-Caveat Lector- ----Original Message----- From: The UnaPoet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: alt.activism,alt.conspiracy,alt.anarchism Date: Sunday, December 13, 1998 2:00 PM Subject: Ex DEA agent speaks out about media lies THE "SECRET" MEDIA EQUATION AT WORK BY Michael Levine *No one who listens to THE EXPERT WITNESS show should have been surprised at the AP story (12/10/98) entitled "60 Minutes to Apologize [for Faked Drug Story]." *The text of the story indicates that "60 Minutes" on two occassions ran a completely faked story about heroin smuggling and that the producers of the show are blaming the makers of a British Documentary and corroborating information they obtained from my alma mater, DEA (The Drug Enforcement Administration) for "fooling" them and causing them to "fool viewers in fourteen countries." *Well, Holy disingenuous! Believe that and I have a case of Sammy Sosa homerun balls to sell you. *During my 25 year career as a federal agent assigned to supervise many, many raids and operations arranged at the request of mainstream media, let me tell you, it is impossible to fool a professional media producer, unless he is so hungry for a dramatic story and/or film footage, that he does not want to see the obvious signs that the whole thing is a fraud. *I lost count of the number of Expert Witness radio shows, since the show began in June, 1997, during which we identified fraudulent, faked and misleading law enforcement and covert ops stories headlined in mainstream media (print, radio and television). *We, in fact, showed that many of the current drug war headlines were in essence, pro forma copies of headlines published 80 and 90 years ago, the only differences being the names of the arch villains, the countries and the quantities of drugs. The lesson being that absolutely nothing has changed in 90 years but the federal drug war budget, which is now more than $19 billion a year. *The fact is that I cannot remember a week passing, since I retired from DEA in 1990, during which there is not at least one easily identifiable phony crime and/or covert operation story prominent in mainstream media. The vast majority of these stories involve drug cases and/or almost everything the CIA puts out as "fact." *I recently taped a three hour "Expert Witness" radio show entitled "100 Years of Inside Experience" during which four federal agents having a total of 100 years service in CIA, FBI and DEA* all of us having taken part in some of our nation's highest profile criminal cases and covert agency operations *agreed that mainstream media coverage of these events was almost never even close to what actually happened, the exceptions being those rare occassions when the agency involved did everything right. *In fact, it was during this taping that 25 year veteran CIA officer, Ralph McGeehee quoted from an in-house CIA document in which their public affairs division bragged that their "extensive media ties" had enabled CIA to "turn intelligence failures into intelligence 'successes'" in the media. *Does it get any plainer than that? *During our long careers the reasons for this "through-a-glass-darkly" media coverage became obvious to each of us. There is a simple equation at work that the American taxpayer should be aware of because we are paying for it, big time. *The equation is as follows: *A=Law Enforcement and covert agencies need positive, even frightening media, for increased budgets and career enhancement, particularly in the war on drugs. Which means that poor, inept and even criminal agency performance is covered up for, and positive activities exagerrated to any point the media "watchdogs" will tolerate. *B=Politicians always need media and find that a close association with covert and law enforcement agencies keeps their names in headlines and their faces on television. Their roles in enforcement activities, covert and military operations, etc. are always exagerrated to any point that media allows. *C=Law enforcement and covert agencies need close, mutually beneficial alliances with politicians for aid in obtaining ever increasing budgets. They can also count on the aid of "friendly" politicians in the coverup of any poor agency performance, corruption, etc., that might prove politically embarassing, i.e. Waco, Ruby Ridge, WTC Bombing, Iran-contra, etc. *D=Media needs to form a close working relationship with politicians, and federal enforcement and covert agencies for access to exclusive stories that will enhance careers, sell newspapers and boost ratings. This is particularly true with all drug war stories and anything to do with CIA. *E=Producers and reporters are all aware that if they publish a negative story or ask to many embarassing, difficult or intelligent questions they will lose access to the federal agencies and politicians, get a reputation as "unfriendly" and jeopardize their very careers (i.e. Gary Webb's "Dark Alliance" story, Robert Parry's expos� of Iran-contra). *Thus: *A+B+C+D+E= Corrupt, politicized and inept federal law enforcement and covert operations agencies, a fraudulent, unwinnable war on drugs and the total waste of hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars yearly. *And that dear readers conforms to my legal definition of an "unnatural sex act" with the American taxpayer on the receiving end. Michael Levine c/o "THE EXPERT WITNESS RADIO SHOW" WBAI Radio 120 Wall Street New York, New York, 10005 212-209-2970 THE EXPERT WITNESS RADIO SHOW http://www.radio4all.org/expert WBAI 99.5 FM, New York City (Tuesdays 7-8pm) KPFK 90.7 FM, Los Angeles replayed (Wednesdays, midnight, on "Something's Happening show) Host: Michael Levine, author of the "Triangle of Death." Forwarded for info and discussion from the New Paradigms Discussion List, not necessarily endorsed by: *********************************** Lloyd Miller, Research Director for A-albionic Research (POB 20273, Ferndale, MI 48220), a ruling class/conspiracy research resource for the entire political-ideological spectrum. Quarterly journal, book sales, rare/out-of-print searches, New Paradigms Discussion List, Weekly Up-date Lists & E-text Archive of research, intelligence, catalogs, & resources. 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