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Pentagon plans fake website war on france and britain - Magda Hassan - 06-10-2009
PENTAGON PLANS FAKE WEBSITE WAR ON FRANCE AND BRITAIN
The Register - The secretive US Special Operations Command has awarded arms globocorp General Dynamics a $10m contract to set up a network of psychological-warfare "influence websites" supporting the Global War On Terror. France and Britain are specifically included as "targeted regions".
SOCOM is principally famous for its large contingents of elite, secret operatives from all four US armed services (Navy SEALs, Green Berets, Delta Force, Team-6/DevGru, "the Activity" etc etc). What's less well-known about the organisation is that it also includes the US forces' active psychological-warfare apparatus. . .
SOCOM's Joint Military Information Support Command, which "orchestrates a 24/7 multi-media campaign formatted to the cultures and languages of relevant audiences" in "what has become a tough, entrenched war of ideas" has deployed what it calls the Trans-Regional Web Initiative. Specs on the programme were issued last year and earlier this month.
The Initiative contract goes into detail:
Special Operations Command requires the capability to posture for rapid, on-order global dissemination of web-based influence products and tools in support of strategic and long-term U.S. Government goals. . .
[Contractors will] develop, design, construct, operate, and maintain a series of synchronized influence websites supporting [Global War On Terror] requirements . . . Government estimates a minimum of two and no more than twelve websites.
The SOCOM psywar sites will be run much in the same fashion as any normal web-media portal. There will be "indigenous content stringers and editors" within "targeted regions" providing 24-hour "original features, news, sports, entertainment, economics, politics, cultural reports, business, and similar items of interest to targeted readers". Looking for operatives fluent in "English (British dialect)". . .
Then there are hints of unconventional web tactics, different from your normal media:
The Government will require the contractor to provide "ghosted" websites that are protected by username and password and ready to go active upon approval by SOCOM.
So who are the "targeted readers" who are to be steered into supporting US policy, in particular the War On Terror?
A hint is given by the list of required foreign target languages, which includes obvious ones like Arabic, Urdu, Farsi, Russian, Malay etc - but also French, and "English (British dialect and spelling)".
It would appear that any UK media site or channel which appears to be functioning without any visible means of support appropriate to its expenses may in fact be a tentacle of US Special Ops psywar command.
http://prorev.com/indexa.htm
Pentagon plans fake website war on france and britain - Jan Klimkowski - 06-10-2009
Quote:Looking for operatives fluent in "English (British dialect)". . .
Here's my job application, to be delivered by Ray Winstone:
Wood yer adam and eve it! These septic tank merchant bankers with their pistol and shooter games have no tate and lyle.
Call an Andy McNab, end this weston-super-mare, and send these anthony blunts back across the Big Pond. Bunch of bacon bonces.
Pentagon plans fake website war on france and britain - Paul Rigby - 06-10-2009
Magda Hassan Wrote: PENTAGON PLANS FAKE WEBSITE WAR ON FRANCE AND BRITAIN
It would appear that any UK media site or channel which appears to be functioning without any visible means of support appropriate to its expenses may in fact be a tentacle of US Special Ops psywar command.
http://prorev.com/indexa.htm
That certainly explains the Telegraph website...