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The '''U.S. Peace Council''' was a [[Soviet]] controlled direct action committee formed founded in response the late 1970's.<ref>[http://www.wintersoldier.com/staticpages/index.php?page=KGBKerry Did the KGB use John Kerry?], Wintersoldier.com; <small>"Abe Feinglass would go on to Soviet become ...a founding member of the WPC's U.S. chapter, the U.S. Peace Council, in November 1979. Feinglass was a sponsor of various other [[CPSUCPUSA]] General Secretary fronts including those honoring identified Soviet agent [[Leonid BrezhnevSteve Nelson]]'s call to resist implementation . [Nelson was the leader of Uthe CP front, Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (Invitation, 2/16/75, and Cong.SRec. President of 3/22/75, E 1365 & 11/19/75, E 6261).] Feinglass was also a speaker at the "tribute" to [[Ronald ReaganJessica Smith]]and the CP-Soviet propaganda publication 's defense modernization program 'New World Review'' (Feb. 1, 1976), and helped host the WPC "Dialogue on Disarmament and Detente" in Washington, D.C., from Jan. 25-28, 1978 (CP's ''Daily World'', p.8 with photo).</small></ref> After [[NATO]]'s decision to deploy a new generation of strategic nuclear warheads in [[Europe]]and U. S. President [[Ronald Reagan]]'s planned defense modernization program, Soviet [[CPSU]] General Secretary [[Leonid 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.
In the 1990's [[Leslie Cagan]],<ref>[http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printindividualProfile.asp?indid=629 Leslie Cagan] discoverthenetworks.org</ref> a longtime pro-[[Castro]] communist, became the organizations official coordinator.
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