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INTRODUCTION

Until its wars against communist expansion in Korea and Vietnam, America was accustomed to victory. From 1776 to 1782 and in 1812, America gained and maintained its liberty from the British Empire, the most powerful in the world. In 1846, Mexico attacked and was soundly defeated. In 1898, the United States went to war to keep Cuba independent of Spain, decimating the Spanish fleet and forcing Spain to sue for peace. In World War I, in which over 40 million Europeans were killed, the United States quickly put together an army of 4 million and became instrumental in defeating the German aggressor. In World War II, almost half a million Americans died to defeat Nazism. At its end, a united America rebuilt her vanquished enemies. It took seven years and trillions of dollars to turn Hitler’s Germany, Mussolini’s Italy, and Hirohito’s Japan into prosperous democracies, but the effort made the United States the uncontested leader of the world, a fact that has kept the peace for over seventy years.

America has always stood against tyranny from any ideological source. Russia during its socialist period killed over 90 million people throughout its empire. It stole American nuclear technology. It murdered one of our presidents. It generated today’s international terrorism. Now, our intelligence professionals say, it openly interferes in America’s internal affairs. This book is about why confronting such behavior must be at the center of America’s foreign policy.

This is the first and it will be surely the last book in history to be co-written by a former director of the U.S. foreign intelligence community and an ex-Soviet–bloc spy chief. As communism collapsed economically in the early 1990s, Pacepa effectively sent a socialist tyrant, Nicolae Ceausescu of Romania, to the gallows by writing a book entitled Red Horizons. Knowledge is power. This book adds to our knowledge base about Russia as it was in the Soviet period and as it continues to be. Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto has turned 172 years old, leaving behind the wreckage of nations like trailer parks after a hurricane. Communism’s late socialist leaders are today reviled universally as tyrants, from the Soviet Union’s Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin to Cuba’s Fidel Castro; from Yugoslavia’s Josip Broz Tito to Bulgaria’s Todor Zhivkov; from Albania’s Enver Hoxha to Hungary’s Mátyás Rakosi; from Guinea’s Sékou Touré to Tanzania’s Julius Nyerere and Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez. For years the USSR’s Nikita Khrushchev and Romania’s Nicolae Ceausescu were even found unworthy of a marked grave.

The United States fought the Cold War for forty-four long years. It may have won, but unlike other wars, this war didn’t end with the defeated enemy throwing down its weapons. The Soviet Union has changed its name, but at 6,612,100 square miles, Russia is still the largest country on earth geographically. It also still has the world’s largest stockpile of nuclear and bacteriological weapons and the world’s second largest fleet of ballistic nuclear missile submarines, a fact our politicians and press tend to ignore. Russia remains largely a mystery to America, but it is a puzzle that we assume away as subdued, or as having “collapsed,” at our peril.

On March 16, 2014, Moscow state television announced with fanfare that Russia could now turn its archenemy, the U.S., into “radioactive ash.” A single Russian electromagnetic pulse (EMP) nuclear bomb launched above the U.S. mainland from a fishing boat off either our East or West Coast could collapse the entire United States electric grid and all that depends on it—communications, transportation, banking, finance, and food and water. This is all that is currently necessary to sustain modern civilization and the lives of roughly 330 million Americans. NATO’s deputy supreme commander in Europe, General Sir Adrian Bradshaw, warned that “the threat from Russia and the risk it brings of miscalculation resulting in a strategic conflict represents an existential threat to our whole being.”

We agree.

The two of us have spent decades managing the foreign intelligence communities of our native countries. Behind Russia’s new smiling face lurk almost a hundred nuclear and bacteriological cities built and managed by the KGB. This intelligence service has been rechristened the FSB only to make it seem to be a new organization. Its sole task is to steal U.S. military technologies and weapons and to secretly reproduce them as if they were Russian inventions. Chelyabinsk city in the Urals is on a map of the Soviet Union. But Chelyabinsk-40, a city of 40,000 people also located in the Urals, is not. Nor do any maps show Chelyabinsk-65, Chelyabinsk-70, Chelyabinsk-95, or Chelyabinsk-115, all in the Urals. Krasnoyarsk city is in eastern Siberia, but there is no mention anywhere of Krasnoyarsk-25, Krasnoyarsk-26, or Krasnoyarsk-45. All these secret cities maintained by the KGB/FSB survived the collapse of the Soviet Union.¹

Candidates for public office routinely ignore the threat to national security from historical enemies of the United States. Some appear to believe that Russia is now Westernized—some who lean left even seem to believe that Russia’s cast-off socialism still ought to serve as a model for the United States. In the tradition of pie-in-the-sky promises, candidates for public office promise American voters Russian-style jobs, free education, and free health care for all. Few seem to grasp that the Soviet Union’s economic disintegration in 1989 was final proof of socialism’s bankruptcy as a system. Its failure also came without warning. Former CIA Director Stansfield Turner wrote in Foreign Affairs in 1991 that “I never heard a suggestion from the CIA or the intelligence arms of the departments of Defense or State” about “growing, systemic economic problems in the Soviet Union.”² Rather, the trendy political science theory of the 1970s was “convergence.” That the Soviet Union and the U.S. were more alike than different and were gradually coming together in a “convergence” of free market and socialist systems.

