如果你曾经看过求真知博2015年1月3日费心转帖下面文章的报道， 11个月过后，闲来无事的话，不妨再多看一眼，因为其内容图文并 茂化了一点，另外还有一些补充。
这一次，不要说公孙博，任谁走过路过没有错过瞥一眼，都会按捺 不住地斥责，这不又是标题党！分明是后者智斗前者，怎么倒过来 了？
鲁迅一九二六年四月十二日在《纪念刘和珍君》一文中说，我已经 说过：我向来是不惮以最坏的恶意来推测中国人的。艺萌博2015年 12月10日《中國人的雄辯是一種公共話語的惡疾》一文中详述王蒙 的小小说《雄辩症》。依照鲁迅先生和王蒙同志的教诲，不妨网络 时代新思维一把。
都说1970年至1990年代初期， 
故事主角——荷兰一位酷爱歌剧、对于共产主义深恶痛绝的数学 老师彼得森（化名）同志受命于美国中央情报局指导下的荷兰王 国情报局，以荷兰马克思列宁主义党总书记的身份，前后25次访 问中国，受到毛、周、邓的亲切接见，在北京人民大会堂、钓鱼 台国宾馆、北京饭店、五星酒店蹭吃蹭喝又骗钱。从来就没有身 处过党国决策最高层、对于军国大政知道个屁的草民、小民、屁 民、黎民、刁民，怎么就能人云亦云地一口咬定，这不正是传说 中的局中局、计中计、骗中骗？你骗我，我骗民？或许，前五、 六次来访，没有看出破绽，后来经过前方驻荷兰代办处、大使馆 （其中就有上文说过、 
于1979年2月至1981年2月中国首任驻外特命全权女大使、居住偶 家斜对面的丁雪松同志）以及中共中央对外联络部负责迎来送往 接待贵宾同志们的内查外调，早已嗅出异样、识破其中有诈并报告 给精明透顶的恩来总理。而随后多年的所有交往皆属于顺水推舟， 心照不宣，相互利用。你得实惠， 
我获吾道不孤的名声，everything was meant for home consumption. 1989年6·4之后，甚至还惦记着让荷共总书记彼 得森同志致电党中央声明支持平暴。
国军（可不是国民党军队的简称，全称为国民革命军）实际击毙 日寇40多万，共军呢？近日有位名人算过来算过去，区区2,000左 右，其中最多一次击毙465名，却被党国媒体演艺界和集会铺天盖 地的誉为抗日战争中的中流砥柱；切身涉及多数在此观博、码博诸 位在内的1,600多万知识青年荒废学业、上山下乡、蹉跎青春、劳 动改造的终身疮疤，被拔高美化成了锤炼一代人的丰功伟业，被赞 美为伟大统帅面对苏俢亡我之心不死的英明备战战略部署；砍头、 火烧、割喉、人神共愤的伊斯兰国，在中国社科院中东问题专家、 副研究员田文林和《环球时报》总编胡锡进同志的笔下被描绘为百 姓安居乐业、臣民情绪稳定的人民解放区；北京首次拉响雾霾最高 级别警报，被赞展现王安顺市长同志提头来见的治理决心： 
所以，荷共一案，别说是伟光正现眼丢人长达二十多年，那压根 儿就是伟大领袖的诱敌深入，将错就错，智控荷共，开门放狗。 
中国共产党优秀党员、久经考验的忠诚的共产主义战士、五毛司令 胡锡进同志，就是这样逻辑思维的。
卡尔·马克思1852年撰文《路易·波拿巴的雾月十八日》第一章 （《马克思恩格斯全集》第八卷第121页）中说，
黑格尔在某个地方说过，一切伟大的世界历史事变和人物可以 说都出现两次。他忘记补充一点：第一次是作为悲剧出现，第 二次是作为闹剧出现。 Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world - historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.
