Exam 5 on 4/01 Flashcards
when was the Berlin blockade?
1948-1949
what had maximum publicity?
kernel of truth
what was the Berlin Blockade?
Stalin, in an attempt to commmunize Germany as a matter of personal pride, (for it was the birthplace of Karl Marx) he sealed off West Berlin, hoping to compel the western allies to surrender the entire city to the soviet occupation forces
what organization was born out of the Berlin Blockade?
NATO
what was the Berlin Airlift?
The crisis started on June 24, 1948, when Soviet forces blockaded rail, road, and water access to Allied-controlled areas of Berlin. The United States and United Kingdom responded by airlifting food and fuel to Berlin from Allied airbases in western Germany. The crisis ended on May 12, 1949, when Soviet forces lifted the blockade on land access to western Berlin.
anti-semitism
Stalin, convinced that anti-semitism had deep roots in Europe, portrayed the west as “a Zionist realm owned by Jewish money and run by a greedy council of the elders of Zion, whose militaristic sharks wanted to transform the rest of the world into a Jewish fiefdom
what was Panyushkin’s main task?
to persuade America’s leftists to create peace movements int he US
why did the Soviets believe that using disinformation would work?
because everything they spread had just a kernel of truth in it that they could validate that would make the whole lie seem true
who worked for Okhrana?
Ivanovich Rachovsky
What is Okhrana?
Department for the Protecting the Public Security and Order
who wrote Dialogue in hell between Machiavelli and Montesquieu?
Maurice Joly
Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu
accuses Emperor Napoleon III of plotting to seize all the powers of French society
how did Rachovsky change the “dialogue” book?
he substituted the words “the world” for France and “the Jews” for Napoleon III
stasi
popular nickname for the Ministerium fur Staatssicherheit, ministry for state security, including for its foreign intelligence arm, main intelligence directorate
what was a main player in the “Zarathustra” operation?
german Stasi
who had revealed that the KGB had first tested this operation in the Soviet Union?
Oleg Gordievsky
who was a former KGB colonel who collaborated with the British intelligence service for many years before defecting to Great Britain?
Oleg Gordievsky
what is the most resilient piece of disinformation in history?
protocols forgery
who was one of Dzerhinsky’s deputies?
Martyn Ianovich Latsis
who said “we are not waging war against individuals. we are exterminating the bourgeoisie as a class…in this lies the significance of the Red Terror”?
Latsis
how did Stalin get rid of his main rival?
he framed Leon Trotsky as a Jewish spy of American Zionism and had him expelled from the country. that insinuation later allowed Stalin to have Trotsky barbarically killed with an ice axe in Mexico City by a Soviet illegal officer without causing most of Russia even to blink
who was appointed Israel’s minister plenipotentiary to the Soviet Union?
Golda Meir
what made it clear that the Vatican was indeed at war with communism?
Pius XII’s Sanctum Officium
who issued a series of decrees condemning the Kremlin’s crusade against the Catholic Church?
Pius XII
what tool, which had been used during WWII to help the resistance oppose the Nazis, now became a powerful anticommunist weapon. (today it has more than 200 journalists in 61 countries, and it produces some 42,000 hours of simultaneous broadcasting a day)?
Vatican radio
in 1967, who was executed after failing to ignite a guerrilla war in Cuba?
Che Guerva
what was the official task f the Medellin conference?
to eliminate poverty in Latin America
what was the undeclared goal of the Medellin conference?
to legitimize a KGB-created religious movement dubbed “liberation theology”, the secret task of which was to incite Latin America’s poor to rebel against the “institutionalized violence of poverty” generated by the US
who said “black theology will accept only the love of God which participates int he destruction of the white enemy…unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love”?
James Cone
who was a Cuban intelligence officer working undercover as a photographer with the Cuban newspaper revolucion, produced a romanticized picture of Che
Alberto Korda
German playwright
Rolf Hochhuth
who wrote the play in which “a young NY senator who is also leader of a Che-style US underground movement pleads with Guevara to abandon his Bolivian battle. my death here- in a calculated sense- is the only possible victory, he says. I must leave a sign” the play also charged the US with racial and political murder.?
Rolf Hochhuth
who was an expert at changing peoples pasts in order to realize his own future?
Nikita Khrushchev
Khrushchev rose to the Kremlin by changing the past of ____ his main rival for the soviet throne.
Laventy Beriya
what was one of Sakharovsky’s projects?
seek Romanian cooperation in the smearing of Pius XII
what was a new international religious organization headquartered in the Soviet-occupied city of Prague, whose secret task was to discredit both the Vatican and the world’s leading Jewish organizations?
Christian Peace Conference
what StB agent headed the CPC?
Joseph Hromadka
who was head of the KGB?
Aleksandr Shelepin
what was one way that Shelepin and Kirichenko framed Pius XII?
by basing his fictionalized scenario on genuine slightly modified Vatican documents, the originals of which would never be released to the public
seat 12
code name for the Romanian side of the KGB’s operations against Pius XII. the name was an allusion to the pope as occupant of the seat of St Peter, and to Pius XII himself.
who wrote “Under His Very Window”?
Susan Zuccotti
Who wrote “Constantine’s Sword”?
James Carroll
who hijacked their first “Zionist” plane and landed it in Algeria where its 32 Jewish passengers were held hostage for 5 weeks?
Palestinian terrorists trained at the KGBs balashikha special-operations school east of Moscow
who was the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and a fanatical Marxist, mirrored the true colors of the new terrorist tactic, “killing one Jew far from the field of battle is more effective than killing a hundred Jews on the field of battle, because it attracts more attention”?
Andropov’s puppet Dr. George Habash
what is operation SIG?
sionitskiye gosudarstva, zionist governments
what was a code name for a “socialist division of labor” aimed at turning the Islamic world into an “explosive” enemy of the US?
SIG operation
semetex-h
czechoslovokian foreign intelligence service was charged with supplying terrorists with an odorless plastic explosive that could not be detected by sniffer dogs at airports
what was Romania’s task in that joint venture?
to produce false western passports needed by Andropov’s “freedom fighters”.
who was the chairman of KGB that informed the soviet parliament that the motherland was on the brink of catastrophe?
Vladimir Kryuchkov
on the orders of the self-proclaimed, “state committee on the emergency situation” created by the coups leaders, KGB troops also surrounded the headquarters of the first freely elected president of the russian republic____.
Boris Yeltsin
who’s ill-conceived privatization had enabled a small clique of predatory insiders to plunder Russia’s most valuable assets?
Boris yeltsin
who fled the nation when Putin took power?
original Jewish oligarchs
who quit the KGB after the August 1991 coup and settle din the US, a traitor and an absolute loafer?
general Oleg Kalugin
what was the first soviet political police organization, founded on Dec 20,1917?
Cheka
Chechens
Putin labeled the Chechen’ effort to regain their independence as “terrorism” and he pledged to eradicate it.
who was an agent recruited by Okhrana while serving a jail term for theft and burglary?
Roman malinovsky
who was an American businessman and arrested by the FSB?
Edmund Pope
the Soviet bloc dezinformatsiya machinery worked around the clock to persuade the leaders of third world countries to adopt a UN resolution declaring that Zionism was ____.
“a form of racism and racial discrimination
who rose to be Russia’s spy chief after the Soviet Union collapsed and became prime minister?
Yevgeny Primakov
a new KGB-style operation aimed at spreading hatred for Zionism and the Jews around the world
UN “World Conference on Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance”
Bulgarian dissident
Georgi Markov
what was the emblem of the Kremlin’s political police?
sword and shield, symbolizing its duties: to put the country’s enemies to the sword, and to shield and protect the communist revolution
Iosif-1
Stalin’s first nuclear bomb
in 1955 Khrushchev set up a joint venture to help who produce nuclear weapons?
China
what country was the first intelligence dictatorship in history?
russia
what was the center of Egyptian protests?
Tahrir Square
who was the leader of the Russian-armed Hezbollah?
Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
who admitted to sending Sami Shehab to Egypt as head of a 22 man force charged with carrying out terrorist operations aimed at destabilizing the country’s pro-american government?
Nasrallah
PLO chariman
Yasser Arafat
who exposed Russia in his book “Blowing Up Russia: The Secret Plot to Bring Back KGB Terror”?
Alexander Litvineko
what KGB defector was framed as an “enemy of Russia” for exposing Russia in his book and then was barbarically assassinated?
Alexander Litvineko
how many journalists have been killed?
over 120
