SOVIET 'ACTIVE MEASURES'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000100170046-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 23, 2010
• Sequence Number: 46
• Publication Date: December 1, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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B UI AANH ?I VAl r
Soviet
`active
measures'
With a former KGB chief in
the saddle in the Kremlin.
Soviet-U.S. relations are
entering a new era, in which akrivnvyc
meropriyariye - active measures
- will undoubtedly play a more and
more decisive role. In lay language.
"active measures" include back-
stairs Soviet operations designed,
among other things. to destroy our
democratic society through the use
of our own institutions, and with the
aid of some of our own people.
Naturally, the Soviets will increase
their espionage activities: but, for
the time being, there is no cause for
alarm. The number of their agents
in the United States - some 1.000,
with 400 of them undercover at the
United Nations in New York (but
not including a stil)-undetermined
number of deepcover Cuban surro-
gates) - is more than enough for
them to keep conducting electronic
eavesdropping and gathering tradi-
tional intelligence information. The
real cause for alarm, however, lies
in the fact that Yuri Andropov is the
first Soviet supreme leader to ever
know what's what about the U.S.
built-in inability to cope with them.
Since Ronald Reagan's electoral
landslide in November 1980, a large
complement of KGB operatives has
been sent into Havana and Mexico
City. In the former, the Cuban Gen-
eral Directorate of Intelligence
(DGI) is under direct KGB control.
The Soviet embassy in the laner is
widely known as a KGB staging area
against American targets. {
It is not byaccident that the new
reinforcements were composed
mostly of disinformation specialists.
Under Andropov, the KGB had honed
that an to perfection. In return. KGB
con artists helped Andropov score
two big psywar wins via El Salvador
and the anti-nuke movement.
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
1 December 1982
Last year, quite a few Americans
were misled to think that we were
propping up "bad guys" against
'.good guys" in El Salvador. This year,
the KGB plot was so successful that
even prominent elected officials have
come to believe that it is totally rele-
vant and safe for the United States
- which already trails the U.S.S.R. in
terms of stategic forces - to freeze
its military buildup and to divert its
defense money to a welfare state.
The Soviet double propaganda
coup shows an easily identifiable
pattern. Throughout the process,
from Havana and Mexico City KGB
agents acted as suppliers and super-
visors. while their comrades in the
United States skillful]\. used patri-
otic and honest men and women to
front for their "active measures"
At a later stage. well-trained propa-
gandists posing as journalists,
academicians, scientists and lead-
ers of non-government groups were
welcomed in droves into the country,
where, due to lax security and naive
liberal politicians, they were free
to disseminate KGB poison.
In recent da\'s. the parry-run Soviet
media have enthusiastically discussed
a possible revival of detente. That
came as no surprise. Neither did
the unusual haste with which net-
works
and newspapers on this side
of the Iron Curtain picked it up. A
resurrected detente would enable
more KGB-related subversives to
enter the United States as invited
guests.
We can do nothing against KGB
agents stationed beyond our border.
But we can prevent their colleagues
from coming into our homes to hang
us. our `spouses and our children
with our own cords.
Recently, at the urging of the
Marxist Institute of Policy Studies,
Donald Frazer, the left-wing mayor
of Minneapolis, and nine other
Americans went to Moscow to talk
about nuclear disarmament. In light
of their past enthusiastic support
.for those who killed 3 million Indo-
chinese;-their embrace of Moscow
is understandable. However.it is not
normal fot' us to let them invite 35
Soviet officials to come to the United
States next May. We should no longer
open our front gate to KGB agents.
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