Isn't there a CIA document somewhere delineating some of the psychological warfare used against the public, activists, etc.? I have in mind things like convincing people that the regime is incompetent, so-called limited hangouts, personal slanders, starting rumors, etc. etc.
I have an opportunity to talk to a leftist friend of mine who is at least open to a discussion of JFK and an assassination conspiracy, unlike most of them who evidently hate JFK more than say Kissinger, Pinochet, Casey, Raygun, Bushes, neocons, et al. I'm sure you know what I mean: they can talk calmly and dispassionately about such miserable criminals, analyze their policies, etc. Mention Kennedy and they lose control of themselves.
Step one is to show him that much of what he thinks about "the ruling class" is a) obsolete and b) false (as in manipulated). So many "Marxists" are rigidly stuck in terms and categories of a long-past era. Michael Parenti is a refreshing exception. (Lenin coined the term "Old Bolsheviks" in 1917. It was not a compliment. He was referring to members of his own party who could not adapt and adjust to new circumstances and conditions. They repeated the old formulas and tactics from a dozen years earlier, not recognizing the present situation was entirely new.)
Anyhoo....I have a chance to poke through the bubble of my friend's assumptions and I'd like to start by showing him how much his views, radical as he may think they are, have actually been spoon-fed to him by his worst enemy. I'm pretty sure I've seen some document of this kind but I can't find it at present.
1. COINTELPRO Techniques for dilution, misdirection and control of a internet forum
2. Twenty-Five Rules of Disinformation
3. Eight Traits of the Disinformationalist
4. How to Spot a Spy (Cointelpro Agent)
5. Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression
Once in a while you get shown the light
in the strangest of places if you look at it right..... R. Hunter
What became known as "The Family Jewels" during the Church Committee hearings was declasssified/released in 2007. There's a brief blurb about this at Mother Jones, with embedded links to the 702-page file:
The CIA dates from the National Security Act of 1947. Prior to that, during WWII Supreme Commander Eisenhower enlisted C.D. Jackson as his psychological warfare chief. Ike brought him in for his two terms as psychological warfare chief. In October 1952 Jackson's speech for Ike called on government agencies to speak with a single voice.
In 2008 Cass Sunstein and Adrian Verbeule published the paper "Conspiracy Theories" a pdf attached.
Consider that Harry Truman published an editorial in the Washington Post in December 1963 "Confine CIA to Intelligence Role". Allen Dulles visited Truman and attempted to make him recant; Truman would tell the editor of LOOK later that he felt the same--yet Dulles lied to CIA counsel Houston that Truman had recanted.
The CIA site is replete with this revisionism of a Stalinist nature. It's written by the ream by Bugliosi and McAdams.
Do not discount the behavior of media, singing like a choir of castrati with never a dissonant note.
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was to ensure that American intelligence
remained a loose confederation of agencies with
no strong direction from either civilian or military
decisionmakers. In late 1945, while reviewing
intelligence reform proposals, President Truman
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department required its own intelligence." [/SIZE][size=12]11 [/SIZE][size=12]His [/SIZE][size=12]January 1946 order that appointed a DCI and
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knowledge of the true state of "departmental"
intelligence. They were unaware, for example, of
how far the departmental boundaries that
severely limited CIG's ability to conduct investigations
within the United States would complicate
its counterintelligence work. Moreover, the
sprawling but effective military intelligence capabilities
built during World War II were being rapidly
and inexorably demobilized in 1946, creating
a chronic weakness in military intelligence that
would last for decades and affect the development
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Once in a while you get shown the light
in the strangest of places if you look at it right..... R. Hunter
21-09-2013, 08:23 PM (This post was last modified: 25-09-2013, 02:24 AM by C. Savastano.)
Operation MK Ultra- Used psychoactive drugs, chemical injections, physical and mental abuse to simulate mind control on both knowing and unknowing victims-"CIA Ok's MK-Ultra Mind Control Tests" This Day in Tech (April 13th, 1953), wired.com, "Sidney Gottlieb, 80, dies took LSD to CIA" by Tim Weiner, nytimes.com
Operation Mocking Bird- "Much of what I worked on was exposed in revelations about Operation Mockingbird…that divulged a lot of agency dirty laundry about our infiltration of the U.S. and international media" "American Spy: My Secret History in the CIA, Watergate and Beyond", E. Howard Hunt and Greg Aunapu.
"Legacy of Ashes- The History of the CIA" by Tim Weiner.