Our contemporary politicians do not seem to understand, or to remember, that each long war brings significant social and political changes to the belligerents. The Great War brought Marxism to Russia to create the Soviet Union. At the end of World War II, the USSR created a Marxist empire by swallowing up Eastern Europe. Right in the middle of the twentieth century, when much of the world was finally beginning to enjoy economic prosperity, Eastern Europe was shoved back into dismal feudalism.

In 1945, young British voters, tired of five years of war, kicked the legendary Winston Churchill—instrumental in winning World War II—out of office and brought in Clement Attlee, an undercover Marxist leader of the Labour Party. Attlee started his reign with a populist move: he nationalized the health care system and the finance system. Attlee went on, l’appétit vient en mangeant,³ to nationalize the auto and coal industries, communication facilities, civil aviation, electricity, and the steel industry. The British economy collapsed, and the powerful British Empire passed into history. This history should have been a stern warning to all. But it was largely ignored. Marxists continued to flourish and to nurture their favorite idea. Now, after eighteen years of war in Afghanistan, the specter of Marx haunts even the United States. Young Americans too love the promise of a “free lunch.”

The cover of Newsweek magazine just after our 2008 financial crisis proclaimed, “We Are All Socialists Now.”⁴ An article in, of all places, Russia’s Pravda, declared, “It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American descent into Socialism is happening with breathtaking speed, against the backdrop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.”⁵ A couple of years later, Newsweek was sold for a dollar, 14 million Americans had lost their jobs, and 41.8 million people had gone on government food stamps.

Therefore, we two decided to write a brief analysis about the secret role played by Russian intelligence in the free world. Russia has now become the first intelligence dictatorship in history—and few people know what that really means.

This is not just another spy story. It is a book about some of Russia’s most successful anti-American espionage and disinformation operations. Through these operations, the KGB, now rebaptized as the FSB to look like a new organization, moved into the Kremlin. As a result, the KGB/FSB now owns Russia. Most of these operations were born during Stalin’s and Khrushchev’s Cold War years and were left in place, largely unaffected by the collapse of the Soviet economy and the Soviet political superstructure.

The Cold War years of Khrushchev and Andropov were the period in which KGB general Aleksandr Sakharovsky, at that time known to General Pacepa under an alias (as was the rule in those days), served as Romania’s chief KGB adviser. Sakharovsky was a Soviet version of the heads of Mossad and MI6 at the peak of the Cold War. At that time, not even the members of the Israeli and British governments knew the identities of the heads of their secret intelligence agencies. Now very few people know that the urbane fan of classical music, Sakharovsky, who was also secrecy incarnate, was a killer. It is even less understood that under Khrushchev, Sakharovsky spread the KGB’s domestic mass killings out into the West. During his fourteen years as the Soviet Union’s top spy chief, the bloodthirsty Sakharovsky worked with the equally bloodthirsty Khrushchev to export Soviet-style communism to Cuba (1958–1962), where again, tens of thousands were killed to establish communist rule. Khrushchev’s and Sakharovsky’s Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. In 1969 Sakharovsky transformed airplane hijacking into a primary tool of international terrorism. That terrorist weapon of choice would resurface once again in New York City on September 11, 2001.

In this book we also focus on Russia’s secret theft of America’s super-secret nuclear technologies just before the era of Sakharovsky and Khrushchev. This theft of data helped Russia create today’s nuclear risks by proliferating nuclear technology to communist China, North Korea, Pakistan, and probably beyond.

For the past eighteen years, Russia has been managed by undercover KGB officers. As a result, even its official policies, like most intelligence operations, have been effectively written in secret ink. Without the secret developing solution, such operations cannot be read. Combining our collective experience as a former head of foreign intelligence in the United States and a former acting chief of foreign intelligence of a Soviet bloc country, Romania, we have been in a position to decode a number of top-secret Soviet intelligence operations conducted against the United States that reveal the unseen face of today’s Russia openly managed by its rechristened KGB, the FSB.