by Janet Levy, American Thinker:
On June 21, the FBI declassified a 1999 video of Saudi intelligence agent Omar al-Bayoumi casing the Capitol and other Washington D.C. sites for the 9/11 attack. How, then, did the CIA-FBI 9/11 report conclude in 2005 that Saudi Arabia was not involved in the attack? And why did the FBI maintain — for 20 years, before its recent retraction — that al-Bayoumi wasn’t a Saudi agent?
Such willful deception, practiced increasingly by American intelligence, is the subject of former CIA agent J. Michael Waller’s new book Big Intel: How the CIA and FBI Went from Cold War Heroes to Deep State Villains. The dramatic writing and detailing, backed by the author’s experience in espionage — in Central America and the U.S.S.R., and against jihadist conspiracies — make it a page-turner. In 37 chapters, plus additional sections and a reading list, it presents an alarming history of how a century-old Marxist campaign has succeeded in ideologically subverting America and its intel agencies.
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The results of that success are seen in today’s leftist street protests, the DEI obsession, and prevalent anti-Israel sentiment; also, in the saturation of academia and bureaucracy by Marxists. Not so evident, because intel agencies operate covertly, is their transmogrification from valiant fighters for American freedom to an emerging state police harrying those who oppose the acceptable narratives du jour.
Big Intel traces the long process of this toxic alchemy. Waller, now an analyst at the Center for Security Policy, borrows his colleague Diana West’s metaphor of a “red thread” leading back to a Bolshevik strategy to destroy the West by capturing the minds of its elites, artists, academicians, and students. It was to unfold over several generations. The planning happened at a 1922 meeting in Moscow, headed by Feliks Dzerzhinsky, then commissar of KGB-precursor Cheka. So, attempts to infiltrate our intel apparatus should have been foreseen but were tragically missed. (Waller praises the one man — J. Edgar Hoover — who did not miss the signs, though he was “imperfect” and “his errors compounded over the decades.”)
Present at the meeting, held at the Marx-Engels Institute, were Comintern presidium member Karl Radek, the Prussian Willi Münzenberg, and the Hungarian philosopher Gyorgy Lukacs. They decided to use Comintern fronts and intellectual networks in Europe and across the world to reach the elite; at the same time, they would create “foreign subsidiary institutions, under prestigious academic cover, as a sophisticated social base to attract leaders of the arts, culture, and academia.” Lukacs believed in the “abolition of culture,” which Waller interprets as the “wholesale destruction of history, belief, and values, right down to the tearing apart of family life and the sexualization of small children to dehumanize the next generation.”
Thus, the seeds were sown for the Frankfurt School (founded 1923), the nursery of Critical Theory and cultural Marxism, which echoes Lukacs’s destructive theme. Eros and Civilization, a book by Herbert Marcuse, one of the school’s philosophers, sparked the erosion of sexual boundaries that ultimately brought us the absurdities of gender-identity fluidity.
With the rise of Naziism, members of the Frankfurt School took refuge in America, where Leon Trotsky, during his brief stay (1916–17), had prepared the seedbed by running an influence operation to spread civilization-destroying Marxist ideas. From 1933 to 1949, the school was based at Columbia University. It was from here that the teardown of Western ideals was launched, and it was here that the Marxist takeover of academia began.
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