—— Karl Marx 1852 The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
印证卡尔上述英明论断的一个惟妙惟肖的例证，莫过于十年文革、 十年红歌的第一次和几年前熙来哥率先倡导的第二次：
现在这几年，北京景山公园内前朝遗老遗少的革命群众自发性活 动除外，还有官办红歌歌咏大赛吗？ 
再者，如果说，我们的朋友遍天下、北京——万国来朝、万党来觐 世界革命的中心、朝鲜、阿尔巴尼亚、越南三国英雄人民高大上财 爷的时代，是作为悲剧第一次出现，眼下，实现中国大梦百年战略、 一带一路一路撒钱，平哥媛妈老大两口子出访一次，国库里几百亿 美元不见了，再出访一次，又几百亿不见了，而家里的亿万蚁民吸 毒气吃毒食面对房价学费医疗费瑟瑟发抖，这陆地海上丝绸之路沿 线如此之多国家的政府官员，是不是多少有点儿像 —— 一个人偷 着乐一次并不难、难的是二十多年来每天每偷着开怀大乐特乐的荷 共总书记彼得森同志那样，在考察目的地向着各自国家的官民按捺 不住心中无限的喜悦，大声疾呼：
人傻、钱多，速来 ！
“荷兰马列主义党总书记彼得森” 2014-12-3 9:35:24
这几天，最有喜感的一则消息莫过于下面这条：
文革中，来自全球各地的共产党在拜谒中国领袖的同时，几乎都能收到为数不等的“革命支票”。比如切格瓦拉就拿走六千万美金。此情此景激发了美国中情局的奇思妙想，他们通过荷兰情报机关，选中了一个到过中国的名为彼德·贝维的数学老师，执行“红色鲱鱼”计划，以此刺探中国的情报。
 
彼德·贝维化名为彼得尔森，在荷兰成立了“荷兰马克思列宁主义党”，自任总书记。这个只有几个群众演员的政党仅仅依靠一堆虚构的党员花名册，就轻而易举的骗过了中国驻荷兰大使馆（1972年之前应该是代办处——引者注），迅速成为“中国人民的老朋友”。作为发达的资本主义国家的共运代表，在中方的邀请下，彼得尔森自1970年开始，前后25次访问中国，先后得到了毛泽东、周恩来等人的接见。通过和领袖们的接触，彼得尔森不费吹灰之力就了解了中共高层诸多的高层内幕和人事变动，为中情局提供了极为难得的一线情报。当然，必不可少的，是每次彼得尔森访问中国都能带回中方给予的“革命经费”。这样的资助直到八十年代末苏东剧变后才终止，此时彼得尔森已经从中国拿走超过一百万英镑。 
这些钱，除了出版专门用于糊弄中国驻荷兰大使馆的荷兰版《共产党人》，绝大部分都成了荷兰情报机关的额外补贴。
彼德·贝维晚年对在中国的国宾待遇还是念念不忘，他说，“中国有非常不错的厨师”。他的虚假政党终结后，又成了一个专门为荷兰退休者利益代言的政党主席。这个党成员同样不多。但彼德·贝维说：“这回每个党员都是真的。”
呵呵！想起来了，文革时期，许许多多国家的“马列主义政党”来访，对他们的称呼一般是“某某国共产党（马列）”，这些党的头面人物一般都得到“我党”领导人的接见，有些甚至上天安门，获得“世界革命领袖”毛泽东的亲炙。每当“我党”有什么喜丧事，报纸上又是一大批世界各国“马列主义政党”发来的贺电或者唁电。实在有“我们的朋友遍天下”又或者“吾道不孤”的感觉。
妙极了，我的“文革”收藏物里，就有一张1976年9月15日的《广州日报》，里面就有各国“马列主义政党”发来哀悼毛泽东的唁电。哈哈！真的就有“荷兰马列主义党”的唁电，党的书记正是这位彼得森。
呜呼！当年我们中国人鸠形鹄面，勒紧裤腰带“支援世界革命”，原来钱银就落在这些“滚钱滚粮票”（粤语中的俗语，意即骗钱骗粮票）之徒的手里，我们都当了冤大头，细细思量，不亦悲乎？
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附：当年常上天安门的“新西兰共产党总书记“威尔科克斯和 “澳大利亚共产党（马列）主席”爱.弗.希尔：
说起这位“新西兰共产党总书记”，我又有一个故事。
吾友某君，移民新西兰，坐“移民监”期间，结识了一位新西兰人士。这位新西兰人士带他到自家阁楼，翻出一本蒙尘的英文版《毛主席语录》，里面有毛的亲笔签名，还有照片若干。这位新西兰人士问吾友，照片里这个中国领导人是何人？吾友作了解答，并谓：这些东西很有价值啊。后来这位新西兰人托伦敦朋友拿去拍卖，卖了个大价钱云云。
我对朋友说：这位新西兰人士的先祖，必定是这位“新西兰共产党总书记威尔科克斯”。
新西兰人对“新西兰共产党”的“丰功伟业”已经茫无所知了，而这位“总书记”的后人，也只有在尘埃中追寻他的爪痕了。
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附录： 颠倒黑白，政府安排。请细看中共中央
宣传部唆使凤凰电视台网站怎样造谣惑众、编造瞎 话儿、生生插进英文原文从未提及、极大缩水（十 分之一？）的馈赠荷共活动经费美元总金额30万， 怎样将主要接待人物毛泽东、周恩来、邓小平三位 精明领袖降格扭曲成四人帮：
外国特务扮左翼骗四人帮30万美元计划代号“愚型儿” 有了中国的资金支持，皮特·博维得以广泛的旅行在欧洲以及欧洲以外的地方结交朋友。“中国人总是用美元支付”，他说。
核心提示：有了中国的资金支持，皮特·博维得以广泛的旅行在欧洲以及欧洲以外的地方结交朋友。“中国人总是用美元支付”，他说。
凤凰历史综合自英国《独立报》、荷兰媒体及《人民日报》资料报道
皮特·博维今天只能拄着拐杖行走，以至于他呼吁应该在火车站安装自动扶梯。恐怕谁也想不到，他曾经是个呼风唤雨的人物，在北京和莫斯科会见过共产主义世界领导人。
文革“四人帮”肆虐期间，皮特·博维经常来华访问。作为“荷兰马列主义党”的党魁，他突破了意识形态的阻碍，参观了那些大多数西方领导人参观不到的地方。但他从来不是红色旗帜的拥护者，而只是一个间谍，这个政党的工作人员主要也是荷兰特工。
1955年，莫斯科当局开始为青年节庆典做准备。当一个朋友问皮特·博维是否愿意为荷兰情报机构（国内保安局）服务，去一趟莫斯科时，他同意了。于是他成为了荷兰的“莫斯科青年联欢节组织委员会”的领导，审核那些申请去莫斯科的人。当700人的代表团坐火车抵达莫斯科时，他也直接飞到那里会见了赫鲁晓夫。
1958年，中国也组织了自己的青年节庆典，皮特·博维又被邀请，从阿姆斯特丹来到北京。随后，他开始定期访问荷兰的中国大使馆，并秘密加入荷兰共产党。中苏分裂后，荷兰情报部门指示皮特·博维成立了“荷兰马列主义党”，并化名为克里斯·彼得森担任党魁，紧跟北京的路线。这项大胆的行动的代号叫做“愚型儿计划”。
1963年，当皮特·博维再一次回到北京时，接受了一次正式的共产主义教育，他被招待入住最好的酒店，当然这也是有条件的，他被安排学习毛泽东思想。
有了中国的资金支持，皮特·博维得以旅行在欧洲以及欧洲以外的地方结交朋友。“中国人总是用美元支付”。他陆续从中国骗取了30万美元。
在中方的邀请下，彼得尔森先后25次访问中国，先后得到了毛泽东、周恩来等人的接见。这让荷兰情报部门非常振奋，因为从没有一个特工这么近距离接触过中国领导人。
当毛泽东逝世时，这个假冒的左翼政党竟然还像模像样地给北京发了一封“唁电”：
北京中国共产党中央委员会：
我们谨代表荷兰马克思列宁主义党的党员和中央委员会对杰出的马克思列宁主义者、我们敬爱的同志、你们党的主席毛泽东的逝世表示最诚挚的哀悼。
毛泽东主席在历史上的地位将不可动摇地铭记在全世界工人的心中。
我们的主要任务应该是继续学习毛泽东同志的令人永志不忘的榜样。
毛泽东同志永垂不朽！
主席霍赫
书记彼得森
一九七六年九月九日于哈勒姆
在荷兰，中国大使被告知这个政党已经超过500党员，但“实际上只有25名特工和15名蠢到真的加入我们的人”。
皮特·博维这些行为当然也有风险，他曾被告知，如果事情败露，不会有人帮他的，一切责任都要由他自己承担，但是他晚年提及这段经历并不后悔，“我为我做的事情感到骄傲”。
现在，皮特·博维在他居住的17000人的荷兰小镇上成了名人。
Mr Chips turns out to be 007
