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Subject: Dissembling, Deception, and Lies
From: Ralph McGehee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, Jan 13, 1999 9:53 AM
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Dissembling, Deception and Lies
The Agency's domestic propaganda operations are continuous
and massive although hidden from sight -- and I assumed, illegal.
However, we have a document released under the provisions
of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), that sets forth the
operations of the Agency's Public Affairs Office (PAO). The below
are partial quotes from that document.
After quoted details from that document, further below is a brief
examination of the CIA's clandestine use of the domestic media in the
50s' 60s' and into the seventies. It should be noted that the CIA ran
massive media operations around the world to overturn other governments
-- this subject is huge and also requires study. The best available
example of this usage is contained in the Church Committee's report of
the Agency's covert operation to overthrow the Allende government in Chile
from 1963 - 1973. I posted extensive quotes from this document recently
and they can be found at my web site:
http://www.members.tripod.com/CIABASE/index/html
Ralph McGehee
CIABASE
20 December 1991
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
(After a number of introductory remarks the document sets forth
the programs of the Public Affairs Office (PAO).
A. MEDIA
1) Current Program:
a. PAO now has relationships with reporters from every major
wire service, newspaper, news weekly, and television network in the
nation. This has helped up turn some "intelligence failure" stories
into "Intelligence success" stories...In many instances, we have
persuaded reporters to postpone, change, hold, or even scrap stories
....
b. PAO spokespersons build and maintain these professional
relationships with reporters by responding to daily inquiries from
them over the telephone (3369 in 1991), by providing unclassified
background briefings to them at Headquarters (174 in 1991), and by
arranging for them to interview the DCI, DDCI and other senior
Agency officials (164 in 1991).
c. PAO responds to numerous requests from authors, researchers,
filmmakers, and others seeking information, guidance, or cooperation
from the Agency...Some responses can be handled in a one-shot telephone
call. Others, such as Life Magazine's proposed photo essay, BBC's six-part
series, Ron Kessler's requests for information for his Agency book, and
the need for an Agency focal point in the Rochester Institute of Technology
controversy drew heavily on PAO resources.
d. PAO has also reviewed some film scripts about the Agency,
documentary and fictional, at the request of filmmakers seeking
guidance on accuracy and authenticity (sic). In a few instances,
we facilitated the filming of a few scenes on Agency premises.
Responding positively to these requests in a limited way has provided
PAO with the opportunity to help others depict the Agency and its
activities accurately and without negative distortions....
e. PAO coordinates the preparation of detailed background materials,
usually in Q&A format, on major news issues for the DCI and the DDCI
for their appearances before media groups, world affairs councils,
universities, and business and professional groups. PAO also prepares
verbatim transcripts of their interviews with reporters and their
appearances before media groups.
2) Recommendations: (This section generally calls for expanding
public relations efforts.)
B. ACADEMIA
1) Current Program
a. The Agency has a wide range of contacts with academics through
recruiting, professional societies, contractual arrangements and OTE.
PAO has recently been designated the focal point for all information
about CIA's relations with the academic community. As such, PAO is
building a database of information about Agency contacts with
academia-conferences and seminars, recruiting officers and
scholars-in-residence, contracts, teaching--and serves as the
clearinghouse of such information for Agency employees.
b. PAO officers also speak to approximately 250 academic audiences
a year. Subject areas vary, but the focus on the structure and functions
of the CIA, its role in the intelligence community, the intelligence
process, and congressional oversight. PAO has developed a speakers'
package for Agency officers and retirees who speak in public, including
an annually updated Q&A package to aid the speaker in answering a broad
array of questions.
c. PAO maintains a mailing list of 700 academicians who receive
unclassified Agency publications four times a year....
d. PAO sponsors the DCI Program for Deans twice a year. This
program seeks to expose administrators of academic institutions to senior
Agency officials -- the DCI, the DDCI, and the DDs, and heads of independent
offices -- and to give a sense of what the Agency does, how it operates, and
how it fits in and relates to American society.
C. GOVERNMENT
1. Current Program:
a. The Agency has a broad range of contacts throughout government
and provides product, briefings, and exchanges to both Executive
and Legislative Branches. PAO is an active participant in briefing
the military and other government agencies on the CIA, its mission
and functions. This year PAO provided more than 70 briefings to
groups from the National Security Agency, Foreign Service,
Pentagon, Defense Intelligence College, and the United States
Information Agency. A footnote to the government section said:
(5.) Hill staffers rely heavily on OTA and CRS products. Moreover,
active interaction with these congressional support organizations
can provide invaluable insights into issues that key House and
Senate Committees and individual members believe are important,
as well as what legislation is under consideration
....Some hill staffers have suggested that CIA assign officers
to act as liaison through OCA for relevant OTA projects, as the
military services do.
