The 1917 Communist revolution was to be the first of a worldwide series of revolution that would culminate in capitalism’s replacement by a Marxist-Leninist dictatorship of the proletariat. The depression and social unrest following the first world war presented an opportunity for the Soviets to export their revolution to the US.
The Soviet Intelligence services, the GRU and the NKVD were the means used to do this. One part of their activities was espionage, stealing military, scientific and industrial secrets, but by far the larger part of their budget, 75%, was spent on subversion. They founded or subsidized magazines, newspapers, and organizations to promote their views. Their agents wrote books, plays, poetry and folk songs. The Soviets had so many American agents that they didn’t have enough intelligence officers to run them all, and American agents had to run American agents.
At Los Almos, the isolated New Mexican mesa where the secret work on the atomic bomb was done, the Soviets operated 3 separate, independent spy rings and were thus able to verify by comparison the blueprints independently stolen by their agents, reducing the possibility of fraud or deception. By 1947, the start of the cold war, the US had no important military, industrial or political secrets unknown to the Russians.
After 1945, according to a consensus of retired US intelligence officers, the US had no significant military or scientific secrets left to steal. Which left subversion as the focus of RU intelligence agencies and explains why 2/3 of the KGB’s budget was devoted, not to intelligence acquisition, but to subversion. Subversion was and is the most powerful and effective way to ensure that your enemy will do what you want them to do.
That’s why subversion and influence were and are, the focus of social control operations conducted today against the unwitting US civilian population, not by the Russians, by deep state criminal cultists in conjunction with CIA’s “Mockingbird” network, originally assembled by Frank Wisner for the Office of Policy Coordination (OPC) which would become CIA.
It is important to note that much of our human behavior consists of what Pavlov called “conditioned responses;” these can be complex sequences of habitual actions we perform without thinking, often behaviors we’ve learned in childhood.
Much of our human activity consists in unconscious following of these conditioned behavior patterns which were, perhaps, originally acquired by hard work, study and practice. Anyone who drives a car knows how difficult that seems to a beginner, but how with experience our conditioned responses allow most of us to negotiate crowded city streets without paying conscious attention to the complex sequences of control inputs and reactions driving requires.
Pavlov identified four types of personalities in dogs. “Strong/excitory” “Lively” “Calm” “weak/inhibitory” types showed the ability to resist stress depended on inherited temperament, state of the nervous system and individual’s general health. When stress reaches a critical level, a protective state Pavlov called transmarginal inhibition is induced and strange changes in brain function take place.