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The '''U.S. Peace Council''' was a [[Soviet]] controlled direct action committee formed in response to Soviet [[CPSU]] General Secretary [[Leonid Brezhnev]]'s call to resist implantation of U.S. President [[Ronald Reagan]]'s defense modernization program and [[NATO]]'s decision to deploy a new generation of strategic nuclear warheads in [[Europe]]. Brezhnev issued a call for an immediate "nuclear freeze" before the Twenty-Sixth Community Party Congress on February 23 1981.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=_PZy-U7G2EMC&dq=U.S.+Peace+Council%2Bkgb&source=gbs_navlinks_s The Apocalyptic premise : Nuclear Arms Debated], By Ernest W. Lefever, E. Stephen Hunt, Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C., 1982, pp. 127-137.</ref> The [[KGB]]'s International Department instantly triggered [[active measure]] throughout the world to implement the strategy.
Three days of organizational meetings were held at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. attended by approximately 275 to 300 people from thirty-three states, [[Great Britain]], and the Soviet Union. Two KGB Officers were in attendance, [[Oleg Bogdonav]] an Internal Department specialist in Active Measures, and [[Yuri S, Kapralov]], a KGB Officer assigned to the [[United States]] since 1978 and dedicated to penetrating "peace movements." Kapralov was a member of the discussion panel.
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence held hearings in 1982 in which Edward J. O'Malley, assistant [[FBI]] director in charge of the bureau's intelligence division testified that KGB officers were instructed "to devote serious attention to the antiwar movement in the United States," and that a [[Glossary_of_espionage_terms#Fronts_and_cutouts|Communist-front group]], the U.S. Peace Council, was among the organizers of a June 1982 huge peace protest in New York City.<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,953701,00.html ''The KGB: Eyes of the Kremlin''], [[Time magazine]], Feb. 14, 1983.</ref>
[[Category:Communism]]
[[Category:Cold War]]
[[Category:United States]]
[[Category:Anti-war Movements]]
[[Category:Espionage]]
Three days of organizational meetings were held at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. attended by approximately 275 to 300 people from thirty-three states, [[Great Britain]], and the Soviet Union. Two KGB Officers were in attendance, [[Oleg Bogdonav]] an Internal Department specialist in Active Measures, and [[Yuri S, Kapralov]], a KGB Officer assigned to the [[United States]] since 1978 and dedicated to penetrating "peace movements." Kapralov was a member of the discussion panel.
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence held hearings in 1982 in which Edward J. O'Malley, assistant [[FBI]] director in charge of the bureau's intelligence division testified that KGB officers were instructed "to devote serious attention to the antiwar movement in the United States," and that a [[Glossary_of_espionage_terms#Fronts_and_cutouts|Communist-front group]], the U.S. Peace Council, was among the organizers of a June 1982 huge peace protest in New York City.<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,953701,00.html ''The KGB: Eyes of the Kremlin''], [[Time magazine]], Feb. 14, 1983.</ref>
[[Category:Communism]]
[[Category:Cold War]]
[[Category:United States]]
[[Category:Anti-war Movements]]
[[Category:Espionage]]