Dutch maths teacher admits fake communist party scam that fooled Mao Zedong Jon Henley Saturday 4 December 2004 00.03 GMT A 76-year-old retired Dutch maths teacher described yesterday how for more than 25 years he was feted by communist leaders around the world as the inspired head of a radical Marxist-Leninist party that never, in fact, existed. As Chris Petersen, head of the supposedly 600-member Marxist-Leninist party of the Netherlands, Pieter Boevé travelled to Beijing more than two dozen times and met Mao Zedong. He was also welcomed with open arms in Albania by Enver Hoxha, and in the eastern bloc capitals of Europe. "In fact we had at most a dozen members, none of whom had the faintest idea of the truth," Mr Boevé said yesterday from his home in the seaside resort of Zandvoort. "The whole thing was a hoax, set up by the secret services to learn all they could about what was going on in Marxist Peking." The Mao regime was so impressed by the revolutionary zeal of Mr Petersen/Boevé and his MLPN that it gave him regular briefings on the chairman's latest thinking at the Chinese mission in The Hague. Beijing even funded the non-existent party's newspaper, De Kommunist, which was written entirely by Dutch secret service (BVD) agents. Advertisement "We took everybody in," Mr Boevé said proudly yesterday. "As far as I know, the MLPN was the only wholly fake radical party to have existed, and certainly the only one to have really worked. We passed inside information on every Maoist policy nuance to all the western intelligence forces. It was a wonderful adventure." Mr Boevé was first recruited by the BVD in 1955 when he visited a World Student Congress in Moscow. Soon after, he was invited to China, then still the Soviet Union's ally, for a similar communist youth junket. After the Sino-Soviet split of the early 1960s, the Chinese began courting western communists and, egged on by the BVD, Mr Boevé played along. "I was invited to Peking for a month-long course on the wisdom of Chairman Mao," he said. "It was quite a baptism of fire. I hadn't read a great deal of Marx or Lenin at that stage, let alone Mao. But I soon got very proficient. I could spout for hours." The foundation of the MLPN was announced by De Kommunist in 1969. Its main role was to undermine the official Dutch Communist party, the KPN, by denouncing its deviant beliefs and unreliable conduct, and to garner information on - and gain access to - the Maoist elite in Beijing. In the latter task, it was successful beyond the BVD's wildest dreams. "They adored us," Mr Boevé said. "I was invited to all the big events - Army Days, Anniversaries of the Republic, everything. There were feasts in the Great Hall of the People and long articles in the People's Daily. And they gave us lots of money." Advertisement Most European Maoist groups, unable to keep up with an endless string of purges and policy about-turns, had lost faith by the mid-1980s, and the MLPN gradually began winding down its activities. But as late as 1989, after the Tiananmen student uprising, Mr Boevé was invited to Beijing to praise the regime's crackdown. The existence of Project Mongol, as it was dubbed by the BVD, was successfully kept secret until this September, when another former agent, Frits Hoekstra, published a book about the service's glory days. It caused something of an uproar in the Netherlands, a country where a fair few genuine former radicals now occupy leading positions in public life. Mr Boevé, who was never a salaried spy and who, despite his extra-curricular activities, rose to become headteacher of a top Dutch grammar school, said he was at first unwilling to have his name revealed. "My family knew, but no one else," he said. "As far as my friends and former colleagues were concerned, all my travel was to do with educational exchanges." Since the revelations about his former life as one of the west's most productive spooks, Mr Boevé said reactions have varied from shock and disbelief - "How can we ever trust you again?" - to mild amusement. "My fellow members of the Zandvoort town council call me 007," he said. "I don't mind. I'm satisfied with what I've done with my life. I've travelled the world at someone else's expense, and I feel did my bit. And it was certainly fun."
