John A. Gentry

They're allies.

So if you think another way to think about this, and there are lots of different ways to think about this.

This is pretty complicated.

But the way I think of it anyway is that you've got people who are widely, going back to Lenin actually and Stalin, you've got party people, members,

who are either working for foreign government, working for the KGB, or they are working within their own national context, working for the Communist Party of the USA, for example.

that they are party members, they accept party discipline and party orders.

You will do this?

You know, yes, sir.

And no questions asked.

These are almost military-type organizations.

First group, relatively small, this is the hardcore.

Then you have fellow travelers, a term that's been around a long time.

So these are people who are generally sympathetic to the overall goal, but they're not completely on board.

There are a few areas that they may disagree with, and they also don't want to subject themselves to the kind of discipline that a party member is subject to.

And then the third group is the people who Lenin reputedly called useful idiots.

And a term that I like better, Stalin's term, he called them naive dupes.

So what you want to do is recruit a bunch of naive dupes to be, in essence, the foot soldiers of the revolution.

So they're guided by, they're recruited by, and they're helpful for, they vote for the goals of the party members and their closely related fellow travelers.

So the people we're talking about now, the prosecutors and so on, they are not naive dupes.

They are either the hardcore or they're very close fellow travelers.