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Propagandizing The Masses
Here is a comparison between the language used in Clinton's new IPI directive, and the phrasing of the CIA's latest recruitment ads. At the very bottom of the page, click on the quotes from a FOIA released document from the CIA's PAO. Very interesting to read just what the CIA has in mind for us, Joe and Jane public, in terms of how we receive and perceive information.
Mind Control Pyramid Scheme
Some things are stranger than fiction, but this is not one of them. Tongue in cheek, (I hope) look at a conspiracy, Georgia style!
After Five-Year Absence, CIA Returns Seeking Intelligence
Advertising the interview and recruitment session at Brown University just as would any corporation, the CIA went on-campus seeking new blood to replenish the stock.
National Insecurity: US Intelligence After The Cold War
From the 'Center for International Policy', this is a well-written book on the grim reality that the Cold War has been over for ten years, and that there are no countries aiming to invade us, yet the US is still spending BILLIONS of US tax dollars on covert and espionage activities. Look for this book now!
'Don't Care' Attitude Puts Democracy in Crisis
If the resources of the federal government are used to promote a politicians unfiltered message - delivered via the uncritical medium of television - and reporters are shut out, what is the implication for freedom of the press? Jim Drew of the 'Toledo Blade' reports in this editorial (December 22nd, 1999), that Vice-president Al Gore arrived for a campaign/political business stop in Cleveland in summer 1998, held a fund-raiser, and collected US$200,000. Afterwards, the reporters were kept as far from the candidate as possible. TV sells a politician better than the printed press!
Angus McKenzie: Secrets: The CIA's War At Home
The award winning 1997 book 'Secrets' can be ordered here, both paperback and hardcover versions, direct from the publisher, 'California University Press'.
Top Ten Unreported News Stories: 1986
Official harassment of US citizens opposed to the Contra support effort by the US government was the #1 under-reported story in 1986, while the #2 choice by 'Project Censored' that year was the "growth of information control in the United States including censorship, disinformation, and a new broader classification system."
Gaining Access To CIA's Records
One journalist's efforts to get a look at classified documents held by the CIA without having to resort to signing away his rights by placing his signature upon a 'secrecy agreement'. Interesting read!
Bush Blasts CIA Critics
Again, this links does not have much to do with the CIA use of the media, other than it is an article publishing Bush's maniacal defense of the Agency he worked with since at least 1963, and even finally ran, as director of Central Intelligence, and nominally as vice-president, and as President too. Of course he was going to defend the Agency at its fifty year anniversary party.
CIA Insists It Must Retain Right To Use Missionaries As Informants
This undated article outlines former Director of Central Intelligence John Deutch's insistence that the CIA should, and will, use whatever intelligence sources it deems necessary. Seems logical, but only until I remember the approximately US$28 Billion the CIA is already supposed to be spending on Intelligence gathering. Why should it have to use missionaries and journalists too? To perhaps further its own messages and agendas?
CIA Clears Itself Of L.A. Cocaine Charge
This 'Seattle Times' article (December, 1997) mentions that many newspapers 'disputed' Gary Webb's report in the 'San Jose Mercury News', and how the CIA's not-at-that-point released report was going to clear it of all the sticky coke connection storiesfloating around, fueled by Webb's August 1996 'Dark Alliance' series.
Clinton Has Squandered A Chance To Reform The CIA
A surprising article from the 'Christian Science Monitor' decrying the pitiful intelligence reforms implemented by President Clinton, including the giving of Director of Central Intelligence John Duetch a seat on the US Cabinet. Also, "the White House gave the Director of Central Intelligence the 'right to concur' on the nomination of senior intelligence officials to other US government agencies, such as the State Department." Who's running the US government? This has to be one of the scariestthings I've ever read!
House Panel Says CIA Lacks Expertise To Carry Out Duties
In this June 1997 article by Tim Weiner, it is reported that the House 'Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence' under former CIA case officer Porter Goss (R-Fl.) found that not only does the CIA spend billions of dollars on fancy technology, but it "lacks the brainpower to analyze the information collected by these technologies." But hey, they could fix that problem, by throwing more money at it! The committee was also very worried about releasing too much information to the public, implying that the damage done by the release of these secrets would be more than mere dollar amounts. Yeah, some agents of the CIA just might go to jail!
The Obstruction Of Justice Department Strikes Again
Mike Levine, former DEA agent, and current radio show host, writes of his disgust that the taxpayers paid for the CIA report on cocaine allegations, and asks why is the establishment press accepting the report "without a whimper?"
