Yuri Bezmenov - 1983 Lecture on Subversion (Complete)

Former KGB-agent Yuri Bezmenov giving a lecture on subversion in L.A. in 1983. (notes below) ----Subversion---- ______________________________ --Characteristics-- - Psychological warfare - Hidden in plain sight - The goal is to change the perception of reality ______________________________ --Areas of application-- - Religion - Destroy - Ridicule - Replace (with sects, cults, etc) - Distract (from the real faith) - Education - Distract from - Constructive - Pragmatic - Efficient - Replace with - Propaganda literature - Class struggle - Aspirations of working class (regardless of context) - Betterment of life - Equality - Anything distracting - Social life - Replace traditional organisations/institutions with bureaucratically controlled bodies - Turn ’social people’ into ’social workers’ - Remove initiative from the people - Remove responsibility of naturally established links between individuals, groups and society at large - Power structure - Infiltrate certain elected positions - Replace certain elected positions with artificial bodies (groups of people) who nobody elected - The media - Labour relations - Destroy traditionally established links of bargaining between employers and employees - Take away power from the people, give it to the government - Government has power to distribute - People lose power over their own goods and services - Law and order - Moral relativity - Erode the structure - Blur/reverse good & evil - Hatred for police - Generalizations - Mistrust - Sympathize with evil-doers - Misunderstood ______________________________ --Phases-- ~~~ Prevent by self-education & preserving religion/traditions Demoralization: - Expose an entire generation to “the ideology of the enemy“ - Distract the people from real problems and replace them with non-problems - Distract the people from real harmony and replace it with non-existent harmony ~~~ Reverse by restricting propaganda Destabilization: - Economy (labour relations) - Radicalization of human relations - Cannot compromise - Fight, competition - Law and order - We cannot solve our own problems anymore - Most irrelevant cases go to court - Society becomes more antagonistic - Media - Opposition to society - Sleepers (subverters) go up - Become leaders of the process of destabilization (useful idiots) - Public figures - Leaders of groups - Teachers - Politicians ~~~ Reverse by restricting the power of useful idiots Crisis: (results of destabilization) - Claiming power - If power is denied to them, they take it by force - Population (at large) is looking for a savior - Strong government ~~~ Reverse is only possible by strong support, preventing the two options below and preventing rise of the ’strong government’ Two options: - Civil war - Invasion Normalization: - Get rid of anything that isn’t needed anymore - Useful idiots - Groups - Stabilize to exploit ~~~ Reverse is only possible by military force ______________________________ (if you have any suggestion/correction to the notes above, please comment!)