"Infiltrators in Ministries”

Press, 7 October 1980, Page 26

"Infiltrators in Ministries”

' Sir, —Tt is most remark- . able that Mr E." Halliburton’s . account of- K.G.B. infiltration of New Zealand Government departments has ' rated one article, a few letters tb the editor, and that is the’end. of it. Should it not be : the subject of a massive investigation? Tt is notable, that in Britain and the United States similar findings have been made, but were rapidly covered up. Are we so naive that we ignore Breshnev’s publicly stated goal of world domination by 1985? We may be too lethargic to bother spying, infiltration, etc., to further a cause, but ve cannot assume that everyone else is so easy-going. In fact, our very lethargy would make infiltration very easy. Is it an accident that our country has been racked with strikes, burdened with socialist legislation, and plied, with legal and illegal drugs to such a degree that our conquest would be a pushover? — Yours, etc., FRANK A. SMITH. October 5, 1980. Sir, — The attention given the nonsense peddled by a former member of British Counter-Intelligence shows that where the Soviet .Union is concerned, no absurdity is too gross for credence. Mrs Bridget Steyn (October 4) quotes a Japanese journalist for what Premier Chou Enlai instructed Chinese opium-growers as Communist policy. China has long since abandoned the principles and practice of socialism. The “Communist Rules for a Revolution,” held by the United States Department of Justice are a crude and ' clumsy forgery. The communist theory of revolution as laid down by Marx and Engels is that revolutions have been an indispensable ingredient in mankind’s historical social development, or as Cecil Day Lewis puts it, “Evolution is the dance, revolutions are the steps,” and that revolutions represent a qualitative leap from moribund social epochs to more progressive, higher social orders, as were the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian Revolution of 1917. — Yours, etc.,. M. CREEL. October 5, 1980.