Imagine anti-American propagandists wrapping themselves in the US flag and drenching themselves in pro-US history just to make their lust for tribal revenge look reasonable to the average American who may still have some measure of faith in the CIA. That is ‘The Moscow Rules’. In short, this book is a neocon hit piece produced by ex-Troskyite Jews to justify their usurpation of America’s military for use in an aggressive proxy war against modern Russia in order to satisfy their lust for tribal revenge over alleged anti-Jewish pogroms in the 1880s. It’s that simple. This book, therefore, is little more than anti-Russian, anti-Putin, pro-Woke propaganda.
The authors seem to be more or less innocent naifs in this enterprise. They seem loyal enough to the U.S., but their revenge-bent publishers use the authors’ experience to manipulate the public into thinking that the CIA that came of age in the 1980s was the same CIA that existed for most of the Cold War. It was not. The book tries hard to make the CIA’s recent history of spying post 1991 look like a seamless continuation of the CIA’s spying during the coldest part of the Cold War, when in fact US policy flipped 180 degrees. Formerly defending itself against an expansionist aggressive USSR, the U.S. has since 1991 become a ruthless imperial power that is waging an aggressive proxy war in Ukraine, forcing Russia to wage an existential struggle for its national survival.
The neocon narrative that the CIA continues to battle an aggressive Russia is unconvincing and comes across as a record of needless provocations against Russia. After reading the book from beginning to end, one ends by sympathizing with the admittedly far from perfect Russians as they attempt to defend themselves from the hostile interventions of the CIA in internal Russian affairs—and this comes from the reviewer, a former Cold Warrior dedicated to the destruction of the Soviet Union, one of the vilest regimes ever to exist.
The anti-Russian prejudice of the book is an old story. It reflects the International Jewish Agenda of sexual deviance; abolition of borders; worship of blacks; and Jewish racial privilege, a Woke agenda that came to the CIA in the 1990s as it came to the rest of the U.S. Clothing this Woke agenda with Cold War 2.0 camouflage, the book paints post-Soviet Russia as pure evil—never making any distinction between the Soviet Union and modern Russia under Putin, while the US and the CIA are portrayed as similarly pure in both periods. Devoid of introspection, the book trades objectivity for sadly predictable political propaganda. Several times the book calls the former (pre-Woke) CIA “misogynistic” and speaks of “glass ceilings”, the typical language of Woke Feminism, as usual omitting the glass floors that have collapsed under so many men.
The Jewishness is surprising in its obviousness: the reviewers of the book are Jews. The citations given in the book are of Jews. The publisher is PublicAffairs, a publishing house of Hachette Book Group, openly dedicated to three Jews experienced in the propaganda business and is also described in detail in the book: Benjamin Bradlee, Robert L Bertstein, and the notorious Jewish propagandist I.F. Stone.
Stone is chiefly known for his factional works that have so many invented ‘facts’ that his works are more accurately described as fiction, for example asserting that the North Koreans during the Korean War were armed with little more than sticks. 35,000 dead U.S. soldiers in that war would likely say otherwise. These three persons are the publishers of this book. Jews citing Jews and reviewed by Jews in a book published by Jews. I didn’t have to invent any of this—the book openly proclaims it with drums and trumpets. The book even describes how the CIA approached Jewish-controlled Hollywood for assistance in learning stage magic, the better to deceive the KGB.
There are also many issues in particular with the book. For instance, it is written in the usual ploddingly popular style of most New York cellophane publishers and the book was almost certainly not written by the ostensible authors because it uses the usual popular metaphors and turns of phrase that publishers use in a work intended for unsophisticated readers. Genuine writers would never stoop to use boxing metaphors as this book does: “The Moscow Station was left reeling… they were staggered, like a disoriented boxer who had pulled himself up off the mat after being knocked down, only to be punched square in the jaw and sent back down again.” The authors should be embarrassed to have such a passage in their book. It also includes the inevitable “Not afraid to think outside the box” metaphor. Finding such metaphors in a book is a clear sign that it is aimed at low-information, if not low IQ, readers. There are also too many adjectives and adverbs, which mark the book as a dumbed-down potboiler: ‘desperate’, ‘incredibly’. Yet the book still manages to misspell ‘parols’ as ‘paroles’.
