You know that up until recently, when the Communists were still in charge in Soviet Russia, so the Russians worked very hard to influence American public opinion. They had thousands of agents in the United States, people all over the country, who had only one job: They wandered around, they made their way into newspaper offices, into Hollywood, into the offices of politicians – they put themselves everywhere – and whenever they had a chance they said something positive about Communism or the Soviet Union.
Now, you wouldn’t know they were agents. They were cunning; you didn’t know they were propagandists. But at every opportunity they got in a few words to praise communism, to speak against President Reagan, to knock the American government, to talk against nuclear arms. They were infiltrating society everywhere; private life, public life. Thousands and thousands of agents. And they had one purpose – to work on behalf of the Kremlin; to praise what the Kremlin wanted them to praise.
