By Capt Joseph R. John, July 12, 2024

A century-old Marxist campaign has succeeded in ideologically subverting the United States, Government Bureaucracy, and its Intelligence Agencies.  The results of the Marxist’s successes are seen in today’s leftist street protests, the CRT/DEI obsession in the US Armed Forces/Intelligence Agencies, the prevalent anti-Israel/anti-Semitic demonstrations, the attacks on conservative Supreme Court Judges, the aggressive plan by Socialist Democrats to allow 16 million invading Illegal Aliens to vote in the Presidential Election, the saturation of the academia bureaucracy to promote Anti-Patriotic Marxism indoctrination, and the US Department of Education support for Marxists Indoctrination of grammar school and college students. (Levy, Janet, “The Communist Plan That Has Subverted Our Intelligence Agencies,” American Thinker, July 3, 2024.)

The Bolshevik strategy to destroy the West by capturing the minds of its elites, artists, academicians, the military, the media, and impressionable students has unfolded aggressively over the last three generations.  The Marxist skillfully installed their fellow Marxist allies in the Obama and Biden administrations.  They have been working 24/7 to abolition the Patriotic culture within the US, they are intent on bringing about the wholesale destruction of the impressive and successful 248-year History of the United States, eliminating the Judaeo/Christian beliefs of American Citizens, and the support by the younger generation of Americans for Historic Patriotic values.  They have been tearing apart the nuclear family (the strongest core for unity that has strengthened the Republic for over 200 years) and they have been sexualizing young children, to dehumanize the next generation of Americans.  (Levy, Janet, “The Communist Plan That Has Subverted Our Intelligence Agencies,” American Thinker, July 3, 2024.)

From 1933 to 1949, the Marxists prepared the seeding of its destructive philosophy and worked to influence and subvert governments of 70 countries over 100 years to spread Marxist ideas in civilization throughout the world, to destroy the free and independent governments of those 70 countries.  It never worked, and those 70 countries were always rejected by the Marxist destructive philosophy.  The college selected in the United States where Marxists intended to start the subversion of students, and the indoctrination of Marxism was Columbia University.  It was in Columbia where Marxism began to tear down Western ideals was launched by Marxist professors, and it was there that the Marxist takeover of academia in the United States began.  (Levy, Janet, “The Communist Plan That Has Subverted Our Intelligence Agencies,” American Thinker, July 3, 2024.)

The simultaneous infiltration of United States Intelligence Agencies was aided by the recruitment of Communists by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a World War II Intel Agency for coordinating espionage, which later grew into the CIA.  By the end of WWII, the recruited Communists had penetrated the OSS, academia, journalism, entertainment, politics, federal and state bureaucracies, courts, the media, and even Congress.  Besides wielding immense influence, they were stealing sensitive intelligence and secrets from the United States to pass on to the Kremlin.  (Levy, Janet, “The Communist Plan That Has Subverted Our Intelligence Agencies,” American Thinker, July 3, 2024.)

Only the Director of the FBI J. Edgar Hoover, who headed the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972, stood as a bulwark against the Communist infiltrators.  He established a Counterintelligence Program (COINTELPRO) in 1956 to watch, infiltrate, and disrupt the Communist subversive operations.  The Counterintelligence Program was shut down in 1971 when it was found to have violated constitutional rights.  From then on, the FBI Counterintelligence Program to ferret out Communist subversion deteriorated.  After a substantial amount of evidence has been uncovered in Congressional investigations and in the final legal decisions as the result of Federal Law Suits against the FBI, it was determined that the leadership of the FBI had been found to have been interfering in three National Presidential Elections in a row, had been found to be with involved in domestic political spying on candidates, had been weaponized the law against ordinary American Citizens, and to have been abridging the First Amendment rights of American Citizens. (Levy, Janet, “The Communist Plan That Has Subverted Our Intelligence Agencies,” American Thinker, July 3, 2024.)

