From Red Cocaine, Joseph D. Douglass, Jr., 1990
In September 1963 the top leadership (First Secretaries, Premier Ministers, Ministers of Defense and Interior and selected staff, a total of up to 15 from each country except for Romania, Albania, and Yugoslavia, which were not present) met in Moscow for the annual conference on the plan and tactics to be followed in the coming year. The diplomatic, intelligence, and party initiatives — the integrated process — for the coming year were reviewed by the Soviet leadership.The principal speaker was Mikhail Suslov, who was the chief ideologist of the Communist Party and one of the key officials in the development of strategic plans. In discussing drugs, Suslov began by pointing out that the decision on drug and narcotics trafficking was the right course of action. As the Soviets assessed Latin America in the 1950s, they saw that the Latin American countries were dependent on the bourgeoisie, especially the United States. The Soviets said this had to change, the Latin American countries had to be made dependent on the Soviet Union. The major instruments to be used were drugs and other forms of corruption, which the Soviets had concluded were widespread throughout the Americas.
The Soviets referred to the revolutionary movement in Latin America as the Second Liberation. The First Liberation was the liberation from Spain and Portugal. The Second was the liberation from the United States and the bourgeoisie. The Third Liberation would be the transition into communism.
Suslov explained that it was necessary to disarm the anti-communist and U.S. friends before the Second Liberation could take place. The Soviets believed that the corrupted bourgeoisie had already accepted the idea of revolution, which was a deliberate Soviet-induced deception. The approach taken to get the notion of revolution accepted was to argue that Latin American countries were destined to proceed through revolutionary stages, to which the changes that would be accomplished would be quite beneficial. In these early stages, there was, by Soviet direction, to be no mention of socialism or even use of socialistic phrases, to avoid scaring people away from the concept.
There were five factors that the Soviets believed would be most instrumental in speeding the revolutionary process throughout Latin America:
1. The U.S. � U.S.S.R.. military balance. . . .2. Bankruptcy of colonialism.. . .
Comment but one example of fooling people with ill-defined notions. There was hardly any �colonialism� by 1963. — (WPT)>3. Organization of ideology and material supply of the liberation forces. . . .
4. The defeat of the United States in Vietnam. [this datum clearly antiquated (WPT)]
5. the demoralization of the United States and its neighbors on both sides, north and south. Drugs were a principal instrument to be used in bringing about this demoralization. The demoralization by drugs was referred to as the �pink epidemic.� The Soviets believed that when the pink epidemic covered the North and South American continents, the situation would be very good for the revolutionary movement.
Suslov reviewed the situation in Latin America, based on data gathered by Soviet intelligence, local communist parties, and from the Cuban and Warsaw Pact intelligence agents who had penetrated the Latin American drug operations.
Making special reference to Paraguay, Jamaica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico, Suslov asserted that seventy percent of Latin American bureaucrats were tied into (that is corrupted by) drug operations. In Mexico, he said, eighty percent f the bureaucrats were tied into drugs or involved with other corruption. . . . The Catholic priests have been a major target of Soviet strategy in Latin America. . . .
. . . after reviewing the intelligence statistics on the drug business, Suslov discussed two special groups against whom the drugs were to be used. First was the bourgeois leadership. Second was a group referred to as the �lumpen proletariat� — the unemployed who often turned to crime or prostitution for survival; a somewhat equivalent term to describe this group might be the �downtrodden proletariat.� As Suslov explained, this group was particularly vulnerable to the lure of drugs. This was good, because it was to the advantage of the revolutionary war movement to destroy this group. The group was useless and a burden. They did not want to work. They were the main consumer of drugs and were to be destroyed. The key revolutionary tactic was to prepare a revolutionary elite and these downtrodden proletariat were not part of this elite.
To further the drug business, Suslov emphasized four points:
1. Use Cuba to help establish operations.2. Be certain to . . . obtain security clearances on all personnel before involving them in the drug business.
3. In the Communist Parties, brief only the First Secretaries on drug activities. . . .
4. It was important to cause the indigenous Latin American intelligence, counterintelligence, and military forces to become more involved in the drug operations. These organizations represented important strengths of pro-U.S. feelings and drug-assisted corruption was to be used to undermine these pro-U.S. attitudes.
( page 41 � 45 )
Red Cocaine The Drugging of America
Atlanta, Georgia : Clarion House, 1990.