SOVIETS EMBARK ON NEW OF ANTI-AMERICAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000201200020-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 19, 2010
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: April 14, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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NORWICH BULLETIN (CT)
14 April 1981
Soviets embai* on new
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Bulletin, "There is no doubt that if U.S.-Soviet Relations deteriorate .~.. W...,
there will be more anti-U.S. propaganda and covert action of this type."
The Soviet Union already spends several billion dollars a? year in anti-
U.S. covert action and propaganda' - the world's largest such effort. And
this,:does not include Soviet-controlled propaganda and covert action efforts
..on the part of ? Cuba, East Germany, Poland, Czechoslavakia, Hungary -and
other Soviet bloc intelligence services.
Last year Central Intelligence Agency Deputy Director for Operations
John McMahon testified before Congress in closed committee session that the
Soviets were spending from $3, billion to $4 billion a. year on anti-U.S. covert
action and Propaganda-
"The Soviets have established a worldwide network of agents, organza
Lions, and technical facilities". to implement these programs, McMahon told
the House Intelligence Committee.
"That network is second ? to' none' in comparison to the. major world
powers in its size and effectiveness."
According to McMahon and other sources, such covert "active mea-
seres", as distinguished .. from the normal . intelligence . collection and
counterintelligence functions of the KGB, have included:
-Written and oral ."disinformation". In May 1978, Soviet Ambassador to
Zambia Solodovnikav warned Zambian President Kaunda falsely that Soviet
-intelligence had learned.British- and, American intelligence services were
plotting to . overthrow him. Kaunda was advised against making a trip to
Britain-and the U.S., since his departure was to precipitate the coup.
Solodovnikov said falsely that the U.S. and Britain had used a similar
plan to overthrow Nkrumah of Ghana.
.Forgeries and ? false rumors.- _I bogus U .S, Army field manual was
cited by the Soviets as. proof that the CIA was. secretly manipulating the
terrorist Red.Brigades who murdered Italian leader Aldo More.
This happened after it was reported that the Red Brigades had received
training in Czechoslovakia and had ties with the Soviet Union.
"Whenever the. KGB is caught red-handed in an outrageous action that
threatens the Soviet Union with. serious embarrassment," wrote Reader's
Digest Senior Editor John Barron in his book KGB: the Secret Work of Soviet
Secret Agents, "it hurriedly commences disinformation operations to divert
,world attention from the 'event. Frequently the KGB simply accuses others of
doing precisely what it has been shown to have done."
The forged field manual used in the More case also was used -by the
Soviets to try to prove that U.S. military and intelligence liaisons abroad. are
used as cover to penetrate and manipulate friendly foreign governments.
- "Gray" or unattributed propoganda. When the Soviets want to create,
an aura of authenticity around an otherwise implausible position, they use a
system of press placements through non-Soviet journalists recruited to make
sure Soviet articles surface in the local foreign press. .
with the U.S.
A Reagan Administration source familiar with such campa
on a series of forgeries of U.S. official documents sugges
Europeans.that they are facing a new holocaust because of
[-Amens ,
By WILLIAM PARHAM
Bulletin Staff Writer
The Bulletin has learned that a new Soviet covert action c
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