-Caveat Lector- http://x29.deja.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=507992717&; CONTEXT=933733169.243859517&hitnum=2 Author: Ralph McGehee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Forum: alt.conspiracy Date: 1999/08/02 Subject: Deadlier Deceits "Spinning The American Public." A former senior Clinton Administration official charged that the new multi-agency plan to control the dissemination of information abroad is aimed at "spinning the American public." Presidential Decision Directive 68, ordered the creation of the International Public Information (IPI) system -- and said "information aimed at the U.S. audience should be coordinated integrated, deconflicted and synchronized with the IPI to achieve a synergistic effect." PDD 68 does not distinguish between what would be done overseas and what would be done at home... it talks about a news war... The target is the American people." Washington Times 7/29/99 A1. PDD 68 orders top officials from the Defense, State, Justice, Commerce, and Treasury and the CIA and FBI to meet and set up a core group. Coordinating this massive agglomeration will inevitable produce fact-blindness especially when you include the misinformation operations of the CIA. If there is any plan to distinguish fact from fiction, IPI should know about CIA deception operations -- but CIA will never reveal those details to anyone. One major role for the CIA is the creation of false evidence to support its operations -- it refuses to share those details with other agencies. Internally it even restricts details of such operations using strict need-to-know and compartmentation policies. So when it conducts many and massive deception operations those deceits inevitably will end up in the domestic media and will shape our foreign policies. With the creation of the IPI these stories will be disseminated world-wide and especially domestically. What are some types of CIA False Evidence operations? The CIA forges documents and places them where they will be discovered and disseminated widely. (It effectively demonizes targets even the most honorable while glorifying sponsored "demons"). It sets off bombs, blaming them on targets. It plants "Communist" or now probably "terrorist" weapons shipments and arranges for them to be found as it broadcasts details of such widely. It buys foreign media and employees and book publishers, establishes policy-making think tanks and their publications, it employs foreign radio and television stations -- all used to disseminate its deceits. As one example -- It kept the media riveted for months as it told of Cuban troops in Angola raping Ovimbundu girls. The villagers were outraged, captured the Cubans, and over a period of months held a trial, proclaimed them guilty and then executed the Cubans with their own weapons -- the only thing wrong with the story was that it was all made up. Doctored photographs, false atrocity stories, falsely attributed scholarly books written criticizing or blaming this or that movement or target (over 1000 titles published in one period) make up more of its arsenal of lies. Its operations in academia sponsor or subvert thousands of domestic academicians and untold numbers of foreign academics. It also sponsors numerous politicians and their groups and media operations. (One sample of the massive nature of the deceptions it employs I include at http://come.to/CIABASE -- these it used in Chile and they led to the empowerment of Pinochet.) I have had a number of experiences with the disinformation/ deception operations. Perhaps the most pervasive and destructive were CIA lies re Vietnam from 1950 through 1998. But I found that it also lied most effectively in its intelligence and -- in the facts that it suppressed. So this is what the American people can expect under the new IPI. To appreciate its terrible power I recommend reading George Orwell's classic "1984." Ralph McGehee http://come.to/CIABASE Attachment -- details of a similar group in the Reagan Administration that was declared illegal: The House Committee on Foreign Affairs, in 1988 ruled that the Office of Latin American Public Diplomacy (S/PLD) was designed to "establish, maintain and manage private domestic entities engaged in fundraising, lobbying, propaganda and manipulation of the media in contravention of U.S. laws and regulations." The Office of Public Diplomacy 1983-87 operated out of the State Department and produced documents, speeches, publications, and background papers for dissemination to the public and press. It issued a of stream vituperative white papers and pamphlets; i.e. "The Managua Connection: the Sandinistas and the Middle East Terrorists" and "Revolution Beyond our Borders." Reich and staff gave presentations to hundreds of civic groups, rotary clubs, and university audiences. The presentations were filled with innuendo, rhetoric and misinformation. Propaganda Review Summer 88 26 The staff report of 9/88 confirms that S/PLD was managed by the NSC, in close contact with DCI Casey and Oliver North. A year earlier, the comptroller general of the GAO had condemned these operations as illegal. The report discusses the prominent role of George Bush's national security adviser Donald Gregg. In "foreign policy" similarities to a CIA covert operation were no coincidence given that the chief architects were DCI Casey "and a veteran of the CIA's clandestine media operations, Walter Raymond, regarded as the CIA's leading propaganda expert." Z Magazine 11/88. A 1986 State memo mid 86 called for U.S. to background media on 1) three-ring circus in Libya; 2) threat of resurgent terrorism and threats to Libya's neighbors; 3) likely Qadaffi successors; 4) plight of Libyans under Qadaffi. A Poindexter memo to the President said that during the NSPG meeting you will be presented with a plan by State and CIA in which a series of closely coordinated events involving covert diplomatic, military and public actions proposed.... through disinformation program. This a massive disinformation program to lead to overthrow Qadaffi. Reagan signed NSDD specified deception and disinformation program to dissuade Qadaffi engaging in terrorism, to bring about a change in leadership, etc. Nine days later the Wall Street Journal said "U.S. and Libya on a collision course again." Washington post also ran stories. Woodward, B. (1987). Veil 472-5 Circa 79-88 "La Prensa" has received covert funding from CIA and from a secret net of North's. In July 79 President Carter authorized CIA to fund domestic opposition and La Prensa. CIA used cutouts to send printing equipment to La Prensa. After congress cutoff aid in 84 the National Endowment for Democracy, NED, spent over 1 million on anti-Sandinista media and political groups, many of which were tied to CIA. NED was closely supervised by Walter Raymond, Jr., a CIA propaganda specialist who was detailed to the NSC in 82 by Casey. Columbia Journalism Review 8/88 34, 35 From 1983-86 the Office for Public Diplomacy for Latin America (S/LPD), was an interagency group based in the State Department but run by the NSC. The Principal officer was a former CIA covert ops officer sent to NSC with the approval DCI Casey. It produced pro-Contra literature, arranged press conferences, speeches, and placed favorable editorials in U.S. newspapers by paid consultants who did not disclose their connection to the administration. In 1985, and 1986 it paid $400,000 for pro-Contra public relations work to International Business Communications (IBC). 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