07-01-2010, 08:13 AM
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He defected in February 1968. He was [allegedly] murdered [poisoned] in 1997, most likely by the Russians, because he testified in front of representative Bob Dornan's U.S. Congressional Committee on U.S. POWs.
Sejna, as the Deputy Secretary of the highest decision-making body the
Czechoslovak [communist] Defense Council, he was the highest ranking
ever defector from communism.
Sejna knew about the Soviet long range plan which was named
Perestroika and fully implemented by Gorbachev at the end of 1980.
page 101
One of the basic problems of the West is its frequent failure to recognize the existence of any Soviet grand design at all. Those rejecting this concept unwittingly serve Soviet efforts to conceal their objectives and further complicate the process of determining such objectives.
While many Western political analysts scoff at the idea of a coherent Soviet strategy, Brezhnev has said that "the liquidation of colonial empires was effectively completed in the seventies. The sphere of Imperialist domination in the World has narrowed."
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page 103
While the main target of the strategic plan is the United States, a direct attack against it would invite great damage to the Soviet Union.
Therefore to avoid direct conflict with the U.S. the Plan calls for the isolation of the 'main enemy' by the 'Finlandization' of Europe [ed. note: .... means subversion and infiltration], reduction of western political and economic access to the Third World by establishing pro-Soviet regimes whenever and wherever possible; and insurgency in areas of importance to the U.S., such as Central America.
Sejna, as the Deputy Secretary of the highest decision-making body the
Czechoslovak [communist] Defense Council, he was the highest ranking
ever defector from communism.
Sejna knew about the Soviet long range plan which was named
Perestroika and fully implemented by Gorbachev at the end of 1980.
page 101
One of the basic problems of the West is its frequent failure to recognize the existence of any Soviet grand design at all. Those rejecting this concept unwittingly serve Soviet efforts to conceal their objectives and further complicate the process of determining such objectives.
While many Western political analysts scoff at the idea of a coherent Soviet strategy, Brezhnev has said that "the liquidation of colonial empires was effectively completed in the seventies. The sphere of Imperialist domination in the World has narrowed."
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page 103
While the main target of the strategic plan is the United States, a direct attack against it would invite great damage to the Soviet Union.
Therefore to avoid direct conflict with the U.S. the Plan calls for the isolation of the 'main enemy' by the 'Finlandization' of Europe [ed. note: .... means subversion and infiltration], reduction of western political and economic access to the Third World by establishing pro-Soviet regimes whenever and wherever possible; and insurgency in areas of importance to the U.S., such as Central America.