DOC IS REVIEW BY JAMES ANGLETON OF 'NEW LIES FOR OLD' BY ANATOLI GOLITSYN. - (DOC UNDATED - PUB DATE EST)

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00038369
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: March 9, 2023
• Document Release Date: June 14, 2021
• Case Number: F-2016-00877
• Publication Date: January 1, 1976

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NEW LIES FOR OLD
by Anatolyi Golitsyn
Dodd, Mead and Co., New York, New York
The politics of our day confront men of conscience with hard and
sometimes dangerous choices and most severely senior officials of
goverments in ideological conflict.
Mr. Golitsyn s defection from the elite of the KGB was a premeditated
political act of a high moral order. An act not lacking in great courage,
not to mention a significant lifelong sacrifice. He left the Soviet Union
because he had lost hope in the 'true purpose and integrity of that
government. He was moved by a conviction to warn the West of the new uses
which the communist countries had devised in stealth for their improved
political, intelligence and military potential and of the new menacing
dimensions which these developments added to the Soviet threat. He
knowingly accepted the risk that by going to the West at the time he did,
he might well suffer the fate of the fabled messenger who brought bad news
nobody wanted to hear.
Too much of what he had to tell us about the meaning of the
establishment of the Department of Disinformation within the KGB and the
reach and scope of the communist threat has been overlooked in the blurred
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and distorted perspective of detente -- the communist manipulation of
disinformation, the deployment of agents of influence and controlled
sources and channels through which Western foreign policy has been trying
to find its way in Africa, the Middle East, Central America, Asia and
Afghanistan.
In the sixties, Mr. Golitsyn, from what he knew from the inside of the
KGB, conveyed warnings to the Western governments. He cited the Soviet's
determination to achieve military superiority; their desire to obtain
credits and loans from the West to finance their industrialization and
military programs; the inherent dangers of detente as well as the depth of
the Soviet�bloc clandestine penetrations in the West. Many of his views
were greeted mistakenly with disbelief, even ridicule at the time. In the
two decades since, it is not without significance that the grim events of
which he gave warning have largely come to pass. Indeed, they provide all
too often the routine grist of the day's news.
The warning did not go wholly unheard. The original contribution he
has made to the internal security of Western allies has been recognized by
them at the highest level of government.
General Sir John Hackett rightly identifies Anatolyi Golitsyn as, "The
most valuable defector ever to reach the West." I agree. The judgement
was one I reached myself some 23 years ago.
Now, for the first time, Mr. Golitsyn has set north for wide public
scrutiny his knowledge and analysis of Soviet strategy and 'in particular
the Soviet manipulations of disinformation as a masking element in that
strategy. His work is based on his unusual access to top secret files, his
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.wide association with Soviet personnel and the intimate knowledge of KGB
methodology which he acquired during his long service in that organization.
"New Lies for Old" is indispensable reading for the professionals in
intelligence and foreign policy. It is hardly less so for all individuals
-concerned with the nature of the world struggle and not least among them
the many who yearn for a painless end to superpower confrontation.
Mr. Golitsyn's revelations should also be notably instructive for
bankers and industrialists who still carry optimistically on their books,
the substantial investments which they made in Soviet bloc enterprises.
This work is not in itself deliberately controversial. It is certain
to make controversy, and this should be all to the good in the degree it
succeeds in throwing open a new door of debate in matters affecting the
fates of nations. We all stand to gain from that.
James Angleton
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