[Peace-discuss] FW: CIA Admits to Congress the Agency Uses Mainstream Media to Distribute Disinformation: 1975 Video

[David Johnson]

CIA Admits to Congress the Agency Uses Mainstream Media to Distribute
Disinformation: 1975 Video


By Melissa Dykes <http://www.globalresearch.ca/author/melton> 

Global Research, August 30, 2015

Truthstream Media
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es-mainstream-media-to-distribute-disinfo/>  

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es-mainstream-media-to-distribute-disinformation/5424860

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It has been verified
<http://truthstreammedia.com/cia-flashback-well-know-our-disinformation-prog
ram-is-complete-when-everything-the-american-public-believes-is-false/>  by
a source who claims she was there that then-CIA Director William Casey did
in fact say the controversial and often-disputed line "We'll know our
disinformation program is complete when everything the American public
believes is false," reportedly in 1981.
Despite Casey being under investigation by Congress for being involved in a
major disinformation plot involving the overthrow of Libya's Qaddafi in
1981, and despite Casey arguing on the record that the CIA should have a
legal right to spread disinformation via the mainstream news that same year,
this quote continues to be argued by people who weren't there and apparently
cannot believe a CIA Director would ever say such a thing.
But spreading disinfo is precisely what the CIA would - and did - do.
This 1975 clip of testimony given during a House Intelligence Committee
hearing has the agency admitting on record that the CIA creates and uses
disinformation against the American people.
Question: "Do you have any people being paid by the CIA who are contributing
to a major circulation - American journal?"
Answer: "We do have people who submit pieces to American journals."
Question: "Do you have any people paid by the CIA who are working for
television networks?"
Answer: "This I think gets into the kind of uh, getting into the details Mr.
Chairman that I'd like to get into in executive session."
(later)
Question: "Do you have any people being paid by the CIA who are contributing
to the national news services - AP and UPI?"
Answer: "Well again, I think we're getting into the kind of detail Mr.
Chairman that I'd prefer to handle at executive session."
It's easy enough to read between the lines on the stuff that was saved for
the executive session. Then-CBS President Sig Mickelson goes on to say that
the relationships at CBS with the CIA were long established before he ever
became president - and that's just one example. Considering 90% of our media
<http://www.corporations.org/media/>  today has been consolidated into six
major corporations over the past decade, it's not hard to see that you
shouldn't readily believe everything you see, hear or read in the "news."
"I thought that it was a matter of real concern that planted stories
intended to serve a national purpose abroad came home and were circulated
here and believed here because this would mean that the CIA could manipulate
the news in the United States by channeling it through some foreign
country," Democratic Idaho Senator Frank Church said at a press conference
surrounding the hearing. Church chaired the Church Committee, a precursor to
the Senate Intelligence Committee, which was responsible for investigating
illegal intelligence gathering by the NSA, CIA and FBI.
This exact tactic - planting disinformation in foreign media outlets so the
disinfo would knowingly surface in the United States as a way of
circumventing the rules on domestic operations - was specifically argued for
<http://truthstreammedia.com/cia-flashback-well-know-our-disinformation-prog
ram-is-complete-when-everything-the-american-public-believes-is-false/>  as
being legal simply because it did not originate on U.S. soil by none other
than CIA Director William Casey in 1981.
 <http://www.globalresearch.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/trumancia.jpg>
Description: Image removed by sender.Former President Harry S. Truman, who
oversaw the creation of the CIA in 1947 when he signed the National Security
Act, later wrote that he never intended the CIA for more than intelligence
gathering. "I never had any thought that when I set up the CIA that it would
be injected into peacetime cloak and dagger operations," Truman penned in
1963 a year after the disastrous CIA Bay of Pigs operation.
Again, please keep this in mind when you watch the mainstream "news" in this
country.

"In their propaganda today's dictators rely for the most part on repetition,
supression and rationalization - the repetition of catchwords which they
wish to be accepted as true, the supression of facts which they wish to be
ignored, the arousal and rationalization of passions which may be used in
the interests of the Party or the State. As the art and science of
manipulation come to be better understood, the dictators of the future will
doubtless learn to combine these techniques with the non-stop distractions
which, in the West, are now threatening to drown in a sea of irrelevance the
rational propaganda essential to the maintenance of individual liberty and
the survival of democratic institutions."

Aldous Huxley, "Propaganda in a Democratic Society"
Brave New World Revisited
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creative=390957&creativeASIN=0060898526&linkCode=as2&tag=truthmedia-20&linkI
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(H/T Daniel LeBlanc)

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