>>64106150Reminder that this guy was in fact merely a low-level journalist and his connections to the Soviet intelligence services were minimal, if any at all. He just figured out after defecting that he didn't have anything to offer to the west so he decided to make a quick buck and gain a temporary minor celebrity status by feeding the paranoia of the conservative American audience with his made-up bullshit.
That is not to say that the Soviet intelligence services didn't penetrate western academia and politics. Their numerous HUMINT operations were relatively highly sophisticated and often successful, but Bezmenov gives them way too much credit.