ION MIHAI PACEPA: During the Cold War, more people in the Soviet bloc worked for the dezinformatsiya [disinformation] machine than for the Soviet army and defense industry put together.

If the Soviet penetration of Washington, D.C., was so wide and so deep that it functioned like an occupation …

If, as a result of that occupation, American statecraft became an extension of Soviet strategy …

If the people who caught on – investigators, politicians,…

— E Stanton (@EStanton625970) September 12, 2025

If the Soviet penetration of Washington, D.C., was so wide and so deep that it functioned like an occupation...

If, as a result of that occupation, American statecraft became an extension of Soviet strategy …

If the people who caught on – investigators, politicians, defectors – and tried to warn the American public were demonized, ridiculed and destroyed for the good of that occupation and to further that strategy …

And if the truth was suppressed by an increasingly complicit Uncle Sam …

Would you feel betrayed?

Now available from St. Martin's Press, American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character

American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character, Diana West, 2013.

An excerpt from American Betrayal, Chapter 4 on censorship of totalitarianism both in the Soviet Union and the U.S.

What do I mean by "armies"?  Ion Mihai Pacepa, former Chief of intelligence in communist Romania, told me, "During the Cold War, more people in the Soviet bloc worked for the dezinformatsiya [disinformation] machine than for the Soviet army and defense industry put together.  The bloc's intelligence community alone had over one million officers (the KGB had over 700,000) and several million informants around the world.  All were involved in deceiving the West--and their own country--or in supporting the effort. 

Remember way back in 2022, how Biden installed one Nina Jankowicz to lead the Department of Homeland Security's Disinformation Governance Board?

I don't know how or what you think of communism, but you should know that violence and invasion are part and parcel of its  immoral ideology and destructive action.  Which is why Bolsheviks and internationalists slid underground into movements like the Environmental Movement, call it Global Warming, change the name to a more general and vacuous moniker, to suck more people into a fool's errand.  If you've forgotten about all the communist invasions, let me help.  As critical as I can be, even I underestimated the number of invasions, 

Estonia, 1918.

Latvia, 1918. Lithuania, 1918. Finland, 1918. Poland, 1918. Ukraine, 1918. Belarus, 1918. Moldova, 1918. Georgia, 1918. Azerbaijan, 1918. Central Asia, 1918. Tuva, 1918. Mongolia, 1921. Georgia, 1924. Estonia, 1924. China, 1929.  Japan, 1938. Poland, 1939-1956. Finland, 1939. Estonia, 1940. Latvia, 1940. Lithuania, 1940. Romania, 1940. Ukraine, 1942. Bulgaria, 1944. Hungary, 1944. Japan, 1945. Yugoslavia, 1944. China, 1944. Baltic States, 1944. Poland, 1944. Korea, 1950. East Germany, 1953, Hungary, 1956. Vietnam, 1960. Laos, 1960. Czechoslovakia, 1968. China, 1969. Israel, 1967.  Ethiopia, 1975.  Angola, 1975. Somalia, 1977. Afghanistan, 1979. Baltic States, 1990. Georgia, 1990. Azerbaijan, 1990. Moldova, 1992. Tajikistan, 1992. Northern caucuses, 1992. Georgia, 2008. Ukraine, 2014. Syria, 2015.

Poland, 1939-1956.  

Baltic States, 1940-1991.

Finnish territories, 1940.

Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, 1940.

Iran, 1941-1946.

Hungary, 1944-1991.

Romania, 1944-1958.

Bulgaria, 1944-1947.

Czechoslovakia, 1944-1947

Northern Norway, 1944-1946, and Bornholm Denmark, 1945-1946.

Eastern Germany, 1945-1949.

Austria, 1945-1955.

Manchuria, 1945-1946.

Korea, 1945-1948.

Kuril Islands, 1945.

COLD WAR

Hungarian Revolution of 1956.

Czechoslovakia, 1968-1989.

Afghanistan, 1979-1989.