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In 1951 the
House Committee on Un-American Activities published
The Communist "Peace" Offensive, which detailed the activities of the WPC and of numerous affiliated organisations. It listed dozens of American organisations and hundreds of Americans who had been involved in peace meetings, conferences and petitions. It noted, "that some of the persons who are so described in either the text or the appendix withdrew their support and/or affiliation with these organizations when the Communist character of these organizations was discovered. There may also be persons whose names were used as sponsors or affiliates of these organizations without permission or knowledge of the individuals involved."
[25]
In 1982,
The Heritage Foundation published
Moscow and the Peace Offensive, which said that non-aligned peace organizations advocated similar policies on defence and disarmament to the Soviet Union. It argued that "pacifists and concerned Christians had been drawn into the Communist campaign largely unaware of its real sponsorship."
[26]
Russian
GRU defector
Stanislav Lunev said in his autobiography that
"the GRU and the KGB helped to fund just about every antiwar movement and organization in America and abroad," and that during the Vietnam War the USSR gave $1 billion to American anti-war movements, more than it gave to the
VietCong,
[27] ... Lunev described this as a
"hugely successful campaign and well worth the cost".[27] The former KGB officer Sergei Tretyakov said that the Soviet Peace Committee funded and organized demonstrations in Europe against US bases.[28] According to
Time magazine, a US State Department official estimated that the KGB may have spent $600 million on the peace offensive up to 1983, channeling funds through national Communist parties or the World Peace Council "to a host of new antiwar organizations that would, in many cases, reject the financial help if they knew the source."
[21] Richard Felix Staar in his book
Foreign Policies of the Soviet Union says that non-communist peace movements without overt ties to the USSR were "virtually controlled" by it.
Lord Chalfont claimed that the Soviet Union was giving the European peace movement £100 million a year. The
Federation of Conservative Students (FCS) alleged Soviet funding of
CND.
U.S. plans in the late 1970s and early 1980s to deploy
Pershing II missiles in Western Europe in response to the Soviet
SS-20 missiles were contentious, prompting
Paul Nitze, the American negotiator, to suggest a compromise plan for nuclear missiles in Europe in the celebrated "walk in the woods" with Soviet negotiator Yuli Kvitsinsky, but the Soviets never responded.
[29] Kvitsinsky would later write that, despite his efforts, the Soviet side was not interested in compromise, calculating instead that peace movements in the West would force the Americans to capitulate.
[30]
In November 1981, Norway expelled a suspected KGB agent who had offered bribes to Norwegians to get them to write letters to newspapers denouncing the deployment of new NATO missiles.
[21]
In 1985
Time magazine noted "the suspicions of some Western scientists that the
nuclear winter hypothesis was promoted by Moscow to give antinuclear groups in the U.S. and Europe some fresh ammunition against America's arms buildup."
[31] Sergei Tretyakov claimed that the data behind the nuclear winter scenario was faked by the KGB and spread in the west as part of a campaign against
Pershing II missiles.
[32] He said that the first peer-reviewed paper in the development of the nuclear winter hypothesis, "Twilight at Noon" by
Paul Crutzen and John Birks (1982),
[33] was published as a result of this KGB influence.
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