The 9/11 attack was seen to be the result of intelligence failures, justifying the authorization of more aggressive intelligence gathering activities with the passage of the Patriot Act.  The Patriot Act expanded the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), and the new Transportation Security Administration (TSA) which made it possible for more aggressive intelligence gathering.  Financial transactions came under greater scrutiny to detect terrorist funding.  Intelligence coordination was centralized under the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Big Tech was drawn in to help, and the FBI was doubled and armed to paramilitary proportions.  Following the 9/11 attack President George Bush labeled the fight against the jihadists the Global War on Terror and told agencies that Islam was “good and peaceful”; he insisted that Arabs/Muslims should not be investigated and harassed; he gave Radical Jihadist cover.  (Levy, Janet, “The Communist Plan That Has Subverted Our Intelligence Agencies,” American Thinker, July 3, 2024.)

All the restriction on investigating of Arabs/Muslims paved the way for the continued protection of Radical Islamic Terrorists by President Barack Hussein Obama.  He hailed from the ‘New Left,’ which believed in the power of change through community organizing, the leftist indoctrination of future generation, and Obama worked within and corrupted the system, not using the guerrilla tactics favored by earlier radicals Marxists.  A Critical Theory-based philosophy and “anti-imperialist” salience were adopted, new directives focused on opposing anything that was conservative and anti-left referred to as “domestic violent extremism,” and the investigation of Radical Islamic Jihadists was absolutely halted.  The critically developed FBI Intelligence historic source material gathered over 50 years, about Iranian Terrorists, Al Q’ieda Terrorists, Taliban Terrorists, Hizballah Terrorists, Sharia Law, the PLO, Hamas Terrorists, The Muslim Brotherhood, Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), and other Jihadists were removed from the FBI Library in Quantico, VA. (Levy, Janet, “The Communist Plan That Has Subverted Our Intelligence Agencies”, American Thinker, July 3, 2024.)

The long march through the institutions began with the appointment of “soft-on-Russia” James Clapper as the ODNI, the communist-voting John Brennan as CIA director, and leftist social justice warrior James Comey as FBI director.  Clapper and Comey consolidated CRT and DEI by setting diversity goals for the FBI, purging Radical Islamic Jihadist study material from the FBI Library, from background study material for Agents, and all training material on radical Islam from throughout the FBI historic compiled reference material, and requiring two diversity trainings annually for employees.  Critical Theory became “mission critical” as the ODNI pressured all agencies, the military, and all contractors to toe the line.  The entire federal workforce became an instrument of social change.  Anyone who dissented and all political opposition was targeted by either restricting their promotions and/or canceling their security clearances.  (Levy, Janet, “The Communist Plan That Has Subverted Our Intelligence Agencies,” American Thinker, July 3, 2024.)

For example, the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane, a dirty-tricks campaign tried to thwart President Donald Trump’s election, worked for four years to cripple his administration, tried to discredit him using fake documents (the Steele dossier) suggesting he was in collusion with Russia.  Similarly, the FBI, CIA, and ODNI worked with social media companies and 50 senior Intelligence leaders and former senior Intelligence leaders lied, saying the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation, the truth would have prevented Biden’s victory.  All the while, the real threats of Islamic extremism, the Muslim Brotherhood network, CAIR, Hamas, Antifa, and BLM were ignored.  At one BLM protest, FBI agents knelt and clapped for the activists. (Levy, Janet, “The Communist Plan That Has Subverted Our Intelligence Agencies,” American Thinker, July 3, 2024.)

Under the Biden administration, what Obama started in support of Iran, Communist China, and Marxism, continued with “redoubled” vigor.  A false narrative was created about a “January 6 insurrection” trying to discredit President Trump and target his supporters as domestic terrorists.  Parents speaking up against pornographic material and drag queen hour in schools have been sued or harassed by the FBI.  In short, our Intelligence Agencies have been psychologically manipulated into becoming catalysts of a cultural change that “ROTS” America from within.  (Levy, Janet, “The Communist Plan That Has Subverted Our Intelligence Agencies,” American Thinker, July 3, 2024.)

