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.  

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12:35.  Tremendous heroes who are lost to us, and I'm very proud and happy that I was able to restore some of them.  There are more but some of the leaders who have been lost to us, I'm talking about Senator Joseph McCarthy, of course, but there were others, Representative Martin Dies, Democrat of Texas; Pat McCarran, 1876-1954, Democrat of Nevada; Senator Victor Kravchenko, Defector; other defectors, Elizabeth Bentley, 1908-1963, was KGB Defector; Whitaker Chambers, of course, still famous, did not need any help from me.  But others as well, George Racey Jordan, 1898-1966, who was the singular, single American public witness against Harry Hopkins, 1890-1946, Roosevelt's top aid, who, as I say, I think I said, comes up for special scrutiny and analysis and dossier collecting in American Betrayal.  

Anyway, long story short, because I can go on about this stuff for hours, because we are talking about the death of David Horowitz, let me redirect.  One would think that a man who made his career as an ex-communist, and presumably anti-communist, would, if he didn't love it for whatever reason, would not make war on this aspect, this extremely important and little-reckoned with stream of history.  I mean it's not just an incident, a battle, an item, a person, it is the main thoroughfare to our demise. That's one way to describe the subject of American Betrayal.  This is what happened to us, and it has been hidden from us.  And again, I kind of stumbled into it in a way.  I literally started out writing a book called The Hollowed Center.  And I remember a conversation with my editor of St. Martin's Press, Michael Flamlini, at one point, where I said, "Michael, the center isn't hollow anymore.  It's filled with Communism," words to that effect.  It wasn't hollow.  It wasn't that we didn't have something in us that made us unable to deal with Islam or communism, as it turns out as well, it was because we'd been subverted through Marxism. We've been thoroughly marxified and these are the actors some of the actors the good guys in my book and there are plenty of them it's not just depressing the good guys were the ones who saw it and tried to fight against it and for reasons of suppression, lies, bedazzling, erasure, distortion, takedowns, etc., they were denied to us.  Their work was essentially . . . they were beaten, I'm sorry to inform America.  

15:20.  Yes, we were beaten.  Can there be a comeback?  It seems highly unlikely.  So long as we remain a silent as we are and so again he dies no one is interested in praising is very curious but extremely public and prolonged spectacle that he lent himself to along with Ronald Radosh, John Earl Hanes, and Harvey Klehr.  Conrad Black became sort of one of the roped in people a writer of never seen before since Ron Capshaw picked up the baton

This is the best overview.  https://t.co/JgboIQubIj

— @realDianaWest (@realDianaWest) May 8, 2025

The Rebuttal: Defending 'American Betrayal' from the Book-Burners, Diana West, 2013.