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16 THE TECHNIQUES OF SOVIET PROPAGANDA tivists in our most democratic parties and unions, long-atanding targets n of infiltration by Bolshevism, concerning which Lenin wrote: eames | ‘1 is necessary * * * ta, sgree to say snd every secridce, and grea S wica be—to resort to all sorta of strategems, maneuvers, and illegal methods, to evasion --»- and aubterfuges in order to penetrate the trade unions, to remain in them, ead to - carry on Communist work in them at all costs * * *”? : : These words can stand as an epigraph to all Soviet infiltration, aad if not headed by the free world, as an epitaph on its tomb. -.~ money to intellectuals 90 they may travel, investigate, and write. Mexican grants by the extremely bourgeois Fairfield Foundation sup- a tt adhe port many fellow travelers like Fernando Benitez who, although = director of the notoriously pro-Soviet magazine Cultura in Mezico, received a tidy sum to “study” Mao’s China, After “‘studying” it,bo . concluded that it was admirable, as appropriately explained in a book “China a la Vista.” From the offices of numerous institutes in Asia -- and Latin America, subsidized by the res ectable Ford Foundation, - certain distinguished sociologists persistently abuse the United States and praise the U.S.S.R. This foundation financed a very “bourgeois” atyle visit to the United States for the editor of the Hindi newspaper itz, one of the most viciously pro-Soviet organs, and an Italian novelist who writes for pro-Communist magazines, who lost no time in publishing violent diatribes against the United States. Looe fAmong the pocifists—At least 20,000 o anizations throughout the tree world are agitating public opinion with pacifist slogans. In the United Kingdom, the venerable Congress of Trade Unions could be intoxicated by this demagogic campaign to such an extent that it clamored for the unilateral disarmament of its country. Dozens of organizations and hundreds of smaller local committees are working intensively egainst armaments in the United States. The prolifers- tion of peace groups is still greater in Asia, especially in Japan which is peculiarly—and quite understandably—sensitive to the horrors of nuclear bombardment. The movement appears to have no financial problems. It seems able to insert massive advertising at will in the most expensive newspapers of the free world, to organize luxurious international congresses and enormous rallies, to hire vociferous pickets surrounding U.S. Embas- sies, and to disseminate spoken and written words through floods of radio and television programs; torrents of books, pamphlets, leaflets, notices, and posters. It gathers overnight dozens of prestigious signatures to burning manifestos. It persuades chubby babies to enthusiastically offer their first teeth to be analyzed for strontium 40 which might have been accumulated from milk produced by cows who had eaten grass poisoned by redioactive fallout. Of course the Soviet cows, being Communist, produce no milk containing strontium 40, despite the numerous nuclear tests—including the “leaky underground” explosions. he peace movement also charters special planes to fly hundreds of women from Los Angeles or Caracas to Geneva, to buttonhole Dis- armament Conference delegates. It induces frogmen to plant peace banners on anchored Polaris submarines. It persuades histronic stars, enlists generals, inflames Nobel Prize winners, penetrates churches, intoxicates logicians, and intimidates Presidents. T Lenin, “Lett Communtam, aa Infantile Disorder" (1020) Selectad Works (International Publishers, New York, 1945), vol. K Dp. 90-8). ° a ne rmniavns rar) , Foundations.—These are the powerful institutions which distribute =I PTET Or OOPaRTE WET ervey ware verinTtS Nepeaton tr Tt 4 ‘ie mare cre dy: j