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1, 2 y 3, � Qu� paso tan ch�vere...! (1)==================- >From Bob Park Friday, 22 Feb 02 Washington, DC TRUE LIES: PENTAGON CREATES "OFFICE OF STRATEGIC INFLUENCE." Its director, Brig. Gen. Pete Worden, was quoted this week as saying the office could engage in information warfare, including spreading inaccurate or misleading information. Worden is an expert, having served as deputy to Gen. Abrahamson, head of the SDI program. In fact, a deliberate disinformation campaign must already be under way---Defense Secretary Rumsfeld told reporters the next day that Pentagon officials tell only the truth. (2)=================== By JAMES DAO WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 =AF Senior Pentagon and Bush administration officials responded to criticism of a new Pentagon information office today, saying government officials would not be allowed to tell lies to promote American views overseas. But the officials left the door open to a range of secret military information activities intended to deceive adversaries, including hiring outside firms that would be authorized to spread inaccurate or misleading information overseas. (3)============= http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/20/opinion/20DOWD.html Office of Strategic Mendacity By MAUREEN DOWD WASHINGTON -- We're the white hats, but we're planning a "black" propaganda campaign against the axis -- and even the allies. People at the Defense Department and elsewhere are cringing at the news that the Pentagon's shadowy new Office of Strategic Influence is plotting to plant deliberately false stories in the foreign press, with both feral and friendly nations. Covert disinformation activities have always been the province of the C.I.A. But Brig. Gen. Simon Worden, the head of the O.S.I., envisions a mission of psychological operations, or psyops, that "goes from the blackest of black programs to the whitest of white," as a senior Pentagon official told The Times. William Cohen, defense secretary under President Bill Clinton, said on CNN that "We are talking about deceiving the media and the public in general in foreign countries, and that would be a mistake." Our government shouldn't need to lie to justify its increasingly broad and intricate war against terrorism." Holy Gulf of Tonkin! Besides, there's enough real bad stuff about the bad guys -- they're Evildoers, after all. We don't need to make up stuff to pin on them. But let's look on the sunny side. At least the Bush administration is trying to disseminate information, even if it's fictional. Usually it's trying to suppress information, even if it's consequential. ======================== Pues eso... PANG========;'';=********************* ** CyberCogito ergo CyberSum ** *************************************** -------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with UNSUBSCRIBE COLEXT as the BODY of the message. Un archivo de colext puede encontrarse en: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ cortesia de Anibal Monsalve Salazar
