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Libbey gazes deep into the abyss of the fledgling Soviet dictatorship's covert manipulation of American journalists, bureaucrats, and legislators--and looks away.
Libbey's purely Politically Correct-Progressive point of view will not allow him to actually see what he found in his research. He found that Gumberg was unbelievably successful in penetrating American society, to the highest levels, and implanting the Soviet point of view.
Gumberg's covert influence agents--Raymond Robins, John Reed, Louise Bryant, and others--and the payload he implated via them, continue to effect American society and culture today.
Read this book and know that Libbey reports the facts quite well. But any interpretation by Libbey veers off the tracks into PC-Progressive hand-waving attempts to minimize Gumberg's ideology, and covert influence operational mission.
Libbey tries to establish, from the outset, that Gumberg was a "Russian-American businessman." He does not even consider any other potential characterization of Gumberg.
The fact is that Gumberg was a committed communist ideologue who determinedly hid his true beliefs from his American targets, like Robins, when necessary.
Gumberg was a master manipulator, and a master of agent recruiting, before the U.S. even understood the game, or had an espionage agency.
Gumberg was probably the most successful and brazen espionage operator of modern times.
And Libbery misses that story--in his PC-Progessive attempts to continue the narrative that America is bad, and the USSR was a noble experiment.
Ironically, Libbey's point of view is actually an echo of the influence payload that Gumberg inserted into American culture, via his influence agents--Reed, Robins, Bryant, Rhys Williams, and others.
Read this book to see the facts of Gumberg's life. But beware Libbey's cover-up of Gumberg's true core.
Kent Clizbe
author of Willing Accomplice: KGB covert influence operations created PC and destroyed America
www.willingaccomplices.com
www.kentclizbe.com