Strategies of Psychological Warfare
October 15, 2021
FROM the introduction to Brainwashed into Slavery (1940, Freedom Builders of America) by Kenneth Goff:
From May 2, 1936, to October 10, 1939, I was a dues-paying member of the Communist Party, operating under my own name Kenneth Goff, and also the alias John Keats. In 1939, I voluntarily appeared before the Un-American Activities Committee in Washington, D. C., which was chairmaned at that time by Martin Dies, and my testimony can be found in Volume 9 of that year’s Congressional Report.
During the period that I was a member of the Communist Party, I attended their school which was located at 113 E. Wells St., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and operated under the name Eugene Debs Labor School. Here we were trained in all phases of warfare, both psychological and physical, for the destruction of the Capitalistic society and Christian civilization. In one portion of our studies we went thoroughly into the matter of psychopolitics. This was the art of capturing the minds of a nation through brainwashing and fake mental health — the subjecting of whole nations of people to the rule of the Kremlin by the capturing of their minds. We were taught that the degradation of the populace is less inhuman than their, destruction by bombs, for to an animal who lives only once any life is sweeter than death. The end of a war is the control of a conquered people. If a people can be conquered in the absence of war the end of the war will have been achieved without the destructions of war.
During the past few years I have noted with horror the increase of psychopolitical warfare upon the American public. [bold added]
Goff’s short book includes the address of Lavrenty Beria, head of Stalin’s secret police, to American students in Lenin University prior to 1936 and instructions from the Communist Manual of Instructions of Psychopolitical Warfare. You will recognize many similarities between these instructions and American government propaganda today.