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Information-Control Plan Aimed At U.S., Insider Says
News/Current Events News
Source: Washington Times
Published: July 29, 1999
Author: Ben Barber
International agency to be used for
`spinning the news'
A former senior Clinton administration official charged yesterday
that a new multiagency plan to closely control the dissemination of
public information abroad is really aimed at "spinning the American
public."
The plan, disclosed yesterday by The Washington Times, emerged out
of concern that the U.S. public has refused to back President
Clinton's foreign policy, said the former official, who spoke on
the condition he not be identified.
Administration officials "say news coverage is distorted at home
and they need to fight it at all costs by using resources that are
aimed at spinning the news," said the former official, who had
close knowledge of the plan's development.
Mr. Clinton in April issued Presidential Decision Directive 68,
ordering the creation of the International Public Information (IPI)
system, designed to make sure that all government agencies
disseminating information abroad share a single message.
A draft charter obtained by The Washington Times says the purpose
of IPI is "to prevent and mitigate crises and to influence foreign
audiences in ways favorable to the achievement of U.S. foreign
policy objectives."
Officials of U.S. defense, intelligence, diplomatic and other
agencies met for the first time yesterday at the State Department
to go over the draft charter, said a source who spoke on the
condition of anonymity.
Only "minor changes" were made to the charter at that meeting, the
source said, but it was possible that "major" changes would be made
in the near future.
Future meetings of an IPI "core group" developing the new
information system are to be chaired by Morton Halperin, head of
policy planning at the State Department.
The draft charter says information aimed at U.S. audiences should
"be coordinated, integrated, deconflicted and synchronized with the
[IPI] to achieve a synergistic effect."
The former senior official complained that the charter "did not
distinguish what would be done overseas and what would he done at
home.... It talks about a news war."
In a telephone interview after yesterday's meeting, an
administration official rejected accusations that IPI could be
used in a partisan manner or be used to influence American public
opinion.
This is absolutely not the case, said the official, who also
declined to be identified. "We are very cognizant of the history
of the '80s. There are congressional controls now."
The official was referring to the 1980s Iran-Contra affair, in
which some Reagan administration officials covertly sold arms to
Iran to raise money to fund the Contra war in Nicaragua.
After October, IPI will be run by the newly created undersecretary
of state for public diplomacy, who will take over most of the
duties of the U.S. Information Agency (USIA), which is being
disbanded, Former White House aide Evelyn Lieberman has been
nominated for that post.
However, the IPI system was said to be the brainchild of White
House intelligence chief Dick Clarke. His aide, former White House
fellow Jamie Metzl, largely wrote the plan and is now serving as
IPI senior coordinator, according to the former senior
administration official.
Media and political analysts yesterday expressed concern about the
plan.
"This... indicates a measure of desperation in President Clinton's
foreign policy," said Seth Ackerman of Fairness and Accuracy in
Reporting, a liberal media-watchdog group. "When it is not
received well abroad, he resorts to propaganda."
On the other end of the political spectrum, Ariel Cohen of the
conservative Heritage Foundation said he worried that the IPI
system could be used by the party in power to push its own agenda,
rather than the national interest.
"It would be a mistake to turn the U.S. public information system
into a tool of a partisan agenda," said Mr. Cohen.
"It cannot be driven by any political-correctness agenda that will
not be representative of what the American people think or that
will reflect only a social-change agenda of extremist activist
groups," he said.
The IPI plan calls for establishing a system of control over all
government information going abroad, with a stated goal of
countering anti-American propaganda and aiding U.S. overseas
military missions.
It also offers to help the United Nations use the system during
its peacekeeping and humanitarian operations.
A U.N. spokesman in Washington said the United Nations would be
glad to use the IPI system.
"My job is to see that the U.S. government, Congress and media have
full access to all U.N. documents," said Catherine O'Neill.
"Anytime a country makes an effort to help disseminate information
about what the U.N. does, it's good."
An official with the Freedom Forum, a media-advocacy organization
financed by the Gannett newspaper group, said she "had no idea this
was happening."
"Obviously, there was a belief that the public in Serbia was
misinformed about what our mission there was" during the NATO
bombing campaign this spring. "This is trying to address that,"
said Phyllis Lyons.
Bu she said she was surprised that USIA, which runs Voice of
America and Radio Free Europe, was not better used for this.
USIA is being absorbed by the State Department in October under a
plan adopted by Congress at the urging of North Carolina Republican
Sen. Jesse Helms.
The former senior official said it was no coincidence that just as
USIA is being moved to State, the administration is trying to
redirect its resources and its capabilities to collect and
disseminate information.
"This has been in the works a long time," he said. "The target is
the American people."
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1 Posted on 07/29/1999 06:37:16 PDT by Stand Watch Listen
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To: Stand Watch Listen
Here's an idea: let's turn it into a cabinet-level department.
We could call it The Ministry of Truth.
