Security questions raised about "honey-traps" by International Minister, June 28, 2001 In June, MIM received a report that the Scottish Separatist Group (SSG) sent letter-bombs to the AFA (Anti-Fascist Action) and Red Action in England, two groups considering themselves Marxist or at least progressive and militant. The report said, "SSG is the fascist group that sent letter bombs to AFA and Red Action in England. It is a 'one-man- army' run by MI6 asset Adam Busby who currently lives in self-imposed 'exile' in Dublin. "Considering SSG, and it's prior incarnation, Scottish National Liberation Army's, well documented role as a state run 'honey-trap' it is perhaps worth bearing in mind that there have been suggestions that the RMP is a similarly compromised operation. "If anyone on this list has contact with the RMP they should let them know of the SSG's real nature." MI6 is an intelligence and action arm of the English government, similar to the CIA. The above statement is saying that the SSG is state-infiltrated. Others have accused the Red Action and AFA for being in the service of British Intelligence bureaus. In the same month, MIM's fraternal party, the Russian Maoist Party (RMP) signed a communique with the SSG, which is why the writer raised doubts about the RMP. Although the critics attack our comrades of the RMP, they indirectly raise a good point, which is that any organization can be used as a front for the enemy's spies. Every quarter-way (not even half-way) decent organization attracts government infiltrators, the type of scum lucky that government security budgets are so fantastically bloated. There are two deviations that occur in response to imperialist spies and provocateurs. The rightist deviation takes up fatalism, and Liberalism, because it is supposedly futile to resist the enemy when it has already taken notes on your middle name and favorite ice cream flavor. The reasoning goes that the enemy is so much more powerful and omnipresent that there is no point in struggling. The other deviation is ultra-left and it is to fall victim to provocations by engaging rival gangs in shoot-outs. The risk of imperialist spies is exaggerated in the ultraleft deviation to the point where too many real people receive treatment that should be reserved for imperialist careerists of the MI6 sort. Of the two deviations, the rightist deviation is the greater danger, especially in a bourgeois democracy. It is important to strain our brains to frustrate the enemy in such a way that does the least damage to our own movements. It is important to realize that even someone carrying a MIM Notes to hand out is not necessarily a communist instead of a state-agent. Now that Uncle Sam is done with Fujimori and Montesinos in Peru, the CIA has admitted that it infiltrated the People's War in Peru and helped to capture the great leader Comrade Gonzalo of the PCP.(1) To defeat the tactics of the enemy camouflaging itself, it is important to judge comrades by their actions. If they work hard supporting the revolution, then the cost of spying is that much more to the state. Spies and provocateurs are also a reason not to take a Liberal line on party or organization membership. If someone can easily join an organization, it is also easy to spy on it. When standards are higher, these problems are fewer. Lenin had a tsarist spy of the Okhrana on his Central Committee during the revolutionary struggle named Roman Malinovsky. He was Lenin's right-hand man and also the leader of the Bolshevik deputies in the fourth Duma.(2) Lenin's attitude toward Malinovksy is explained in his essay: "'Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder." "He betrayed scores and scores of the best and most loyal comrades, caused them to be sentenced to penal servitude, and hastened the death of many of them. . . . As member of the Party's Central Committee and Duma deputy, Malinovsky was forced, in order to gain our confidence, to help us establish legal daily papers. . . . to assist in the education of scores and scores of thousands of new Bolsheviks through the medium of the legal press." "In many countries, including the most advanced, the bourgeoisie are undoubtedly sending agents provocateurs into the Communist parties and will continue to do so. A skillful combining of illegal and legal work is one of the ways to combat this danger." Eventually, the Soviet comrades shot Malinovsky for his crimes. With regard to the Russian Maoist Party (RMP), MIM can say it has been watching its work for a long time. Its work and support of the MIM are in the interest of the Russian people and the international proletariat. There is no guarantee that MIM and the RMP do not have infiltrators. It is likely that they do. We invite the masses to outsmart our infiltrators and bring them to the light of day. At the very least, we must insist on broad and energetic work by all members, so that if they are infiltrators, they train as many successors as they cause damage to. Notes: 1. Washington Post 7Dec2000 on the capture of Gonzalo. 2. The CIA at http://www.cia.gov/csi/monograph/okhrana/5474-1.html 3. 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