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芯片先生原来是007
荷兰的数学老师也承认，上当毛泽东假共产党骗局 乔恩·亨利 星期六2004年12月4号00.03 GMT 一名76岁的退休荷兰的数学老师昨天描述了如何为超过25年，他通过宴请共产党领导人在世界各地为灵感的头一个激进的马克思列宁主义政党，从来没有，事实上存在的。 正如克里斯·彼得森，荷兰据称600名成员组成的马克思列宁主义政党的负责人彼得Boevé前往北京二十多个次，会见毛泽东。他也张开双臂欢迎阿尔巴尼亚由恩维尔·霍查，并在欧洲的东欧集团的首都。 “事实上，我们有最多十几个成员，没有一个人拥有真理的微弱的想法，”Boevé先生从他的家在赞德沃特的海滨度假胜地昨天说。 “整个事情是一场骗局，设立特务机关学习所有他们可以什么马克思北京是怎么回事。” 毛泽东政权是由彼得森先生/Boevé和他MLPN的革命热情，这给了他在董事长的最新思想定期通报在海牙中国驻如此深刻的印象。北京甚至出资不存在的党的报纸，德共产党人，这是由荷兰的秘密服务（BVD）的代理商完全写。 广告 “我们采取了每一个人，”Boevé先生自豪地昨日表示。 “据我所知，MLPN是唯一完全假的激进党已经存在，而且肯定是唯一一个有真正奏效。我们通过内部信息上的每个毛主义政策细微之处给所有西方情报部队。这是一个美好冒险。“ Boevé先生最早是由国安局招募在1955年时，他参观了世界学生代表大会在莫斯科举行。不久后，他被邀请到中国，则仍是苏联的盟友，对于类似共产主义公费旅游。经过20世纪60年代初的中苏分裂，中国人开始讨好西方的共产主义者和，由国安局的怂恿下，Boevé起到先生一起。 “我被邀请到北京为毛主席的智慧一个月的漫长的过程，”他说。 “这是火相当的洗礼。我从来没有在这个阶段阅读了大量马克思列宁或者，更别说毛泽东，但我很快就变得非常精通。我能喷好几个小时。” 该MLPN的基础是由德共产党人在1969年它的主要作用是宣布要破坏荷兰官方共产党，KPN，通过谴责其离经叛道的信仰和不可靠的行为，并争取信息 - 并访问 - 毛泽东精英在北京举行。 在后者的任务，它是成功的超越了国安局的最疯狂的梦想。 “他们崇拜我们，”Boevé先生说。 “我被邀请到所有的大事件 - 。军天，共和国的纪念日，一切有在人民和长文章在人民日报的人民大会堂节日和他们给了我们很多钱。” 大多数欧洲毛派团体，无法跟上清洗无尽的字符串和政策有关匝，已经失去了信心由80年代中期，与MLPN逐渐开始逐步减少其活动。但迟至1989年，天安门学生运动后，Boevé先生被邀请到北京赞美政权的镇压。 蒙古项目的存在，因为它被冠以了BVD，成功一直秘而不宣，直到今年九月，当另一位前经纪人，弗里茨胡克斯特拉，出版了一本有关该服务的光辉岁月。这引起了荷兰一个国家，一个公平的几个真正的前激进分子目前占据公共生活方面处于领先地位的东西一片哗然。 Boevé先生，谁从来就不是一个工薪间谍谁，尽管他的课外活动，上升到成为一个顶级的荷兰文法学校的校长说，他起初不愿意有自己的名字透露。 “我的家人知道，但没有其他人，”他说。 “至于我的朋友和前同事而言，我所有的旅行是做教育交流。” 因为他以前的生活作为西部最具生产力的间谍之一的启示，Boevé表示的反应是从震惊和难以置信变化 - “我们怎样才能再信任你吗？” - 轻度娱乐。 “我亲爱的赞德沃特镇议会的成员打电话给我007，”他说。 “我不介意。我很满意我用我的生命所做的一切。我已经走遍了世界，在别人的牺牲，我觉得做我的位，而且它肯定是有趣。”
In From the Cold: He Was a Communist For Dutch Intelligence Comrade 'Chris Petersen' Was Big in China and Albania;
'Project Mongol' Tell-All By ANDREW HIGGINS Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL December 3, 2004; Page A1 ZANDVOORT, Netherlands -- As secretary-general of the Marxist-Leninist Party of the Netherlands, Chris Petersen traveled the globe during the Cold War, wowing Communist leaders with his revolutionary zeal and anticapitalist diatribes. "I could make speeches for hours and you would think that Mao Tse-tung himself had been my teacher," recalls the now-retired party chief. The Chinese Communist Party was so impressed, it regularly gave the ranting Dutchman the full red-carpet treatment in Beijing: banquets in the Great Hall of the People, an audience with Mao, envelopes stuffed with cash and tributes in the People's Daily. Albania's Communists were also big fans. Now, with communism all but dead, the Dutchman has decided to come clean: Both he and his party were a sham. He says he was never a Maoist but an opera-loving math teacher moonlighting for Dutch intelligence. His name, his politics and his party, he says, all were concocted in a plot to penetrate militant Marxist subculture. "Nothing was real," says the ex-Mr. Petersen, who now lives under his real name, Pieter Boevé, here in Zandvoort, a seaside resort town west of Amsterdam. The only genuine part of a revolutionary career that lasted decades, he says, was a fondness for Chinese food: The Chinese Communist Party, Mr. Boevé recalls, had excellent cooks. [Pieter Boeve] The Central Intelligence Agency, which got regular updates on the mock Maoist movement, dubbed it "Operation Red Herring," according to Dutch intelligence. (The CIA won't comment.) The Dutch called it "Project Mongol." The unmasking comes at an uncomfortable time for Dutch security services, now under fire for post-Communist bungling. Having infiltrated Maoist groups with gusto, they lost track of an Islamic radical blamed for the murder last month of filmmaker Theo van Gogh. Mr. Boevé, who appeared on television in a recent documentary about the Dutch secret service while wearing a fake beard and Groucho Marx plastic nose and glasses, says his past exploits provide tips that could help con Islamist