2 Posted on 07/29/1999 06:48:14 PDT by Nick Danger
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To: Stand Watch Listen
YES!
former senior Clinton administration official charged yesterday
Yet another example of the Clinton machine falling apart from the
inside. Watch for more. Yesterday G Putnam on KIEV870 got the
initial interview with a State Dept. 32 year career official who
working 2 levels under Madeline Albright has stood up to the lies
about Kosovo and the Wes Clark's recklessness. His name is Thomas
R. Hutson.
Among other things Clark had the audacity to tell the local
officials who had no money to build to just go ahead and
"print money".
3 Posted on 07/29/1999 06:50:27 PDT by flamefront
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To: Nick Danger
I seem to recall that Hillary claimed that the VRWC was cycling
news thru foreign news sources, then back to the U.S. Was that
by any chance a hint to coming events?
4 Posted on 07/29/1999 07:01:50 PDT by Texbill ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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To: untenured
I'd say that the Administration already has a very effective system
in place to control and spin the news: NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, The New
York Times, The Washington Post, The L.A. Times, etc, etc...
What they would really like to get control of is the Internet, and
the sort of news dissemination that occurs on websites such as this
one.
6 Posted on 07/29/1999 08:58:33 PDT by MI_too
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To: MI_too
Exactly - if the mainstream media can't prop up Clinton's sorry
excuse for foreign policy, then that means it must really stink.
...information aimed at U.S. audiences should "be coordinated,
integrated, deconflicted and synchronized with the [IPI] to
achieve a synergistic effect."
Wouldn't it just be a lot easier to elect a trustworthy President
who will administer a foreign policy which is clearly driven by
U.S. national interests?
7 Posted on 07/29/1999 09:09:24 PDT by ghost of nixon
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To: Stand Watch Listen-- IMPORTANT ARTICLE!
Did you notice the glaring absence of the words "facts" and "truth"
in this article? Nowhere in this story is there any indication the
IPI's is concerned with the dissemination of fact or truth.
By its supporters' own account, IPI's mission focuses solely on
"information," maintaining a "single message."
The names Morton Halperin and Evelyn Lieberman are instructive
enough as to the nature of this beast, but I would be very very
interested to know the names of the planning committee.
Of interest as well is the timing of this. What's the point of
setting this up now? They have little chance of winning the WH,
and they know it. It seems singularly stupid to now set up an
apparatus whose primary function is promote propaganda for the
Executive branch. These people do nothing, nothing that is not to
their own personal political advantage, yet this seems at complete
odds with that. Though they'd get to use it for a year, this tool
would then fall to the Republicans. So what do they know about
this election that we don't? Why are they not afraid to create
this propaganda bureacracy now in their waning months? This does
not settle well at all.
8 Posted on 07/29/1999 09:10:54 PDT by eroteme
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To: Joe Montana ==>Morton H. Halperin
Morton H. Halperin biography
Morton H. Halperin
Morton H. Halperin is a Senior Fellow of the Council on Foreign
Relations based in its Washington Office.
He served as a Special Assistant to the President and Senior
Director for Democracy at the National Security Council (February
1994-March 1996). In 1993 he was a consultant to the Secretary of
Defense and the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, and was
nominated by the President for the position of Assistant Secretary
of Defense for Democracy and Peacekeeping.
Dr. Halperin also served for three years in the federal government
in the 1960s. In 1969, he was a Senior Staff member of the
National Security Council staff with responsibility for National
Security planning. From July 1966 to January 1969, he was in the
Department of Defense where he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary
of Defense (International Security Affairs), responsible for
political-military planning and arms control. In that capacity Dr.
Halperin had responsibility within DOD for the initial preparations
for the strategic arms talks with the Soviet Union as well as for
the NPT.
From November 1992 to February 1994, Dr. Halperin was a Senior
Associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. From
September 1969 to December 1973, Dr. Halperin was a Senior Fellow
associated with the Foreign Policy Division of the Brookings
Institution. In the early 1960s, he was on the faculty of Harvard
University where he was an Assistant Professor of Government and a
Research Associate of the Harvard University Center for
International Affairs.
Dr. Halperin served from 1975-1992 as Director of the Center for
National Security Studies, which deals with secrecy, surveillance,
and other threats to civil liberties in the name of national
security. From 1984 to 1992, he was also the Director of the
Washington Office of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU),
with responsibility for the national legislative program of the
ACLU.
Dr. Halperin has also taught and conducted research on nuclear
strategy and arms control issues at a number of other universities
including Columbia, University of London, MIT, Yale, and The George
Washington University.
He has authored, co-authored and edited more than a dozen books
including Strategy and Arms Control (co-authored, 1961) and Nuclear
Fallacy (1987). He has also contributed articles on arms control
and nuclear strategy to a number of collected volumes, newspapers,
magazines, and journals, including The New York Times, The
Washington Post, The New Republic, Harpers, Foreign Affairs, and
Foreign Policy.
Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1938, Dr. Halperin received a BA from
Columbia College in 1959 and in 1961 received a Ph.D. from Yale
University in International Relations. Dr. Halperin is a member of
the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute of
Strategic Studies. He is the recipient of numerous awards
including a five year MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.
A Bibliography of Morton Halperin's Publications on Nuclear War
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/nukebib.htm
12 Posted on 07/29/1999 09:43:32 PDT by Stand Watch Listen
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To: eroteme
Thanks for pointing out that truth and facts are not mentioned
and that the information need only be "coordinated, integrated,
deconflicted and synchronized with the [IPI] to achieve a
synergistic effect."
