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The '''U.S. Peace Council''' was a [[Soviet]] controlled [[direct action]] committee founded in the late 1970s.<ref>[http://www.wintersoldier.com/staticpages/index.php?page=KGBKerry Did the KGB use John Kerry?], Wintersoldier.com; "[[Abe Feinglass]] would go on to 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 [[CPUSA]] fronts including those honoring identified Soviet agent [[Steve Nelson]]. [Nelson was the leader of the CP front, Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (Invitation, 2/16/75, and Cong. Rec. of 3/22/75, E 1365 & 11/19/75, E 6261).] Feinglass was also a speaker at the "tribute" to [[Jessica Smith]] and the CP-Soviet propaganda publication ''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).</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 before the Twenty-Sixth Communist Party Congress on February 23, 1981.<ref>[https://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]]s 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 [[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>

==Executive Committee==
The Executive Committee of the U.S. Peace Council included such luminaries as 
*U.S. Congresswoman [[Barbara Lee]] who previously served as a volunteer for a local chapter of the [[Black Panther Party]], worked on the 1973 Oakland mayoral campaign of Panther co-founder [[Bobby Seale]], and she served as a confidential aide to the Panthers’ "Minister of Defense," [[Huey Newton]].<ref>[http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=936 Barbara Lee], Discoverthenetworks.org</ref>  
*[[James Jackson]] of the National Board of the [[Communist Party USA]], convicted in 1956 for violations of the [[Smith Act]], conspiring to the overthrow of the United States government by force and violence.  In the 1960s while Jackson served as CPUSA international affairs secretary during the height of the bombing of Hanoi, Jackson traveled to [[North Vietnam]] and interviewed [[Ho Chi Minh]].<ref>[http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/5834/ James E. Jackson Jr. – an Appreciation], By Jarvis Tyner and Sam Webb, Political Affairs magazine, 9-12-07.</ref> 
*Illinois state senator [[Alice Palmer]] of the Black Press Institute and Black Press Review. In 1986 Palmer reported on the Twenty-seventh Communist Party Congress in [[Moscow]] which was published in the CPUSA's official organ, the ''[[People's Daily World]].''<ref>[http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/chicago-obama.pdf Communism in Chicago and the Obama Connection], USASurvival.com, pp. 2-3, 25-29.</ref>
*[[Frank Chapman]], National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, NYC

[[Mark Solomon]] of the [[Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism]] (CCDS) later served as the national chairperson of the U.S. Peace Council and was Presidential Committee member of the World Peace Council.  In the 1990s after the collapse of the Soviet Union, longtime Castro supporter [[Leslie Cagan]],<ref>[http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printindividualProfile.asp?indid=629 Leslie Cagan] Discoverthenetworks.org</ref> assumed the role as the organizations official coordinator.

==See also==
*[[Bernie Sanders]]

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