Secretary of State John Kerry’s 1971 testimony before a Senate panel claiming American troops in Vietnam regularly committed war crimes against civilians was a product of a Soviet KGB disinformation campaign, according to the highest-ranking Soviet-bloc defector. “Although Kerry never fully revealed the source of the accusations, I recognized them as being a product of another KGB disinformation operation,” says Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa in a new documentary produced by WND Films. Ads by Google Order Custom T-ShirtsT-Shirts w/ Your Own Text & Art. You Think It, We Ink It. Order Now! CustomInk Prostate Cancer QuestionsLearn About Your Treatment Options. Our Free Guide & DVD Provides Facts ProstRcision Pacepa is featured in “Disinformation: The Secret Strategy to Destroy the West,” which immediately shot to the top of the Amazon bestseller list for film documentaries within days of its June 25 release. The film is accompanied by the new book “Disinformation: Former Spy Chief Reveals Secret Strategies for Undermining Freedom, Attacking Religion, and Promoting Terrorism,” co-authored by Pacepa and Ron Rychlak. As a Soviet bloc insider who worked face-to-face with KGB chief Yuri Andropov to develop disinformation campaigns during the Vietnam War era, Pacepa understood that the U.S. was defeating an inferior enemy in a proxy war in Vietnam with the Soviet Union. The only way North Vietnam and its communist ally, the Vietcong, could win was to demoralize Americans. Kerry’s testimony was based on the “Winter Soldier” investigation in Detroit earlier that year in which his group, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, heard stories of alleged atrocities committed in a climate said to have been created by the U.S. government and military command. Kerry also claimed to have committed and witnessed war crimes on a regular basis. But some of the men who presented horror stories at the Jane Fonda-sponsored Winter Soldier probe had misrepresented themselves as Vietnam War vets – even using the names of other veterans who did not attend the hearings. Several veterans provided sworn affidavits that others spoke in their names. One of the featured speakers has now sworn that Kerry coerced him into testifying and that all of his charges were lies. Testifying to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on April 22, 1971, Kerry claimed war crimes were being “committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command”: “They told the stories at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country.” In the new documentary, retired Lt. Gen. William Boykin, an original member of the U.S. Army’s Delta Force who spent 36 years in the Army, challenges Kerry’s testimony. “He never saw those things. He was perpetuating the myth of the left about our young men and women who served in Vietnam,” Boykin says. Boykin recalls Kerry throwing his war medals over the White House fence in protest. Read more at wnd/2013/07/john-kerry-testimony-product-of-kgb-disinformation/#vlwtr2JhbldgDOEB.99
Posted on: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 11:41:30 +0000