extremists, but he doesn't envy anyone who might try: "It's very dangerous," he says. In a country where erstwhile Maoists and other radicals have become pillars of the establishment, the exposure of the phony Marxist-Leninist Party of the Netherlands, or MLPN, has caused dismay and embarrassment. Frits Hoekstra, a former high-ranking security official, shocked former colleagues in September by publishing a book that described Project Mongol and other escapades. The interior minister ordered an investigation into whether state secrets were divulged. Former Maoists are aghast. [red herring]Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha, gesturing, meets Pieter Boeve, right, in Tirana, Albania. "I totally wasted 12 years of my life," says Paul Wartena, an ex-MLPN member who was so dedicated to the cause he used to donate 20% of his salary to the fake party. He says he "had some doubts now and then" about the MLPN but stayed loyal because "I was very naive and Mr. Boevé was such a good actor." Now a researcher at a university in Utrecht, Mr. Wartena wants Dutch intelligence to pay him back for all his donations. Mr. Boevé, now 74, scoffs at his acolyte: "He was an idiot." Mr. Boevé says he, too, is upset that his caper leaked but that Mr. Hoekstra's book forced him in from the cold. Conning so many people, says Mr. Boevé, was "not the most beautiful thing," but it was a great adventure. He visited China about 25 times, made frequent trips to Albania and duped radical leaders in the West. After each journey, he went to a safe house in Amsterdam to pass on tidbits of information. Set up and run by spooks in 1969, his party, the MLPN, had its own newspaper, De Kommunist, written and edited by the secret service. As well as Mr. Boevé playing Chris Petersen, the secretary-general, it had a chairman (another fraud) and a Central Committee stacked with secret agents. To add authenticity, the party let Mr. Wartena and a handful of other true believers join its otherwise nonexistent ranks, telling them that they were part of a network of underground cells. Mr. Boevé first started working as an informant for the Dutch secret service, then known as the BVD, in the late 1950s and started using a fake name. Invited to Moscow for a youth festival in 1957, he attended a reception hosted by Nikita Khrushchev and briefed Dutch intelligence. Mr. Hoekstra, a former head of counterintelligence against Soviet-bloc countries and author of the recent book, says Mr. Boevé's recruitment wasn't at first seen as a big deal, but, rather, as part of routine tracking of local Communists. [Frits Hoekstra] Shortly after the Moscow festival, however, Mr. Boevé got an invitation to China, then still aligned with the Soviet Union. While in China, he kept hearing Chinese officials curse Moscow, which had just cut funding to Beijing. The move marked the start of the Sino-Soviet split -- and of Mr. Boevé's role as an unlikely prize agent. Desperate for allies against Moscow, China searched out Communists in Europe and elsewhere. Mr. Boevé, encouraged by the BVD, offered his services. He visited China in the early 1960s for a six-week course on Mao Tse-tung Thought. He says he got good at mimicking Chinese propaganda. The main difficulty, he says, was keeping up with the wild zigzags of Chinese politics: his hosts kept getting purged. Chinese diplomats in Holland invited the man they knew as Chris Petersen to their mission in The Hague and gave money to help finance a Maoist newspaper secretly edited by the BVD. The result was De Kommunist. Mr. Hoekstra, the former spy and now a business consultant, says he once wrote a screed against the Dutch government. "As a civil servant, it was very satisfying," he says. After a year, De Kommunist announced with fanfare in 1969 the foundation of