Dwight D. Eisenhower to John Foster Dulles, quoted in U.S. State Department's Foreign Relations of the United States series, GPO:
After all, psychological warfare can be anything from the singing of a hymn to the most extraordinary acts of physical sabotage
Psychological operations were coordinated by a Governmental agency called the Psychological Strategy Board. The architect of the Psychological Strategy Board was Gordon Gray. Gray had a consultant named Henry Kissinger. Kissinger was the paid political consultant to the Rockefeller family. Gordon Gray, Henry Kissinger, and many members of the Rockefeller family belonged the Council on Foreign Relations. On Thursday 26 July 1951, President Truman would tell the press that the Psychological Strategy board was a part of the Central Intelligence Agency. ROADSHOW
In the book 1984 Big Brother controlled the people by invading their privacy and using psychological manipulation to control and change reality through conscious deception, deliberate lying, and an official ideology that abounded in contradictions. Council on Foreign Relations and Royal Institute of International Affairs members employed the same techniques to control people -- including their fellow countrymen.
Hadley Cantril and Lloyd Free were Princeton University Social Psychologists; researchers; and members of the intelligence community. Council on Foreign Relations Member Nelson Rockefeller funded them to develop psycho-political policy strategies and techniques. Council on Foreign Relations Member Edward R. Murrow, would, with Rockefeller Foundation Funding conduct a research project to perform a systematic analysis of Nazi radio propaganda techniques and the political use of radio. This study would result in a world wide monitoring and broadcasting Government agency called the Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service (FBIS).
The FBIS would become the United States Information Agency (USIA). The USIA was established to achieve US foreign policy by influencing public attitude at home and abroad using psycho-political policy strategies. The USIA Office of Research and reference service prepares data on psychological factors and propaganda problems considered by the Policy Planning Board in formulating psycho-political information policies for the National Security Council.
The Psychological Strategy Board became the Operations Coordinating Board (OCB). The Operations Coordinating Board was a renamed superpowered Psychological Strategy Board. The Operations Coordinating Board had more members than the Psychological Strategy board. The Operations Coordinating Board had the same mission. The Operations Coordinating Board would use psychological strategy, propaganda, and mass media, to manipulate huge groups of individuals. The Operations Coordinating Board had a propaganda machine -- the United States Information Agency at its disposal. The USIA would be responsible for foreign policy propaganda for the National Security Council. ROADSHOW
From the U.S. Army's magnum opus, The Art and Science of Psychological Operations
Pushed by C.D. Jackson, William Jackson and Nelson Rockefeller,.. the psychological factor was becoming the "new diplomacy." The (United States Information Agency) U.S.I.A. was given responsibility for overt international information activities of the United States Government, some responsibility for "grey" area propaganda and liason in the darker arts with the contingency military offices concerned, and an even more nebulous relation with the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council.
The 1970's will see a change in the military environment, in professional training, in world cultural and psychological contact. Nation building will give way in our military assistance plans to the civic culture... military tactics will ... increase attention to communities: and a national strategy will find the psychological dimension as readily acceptable by the decade's end as the tank and machine gun were by November of 1918.
In the 1960's, "psy-ops" came to supplant "psych-war" as the all-inclusive term in common use... Americans have become concerned about the use of the term "warfare" to describe an activity that is directed to friends as much or more than to hostile people...
From David Thibideau and Leon Whiteson, Waco: A Survivor's Tale
Despite official restrictions, or perhaps because of them, journalists by and large vigorously set about demonizing us, creating a climate in which federal agencies and their political masters were allowed, even encouraged, to wipe us out. Conjured into a bunch of maniacal weirdos by the press, we were dehumanized and made ripe for murder.
From the Art and Science of Psychological Operations
U.S. military professionals mindful of the administrative and personnel difficulties of WWII psywar were content to allow an unprepared, unequipped, and uncertain U.S. Information Agency to carry the major burden under President Harry Truman's "Campaign of Truth."
The psyoperator seeks the human equation. Only great writers can get at the basics of the human mind. Lesser men need at least a measure of love for one's fellow man to understand him... Hatred yields nothing of value.. Yet as psywar is usually concerned with enemies, much of PSYOP intelligence is tainted with emnity... How many dare to love in war? p. 674
From Noam Chomsky's The Culture of Terrorism
The attitude of the state authorities toward the public is revealed by what what one Reagan official called "a vast psychological warfare operation" called "Operation Truth." p. 200
From James B. Conant: From Harvard to Hiroshima
Conant's missives to the State department were aimed primarily at those he privately dubbed the "P.W. Boys"-- the plotters and planners of "psychological warfare" one of the mainstays of the early Eisenhower administration's Cold War strategy. Until it was supplanted in September by the Operations Coordinating Board (OCB), the Psychological Strategy Board (PSB) was responsible for developing policies to manipulat events, people and opinions around the globe.Presidential assistant C.D. Jackson, a veteran of psychological warfare operations in WWII, recruited from Henry Luce's Time magazine wrote that Eisenhower considered psychological warfare as "the way to win WWIII without having to fight it" and "not the pet mystery of one or more Departments of the Government, but the entire posture of the entire government to the entire world." All that psychological warfare needed in order to triumph, he averred, was (1) money, (2) no holds barred, and (3) no questions asked." p661
(Joe McCarthy's) most precocious staff aide, William F. Buckley, had prepared a lengthy tirade against Conant for him to give on the Senate Floor...
