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operon M4 ¢ rr aloe ae eal an wey THE. TECHNIQUES OF SOVIET PROPAGANDA ey the Kremlin’s positions. It is by this consistency that the suxilisry There is none so blind as he who will not see. The foregoing criteria for recognition of auxiliaries will probably be ridiculed by the volun- tary dupes, of whom there are far too many. This catalogue of disg- nostics hes been compiled as a litmus for the detection of ambiguous cases, but the deluded will temporize, even faced with the obvious. The question, for example, as to whether the late Patrice Lumumba was “really a Communist” wes a matter for extended soul-searching among them. Some even seriously put the question directly to Lu- mumbe. The mere act of asking the question demonstrated total ignorance of the modus operandi of political warfare, whose first prin- ciple dictates denial of tion by any Communist. The credulity of the query was proved by the question itself. Lumumba had openly committed an act as blatant as original sin by requesting Soviet intervention in his country’s internal affairs, While his Communist allegiance might have been doubted before this event, continued skepticism after it demonstrates only unparalleled gullibility. ‘the pattern has been repeated over and over, sd nauseam, with Arbenz, Juliso, Castro, and Ho Chi-minh. The great German poet, Heinrich Heine, wrote one day: “The Devil’s best ally is the li eral intellectual who doesn’t believe in the Devil.” This could be well araphrased: “The principal ally of the Communist conspiracy is the Eberal intellectual who doesn’t believe in the Communist conspiracy.” It is to capitalize on this skepticism that half the apparatus of Com- munist political warfare has the mission of convincing the free world that there is no apparatus of Communist political warfare. , INFILTRATION The generic term “infiltration” contemplates a whole system of secret channels making possible the injection of pro-Soviet poison into all the cells of the free world. The system is Jinked with the Communist espionage network responsible for transmission of in- formation, which is a separate activity not covered by this study. This discussion will be concerned only with political infiltration de~ signed to spread views favorable to the Soviets. ‘he mechanics are always the same. One or more auxiliaries achieve membership, or some existing members are won over, in the organization to be infiltrated. These maintain constant contact with unaffiliated auxiliaries, who are in turn supervised by actual Com~- munist agents. The various auxiliaries customarily maintain their contacts in clubs, salons, cafes, bars, and semipublic gatherings such as youn; peoples’ church groups. Communist propaganda is matched wit! the channel through which it is to be disseminated. There are few social, political, or religious doctrines into which, with an appropriate dialectical twist, some elements favorable to Soviet foreign policy, cannot be insinuated, especially since there is no need to maintain consistency with Communist ideology, which has nothing to do with the undertaking, The methods of performing this verbal twistin; will be detailed more fully in the chapters ‘on psychological an logomachic techniques. The following discussion will deal with the principal targets of infiltration.