A speech by Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria, head of the KGB under Stalin,
addressing the American students in the Lenin University ca. 1936
American students at the Lenin University, I welcome your attendance at these classes on Psychopolitics.
Psychopolitics is an important if less known division of Geo-politics. It is less known because it must necessarily deal with highly educated personnel, the very top strata of "mental healing."
By psychopolitics our chief goals are effectively carried forward. To produce a maximum of chaos in the culture of the enemy is our first most important step. Our fruits are grown in chaos, distrust, economic depression and scientific turmoil. At least a weary populace can seek peace only in our offered Communist State, at last only Communism can resolve the problems of the masses.
A psychopolitician must work hard to produce the maximum chaos in the fields of "mental healing." He must recruit and use all the agencies and facilities of "mental healing." He must labor to increase the personnel and facilities of "mental healing" until at last the entire field of mental science is entirely dominated by Communist principles and desires.
To achieve these goals the psychopolitician must crush every "home-grown" variety of mental healing in America. Actual teachings of James, Eddy and Pentecostal Bible faith healers amongst your mis-guided people must be swept aside. They must be discredited, defamed, arrested, stamped upon even by their own government until there is no credit in them and only Communist-oriented "healing" remains. You must work until every teacher of psychology unknowingly or knowingly teaches only Communist doctrine under the guise of "psychology.". You must labor until every doctor and psychiatrist is either a psycho-politician or an unwitting assistant to our aims.
You must labor until we have dominion over the minds and bodies of every important person in your nation. You must achieve such disrepute for the state of insanity and such authority over its pronouncement that not one statement so labeled could again be given credence by his people. You must work until suicide arising from mental imbalance is common and calls forth no general investigation or remark.
With the institutions for the insane you have in your country and prisons which can hold a million persons and can hold them without civil rights or any hope of freedom. And upon these people can be practiced shock and surgery so that never again will they draw a sane breath. You must make these treatments common and accepted. And you must sweep aside any treatment or any group of persons seeking to treat by effective means.
You must dominate as respected men the fields of psychiatry and psychology. You must dominate the hospitals and universities. You must carry forward the myth that only a European doctor is competent in the field of insanity and thus excuse amongst you the high incidence of foreign birth and training. If and when we seize Vienna, you shall have then a common ground of meeting and can come and take your instructions as worshippers of Freud along with other psychiatrists.
Psychopolitics is a solemn charge. With it you can erase our enemies as insects. You can cripple the efficiency of leaders by striking insanity into their families through the use of drugs. You can wipe them away with testimony as to their insanity. By our technologies, you can even bring about insanity itself when they seem too resistive.
You can change their loyalties by psychopolitics. Given a short time with a psychopolitician you can alter forever their loyalty of a soldier in our hands or a statesman or a leader in his own country, or you can destroy his mind.
However, you labor under certain dangers. It may happen that remedies for our "treatments" may be discovered. It may occur that a public hue and cry may arise against "mental healing." It may thus occur that all mental healing might be placed in the hands of ministers and taken out of the hands of our psychologists and psychiatrists. But the Capitalistic thirst for control, Capitalistic in-humanity and general public terror of insanity can be brought to guard against these things. But should they occur, should independent researchers actually discover means to undo psychopolitical procedures, you must not rest, you must not eat or sleep, you must not stint one tiniest bit of available money to campaign against it, discredit it , strike it down and render it void. For by an effective means all our actions and researches could be undone.
In a Capitalistic state you are aided on all sides by the corruption of the philosophy of man and the times. You will discover that everything will aid you in your campaign to seize control and use all "mental healing" to spread our doctrine and rid us of our enemies within their own borders.
Use the courts, use the judges, use the Constitution of the country, use its medical societies and its laws to further our ends. Do not stint in your labor in this direction. And when you have succeeded you will discover that you can now effect your own legislation at will and you can, by careful organization of healing societies, by constant campaign about the terrors of society, by pretense as to your effectiveness make your Capitalist himself, by his own appropriations, finance a large portion of the quiet Communist conquest of the nation.
By psychopolitics create chaos. Leave a nation leaderless. Kill our enemies. And bring to Earth, through Communism, the greatest peace Man has ever known.
Thank You.
Bringing Justice to Wenatchee
Paul Craig Roberts
May 3, 1999
Two decades ago, hysterical liberals created a monster -- an unaccountable Gestapo known today as Child Protective Services. Crazed therapists testified before Congress that 75 percent of parents were child abusers and that a new national bureaucracy was necessary to protect children. Congress obliged the therapists' request and unleashed a Frankenstein.
Several years ago, the local CPS in Wenatchee, Wash., got the word from the state office to find some cases to justify its budget. Thus began a modern-day Salem witch hunt that resulted in the arrest of 43 adults on 30,000 counts of sex abuse against 60 children.
It was all a fabrication to justify a budget. Many of the accused were poor and uneducated. When a local pastor, Robert Roberson, came to their aid, he and his wife were arrested on child sex-abuse charges and held on million-dollar bonds. Part of Pastor Roberson's lesson from the corrupt police was jail beatings.
When Roberson's case went to trial, the falsity of the charges against him were obvious. The witch hunt had overreached. Roberson was acquitted, and this was a turning point. Another turning point was Juana Vasquez, the director of Child Welfare Services in Wenatchee, who challenged the charges brought against Robert Devereaux, a kindly man who operated a foster home for children. Her integrity got her fired.
This was another mistake by the witch hunters drunk with their power. Vasquez was a woman of steel. The daughter of migrant farm workers who worked her way through college and became dean of admissions at Gonzaga University, she could not be intimidated. She took a stand against the injustice and beat the authorities in a lawsuit that awarded her $1.57 million.
One outcome is that the City of Wenatchee has paid Devereaux $209,000 to drop his suit for malicious prosecution and wrongful arrest. Pastor Roberson, Mrs. Vasquez and a few others had the courage to stand up to evil and expose the witch hunt. The state Court of Appeals has overturned six cases, handing down rulings highly critical of the police, trial judges, prosecutors and public defenders.
Eleven people remain wrongfully imprisoned awaiting their appeals. Vasquez died on April 29 of brain cancer. She was 48 years old and is survived by eight children and her husband.
Vasquez and one county commissioner were the only public officials with the courage to challenge the witch hunt. The local newspaper and radio station and the local elites all went along with the false charges.
"I wish I had more time to see this through, to see those from Wenatchee, the innocent people wrongly imprisoned, freed from their cells," were among Vasquez's last words. "There are others who have a responsibility to do something, but who stand silent. Our governor still turns his head. Janet Reno looks the other way. The legislature does a little, but not enough. Wenatchee can happen again in this state unless the citizens and the government voice their outrage."
Pastor Roberson, Vasquez and a brave few helped to end the deafening silence. A Spokane TV station took up the investigation and helped to expose the witch hunt. Then, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer turned loose two investigative reporters.
The facts are now in. Public authorities in the state of Washington framed numerous people on false charges and put their children out for adoption. Prosecutors brought the false cases to trial or to plea bargains. Trial judges looked the other way, seeing no evil and hearing no evil.
When the sordid witch hunt was exposed, the state responded by appointing commissions. All of the public authorities who framed innocent people remain at large. No indictments have been brought against those responsible for one of the greatest abuses of public power in our history. And we are supposed to trust government?
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Dr. Paul Craig Roberts is the John M. Olin fellow at the Institute for Political Economy, research fellow at the Independent Institute and senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He has also published many books and journals and has testified before committees of Congress on over 30 occasions.
