28-10-2008, 03:17 PM
(This post was last modified: 28-10-2008, 03:23 PM by Charles Drago.)
E. Howard Hunt's deathbed "confession" may be viewed on the Internet:
http://www.radiodujour.com/people/hunt_saint_john/
Not since Gerald Patrick Hemming appeared at a JFK-Lancer conference to take questions from a panel of not-so-grand inquisitors (on which I sat, alas) have we been treated to so valuable a lesson in the techniques of a master disinformationalist.
Hunt's mission hardly was unique: Like many before him he set out to elevate some of the false sponsors/beneficiaries (LBJ, LCN), would-be sponsors/beneficiaries (anti-Castro forces), and true facilitators (CIA and other intelligence officers and agents) of the JFK assassination to the highest, sponsorship level of what was a tripartite conspiracy structure.
There is a massive disconnect between the depth of Hunt's institutional knowledge and experience, and the superficiality of his "revelations" -- one sufficient to give away his game.
He tells us nothing we do not already know.
And so we are left to identify and mine the proffered, minimal truth -- disinformation's key ingredient -- from the massive, stinking pit of lies Hunt uttered as he slithered into what he likely hoped would be oblivion.
http://www.radiodujour.com/people/hunt_saint_john/
Not since Gerald Patrick Hemming appeared at a JFK-Lancer conference to take questions from a panel of not-so-grand inquisitors (on which I sat, alas) have we been treated to so valuable a lesson in the techniques of a master disinformationalist.
Hunt's mission hardly was unique: Like many before him he set out to elevate some of the false sponsors/beneficiaries (LBJ, LCN), would-be sponsors/beneficiaries (anti-Castro forces), and true facilitators (CIA and other intelligence officers and agents) of the JFK assassination to the highest, sponsorship level of what was a tripartite conspiracy structure.
There is a massive disconnect between the depth of Hunt's institutional knowledge and experience, and the superficiality of his "revelations" -- one sufficient to give away his game.
He tells us nothing we do not already know.
And so we are left to identify and mine the proffered, minimal truth -- disinformation's key ingredient -- from the massive, stinking pit of lies Hunt uttered as he slithered into what he likely hoped would be oblivion.
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene