KGB helped start the Six-Day War -Bergman

The KGB helped ignite the Six-Day War, Ronen Bergman writes in the New York Times. “The heads of the KGB were deeply anti-Semitic, and saw in Israel and world Jewry ‘a danger which is only second to the main enemy, the United States.’ The K.G.B. was intent on destabilizing Israel, totally disproportionate to the country’s strength or influence. In April 1967, as the United States was making gains in Vietnam, the Soviets decided to undertake dramatic Active Measures to weaken Israel — and thereby also [deliver] a blow to the Americans. By conveying false information, the Soviets hoped to increase Syrian and Egyptian dependence on Moscow and deepen Egypt’s involvement in the Middle East’s tensions by making the Egyptians flex their muscles against Israel,” Bergman writes. He says now “Russia is back, again playing a destructive, diabolical role in world politics.”