Los Angeles factionalists on the run. And so what?...
Dorothy Healey, of course was not the only FBI “factionalist” in the Southern California district.
There were many others, including Frank and Donna Wilkinson (see post 20 of this series) and Cliff and Lucy Fried. I have been unable to find out what happened to disrupter Lucy, but fink Cliff Fried is still around: “UPTE-CWA University Professional & Technical Employees – Communication Workers of America, AFL-CIO: Arbitration Review Committee: Cliff Fried (LA – retired)”
Ah, the “good guys” were winning. Healeyites Ben Dobbs (who had been her Organizational Secretary when Healey was the District Organizer) and PW# journalist Sam Kushner both left the District Board, leaving no one of their kind on the District's leading body. And overall the overt saboteurs appeared to be on the defensive.
And so what? Still no organization of anything resembling popular movements in the area! The closest thing to political activity was the once-weekly distribution by a handful of “comrades” of the PW# at factory gates. Which had essentially zero positive effect.
Understanding of reality begins to emerge...
The passages below from Silent Terror mark the disclosures that accelerated my understanding of what the “Communist Party USA” was all about:
“Because the U.S. intelligence apparatus had suffered some significant defeats and exposures, the carefully cultivated image of the United States had become badly tarnished by the 1970s. Public disclosures showed that the United States government was engaged in massive covert operations world-wide and at home. Important aspects of the terrible crimes of the CIA, FBI and other intelligence agencies were revealed...
“Incontrovertible evidence showed that many people, Americans included, had been victimized by the huge intelligence apparatus. The mass media and many institutions had become thoroughly entangled in these operations...
“The international crimes were massive and deadly. It was no longer a secret from the American people that the CIA spent uncounted billions of dollars plotting, spying, disinforming, drug trafficking, bribing, organizing provocations, subverting, murdering, overthrowing legitimate governments and warring.
“In the United States, the FBI and other contingents of secret political police directly and repeatedly disrupted progressive movements. As a result, the lives of many innocent people, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had been ruined and lost...” (pp. 62-3)
“FBI covert operations at home are fashioned according to conditions appropriate for the United States. In short, police state methods are applied in a country where the political system must appear to be genuinely democratic... The FBI actively aborts and disrupts genuine mass people's movements within the United States and utilizes great fakery in the process. The FBI's underground psychological warfare campaigns against individuals are part and parcel of these operations...
“A partial picture of the real FBI emerged when the FBI's 'COINTELPRO' (for 'Counter-intelligence Program') operations were disclsed in the 1970s. COINTELPRO unequivocally demonstrated that the FBI used police-state methods aimed at destroying the target by any means necessary. According to the U.S. Department of Justice (Release of Nov. 18, 1974), these activities included 'sending anonymous or fictitious materials to members or groups; dissemination of public record information to media sources; leaking information based on non-public information to media sources; use of informants to disrupt a group's activities; establishing sham organizations for disruptive purposes...'
“This was merely the mild part of the package.
“'The FBI placed citizens under surveillance, surrounded them with agents, penetrated their organizations with a network of informers, wired their offices and homes, gathered confidential information on their plans and activities, and then secretly turned around and used its agents, informers, and information to “expose, disrupt, discredit, or otherwise neutralize dissent.'...
“... the FBI sets up false victims and pseudo-revolutionaries to obscure the serious plots against genuine progressives and activists.” (pp. 65 – 67)
Key phrases: “use of informants to disrupt a group's activities; establishing sham organizations for disruptive purposes... the FBI sets up false victims and pseudo-revolutionaries ”
As these materials appeared, I began to read article after article and book after book to gain a fuller picture of the real United States of America. And of the real “Communist Party USA.”
The result was the beginning of my break with previous naive illusions about bourgeois “democracy,” about the “Party,” about people living in the capitalist cesspool:
(1) Earlier, it was beyond the imagination of then-credulous Arnold how large numbers of people could spend their entire adult lives (in some cases, even starting in adolescence) professing publicly and privately, acting out, emoting, etc. humanitarian, revolutionary beliefs which in fact were the exact opposite of what these people really were and believed. I could not conceive of a rather large organization (some 2,000 – 3,000 “adherents in the so-called “Communist Party”) being composed entirely of such rats. (If there was a single exception besides myself in the “CP,” I could never find such an individual.)
In reality, this vicious fakery is not only possible, but actually is quite straightforward and relatively uncomplicated. The smell of easy money, advancement and a comfortable life can work wonders on the conscience and behavior of vast numbers of people. And phony patriotism can provide an additional impetus. From the standpoint of the American Gestapo - the horrendous US lie, spy, criminal, provocation, subversion and regime change, terror, drug-runnning, torture, war and mass murder apparatus – they have more than ample manpower and vast funds to organize, pay off and manage this filthy work with expertise and enormous power. For them, it becomes almost routine.
(2) Moreover, massive subversion of progressive and revolutionary movements and the substitution of political police-controlled sham organizations are essential for the survival of imperialist USA – and these are processes hardly confined to America.
I was beginning to get wiser, in fact a lot wiser.
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# PW = People's World, at the time the CP's west coast weekly newspaper.
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Перед нами сейчас - коварный и опасный мошенник, расист, лжец и фашист Дональд Трамп, порочный Конгресс, нацистские ФБР - ЦРУ, кровавые милитаристы США и НАТО >>> а также и лживые, вредоносные американские СМ»И».
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Правительство США жестоко нарушало мои права человека при проведении кампании террора, которая заставила меня покинуть свою родину и получить политическое убежище в СССР. См. книгу «Безмолвный террор — История политических гонений на семью в США» - "Silent Terror: One family's history of political persecution in the United States» - arnoldlockshin.wordpress.com
Правительство США еще нарушает мои права, в течении 14 лет отказывается от выплаты причитающейся мне пенсии по старости. Властители США воруют пенсию!!
ФСБ - Федеральная служба «безопасности» России - вслед за позорным, предавшим страну предшественником КГБ, мерзко выполняет приказы секретного, кровавого хозяина (boss) - американского ЦРУ (CIA). Среди таких «задач» - мне запретить выступать в СМИ и не пропускать большинства отправленных мне комментариев. А это далеко не всё...
Арнольд Локшин, политэмигрант из США
BANNED – ЗАПРЕЩЕН!!
ЦРУ - ФСБ забанили все мои посты и комментарии в Вконтакте!
… и в Макспарке!