victor Suvorov's book, "Spetsnaz". I'm not going to give a critique of this book other than to say that there were a couple of chapters I found interesting. However, it did get me reading a bit more on the sources of terrorism and the 'why fors'. J. R. Nyquist in a column in financialsense.com wrote Grey Terror which is the strongest topic in Suvorov's book (in my estimation).

"It is generally believed that Mohammed Atta was the leader of the 9/11 strikes against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Atta was an Egyptian, a student of architecture in Cairo and Hamburg, born on Sept. 1, 1968. His studies continued to the end of the 1990s. We are told that he was seriously religious, though he was seen drinking alcohol and playing video games at a sports bar the week before 9/11.

In May 2003, Capt. Vladimir Hucin, formerly with Czech intelligence (BIS), made a curious statement in front of Petr Cibulka, the head of the Right Bloc (Pravy Blok) in response to a question about Atta: “I had information that Mohammed Atta was trained in the Zastavka terrorist training camp in 1988, by Czechoslovak Communists and STB.”

Cibulka was not surprised by Hucin’s claim regarding Atta. According to Cibulka, al Qaeda is the child of the Communist Bloc and its rogue state allies. “[Al Qaeda] is supplied and trained by Iraq,” said Cibulka in a 2003 interview. “But the real brains behind this global terrorist campaign against the free world … is in fact the Russian GRU. Moscow fights against the United States with a hidden hand.”

There is no question that the FBI and the CIA, in their infinite wisdom, would dismiss Cibulka’s statement and the allegations of Capt. Hucin. The reasoning of the FBI and CIA goes something like this: People who have fought communism their whole lives are deeply committed to their views, even when communism has collapsed. Those who hate communism do not stop hating it, and their judgment is distorted by this hatred. Therefore, statements connecting today’s terrorism with “International Communism” are not to be taken seriously.

Perhaps the prevailing wisdom of the FBI and CIA deserves the honored place it now enjoys. On the other hand, an admission that anti-Communism can become an obsession does not automatically discredit everything anti-Communists have to say. Soviet Communism invented modern terrorism. The Communists trained Arafat, Mandela, Carlos the Jackal and others. To what end was this training?

There is an old book by a GRU defector who wrote under the pen name Viktor Suvorov. The book’s title is Spetsnaz: The Inside Story of the Soviet Special Forces. Chapter 15 in this book is about Spetsnaz’s role at the outset of World War III. It makes very interesting reading.

Russian Spetsnaz commandos are trained as paratroopers, explosives experts, terrorists and assassins. According to Suvorov, World War III will not begin with conventional military operations, or even with massed nuclear missile strikes. On page 196 he describes “a series of large and small [terrorist] operations the purpose of which is, before actual military operations begin, to weaken the enemy’s morale, create an atmosphere of suspicion, fear and uncertainty, and divert attention of the enemy’s armies and police forces to a huge number of different targets….” According to Suvorov: “The principle method employed at this stage is ‘grey terror.’” This is a kind of terror that is carried out “in the name of already existing extremist groups not connected in any way with the Soviet Union, or in the name of fictitious organizations.” (snip)

Interesting, isn't it? The rest of the column is worth reading. A lot of Surovov's book was on recruiting folk in enemy nations to bring down their system from within and it reads as if he was part of the recruitment of the leftist movements (bowel movements) in this country. It's possible he was part of it as he was a GRU Intelligence Officer and having been born in 1947, makes this just about right. From his usage of a certain type of propaganda, indeed, close to verbatum, one gets the impression that Chapter VI of Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" is a primary tool of communism. I certainly saw a hell of a lot of Herr Hitler's thoughts used in the 2004 elections. It's a wonderful tool, keep 'em stupid, make mushrooms of them. Start young and train them right. Keep them in the dark and feed them horseshit. You wind up with devoted followers of foolishness like the Democratic and Republican parties which have adopted Herr Hitler's:

"The art of propaganda lies in understanding the emotional ideas of the great masses and finding, through a psychologically correct form, the way to the attention and thence to the heart of the broad masses. The fact that our bright boys do not understand this merely shows how mentally lazy and conceited they are.

Once we understand how necessary it is for propaganda to be adjusted to the broad mass, the following rule results:
It is a mistake to make propaganda many-sided, like scientific instruction, for instance.

The receptivity of the great masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan. As soon as you sacrifice this slogan and try to be many-sided, the effect will piddle away, for the crowd can neither digest nor retain the material offered. In this way the result is weakened and in the end entirely cancelled out."

Thomas Jefferson must be at about 10,000 RPM by now.

To continue after interrupting myself (a way of life!), Mosnews has this article, Russia Helped Al-Qaeda, Arming Iran — Intelligence Reports. Delightful little missive. Go read it and make your own judgements. I'm gonna go wake up the new puppy and teach her to talk!



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