In a memorandum to the CIA dated March 1989 Anatoli Golitsyn wrote "..The final period of 'restructuring' in the United States and Western Europe wold be accompanied, not only by the physical extermination of active anti-Communists, but also by the extermination of the political, military, financial and religious elites. Blood would be spilled and political re-education camps would be introduced.…."

That might sound unbelievable, but don't bet your life on it. Mr Golitsyn's predictions about the behaviour of the Soviet Union have a 94 per cent success rate, according to Mark Riebling (Author of Wedge: The Secret War between the FBI and the CIA).

Mr Golitsyn was a member of the KGB, having been trained at the counter-intelligence faculty of the High Intelligence School in Moscow. He defected to the USA in 1961. He spent his there in analysing what the Soviet Union was doing, and reporting his findings to the CIA. Of course nothing was done about his reports, so he asked the CIA for permission to publish his reports, and the result is this book.

The Soviets spent from 1958 to 1961 reviewing their long term strategy. Following that they implemented their drug war on the west. (See my review of Red Cocaine published in Free Life, No.33, August 1999). The also decided to abandon their policy of the "dictatorship of the proletariat" in favour of the "state of the whole people". They did so because their overt repression was not winning them sufficient influence in the west. Lenin's objective of destroying the free societies of the west is still their prime objective, only the methods have been changed. Instead of threatening us the Soviet Union pleads for subsidies which it uses to strengthen its economy and weaken the west.

No doubt you are wondering why I am using the present tense to describe a régime that collapsed in 1991. In fact it did nothing of the sort. The collapse was a piece of theatre designed to fool us into believing that socialism was dead and that the west had won the cold war. According to Mr Golitsyn, Mr Gorbachev is still the President of the Soviet Union and is executing the policies laid out by the collective leadership.

The purpose of this deception is to allow the Soviet Union to converge with the west and then take us over by destroying our free societies and enslaving us. Eventually their policy of collective security will result in one world wide Communist government.

Mr Golitsyn describes what he calls the seven keys to an understanding of the Soviet's long range strategy. They are as follows:

1. The lesson of Lenin's New Economic Policy;

2. The preparation of the political and security potential of the Soviet bloc;

3. The Creation of Controlled Political Opposition;

4. Forging of New and Old Forms for Developing Socialism with a human face;

5. The Deployment of Controlled Political Opposition in Democratic and Non-Communists Structures;

6. Fake independence of Soviet Bloc countries;

7. The Deployment of Bloc's Full Political and Security Potential in the Execution of Anti-Western Strategy

1. Although conventional economists might have seen the NEP as an admission of failure by the Soviet Union, it was intended by Lenin as a means of getting the western Capitalists to strengthen the Soviet Union's economy. Anyone who has read any revisionist history will know that it worked. Western companies fell over themselves to industrialise the Soviet Union. That lesson is now being applied to the whole of the Soviet bloc, using the money ofWestern taxpayers to strengthen the economies of the bloc and weaken those of the west.

2. Basically this means that the Soviet Union has spent many years becoming a military superpower and has trained 19 million dedicated communists to serve Marxism-Leninism. Some of them have studied the western media in order to manipulate what is reported and how. Political Correctness is a KGB invention. Look at the damage that has inflicted on western universities.

However Lenin's system still relies on terror. The dedication of these Marixists is not all that it might seem. Everyone of them is watched by three others, so that any failure or refusal to obey orders is quickly noticed and earns the death penalty.

3. One of the supposed benefits of the collapse of Communism was the transition of the Soviet bloc countries to democacy. Remember all those dissidents that we all cheered on for their courageous opposition to the Soviet regime? Every one was a fake, carefully nurtured by the KGB and the satellite intelligence services to prepare the west for the fake collapse of Communism. There was a precedent for this again in Lenin's time. It was the 'Trust', which supposedly was a group of anti-communists seeking the overthrow of the Soviet Union. In fact it was a KGB deception operation which the western intelligence services accepted as genuine.

4. This was an other one of Lenin's ideas. It means that they will say and do anything to promote their cause. They have abandoned their hard left rhetoric; they speak in peaceful tones while they make war against us.

5. This is the corollary of key No 3. The Soviet bloc countries have apparently become 'democratic' but in fact the democrats in those countries are just Soviet stooges. Elections may be won by parties opposed to the Communists, but the latter remain in power behind the scenes.

6. Lenin gave a spurious independence to the Far East Soviet Republics as a means of combatting Japanese threats to the Soviet Union in that area. By secretly cooperating with these "Independent Republics" that threat was neutralised. The same thing is happening today with the Soviet bloc countries of Eastern Europe. They are co-ordinating all of their policies with Moscow as their contribution to the destruction of the West. The enlargement of the European Union is particularly worrying in this respect because it will mean that the communists will gain direct control over the EU. They will use every opportunity to corrupt and blackmail anyone who works in the Commission. The economic and political consequences of that will be quite horrendous.

7. Mr Golitsyn argues that"Fukuyama's End of History" theory is a mistake. The idea that there is no one left in the former Soviet Union that believes in Communism any more is totally wrong. On the contrary the party members are convinced that Capitalism is based on class conflicts that Socialism can exploit. Using the "Full Political and Security Potential" of the Soviet Union involves all sorts of contacts with the West. The Gorbachev Foundation is a good example. It is based inside the enemy's camp, and cultivates all manner of agents of influence in the West. They argue for co-operation with Russia, and for Western subsidies for it. An other example is the FBI co-operation with the Russian Federal Police (ie the KGB in its lates disguise) over such matters as drugs. Mr Golitsyn does not mention this but all that this co-operation achieves is to give away the FBI's operational methods and intelligence to its worst enemy.

Mr Golitsyn expresses his regrets that because of the failure of the Western intelligence services to understand the long range Soviet strategy against the West the Perestroika deception has succeeded. The greatest casualty in this farce has been individual liberty. Every Western country is now ruled by a self-serving clique who claim ever more power over the life of every individual, which is precisely what the Soviets want. They want to corrupt the West to give up liberty without a struggle. The Soviets see themselves as "…the vanguard which will bring about the higher form of society free of capitalism, which they purport to see as the cause of wars and human exploitation."

Perestroika is the last phase of the Soviet Union's planned destruction of the West. If you want to know what is happening to the West and why it is losing every battle in the war against collectivism, this book is mandatory reading.

David Ellams

(David Ellams has supported the Libertarian Alliance for many years)