Unbelievably, the book also repeats the notorious Russia Hoax of 2016 as if it were fact. Multiple passages complain about Russian ‘interference’ in America’s presidential election while omitting that the CIA has intervened in elections throughout the world for the past 50 years, including every Russian election since Yeltsin. The Russia Hoax was a propaganda line invented by the Democratic National Committee, as evidenced by Wikileaks, designed and launched in 2015 and promoted by the Democratic Party’s MSM propaganda outlets, which, again predictably, happen to be owned by the same Jewish billionaires who own the New York publishing companies that published this book. Repeating the Russia Hoax alone makes this book suspect. If it repeats proven lies so casually, what else in the book might be untrue?
The book goes further, asserting that the Russia Hoax endangered the U.S. with “a concerted effort to undermine the U.S.-led liberal-democratic order (sic).” Yet, no trace of Russian ‘interference’ was ever found beyond a few Russian Facebook posts, while the U.S. imposed economic sanctions on Russia ever since 2014 over Putin’s occupation of Crimea, a territory that has been part of Russia since 1783, far longer than the U.S. has owned Texas and California, in fact before the U.S. even existed as a nation. One doesn’t see China sanctioning the U.S. over its continued occupation of the American Southwest, and if any country were to sanction the U.S. for occupying the Southwest, the entire world would see such a policy as unreasonable and unconscionably provocative.
There is no longer any US-led, liberal-democratic order anyhow, only American Wokeness, the new Universal State Religion of the West. The U.S. under today’s expansive Jewish influence under Biden has undermined international law with its illegal seizures of foreign-owned funds, illegally cut off Russia and other countries from SWIFT financial transactions, and is organizing illegal regime changes such as just happened in Syria—which is why most of the world are distancing themselves from the Woke U.S. and switching their allegiance to BRICS.
There is never a word in this book that after 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed, there was no need whatsoever for the CIA to continue to spy on Russia and to continue its clandestine efforts to undermine the Russian state. These efforts, amply described in this book, were provocative, aggressive, and unprovoked. And not one word is mentioned that the CIA was at the same time overthrowing foreign governments, interfering in foreign elections, and training secret armies.
More details that are either false or deliberately misleading about Russia and the Soviet Union follow. For instance, the book laments that the KGB had “50,000 agents” in Moscow and that the number of American agents could not possibly match the KGB’s universal presence. (Why should they?) But it doesn’t mention that every citizen in the Soviet Union was technically a state employee and indirectly therefore a KGB agent if and when the KGB needed them. That’s called Communism.
The book proclaims that the “FSB [the KGB] is the breeding ground of Putinism”. But it makes no mention that the CIA, tied as it is to the corrupt Five Eyes and the Mossad, might be a breeding ground for Wokism and the Democratic Party’s efforts to establish a one-party regime in the U.S. which could just as well be called Bidenism. The Gerber Rules of the 1970s matched the beginning of Wokism in the CIA, with non-whites coming to the fore in the Agency, in force after 1980, with the result that the many devastating moles later uncovered were, again unsurprisingly, mostly white males who had been passed over for promotions or otherwise slighted during the 70-year long era of Affirmative Action in the CIA as in the rest of America. Why remain loyal to an agency that has no loyalty to its own?
Having spent a good amount of time in the Soviet Union, this reviewer can relate that much of the background information related in the book about living there is either misrepresented or omitted, leading to serious misimpressions for the readers. For instance, it gives the impression that anyone could just go buy a car and drive around like in the U.S. But Soviets had years-long waiting lists to obtain cars like a Zhiguli. So how did a CIA agent working at the U.S. Embassy manage to buy a Zhiguli almost overnight? That was not Soviet oppression—that was foreign privilege.
The book mentions many new restaurants on the Arbat, leaving the impression that anyone at all could simply stroll in and buy a meal. Just as the book gives the impression that an American could just walk about and mix with and talk to Soviet citizens as he pleased. But the Soviet Union had a strict law that any Soviet citizen who talked with a foreigner was subject to immediate arrest—mixing with foreigners was absolutely prohibited and any restaurant that catered to foreigners had a policeman at the door who barred any Soviet from entering. Soviet citizens could not possess foreign currency, only rubles, and restaurants that catered to foreigners accepted only foreign currency, called valuta. I know because I was there at the time, including on the Arbat. Foreigners and Soviets were segregated by Soviet law at all times unless the foreigner was escorted by a KGB-appointed guide from Intourist. The book never mentions these basic facts.
Similarly, the book speaks of an American 6 feet, 3 inches tall “melding” into a Soviet crowd. Anyone who has been to Russia knows this is impossible. This reviewer is 6 feet, 3 inches tall and I towered over every Russian by at least a full foot. It was literally impossible for me to “meld” anywhere. It is no more possible for a tall American to disappear into a crowd of Russians than it would be for a 6 foot, 3 inch tall American to disappear in a crowd of Japanese. Someone that tall is instantly recognized by Russians as a foreigner and therefore someone whom no Russian could talk to without risking arrest.
Then there is the gross error that refers to 100,000 rubles in the 1980s as worth $92,000. The street exchange rate at the time was at least 20 rubles per dollar, and was rapidly increasing, which makes 100,000 Soviet rubles worth only $5,000 at the time, not $92,000. Anyone who had actually been on the ground in Moscow in the 1980s would know this, which makes me highly suspicious about any other so-called ‘facts’ that this book presents.
”Moscow Rules” refers to what the book calls “HUMINT techniques” or human intelligence, meaning personal spying as opposed to data gathering. It refers to disguises, document drops, blow-up dolls in cars, and those stage magic techniques learned in Hollywood. The book goes into great detail about these techniques, which is its only redeeming feature. The fact that the CIA approved publication of these techniques is evidence that the CIA no longer regards them as significant in intelligence gathering, having almost wholly switched over to electronic and satellite information gathering.
The book describes the Moscow Rules as something the CIA invented, specifically the CIA agents working in the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, as related by the authors from their personal experience. However, anyone who has read about the early days of the Soviet Union knows that these same techniques mostly originated in the days of the Comintern. The Soviets needed no one to teach them the art of spying. They were the world’s masters, having practically invented the art.
One of the more interesting episodes described in the book is the betrayal of Edward Lee Howard. The book describes how the CIA hired him, quickly gave him access to the most sensitive HUMINT regarding Soviet assets, then publicly fired him in such a way that he was guaranteed to hold a grudge against the CIA. Howard promptly betrayed everything he knew to the KGB resulting in the discovery and execution of a host of Russians who were working for the CIA. Why didn’t the CIA kick him upstairs to a safe desk job, or reassign him to Tierra del Fuego? But this was the age of Woke Affirmative Action and white males were personae non grata, so the CIA lost virtually every asset they had behind the Iron Curtain and entered the wilderness due simply to their adherence to the new Woke Cult. Kind of reminds me of the lesbian captain who recently sank a 75-person New Zealand military naval frigate by leaving the autopilot on causing it to run into a reef, another casualty of Wokeness. Both incidents look like scenes from the movie Idiocracy.
The CIA’s record of failing to detect the treason of angry white males is remarkable: E.L. Howard; Aldrich Ames; John A. Walker; Harold J. Nicholson; and Robert Hanssen (FBI, though the CIA should have detected him). The book describes their situations, and a mystery “Fourth Man” may have existed, though was never discovered. Lesson: if you are a Russian divulging secrets to the CIA, you will almost certainly be given up by one or another CIA officer, who will almost certainly be a white male disgruntled at being passed over for promotion or the smallness of his pay. The CIA also seems to have strangely bad luck with people named Lee, thinking of Edward Lee Howard and Lee Harvey Oswald. The U.S. Embassy Marine, Clayton Lonetree, who also betrayed secrets, comes strangely close to Lee in his name too. Very odd.