the Marxist-Leninist Party of the Netherlands. "In order to limit as far as possible the danger of penetration by enemy elements," it explained, "the MLPN organization shall be based largely on the cell system, obliging all members to the greatest possible secrecy." For the next decade, the fake party helped the Dutch secret police divide Holland's legitimate Communist movement, keep tabs on Maoist groups and gain access to China's elite. "Petersen" issued regular communiques -- all drafted by the BVD -- denouncing real Communists as sellouts and urging voters to reject them. Mr. Hoekstra, the former intelligence officer, said the facade of Maoist fervor did sometimes wobble. On one occasion, he says, "Petersen" started talking in public about how to take advantage of tax deductions, not something a Maoist is supposed to worry about. He says there was concern the Chinese might smell a rat, but that faded. The Dutch, he says, had the Chinese embassy bugged and heard diplomats singing "Petersen's" praises. "We could hear everything," says Mr. Hoekstra. By the 1980s, purges and ideological U-turns had exhausted most Maoists in Europe, and the BVD began to lose interest in the ruse. China was no longer an enemy but a big trading partner. De Kommunist shut down. The MLPN fizzled. Mr. Boevé, though, kept going. In 1989, when troops shot dead hundreds of protesters around Tiananmen Square, he issued a statement praising the resolve of the Communist Party in restoring order. Shortly afterward, he was back in Beijing, hailing the party and its leaders. In a small apartment crowded with an electric organ and piles of books, Mr. Boevé rustles through plastic shopping bags full of yellowing MLPN tracts and other mementos. One is a copy of a photograph of himself meeting Enver Hoxha, Albania's Communist dictator from 1944 until his death in 1985. Advancing age has finally slowed Mr. Boevé down. He walks with a cane and can't climb stairs. His involvement with China is limited to visits to a local Chinese restaurant. He draws giggles by humming the "East is Red," a Maoist anthem. "It's a very nice tune," he says. His political horizons have shrunk to Zandvoort. He sits on the local council and lobbies for better housing for the elderly. He has even set up yet another party: It represents old people. It doesn't have many members, but, says Mr. Boevé, "This time they are all real." Posted on April 7, 2012 
Pieter Boevé, a.k.a. Comrade "Chris Petersen" As leader of the Marxist-Leninist Party of the Netherlands, Pieter Boevé was fêted by the world’s communist dictators for 40 years. What they didn’t know was that he was an undercover agent. Finally unmasked, he tells all to Stephen Castle There was one catch: the leader of the Marxist-Leninist Party of the Netherlands wasn’t really a communist at all. Stephen Castle reports 
Enver Hoxha, gesturing, meets Pieter Boeve, right, in Tirana, Albania. Once Pieter Boevé called the masses to the barricades. Today, he waggles his walking stick at his local train station in the Netherlands. As the founder of a political party for the elderly, he is calling for an escalator to be installed. There’s no stopping some people. For Mr Boevé spent much of the Cold War preaching the word of Mao and Marx in the West. He was fêted in Beijing, toasted in Moscow and met the leaders of the Communist world. Once Pieter Boevé called the masses to the barricades. Today, he waggles his walking stick at his local train station in the Netherlands. As the founder of a political party for the elderly, he is calling for an escalator to be installed. There’s no stopping some people. For Mr Boevé spent much of the Cold War preaching the word of Mao and Marx in the West. He was fêted in Beijing, toasted in Moscow and met the leaders of the Communist world. Yet