Epoch Times - Inside the KGB Disinformation Handbook: Former KGB Agent Jack Barsky
Aired: 2024-08-12
Duration: 05:38


=== Intelligent Weapons and Psychological Warfare (04:48) ===

[00:00:00]  During the Cold War, the KGB manufactured a bunch of falsehoods and sort of introduced those falsehoods via willing helpers such as left-leaning magazines in France that were still respected and
[00:00:23]  The ability of the KGB was limited because how do you do damage to a society, to the workings of a society you don't really understand, you don't know well.
[00:00:36]  But nowadays, the Russian intelligence and also the Chinese intelligence, they know how this country works.
[00:00:42]  And they know how to destroy it.
[00:00:45]  And, you know, when we're talking about, you know, this kind of psychological warfare, we are incredibly vulnerable to it.
[00:00:53]  Again, because we don't have the critical thinking ability to judge what's true and what's not, or what might not be true.
[00:01:06]  If it's planted, and if it's known by many to be the truth, well, they say, oh, that's got to be true, right?
[00:01:12]  And, you know, the media doesn't help.
[00:01:15]  Even well-meaning journalists in the mainstream media very often fall victim of these falsehoods that are being spread.
[00:01:28]  Now, that's only one aspect of what Mr. Fleming talked about.
[00:01:34]  You know, we're talking about The principle of asymmetric warfare, whatever you can use to weaken the enemy, you will use.
[00:01:43]  And the Chinese and also the Russians are extremely systematic and, I believe, ahead of us.
[00:01:51]  I mean, the Russian interference in our election was true.
[00:01:57]  And how did they interfere?
[00:01:59]  They weren't necessarily for one candidate or the other.
[00:02:03]  They just wanted to undermine the trust of the American people in the electoral system.
[00:02:10]  And they did this really well.
[00:02:11]  They had a bunch of artificial personas on the internet that would join certain extremist groups and actually made them more extreme.
[00:02:23]  But, you know, warfare, we're talking asymmetric warfare.
[00:02:26]  We're talking about intelligent weapons.
[00:02:30]  We're talking about Drugs.
[00:02:35]  Introduce drugs into the other country.
[00:02:37]  Just weaken your enemy in any way you can, whether knowingly or unknowingly.
[00:02:45]  I'm not in those people's heads.
[00:02:48]  We help them, you know, with the open border particularly.
[00:02:52]  The administration admits there are so many gotaways.
[00:02:55]  We don't know who they are.
[00:02:59]  And they're not all Mexicans who want to work on our roofs.
[00:03:05]  Historically, the United States has been very vulnerable to believing that we are invulnerable because there has never been an invasion onto the soil of the continental states.
[00:03:20]  So we are very trusting and we're just like, we don't understand.
[00:03:24]  We need a whole lot more of the attitude that the Israelis have, because they know they're under siege at all times.
[00:03:33]  And I just want to volunteer one statement.
[00:03:36]  We are doing a really, really good job weakening American society.
[00:03:42]  We don't need the help from the Russians and the Chinese, but they are accelerating it, and they know what their weaknesses are, and they're digging right in there.
[00:03:51]  What this country, I don't think this country will become a dictatorship like a communist dictatorship, more like an oligarchy, a class of very wealthy people with somebody at the top, like sort of Russia, but wealth will not be equally distributed.
[00:04:09]  It's not going to happen because, you know, The nature of man won't allow that.
[00:04:16]  As we finish up, you're seeing a pretty dark picture here in America, from internal sides, from external forces.
[00:04:26]  Well, I'm not 100% negative, because there are many examples where brave people stand up and tell the truth.

=== Average Voters Lack Intellectual Weapons (01:04) ===

[00:04:40]  There are some institutions of higher learning Well, the truth is still taught, science is taught, and thinking is taught.
[00:04:50]  As a spy, I did something extremely, extremely dangerous and high risk, and you can't do that unless you're an optimist, so I'm wired to be optimistic, but I'm very much concerned.
[00:05:06]  I don't want to go any further, because there's still a chance that Sound minds will prevail, but we need to get to the majority of the people.
[00:05:20]  The average voter who... Most of them are well-meaning, good people, but they just don't have the intellectual weapons to understand what's going on.
[00:05:32]  And a lot of that is going on that may be temporarily good for them, But eventually we'll turn on them.