USSR Fooled The CIA Often With Double Agents

This may explain why there are so many misguided bureaucrats within the federal bureaucracy, and especially in the intelligence agencies. See extreme case of USSR deception by Kim Philby who was in charge of counter intelligence for MI6. He worked closely with James Angleton for many years. Ben Macintyre, A Spy Among Friends, Random House, 2014. 

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“During the Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency bucked the law of averages by recruiting double agents on an industrial scale; it was hoodwinked not a few but many times,” writes Benjamin B. Fischer, CIA’s former chief historian.
“The result was a massive but largely ignored intelligence failure,” he stated in a journal article published last week.
The failure to recognize the double agents and their disinformation designed to influence U.S. policies “wreaked havoc” on the agency, Fischer wrote in the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence.
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The agency’s ability to discern false agents turned deadly in 2009 when a Jordanian recruit pretending to work for CIA killed a group of seven CIA officers and contractors in a suicide bombing at a camp in Afghanistan.
In essence, this was the agency's own fault for developing a culture that placed a higher premium on saving the feelings of its career agents rather than protecting the agency from double agents. With so much at stake, you would have thought that the CIA would have tried to prevent this kind of infiltration at all costs. But bureaucracies have their own rationale, and even where national security is concerned, the bureaucratic mindset prevails.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/12/former_cia_historian_agency_duped_by_massive_numbers_of_double_agents_during_cold_war.html

December 28, 2015
Former CIA historian: Agency duped by massive numbers of double agents during Cold War
By Rick Moran

Recognizing USSR as Ally, Opened Door to Infiltration Which Continues Today

[From article]
FDR normalized relations with the Red monster-regime early in his first term. In exchange, the U.S. received Soviet pledges, including that the USSR would not support organizations or groups aimed at the overthrow of "the political or social order of the United States." In other words, the Soviet Union pledged not to wage a secret intelligence war against us.
But such a war was already underway. Post-recognition, this Soviet war on America, spearheaded by traitors directed by Moscow, would intensify. A veritable army of Stalin's secret agents, agents of influence, fellow travelers and dupes entered the U.S. government and related institutions. They would fight an unceasing stealth war against this country, even -- I should say, especially -- during World War II. Much to the executive branch's consternation, the House and Senate would do much to expose this stealth Soviet war in the House Un-American Activities Committee and other committees.
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In other words, ignoring, or even tolerating, the millions of people Stalin killed became a prerequisite to recognition -- the "unprincipled deal with totalitarianism," as Solzhenitsyn would call it in 1975. "In 1933 and 1941 your leaders and the whole Western world made an unprincipled deal with totalitarianism. We will have to pay for this; someday it will come back to haunt us. For thirty years we have been paying for it," the sage and courageous author of "The Gulag Archipelago" said. "And we're going to pay for it in an even worse way in the future."
It's time we try to understand what he meant.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1113/west111513.php3#.UoabLt00jDp

Jewish World Review
Nov. 15, 2013/ 12 Kislev, 5774
A day that should live in infamy
By Diana West

Pure American Psychiatrists

Pure American Psychiatrists

Why is it news that the Chinese government (and the Former Soviet Union) places whistle blowers in mental hospitals but when the US, state and local American governments do the same it is never recognized as the same abuse? The genes of American psychiatrists have been cleansed of greed, mendacity and sadism?

Roy Bercaw, Editor ENOUGH ROOM

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/12/08/asia/china.php

Chinese paper says whistleblowers are sent to mental wards
By Andrew Jacobs
International Herald Tribune
Published: December 8, 2008