On 10/6/2012 8:44 PM, John McAdams wrote:
> On 2 Oct 2012 14:58:18 -0400, Ace Kefford <
bglo...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> When people refer to someone as a "disinfo agent" do they mean this
>> literally? That is, do they think the person is actually an agent hired
>> to carry out an operation (usually under some kind of "cover")? Or are
>> they just writing in hyperbole?
>>
>> Of course someone could be a hired agent, although under both the
>> large-scale conspiracy and the small-scale conspiracy theories that would
>> seem like a big waste of time and money 50 years later (not to mention
>> taking on the pointless risk after all these years that the agent would
>> turn on the conspirators and disclose the "truth").
>>
>> Wouldn't it be more rational to just imagine that the person being
>> criticized is close-minded and so distorts the evidence to continue to
>> uphold his views?
>>
>> Just wondering.
>
> Of course, it's absurd to believe there are any "disinfo agents" hired
> by the government to promote a "cover-up" of this case.
>
Except for the CIA memos which mention them.
> But if they *were* they would be conspiracists.
>
Ok, so your conspiracy is that the CIA commissions wackos to come up
with wacky conspiracy theories? For what reason? Is it you claim that
the reason why they do that is just to make YOU look better?
They WANT the public to believe it was a conspiracy? Why?
This reminds me of the CIA project to promote UFO research and theories
to cover up the real things happening which they did not want the public
to know about, the U-2, SR-71 and other advanced aircraft.
The really hilarious thing is that there are morons in US intelligence
who actually think that if they can keep it secret from the American
public that means that they are successfully keeping it from our enemy's
intelligence services.
Like keeping the Atom Bomb secret from the public, but the Soviets had
all the secrets even before our scientists did.