Big Intel is a dire warning.  Marxist subversion of intel might be worse than the damage wrought by the most destructive spy discovered in the FBI — Robert Hanssen, who died in prison last year.  He ends the last chapter calling for a national discussion on the FBI.  The remedy he suggests for the FBI might well also apply to the CIA: “Take it apart, parcel out the useful functions, and close down the rest.” (Levy, Janet, “The Communist Plan That Has Subverted Our Intelligence Agencies,” American Thinker, July 3, 2024.)

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July 3, 2024

The Communist Plan That Has Subverted Our Intel Agencies

By Janet Levy

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.

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.

The simultaneous infiltration of our intel agencies was aided by the exigent recruitment of communists by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a World War II agency for coordinating espionage, which later grew into the CIA.  America was then hard-pressed to gather intelligence from Europe and behind enemy lines. Besides field operatives from communist networks, scholars like Marcuse were enlisted for their language prowess and grasp of European politics.  By the war’s end, they had penetrated the OSS, academia, journalism, entertainment, politics, federal and state bureaucracies, courts, and even Congress.  Besides wielding immense influence, they could steal secrets.

Only Hoover — who headed the FBI from 1924 to his death in 1972 — stood as a bulwark against them, establishing a Counterintelligence Program (COINTELPRO) in 1956 to watch, infiltrate, and disrupt their operations. However, the program, found to have violated constitutional rights, was shut down in 1971.  From then on, the FBI deteriorated and was weaponized against ordinary citizens and elected representatives.  It now stoops to domestic political spying and abridgment of First Amendment rights.

According to Waller, two “cultural revolutions” took place in the intel agencies after 9/11.  The first, born of necessity under President George W. Bush, started by watching and listening to the public.  The 9/11 attack was seen as the result of intelligence failure, justifying more aggressive intelligence gathering. The Patriot Act, the expanded Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), and the new Transportation Security Administration (TSA) made this possible.  Financial transactions came under greater scrutiny to detect terrorist funding.  Intel coordination was centralized under the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Big Tech was drawn in to help, and the FBI was doubled and armed to paramilitary proportions.

Strangely, while Americans were subject to increasing scrutiny and inconvenience, Bush took pains to choose an anodyne name — Global War on Terror — for the fight against the jihadists and to insist that Islam was “good and peaceful” and that Arabs and Muslims should not be harassed.

All this paved the way for the second revolution under President Barack Obama.  But he hailed from the ‘New Left,’ which believed in the power of change through community organizing, indoctrination of the next generation, and working within the system, not in the guerrilla tactics favored by earlier radicals.  A Critical Theory-based philosophy and “anti-imperialist” salience were adopted, new directives focused on “domestic violent extremism” (anything anti-left), and the pursuit of jihadists was halted.

The long march through the institutions began with the appointment of “soft-on-Russia” James Clapper as ODNI chief, the communist-voting John Brennan as CIA director, and communist and social justice warrior James Comey as FBI director.  Clapper and Comey consolidated DEI by setting diversity goals for the FBI, purging study material on radical Islam, and requiring two diversity trainings annually for employees.  Critical Theory became “mission critical” as the ODNI pressured all agencies, the military, and contractors to toe the line.  The entire federal workforce became an instrument of social change.  Dissent and political opposition were targeted.

For example, the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane, a dirty-tricks campaign to thwart President Trump’s election and later cripple his administration, tried to discredit him using fake documents (the Steele dossier) suggesting he was in collusion with Russia.  Similarly, the FBI, CIA, and ODNI worked with social media companies to lie that the Hunter Biden laptop, which would have prevented Biden’s victory, was Russian disinformation. All the while, the real threats of Islamic extremism, the Muslim Brotherhood network, Antifa, and BLM were ignored.  At one BLM protest, FBI agents knelt and clapped for the activists.

