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Toppling a Coup, Part III: Discipline Solves the Big Problems

When members of the Honduran civil resistance solicited the counsel of Serbian resistance veteran Ivan Marovich from July 31 to August 2, a repeat question from various participants was:

Q. How do we avoid infiltration?

Marovich replied:

One thing I can’t teach you is that. We spent half our time looking for infiltrators. When years later we opened the files, we discovered how wrong we were!

Another thing we learned was how bad the regime’s intelligence was. The main source of its information was gossip, people talking about each other, and most of it was not true.

I loved that answer, because it exactly describes my own discoveries in my pre-journalism years as a community organizer arrested 27 times in social movements in the United States. And it also matches every counsel on the topic of infiltration offered to me by my mentor of eight years during the 1980s, the US dissident Abbie Hoffman.

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