now, Mr Boevé peruses a menu at a café in the Dutch seaside town of Zandvoort. He muses over a Chinese option – “Chicken Beijing Lunch” – and rejects it. And then he confirms a secret that fooled the Communist world for generations. He was no lover of the red flag. He was, in fact, a spy all along. Through the years of the Cultural Revolution and Nixon’s visit to China, he made regular trips behind the bamboo curtain. The then Mr Petersen skilfully navigated his way through the ideological lurches of his Communist hosts and visited places off limits to almost everyone else in the West as the leader of the Marxist-Leninist Party of the Netherlands (MLPN). Mr Boevé’s incredible story has made him something of a celebrity in this town of 17,000, where he is greeted in the supermarket as the “James Bond of Zandvoort”. Over 35 years Mr Boevé met Nikita Kruschev in Moscow, Enver Hoxha in Tirana, and shook hands with Chairman Mao. But the Marxist-Leninist Party of the Netherlands he led was a sham, staffed mainly by Dutch agents. The revelation of his extraordinary life has left left-wing activists across Europe wondering whether their comrades through the 1970s and 1980s were all they seemed to be. As a 25-year-old student and part time mathematics teacher, Mr Boevé was always an unlikely recruit to the cause of Communism. True, he was a political campaigner but his allegiance was to the Dutch liberal party, the forerunner of today’s centre-right VVD, which was instinctively capitalist in outlook. As an increasingly confident Soviet Union sought to project its image in the West, the authorities in Moscow began preparations for a youth festival to be held in the country’s capital in 1955. Bizarrely, a request for candidates to go to Moscow for the token price of 150 guilders was sent to the Dutch liberals among other political parties. A friend in the party who worked for the Dutch secret service (BVD) approached Mr Boevé and asked if he would be willing to go to Moscow and report back to the service. Yes, said Mr Boevé, not knowing that he was embarking on a 35-year adventure of deceit and double-dealing that would give him access to some of the most senior figures of Communist Cold-War politics. Even now, 50 years on, sipping a cola next to the fire in the Café Neuf in Zandvoort, Mr Boevé seems a little vague about why he opted for such a life. He was, he insists, never paid by the BVD though it later provided a car big enough to transport reams of Communist propaganda, and stepped in to make up his salary when he took time off between jobs to attend a lengthy indoctrination course in Beijing. He says he retained a strong aversion to the Communist system and believes he helped, in some small way, to win the Cold War. But Mr Boevé’s main motivation may have been the intoxicating excitement of leading such an exotic double life. At one point in our conversation he turns to me and says: “Wouldn’t you have liked the chance to do something like that?” Multilingual and, by his own admission a good actor, Mr Boevé managed to blag his way into becoming the leader of the Dutch organising committee for the Moscow youth festival, vetting those who applied to go to Moscow. His BVD controllers could not believe their luck as a list of Communist sympathisers fell in their lap. While the rest of the 700 Dutch delegation took the train to Moscow, Mr Boevé was flown there, met Mr Kruschev (“a nice man”) and made a broadcast in Dutch on Radio Moscow. In 1958, China organised its own youth festival and Mr Boevé was invited. Initial Chinese suspicious of the young Dutch liberal were overcome and he embarked on a five-day journey from Amsterdam to Beijing. That was followed by regular visits to the Chinese embassy in the Netherlands which led to an invitation to shed his “bourgeois ideas” and join the Dutch Communist Party. As a teacher, membership of the CP was impossible, so Mr Boevé’s new political allegiance was a secret to everyone except the BVD. Then came the Sino-Soviet split which also divided Communist sympathisers. Dutch intelligence saw a chance to split the far left and prompted Mr Boevé to help set up the MLNP to follow Beijing’s line. Its propaganda may have been funded by the Chinese embassy in the Netherlands, but the organisation was controlled by seven or eight BVD agents including Mr Boevé, who adopted the pseudonym Chris Petersen. By 1963 he was back in Beijing, this time for a formal Communist education. He was put up at the best hotel and treated as a VIP but the hospitality came with a price tag: lengthy study of the thought of Mao. “I learnt how to think in the Chinese way. It even became possible for me to make a speech in a Mao style,” he recalls. Meanwhile, Mr Boevé held down a job as director of a technical school in Schoonhoven near Rotterdam. With financial backing from the Chinese, what became known as Operation Mongol did not even cost any money. “In fact it made a profit”, says Mr Boevé. “The Chinese always paid in dollars.” By virtue of his party position and links with the Chinese, Mr Petersen was introduced to Communists in a host of countries, travelling extensively around Europe and beyond. The Albanian embassy in Paris fixed up a visit to Tirana where Mr Boevé met Mr Hoxha (who “seemed a nice man though we know he was not” and who spoke “excellent French”). More trips to Bejing followed with audiences with Deng Xiaoping, Chou En-lai (a “clever, educated man who spoke German and French”), and even Mao himself. Though this was only a handshake, it afforded much celebration at the BVD, which had never had any agent so close to the Chinese leader. Back at home, Chinese diplomats in the Netherlands were told the MLPN had a membership of about 500 but the party was really made of “about 25 agents and about 15 people stupid enough to join us”, says Mr Boevé. The Chinese were not the only ones to be fooled: one Dutch academic even donated 20 per cent of his salary to the party, money he now wants refunded by the BVD. Meanwhile, Dutch secret service agents became experts in Maoist ideology, denouncing the evils of their capitalist government. Although the Chinese knew Mr Petersen’s real name, they did not bother to monitor his movements or, if they did, failed to spot regular meetings with a BVD controller. Other clues were overlooked, including one occasion when Mr Boevé spoke publicly about how to manage the tax system in order to pay less – not usually a Maoist preoccupation. Mr Boevé told his wife (from whom is he now separated) and two sons about his double life and seems phlegmatic about the risks. He says: “I was told, ‘if you make a mistake. If you are put in prison and you admit that you are an agent, we cannot help you. You will be on your own, and you know what that means in those countries.’ But I was never afraid, I was so sure that everything was so well organised here.” Didn’t all the lying and deceit get him down? On the contrary, he says: “I am a little proud of what I have done. I have led a good life and I have added something to humanity.” Mr Boevé only revealed his role after being exposed in a book written by a former BVD agent, Frits Hoekstra. The revelation has placed the spotlight on his new political party for the elderly. But he still faces a struggle to make a group of three local councillors into a real political force. But all that time in Beijing has left him prepared for the battle to come. He might just get his escalator. As Chairman Mao once put it: “A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.”
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