Gerald Flurry Burrowing Andrew Müller's Words

In Gerald Flurry's red baiting article in the latest issue of PCG's recruitment magazine, The Philadelphia Trumpet (January 2016), Flurry burrows several passages from another red baiting article by Andrew Müller that was published in the March 2015 issue.

Flurry gives no acknowledgement that these passages had anything to do with Müller's earlier article. How many readers will notice that Gerald Flurry is recycling words from Andrew Müller's article without acknowledgment?

Müller's earlier article was discussed in a previous post.

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Bezmenov said, “Only about 15 percent of [the Soviet Union’s] time, money and manpower is spent on espionage as such.” The remaining 85 percent, he said, “is a slow process which we call either ideological subversion or ‘active measures.’” (Gerald Flurry, The Roots of America’s Dangerous Turn Left, January 2016, p. 7.)

Bezmenov said that subverting foreign nations was so important to the KGB that most of its resources were allocated to it. “Only about 15 percent of time, money and manpower is spent on espionage as such,” he explained in an interview with G. Edward Griffin in 1985. “The other 85 percent is a slow process which we call either ideological subversion or ‘active measures.’” (Andrew Müller, Has America Been Influenced by Communism?, March 2015, p. 15.)

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Documents from the Soviet archives revealed that even after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Communist Party USA received $2 to $3 million each year from the Kremlin. This funding was to further the party’s subversive activities. (Gerald Flurry, The Roots of America’s Dangerous Turn Left, January 2016, p. 7.)

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Soviet archives revealed the Communist Party-U.S.A. (an organization that is still alive and well today) received $2 to $3 million a year from the Kremlin to further its subversion activities. (Andrew Müller, Has America Been Influenced by Communism?, March 2015, p. 16.)

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According to a former staff director of a Senate investigations subcommittee, in the years between 1935 and 1953, the Communist Party USA “enlisted the support of at least 3,500 professors” (J. B. Matthews, American Mercury, May 1953). (Gerald Flurry, The Roots of America’s Dangerous Turn Left, January 2016, p. 7.)

According to a former staff director of a Senate investigations subcommittee, in the years between 1935 and 1953, the Communist Party “enlisted the support of at least 3,500 professors—many of them as dues-paying members, many others as fellow travelers, some as out-and-out espionage agents, some as adherents of the party line in varying degrees, and some as the unwitting dupes of subversion” (J. B. Matthews, “Communism and the Colleges,” American Mercury, May 1953).  (Andrew Müller, Has America Been Influenced by Communism?, March 2015, p. 16.)

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 What a sight. Flurry lifting words from an article written by someone else to place inside his article.