D. BUSINESS
1. Current Program:
a. The Agency currently has three types of basic relationships with
the US business sector. First, business is an important source of
intelligence information via NR collection activities. Second, the US
corporate sector is involved in the vast bulk of the Agency's
contracting efforts. Finally, business receives selected briefings
by Agency-talks on the counterintelligence challenge,
counterterrorism and other presentations at business-oriented
conference organized by groups such as SASA. Given the emphasis
on economic security for the United States in the 90's, the business
sector is looking to the potential contributions the Intelligence
Community can make in this area.
b. This year, PAO provided remarks and support for DCI
and DDCI for some 40 appearances before outside audiences --
including a wide range of groups from the business, legal and civic
communities....
c. PAO participates in providing briefings on the CIA to participants
in AFCEA's biannual "Intelligence Community" course, attended by
nearly 200 industry and government representatives.
E. PRIVATE SECTOR
1. Current Program:
A. PAO officers this year made presentations about the CIA to
members of more than 60 civic and service clubs. Rotary and
Kiwanis Clubs in particular have been recipients of this service.
PAO took steps to establish a speakers' bureau last spring to increase
the number of presentations that the Agency could provide.
(End of document quotes)
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In the fifties and the Sixties the CIA employed the entire range
of media operations to deceive the American and Foreign audiences.
The CIA, inter alia, published more than 1000 books under assumed
guise as covered in the Church Committee's review of CIA operations.
By far the most influential of the CIA disinformation operations is
its own intelligence. The CIA is so effective at deception, dissembling
and cover-up that it believes its own lies.
THE CIA's MEDIA OPERATIONS OF AN EARLIER ERA
"CIA ASSIGNED DOMESTIC POLITICAL ESPIONAGE THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF PRIORITY."
Among executives who cooperated with the CIA were William Paley of the
Columbia Broadcasting System, Henry Luce of Time Inc., Arthur Hays Sulzberger
of the New York Times, Barry Bingham Sr. of the Louisville Courier-Journal,
and
James Copley of the Copley News Services. Other organizations that
cooperated with the CIA include the American Broadcasting company, the
National Broadcasting Company, the Associated Press, United Press
International, Reuters, Hearst newspapers, Scripps-Howard, Newsweek
magazine, the Mutual Broadcasting System, Miami Herald and the old Saturday
Evening Post and new York Herald-Tribune. By far the most valuable of these
associations, have been with the New York Times, CBS and Time Inc.
Joseph Alsop is one of more than 400 American journalists who in the past
secretly carried out assignments for CIA. Some of these journalists'
relationships with the Agency were tacit; some were explicit. There was
cooperation, accommodation and overlap. Journalists provided a full range
of clandestine services -- from simple intelligence-gathering to serving as
go-betweens with spies in communist countries -- (Comment: to placing
propaganda and repressing real information.) Reporters shared their notebooks
with the CIA. Editors shared their staffs. Some of the journalists were
Pulitzer Prize winners, distinguished reporters who considered themselves
ambassadors without portfolio for their country.
Most were less exalted: foreign correspondents who found that their
association with CIA helped their work; stringers and freelancers who were as
interested in the derring-do of the spy business as in filing articles;
and, the smallest category, full-time CIA employees masquerading as
journalists abroad. In many instances, CIA documents show, journalists were
engaged to perform tasks for the CIA with the consent of the management's of
America's leading news organizations. Use of journalists has been among the
most productive means of intel-gathering. Although the agency has cut back
sharply on the use of reporters since 1973, some journalists are still
posted abroad. Investigation into the matter, CIA officials say, would
inevitably reveal a series of embarrassing relationships in the 1950's
and 1960's with some of the most powerful organizations and individuals
in American journalism. "The CIA & the Media" from Rolling Stone, 10/20/77
Thomas H. Karamessines -- in 67 started an operation to handle the
antiwar press via the new Special Operations Group (SOG) in the
Counterintelligence section. Angleton appointed Dick Ober to coordinate
SOG and expand his Ramparts magazine investigation to encompass the entire
underground press -- some 500 newspapers. SOG designated MHCHAOS. CIA
assigned domestic political espionage the highest level of priority.
SOG ops grew to sixty field agents as well as other CIA compartments.
Due to the large number of reports generated computers were used for
the first time to handle the traffic. CIA coordinated efforts with army
agents, the local police and the FBI. The FBI used its agents to create
dissension within protest groups. Ober had relied on the CIA's Domestic
Contract Service (DCS). Mackenzie, A. (1997). Secrets:
The CIA's War at Home 26-41
Three agencies acted to disrupt the underground press, FBI, Army and CIA.
Operations may have affected 150 of 500 underground publications. CIA
was the first to disrupt Ramparts magazine. Via IRS the Agency reviewed tax
returns, learned the names of backers and asked IRS to investigate backers
for possible tax violations. Then went after advertisers.
Columbia Journalism Review March/April 81.
Ralph McGehee
http://www.members.tripod.com/CIABASE/index.html
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