Lt. Gen. Pacepa is the highest-ranking intelligence official ever to have defected from the Soviet bloc. His new book, “Programmed to Kill: Lee Harvey Oswald, the Soviet KGB, and the Kennedy Assassination” (Ivan R. Dee) will be published in November. And he had this to say in today’s Wall St. Journal article entitled, “Propaganda Redux“,
During the Vietnam War we spread vitriolic stories around the world, pretending that America’s presidents sent Genghis Khan-style barbarian soldiers to Vietnam who raped at random, taped electrical wires to human genitals, cut off limbs, blew up bodies and razed entire villages. Those weren’t facts. They were our tales, but some seven million Americans ended up being convinced their own president, not communism, was the enemy. As Yuri Andropov, who conceived this dezinformatsiya war against the U.S., used to tell me, people are more willing to believe smut than holiness.
So now we have “the highest-ranking intelligence official ever to have defected from the Soviet bloc” claiming that the words that came out of Senator John F Kerry’s mouth defaming our military accusing them of comitting war crimes emenated directly from Soviet KGB Propaganda.
I wonder what the Junior Senator will have to say about that? Another “botched Joke” perhaps? No just a coincidence I am sure.