Defending Democracy

[Ralph McGehee]

[sara...@my-deja.com]

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> <Subject:Re: Propagandizing the Masses
> <Date: 1999/08/0>
> <Author: Peter Feldmann - Blue Dalmatian Productions
> <pet...@silcom.com>
>
> On Tue, 3 Aug 1999 10:04:32 -0400, Ralph McGehee wrote:
>
> >>The IPI charter orders its core group to arrange "training
> >>exercises at the National Defense University, National Foreign
Affairs
> >>training Center, the Service War Colleges and other institutions."
> >>Thus, propaganda -- domestic and foreign -- replaces the importance
> >>of the "Counterinsurgency" training of another era.
> >>We are at war on reality with ourselves.
>
> On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Peter Feldman wrote:
>
> >As someone interested in the effects of technology on our society, I
believe
> >your comments are very much to the point. If we examine the uses of
> >propaganda throughout history, we can see the development of new
techniques
> >in implementing and disseminating information. I'm wondering though,
if the
> >CIA is capable of carrying on a misinformation campaign even a tenth
as
> >subtle as commercial announcements now being used via the mass media.
>
> >Peter Feldmann
> >Blue Dalmatian Productions
> >http://www.bluedalmatian.com/pete.html
>
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>
> I am unsure if the CIA is capable of the subtleties of commercial
> announcements but its ability to create new "realities" seems
> unlimited. I have catalogued its disinformation operations and
> below note just a few.
>
> The invasion of Grenada was an amazingly effective propaganda
> campaign. It was its own "wag the dog" story. Several hundred
> Marines had been killed in a bombing in Lebanon and the
> administration needed to cover its tail.
>
> Grenada, was an island nation of 110,000 people and 133 square
miles.
> It produced one third of the world's nutmeg. After the 10/23/1983
bombing
> of Marines in Lebanon, on 10/25/83, a U.S. force with a token several
> hundred from Caribbean nations raided Grenada. DCI Casey told Bob
> Woodward that Grenada was a Soviet-Cuban colony being readied as major
> military bastion to export terror and undermine democracy. "We got
there
> just in time." Later an assessment showed there were no Cubans in the
> hills, and the number of Cubans was overestimated. Woodward, B., Veil.
>
> The Adminsitration convinced us of the necessity to invade
> Grenada, because this speck of a defenseless island -- was a serious
> threat to U.S. national security.
>
> "We invaded to protect American students studying on the island."
> We insured that the students were there to protect by preventing all
> commercial planes and ships from visiting and taking them off the
> island.
>
> We were treated to nightly newscasts and newsreels (provided
> to the media by government officials) while everything possible
> was done to prevent journalists from reaching the island.
>
> As the military filmed the bombardment of a (deserted) mountain
> side, they convinced us it was wiping out pockets of Cuban resistance.
>
> A supply of "Communist" weapons posed a threat to Harlington,
> Texas should the Grenadians invade -- when in truth they posed
> no threat to even a small domestic police station. Whether these
> were recycled CIA weapons that re-appear somewhere else later
> is uncertain -- but the propaganda tactic is oft-used.
>
> -----------------
>
> Chile -- the disinformation bombardment re Chile from roughly 1962
> through at least 1973 led to the empowerment of the dictator Pinochet.
> There the CIA turned the "New York Times" of Latin America into a
scandal
> sheet with daily tales of Allende's misdeeds -- the paper owned
> a number of radio and a TV stations that broadcast streams of false
> stories daily. (Please see my web site for a summary of a
congressional
> report on that campaign -- this declassified study serves as a
description
> of what we can anticipate from the new IPI).
>
> Lastly Vietnam -- from 1950 until 1998 the CIA conducted a
propaganda
> barrage about its noble efforts in that country. The extended
duration
> of the war plus its vicious nature finally caused the near collapse
> of our own society. This campaign has so distorted our perceptions
> that it is almost useless to try and correct the record. I do note
> that the CIA's Center for the Study of Intelligence maintained the
> barrage when it published last year, "CIA and the Vietnam
Policymakers:
> Three Episodes 1962-1968." The Center serves to "correct" many of
> CIA's operational and intelligence failures turning them into
> successes. One of the Center's studies even claims the Agency was
> one of the first institutions to recognize the collapse of the USSR
> -- when in truth it was nearly the last.
>
> So subtlety may, or may not, have anything to do with its
propaganda's
> effectiveness. The CIA fires constant long-lasting barrages of
well-financed
> lies, overcoming any unacceptable reality.
>
> I would appreciate comments of others re the views expresssed
> here re this topic.
>
> Ralph McGehee
> http://come.to/CIABASE
>
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> now this is pure propaganda, masquerading as news:

Did you notice that the new launch of that Hillary interview magazine
had a picture of George W. Bush on the cover?

For God's sakes, JFK Jr. just died and they have the vulgar
audacity to keep him off the cover. If Ronald Reagan had just
died, we would expect a picture of Ronald Reagan on the cover,
not Bill Clinton. We have become a very, very sick, politically
motivated, vulgar society:

http://listen.to/thelegacy

is it any wonder that grace like JFK Jr. is slaughtered?

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