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From: rigney@uokvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Disinformation, KGB and CIA, the vie - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 4-Dec-83 23:00:35 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec  4 23:00:35 1983
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uokvax!rigney    Dec  3 09:43:00 1983

No, No, No!  The fact that the KGB funds certain elements of
the  peace  movement  is  not  a  smear against the need for
Peace.  I'm not saying that the  peace  movement  is  wrong,
just  because the KGB supports it.  Offhand I can't think of
anything else the KGB is for which I'm for as well, but that
doesn't  mean I can generalize to say that if the KGB is for
hampering U.S. missile  emplacement,  I'm  automatically  in
favor of the missiles.

Now that you mention it, whatever peace movements there  are
in  Eastern  Europe do exist by the KGB's discretion, if not
direction.  If the KGB  didn't  want  a  peace  movement  in
Eastern  Europe,  there  wouldn't be one.  Likewise, if they
did want one, there would be one.  This isn't  to  say  that
just  because  there  is  one,  the  KGB is behind it.  It's
possible the KGB just doesn't care (Ha!), or is  willing  to
let  it  exist, or support something that was already there,
for their own ends.

For those who would like  to  claim  that  the  KGB  has  no
control  over  the  Eastern  European  nations,  I  can only
suggest a bit of reading and research; you might start  with
Barron's  books  on  the KGB, which are interesting in their
own right.  In fact, the Eastern European Security  Services
are very much under the thumb of the KGB.

My information in these matters comes from a graduate seminar
on intelligence (especially U.S. and Soviet) taken this term,
along with additional reading, so there's considerably more
than paranoia behind my arguments.

	Carl
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