EXCLUSIVE: New book reveals how KGB operation seeded Muslim countries

EXCLUSIVE: New book reveals how KGB operation seeded Muslim countries with anti-American, anti-Jewish propaganda during the 1970s, laying the groundwork for Islamist terrorism against U.S. and Israel

Romanian Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa is the highest-ranking Soviet bloc intelligence official ever to defect to the West.

DAILY MAIL

By DAVID MARTOSKO

PUBLISHED: 12:30 EST, 25 June 2013 | UPDATED: 12:34 EST, 25 June 2013

The highest-ranking Soviet-bloc intelligence officer ever to defect to the West claims in a new book that anti-American Islamic terrorism had its roots in a secret 1970s-era KGB plot to harm but the United States and Israel by seeding Muslim countries with carefully targeted propaganda.

Yuri Andropov, the KGB chief for 15 years before he became the Soviet premier, sent hundreds of agents and thousands of copies of propaganda literature to Muslim countries. 

'By 1972,' according to the book, 'Andropov's disinformation machinery was working around the clock to persuade the Islamic world that Israel and the United States intended to transform the rest of the world into a Zionist fiefdom.'

'According to Andropov, the Islamic world was a petri dish in which the KGB community could nurture a virulent strain of America-hatred, grown from the bacterium of Marxist-Leninist thought.'

Those claims come from former Romanian Lt. Gen Ion Mihail Pacepa and University of Mississippi law professor Ronald Rychlak.

In their book, titled Disinformation, Pacepa spills the secrets he kept for decades as head of Romania's spy apparatus and secret police, the DIE, before he secured political asylum in the U.S. in 1978.

Before Yuri Andropov ran the Soviet Union, he was in charge of the KGB for 15 years. That, Pacepa and Rychlak write, is when he masterminded a plan to turn the Middle East against America, by spreading the idea that the U.S. supported Israelis in a plot to take over Europe

Ceausescu ruled Romania with an iron fist and took marching orders from Moscow until his death in 1990. His intelligence chief defected to the U.S. in 1978, and is spilling his Cold War-era secrets in a new book. He was executed, following a coup, on Christmas Day 1989

Andropov began his leadership of the KGB just months before the 1967 Six-Day War between Arabs and Israelis, in which Israel humiliated the key Soviet allies Syria and Egypt. And he decided to settle the score by training Palestinian militants to hijack El Al airplanes and bomb sites in Jerusalem.

But more shocking, Andropov commissioned the first Arabic translation of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a Russian-forged 1905 propaganda book that alleged Jews were plotting to take over Europe - and were being aided by the United States.

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The Protocols book, Pacepa claims, became 'the basis for much of Hitler's anti-Semitic philosophy.' And the KGB, he writes, disseminated 'thousands of copies' in Muslim countries during the 1970s.

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion was a Russian forgery based on a French play from the Nineteenth Century. Andropov popularized the idea that the 'Elders of Zion' were the U.S. Congress

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