The CIA Inside America
A brief outline of a few CIA domestic operations, including a CIA appearance at Waco to help with "non-lethal weapons against the Davidians."
How The CIA Championed Animal Rewrites
This 'Age' newspaper article (March 25th, 2000) is another look at how the CIA, through Howard Hunt, dispatched agents to purchase the film-rights to George Orwell's 'Animal Farm', to be sure to change the final scene, where the farm animals can't tell the difference between the Capitalist Farmers, and the Communist Pigs.
CIA: The Use Of Journalists
This is Mario Profaca's incredible, amazing, fantastically loaded site, a vast array of information here dealing with all aspects of the spy world. This is a must visit site for anyone who wants to see all angles of this issue. CIA Director John Deutch told Sen. Arlen Spectre, of JFK/magic bullet fame, that the CIA reserves the right to suspend the 1976 ban on using journalists, and will use them as it sees fit, in whatever situation the Agency deemed necessary. I mean it, this site is absolutely incredible for its amount, and quality of information!
Drugging America
This is Rodney Stich's web-site, where one can read synopses of both his book 'Defrauding America', and his newest book, 'Drugging America'. Stich outlines many instances when the US media should have been reporting on CIA and other US government drug connections, but apparently intentionally ignored such reports.
Intelligence Connection
Coming from a right-wing angle, this is still a very interesting site, with lots of both documented, and speculative conspiracy evidence outlining the role of Intelligence agencies in various crimes, their use of the media to help cover up those crimes, and to engineer and sow disinformation.
CIA Electronic Document Release Center
From the Agency which just fought tooth and nail to keep from releasing their budget to their employees, the US citizenry, comes this gem: "An Informed Citizenry . . .vital to a democratic society." What got left out of that quote, I wonder? It should probably read more like this: "An informed citizenry [is not, in the estimation of the CIA, in the least bit important, nor] vital to a democratic society." Still, this site is worth a look around, as here one can find loads of FOIA released documents, willingly and not so willingly put up by the CIA on the Internet. You are being watched here, remember!
The Central Intelligence Agency
Here they are, at their official web-site. I tried to look around just now, and got all sorts of strange whistles and beeps before my computer froze up at 89% of the page having loaded. Call me paranoid, but enter this site at your own risk!
Spy-journalists, Journalist-spies: CIA Loophole Is A Bad Business
This 1996 commentary explains in easy to understand English why it is not only a bad idea, but also just plain idiotic, to let the CIA use journalists as spies. This was written in response to CIA Director George Tenet's refusal to close the loophole allowing exceptions to the rule banning the hiring or use of journalists as spies by the CIA.
MK-Ultra: The CIA & Radiation
This is the page for the 'Interim Report of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments'. This an arm of the same organization that smuggled mega-tons of drugs into the US, spends nearly US$28 Billion a year, and here it is reported that they were carrying out these heinous experiments worthy of the evil Nazi doctors who carried out similar horror show experiments on helpless victims.
Articles Critical Of The CIA
Here is a whole series of articles, from reviews and breakdowns of the book 'Secrets', to a fifteen year compilation of CIA crimes, and its influencing of US public perceptions and policies. Well worth a visit or two!
Backward To The Future
All I can say is anyone who wonders how the CIA operates in deluding the American public should read the information listed at this site!
Subverting Journalism: Reporters And The CIA
This report by Kate Houghton outlines some more of the reasons the CIA should NOT be using reporters as spies.
FAIR Report: CIA Report Gets New Media Attention
This November 1998 article from 'Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting' (FAIR) details their amazement that the CIA report admitting that it worked with all kinds of companies and individuals trafficking in drugs was finally getting some coverage in one mainstream newspaper, the 'Washington Post', even though it took the "expected swipes at Gary Webb." It is sad when one of the only mentions of this treasonous behavior by our own premier spy agency, in a major media outlet like the 'Washington Post', it is momentous enough to get an article written about that fact alone, that a major newspaper deigned to half-heartedly cover one of the biggest stories of the decade.
Review Of Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs, And The Press
This is quite a review! If you haven't read this book detailing the almost absolute failure of the mainstream press to report on CIA drug connection allegations, not to mention the murder plots, mind control experiments, and othermindbogglingly evil past times of the CIA, unless it is to try and destroy the stories, and the reporters of such anti-CIA reports, then go right out and buy this book. Get mad, get angry, get going!
