[Grem] The communists created Liberation Theology' / former Soviet spy

[Emoke Greschik]

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Former Soviet spy: We created Liberation Theology

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created-liberation-theology-83634/


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[image: Ion Mihai Pacepa on Raul Castro's yacht in Cuba, 1974. Photo
courtesy of Ion Mihai Pacepa.]
Ion Mihai Pacepa on Raul Castro's yacht in Cuba, 1974. Photo courtesy of
Ion Mihai Pacepa.






Washington D.C., May 1, 2015 / 03:34 pm (CNA
<http://www.catholicnewsagency.com>).-* Espionage deep in the heart of
Europe. Secrets in the KGB. Defection from a communist nation. Ion Mihai
Pacepa has seen his share of excitement, serving as general for Communist
Romania’s secret police before* *defecting to the United States in the late
1970s.*

The highest-ranking defector from communism in the ‘70s,* he spoke to CNA
recently about** the connection between the Soviet Union and Liberation
Theology in Latin America.* Below are excerpts of the interview. All
footnotes were provided by Pacepa.

*In general, could you say that the spreading of Liberation Theology had
any kind of Soviet connection?*

*Yes. I learned the fine points of the KGB involvement with Liberation
Theology from Soviet General Aleksandr Sakharovsky, communist Romania's
chief *razvedka (foreign intelligence) adviser – and my de facto boss,
until 1956, when he became head of the Soviet espionage service, the PGU1,
a position he held for an unprecedented record of 15 years.

*On October 26, 1959, Sakharovsky and his new boss, Nikita Khrushchev, came
to Romania for what would become known as “Khrushchev's six-day vacation.*”
He had never taken such a long vacation abroad, nor was his stay in Romania
really a vacation*. Khrushchev wanted to go down in history as the Soviet
leader who had exported communism to Central and South America. Romania was
the only Latin country in the Soviet bloc, and Khrushchev wanted to enroll
her “Latin leaders” in his new “liberation” war.*

*I learned about Sakharovsky from your writings, but I could not find any
other relevant information about him. Why?*

Sakharovsky was a Soviet reflection of the Cold War's hot years, when not
even all the members of the Israeli and British governments knew the
identity of the heads of Mossad and MI-6. But *Sakharovsky played an
extremely important role in shaping Cold War history. He authored the
export of communism to Cuba (1958-1961); his nefarious handling of the
Berlin crisis (1958-1961) generated the Berlin Wall; his Cuban Missile
Crisis (1962) brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.*

*Was the Theology of Liberation a movement somehow "created" by
Sakharovsky's part of the KGB, or it was an existing movement that was
exacerbated by the USSR?*

*The movement was born in the KGB, and it had a KGB-invented name:
Liberation Theology.* During those years, the KGB had a penchant for
“liberation” movements. The National Liberation Army of Columbia (FARC),
created by the KGB with help from Fidel Castro; the “National Liberation
Army of Bolivia, created by the KGB with help from “Che” Guevara; and the
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), created by the KGB with help from
Yasser Arafat are just a few additional “liberation” movements born at the
Lubyanka -- the headquarters of the KGB.

*The birth of Liberation Theology was the intent of a 1960 super-secret
“Party-State Dezinformatsiya Program” *approved by Aleksandr Shelepin, the
chairman of the KGB, and by Politburo member Aleksey Kirichenko, who
coordinated the Communist Party's international policies.* This program
demanded that the KGB take secret control of the World Council of Churches
(WCC), based in Geneva, Switzerland, and use it as cover for converting
Liberation *Theology into a South American revolutionary tool. *The WCC was
the largest international ecumenical organization after the Vatican,
representing some 550 million Christians of various denominations
throughout 120 countries.*

*The birth of a new religious movement is a historic event. How was this
new religious movement launched?*

*The KGB began by building an intermediate international religious
organization called the Christian Peace Conference (CPC), which was
headquartered in Prague. Its main task was to bring the KGB-created
Liberation Theology into the real world.*

*The new Christian Peace Conference was managed by the KGB and was
subordinated to the venerable World Peace Council, another KGB creation,
founded in 1949 and by then also headquartered in Prague.*

During my years at the top of the Soviet bloc intelligence community I
managed the Romanian operations of the World Peace Council (WPC). It was as
purely KGB as it gets. Most of the WPC’s employees were undercover Soviet
bloc intelligence officers. The WPC’s two publications in French, Nouvelles
perspectives and Courier de la Paix, were also managed by undercover KGB –
and Romanian DIE2  - intelligence officers. *Even the money for the WPC
budget came from Moscow, delivered by the KGB in the form of laundered cash
dollars to hide their Soviet origin. In 1989, when the Soviet Union was on
the verge of collapse, the WPC publicly admitted that 90% of its money came
from the KGB3.*

*How did the Theology of Liberation start?*

I was not involved in the creation of Liberation Theology per se. From
Sakharovsky I learned, however, that in 1968 the KGB-created Christian
Peace Conference, supported by the world-wide World Peace Council, *was
able to maneuver a group of leftist South American bishops into holding* *a
Conference of Latin American Bishops at Medellin, Colombia. The
Conference’s official task was to ameliorate poverty. **Its undeclared goal
was to recognize a new religious movement encouraging the poor to rebel
against the “institutionalized violence of poverty,” and to recommend the
new movement to the World Council of Churches for official approval.*

*The Medellin Conference achieved both goals. It also bought the KGB-born
name “Liberation Theology.”*

*Theology of Liberation had key leaders, some of them famous “pastoral”
figures, some others intellectuals. Do you know if there was any
involvement of the Soviet bloc in promoting either the personal image or
the writings of such personalities? Any specific connection with Bishops
Sergio Mendes Arceo from Mexico or Helder Camara from Brazil?  Any possible
direct connection with liberation theologians such as Leonardo Boff, Frei
Betto, Henry Camacho or Gustavo Gutierrez?  *

*I have good reason to suspect that there was an organic connection between
the KGB and some of those leading promoters of Liberation Theology*, *but I
have no evidence to prove it.* For the last 15 years of my life in Romania
(1963 - 1978), I managed that country's scientific and technological
espionage, as well as the disinformation operations aimed at improving
Ceausescu's stature in the West.

*I recently glanced through Gutierrez's book A Theology of Liberation:
History, Politics, Salvation (1971), and I had the feeling that it was
written at the Lubyanka. No wonder he is now credited with being the
founder of Liberation Theology.* From feelings to facts, however, is a long
way.

Footnotes:

1) Pervoye Glavnoye Upravleniye, or First Chief Directorate of the KGB
2) Departamentul de Informatii Externe, Romania’s foreign intelligence
service.
3)  Herbert Romerstein, Soviet Active Measures and Propaganda, Mackenzie
Institute Paper no. 17 (Toronto, 1989), pp. 14-15, 25-26. WPC Peace
Courier, 1989, no. 4, as cited in Andrew and Gordievsky, KGB, p. 629.


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