Under Biden, what Obama started continues with redoubled vigor.  A false narrative about a “January 6 insurrection” discredits Trump and targets his supporters as domestic terrorists.  Parents speaking up against pornographic material and drag queen hour in schools are sued or harassed by the FBI.  In short, our intel agencies have been psychologically manipulated into becoming catalysts of a cultural change that rots America from within.

Big Intel is a dire warning.  Waller says this Marxist subversion of intel might be worse than the damage wrought by the most destructive spy discovered in the FBI — Robert Hanssen, who died in prison last year.  He ends the last chapter calling for a national discussion on the FBI.  The remedy he suggests for the FBI might well apply to the CIA: “Take it apart, parcel out the useful functions, and close down the rest.”

Dr. Waller’s Bio

J. Michael Waller was the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Professor of International Communication at the Institute of World Politics in Washington, DC., where he directed the nation's only graduate program in public diplomacy and political warfare. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy.

Dr. Waller has been a journalist and investigative writer on national security affairs, including intelligence, counterintelligence, and counterterrorism-related issues. His articles have been published in a variety of academic and professional journals, as well as Reader’s Digest, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Times, and the Wall Street Journal. He is a frequent commentator on the BBC, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, NPR and the Voice of America.

He has researched and written about the political and psychological dimensions of terrorism, insurgency and counterinsurgency since 1983. His coverage of military affairs ranges from the guerrilla wars of Central America and Colombia to the Strategic Air Command. He was on the scene at the Kremlin in the hours before the Soviet Union was abolished, and at the Russian parliament building during the 1993 coup attempt.

He is author of several books on security, terrorism and political warfare, including Third Current of Revolution: Inside the North American Front of El Salvador’s Guerrilla War (University Press of America, 1991), Secret Empire: The KGB In Russia Today (Westview, 1994), and Fighting the War of Ideas like a Real War (Institute of World Politics Press, 2007); co-author of Dismantling Tyranny: Transitioning Beyond Totalitarian Regimes (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), editor of the Public Diplomacy Reader (IWP Press, 2007) and editor of the forthcoming Strategic Influence: Public Diplomacy, Counterpropaganda and Political Warfare (IWP Press, 2008).

He has been a practitioner in the areas in which he has written. In the 1980s he infiltrated and disrupted Soviet international front organizations in the U.S. and Europe, wrote what is considered the definitive work on the politico-psychological support networks for the FMLN insurgency in El Salvador, and advised the Salvadoran army on the FMLN’s international political warfare strategy and its role on ground combat operations. On contracts with the U.S. government in Honduras, he trained 88 commanders and sub-commanders of the Nicaraguan Resistance Army in political warfare and political communication. He also worked in support of Afghan Northern Alliance resistance leader Ahmad Shah Massoud in his war against the Soviets in the 1980s.

In the 1990s Waller worked on U.S. contracts to design and implement political warfare attacks on the Soviet and Russian intelligence services. Since 2001 he has worked on the political, financial, psychological and related networks of Islamist extremists in the U.S. and abroad under private sponsorship, and developed strategies and tactics to employ against them in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom.

In 2006 FBI Director Robert Mueller presented Dr. Waller with a citation for "exceptional service in the public interest."

Dr. Waller served on the staff of the United States Senate, and as a consultant to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the Department of State, the Agency for International Development, the U.S. Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory, the US Army, the Office of the Secretary of Defense and other agencies.

He is a regular lecturer on information operations, PSYOP, public diplomacy, propaganda and political warfare for the National Defense University and the National Intelligence University.

He holds a Ph.D. in international security affairs from Boston University, where in 1993 he won the University Professors Award for Best Dissertation. Dr. Waller earned his M.A. in International Relations and Communication in 1989, as a John M. Olin Fellow at Boston University’s Center for Defense Journalism, graduating first in his class. He received a B.A. in international relations from the George Washington University in 1985, where he graduated first in his class as a member of Phi Beta Kappa.