Domestic Surveillance: The History Of Operation CHAOS
A complete history of the CIA's illegal domestic 'Operation Chaos', aimed directly at US citizens. This program continued from 1959 until at least 1974, with the CIA spying on thousands of US citizens who had committed no crime.
MediaFilter.org: Tactical Media In Perspective
Tactical Media, the art of disinformation, or perception management, advertising, making sure thepopulace thinks the way 'they' want it to. This is quite a site!
Journalism & The CIA: The Mighty Wurlitzer
Detailed look at how the CIA got the mainstream media to sell out its soul.
Why America Needs The CIA
Without the CIA, who will supply us with disinformation? This is the sentiment of this astute site, which is another outline of CIA disinformation campaigning aimed at US citizens. What's with these spies?
CIA Manipulated Media Mucho
This 'Newsmax' article (March 20th, 2000) points out that the CIA bought the rights to the dystopian novel 'Nineteen Eighty Four' so that they could change the damning portrayal George Orwell did of BOTH capitalists and communist systems in his classic book, amongst other nefarious propaganda activities of the CIA and our media. It also points out how US 'Drug Czar' General Barry McCaffrey has been indulging in the same sort of media manipulations to effect and manage public perception about the War Against Some Drugs.
Why Were Government Propaganda Experts Working On News At CNN?
'Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting' (FAIR) announced in an 'Action Alert' (March 27th, 2000) that CNN had been infiltrated during the Kosovo bombing by five military psyops specialists. CNN rejoined that they were only "interns," and that they had been fired when CNN management had 'discovered' the situation. Hmmm, what were five military psyops specialist doing working in the CNN newsroom?
CNN & PSYOPS
Noted reporter and columnist Alexander Cockburn points out here in his 'CounterPunch' newsletter (March 26th, 2000) that however minor a role CNN tries to assign to the military PSYOPS specialists working in their newsroom until quite recently, a commanding officer in the psyops program felt their role significant enough to extoll upon it as an example of the expanded cooperation between big media and the military. This sounds extremely frightening to me, and is serious cause for alarm bell to be ringing across the country loud and strong, waking people to the danger. But they are almost completely silent!
US Army PSYOPS Specialists Worked For CNN
This is a translation of Abe de Vries' article originally published in the Dutch 'Trouw' (February 21st, 2000) breaking the news that CNN and the US Army had a program in place whereby active army PSYOPS specialists worked hands on in the CNN Atlanta newsroom. This is so close to real Big Brother shit that it should make everyone in the US more than a bit nervous. Who is deciding which news stories the general public sees and reads? Who decided that the Elian Gonzalez case deserved anywhere near the amount of play it has gotten, yet this story gave zero attention in the national press? Here Major Thomas Collins of the 'US Army Information Office' is quoted saying that military PSYOPS personnel "have been working in CNN's headquarters in Atlanta through our program 'Training with Industry'. They worked as regular employees of CNN. Conceivably, they would have worked on stories during the Kosovo war. They helped in the production of news." I guess this could answer my question!
When the CIA Was The NEA
This 'Nation' managazine review (June 12th, 2000)by professor of Political Science Michael P. Rogin, discusses the book 'Cultural Cold War: The CIA & the World of Arts and Letters', by Frances Stonor Saunders. In 'Cultural Cold War', the CIA's role throughout the Cold War years in funding secretly many 'leftist anti-Communist' editors, writers, painters, and others in the world of arts and letters is revealed. The US had a 'Ministry of Culture', just like the Soviet Union apparently, only the CIA was even more secret and surreptitious about what they did to assure that the American public would not be swayed away from the Capitalist ideology. Today the tradition continues, with the US White House 'Office of National Drug Control Policy' secretly crediting ad time to media networks, magazines, and newspapers, to place anti-drug messages into programming content, without crediting the messages as originating within the US Government.
The War On Truth: The Secret Battle Of The American Mind
Derrick Jenson interviews John Stauber (June 7, 2000), posted at MediaChannel.org. "Stauber, who is editor of the quarterly investigative journal PR Watch, and the founder of the Center for Media and Democracy, talks at length here about how corporations use the media surreptitiously to influence the populace and its opinions, "not to facilitate democracy or promote social good, but to increase power and profitability for the clients paying the bills. This overall management of public opinion and policy by the few is completely contrary to, and destructive of, democracy."
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