(Vigilant Citizen) Yuri Bezmenov was the son of a high-ranking Soviet officer and a member of the Novasti Press Agency – the elite propaganda arm of the KGB. One of his assignments was to accompany journalists visiting the Soviet Union to make sure they did not discover the truth about Soviet life. After becoming disillusioned with the system, he defected and moved to America.
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Former KGB Officer Warns US about Ideological Subversion
(Robert Sepehr) Yuri Bezmenov was a Soviet journalist and a former KGB informant who defected to the West. After being assigned to a station in India, Bezmenov eventually grew to resent the KGB-sanctioned oppression of intellectuals who dissented from Moscow’s Marxist policies. He is best remembered for his anti-Communist lectures and books from the 1980s, which when looking back at this interview, has played out just as he described right before our eyes.