Of interest as well is the timing of this. What's the point of
setting this up now? They have little chance of winning the WH,
and they know it.
My guess is that too many people didn't accept the Yugo spin.
That's a problem for those that wanted the war and planning the
next one. There's nothing partisan about international affairs
or most natioanal affairs for that matter.
14 Posted on 07/29/1999 09:51:49 PDT by Mike Willmeng
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To: Stand Watch Listen
If you do a Google search on about any of these slime you'll
see the good ol CFR jump out and grab you.
Try --- Jamie Metzl --- on this --- Google
http://www.google.com/
This is a good listing of the hives' activity ---
Washington Project
http://www.foreignrelations.org/public/wameet.html
18 Posted on 07/29/1999 11:45:10 PDT by NDCORUP
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To: Joe Montana
This post needs to be linked to this one for obvious reasons --
Senate caves to CFR :
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a379fa0371b7e.htm
19 Posted on 07/29/1999 13:27:50 PDT by NDCORUP
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To: Stand Watch Listen
So now, this administration is going to overtly and blatantly
control the news, there goes democracy folks, guess that means that
the only truth people will get, will be on the net...... that is
until Clinton finds a way to control that too.
20 Posted on 07/29/1999 17:25:44 PDT by Great Dane
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To: Stand Watch Listen
Far too much of the truth slips out on Radio Free Europe. This
must be unacceptible for Klin Toon, who signs their checks.
The harlots in the lamestream lie constantly, and they're not even
on the government payroll.
21 Posted on 07/29/1999 18:02:23 PDT by Hamiltonian
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To: Stand Watch Listen
A former senior Clinton administration official charged
yesterday that a new multiagency plan to closely control the
dissemination of public information abroad is really aimed at
"spinning the American public."
Anybody have any idea who this "former senior Clinton
administration official," who was in it recently enough
to have knowledge of this scheme, may be?
23 Posted on 07/29/1999 18:12:07 PDT by aristeides
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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To: Stand Watch Listen
Mr. Clinton in April issued Presidential Decision Directive 68,
ordering the creation of the International Public Information
(IPI) system, designed to make sure that all government agencies
disseminating information abroad share a single message.
Much like his domestic directives to the media?
26 Posted on 07/30/1999 00:08:50 PDT by enough is enough
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To: MI_too
"The IPI plan calls for establishing a system of control over
all government information going abroad..."
I assume this includes the internet and all domestic domains.
28 Posted on 07/30/1999 13:28:26 PDT by Justa
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To: Stand Watch Listen
According to an anonymous source the world is about to end,
according to a source that spoke on condition of remaining
un-named, most people will give credance to anything originating
from a place or person that won't stand in the light to be seen.
According to a former Clinton buisiness associate, Bill wants to
take Milosevic's job. The point of this comment is to promote the
boycott of news that comes from anonymous souces... we don't know
who they are, we don't know their possible motives and we can't
bank on the information originating from such sources so for all
intents and puposes this type of info is useless.
30 Posted on 07/31/1999 02:00:01 PDT by Stay'n Alive
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To: eroteme
"So what do they know about this election that we don't? Why
are they not afraid to create this propaganda bureacracy now in
their waning months? This does not settle well at all."
Wonder if it has anything to do with the White House $40 million
Y2K Information Coordination Center (ICC). This Y2K ICC is
purported to be a large network that will be able to track users'
banking and financial information, as well as other computerized
data, ostensibly to locate online criminal behavior - particularly
"cyber-attacks." You put these two together and you have a data
gathering and a data dissemination network.
31 Posted on 07/31/1999 02:26:05 PDT by DugwayDuke
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To: Stand Watch Listen
They haven't even completely gotten rid of the 2nd amendment, now
they are already working on the first. Maybe this will wake the
media sheep up, though I doubt it.
32 Posted on 07/31/1999 03:42:47 PDT by DaiHuy
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To: vvz
Thank you for clarifying your comment. I did misunderstand you,
and am glad to know that you are not among the many who actually
buy into the "incompetence" cover story that this administration
uses so well. If the Clintons and their hand-picked criminal
conspirators were half as incompetent as they pretend to be, every
now and then, just by chance, they would do something that would
benefit the United States.
The Machiavellian brilliance of allowing (indeed, encouraging) the
perception that they're screw-ups cannot be overstated. Imagine
the wholehearted commitment it takes to a cause, to the promotion
of a long-range plan, to subject oneself to global ridicule and
humiliation, just as long as the agenda is served. Chilling,
isn't it?
37 Posted on 08/02/1999 07:31:26 PDT by eroteme
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To: All
Question: What is the difference between the United States and
a third world dictatorship?
Answer: In a third word dictatorship, the people know that the
press is controlled by the government.
39 Posted on 08/02/1999 11:54:53 PDT by Magician
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To: Magician
CFR=NWO
http://www.parascope.com/mx/council1.htm
41 Posted on 08/02/1999 12:51:25 PDT by Prince Igor
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