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Strategic psychological
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An illusionist uses misdirection and sleight of hand to manipulate their audience to see one thing when in fact they are seeing nothing of the sort. Magicians perform their misdirection and sleight of hand to baffle and amuse their audience. The Joint Chiefs of Staff have defined psychological operations (PSYOPS) as those that: " include psychological warfare and, in addition, encompass those political, military, economic and ideological actions planned and conducted to create in neutral or friendly foreign groups the emotions, attitudes, or behavior to support achievement of national objectives." Another proposal "develops the concept of 'strategic psychological operations' as aimed at influencing and shaping decision-makers' power to govern or control their followers." PSYOPS are sleight of mind. PSYOPS are not designed to baffle and amuse. PSYOPS are designed to create tension among different groups; enhance dislike and discord; and erode friendship and harmony. Misdirection and deception are PSYOP strategies for achieving these objectives.
Psychological operations "Capture their minds and their hearts and souls will follow" Psychological Operations or PSYOP are planned operations to convey selected information and indicators to audiences to influence their emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of organizations, groups, and individuals. Used in all aspects of war, it is a weapon whose effectiveness is limited only by the ingenuity of the commander using it. A proven winner in combat and peacetime, PSYOP is one of the oldest weapons in the arsenal of man. It is an important force protector / combat multiplier and a non-lethal weapons system. Psychological Operations (PSYOP) or Psychological Warfare (PSYWAR) is simply learning everything about your target enemy, their beliefs, likes, dislikes, strengths, weaknesses, and vulnerabilities. Once you know what motivates your target, you are ready to begin psychological operations.
The nature of psyops Another proposal "develops the concept of 'strategic psychological operations' as aimed at influencing and shaping decision-makers' power to govern or control their followers." Wake up America, we the American people, are among the groups being targeted and controlled. Council on Foreign Relations members in the State Department, The National
Security Council, the Central Intelligence Agency, and in the Department of
Defense continue to control the lives of the American people through well
planned
psycho-political operations. These psychological operations rob American
citizens of the present, by creating false reality worlds. These false reality
worlds are created to trick the American public into acting not in their own
best interest but in the best interest of a group of subtle fascists
intent on creating one world order under their control.
Secret Team: CIA & Allies in Control of US & World It is time to face the fact that true national sovereignty no longer exists. We live in a world of big business, big lawyers, big bankers, even bigger money-men and big politicians. It is the world of "The Secret Team" and its masters. We are now, despite common mythology to the contrary, the most dependent society that has ever lived, and the future of the viability of that infrastructure of that society is unpredictable. It is crumbling. As one of the greatest historians of all time, Ibn Khaldun, wrote in his unequaled historical work The Muqaddimah of the 14th Century:
As this One World infrastructure emerges it increases the percentage of our total dependence upon remote food production capacity to the mass production capability and transport means of enormous companies operating under the global policy guidance of such organizations as the Chartered Institute of Transport in London, and the international banking community. As individuals, few of us would have any idea where to get a loaf of bread or yard of fabric other than in some supermarket and department store ... and we are all dependent upon some form of efficient transport, electric power, gasoline at the pump, and boundless manufacturing capacity and versatility. Let that system collapse, at any point, and all of us will be helpless. A cooperating, working system is essential to survival; yet over-all it is a system without leadership and guidance. At the same time the traditional family farm, and even community farms and industries, have all but vanished from the scene. This has created, at least in what we label, the advanced nations, a dearth of farmers and of people who have that basic experience along with that required in the food and home products industries. Furthermore, as this trend is amplified, the transport of farm produce has become increasingly assigned to the trucking industry, which has its over-land limits ... mostly as applied to the tonnage limits of rural bridges, and the economical availability of petroleum. As a result, something as simple as a trucking industry strike that keeps trucks out of any city for seventy- two hours or more, will lead to starvation and food riots. None of us know where to get food, if it is not in the nearby supermarket; and if we do have a stored supply of food locked in the cellar, we shall simply be the targets of those who do not. Food is the ultimate driving force. Under such predictable conditions, there will be waves of slaughter and eventually cannibalism. Man must eat, and the only way he can obtain adequate food supplies is through cooperation and the means to transport and distribute food and other basic necessities. This essential role is being diminished beyond the borderline. The lack of food supplies has already resulted in a form of covert genocide in many countries. Other essential shortages unavoidably follow. As Rudyard Kipling has said: "Transport is Civilization." The opposite is equally true, "Without reliable transport we are reduced to the state of barbarism." These are fundamental statements of fact. In such a world, the Secret Team is the functional element of the dominant power. It is the point of the spear and is neither military nor police. It is covert: and the best (or worst) of both. It gets the job done whether it has political authorization and direction, or not. In this capacity, it acts independently. It is lawless. It operates everywhere with the best of all supporting facilities from special weaponry and advanced communications, with the assurance that its members will never be prosecuted. It is subservient to the Power Elite and protected by them. The Power Elite or High Cabal need not be Royalty in these days. They are their equals or better. Note with care, it is labeled a "Team". This is because as with any highly professional team it has its managers, its front office and its owners. These are the "Power Elite" to whom it is beholden. They are always anonymous, and their network is ancient and world-wide. Let us draw an example from recent history. During
the Senate Hearings of 1975 on "Alleged Assassination Ploys Involving
Foreign Leaders," Senator Charles C. Mathias' thoughts went back to
November 22, 1963 and to the coup d'etat brought about by the surgical precision
of the death of President John F. Kennedy, when he said:
To
this Senator Jesse Helms added: There's the point! Because the structure, a "Power Elite", "High Cabal" or similar ultimate ruling organization, exists and the psychological atmosphere has been prepared, nothing more has to be said than that which ignites that "spark" of an assumed "authorization to go forward." Very often, this is the way in which the Secret Team gets its orders ... they are no more than "a wish floating in air." This book is about a major element of this real power structure of the world and of its impact upon the CIA and its allies around the world. It is based upon much personal experience generally derived from my military service from mid-1941 to 1964: U.S. Army Cavalry, U.S. Army Armored Force, U.S. Army Air Corps and Army Air Force, and finally the U. S. Air Force; and more specifically from my special assignments in the Pentagon from 1955 to 1964. At retirement, I was the first Chief of Special Operations with the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff. All of these duties, during those Pentagon years, were structured to provide "the military support of the world-wide clandestine activities of the CIA." They were performed in accordance with the provisions of an Eisenhower era, National Security Council Directive No. 5412/2, March 15, 1954. Since
this book was first published in 1973, we have witnessed the unauthorized
release of the Defense Department's official " history of United States
involvement in Vietnam from World War II to 1969" popularly known as the
"Pentagon Papers," "Watergate" and the resignation of
President Nixon, the run away activities of the "Vietnam War," the
"Arab Oil Embargo" that led to the greatest financial heist in
history, the blatantly unlawful "Iran Contra" affair, and the run-away
banking scandals of the eighties. Many of these were
brought about and master-minded by renegade "Secret Team" members who
operated, without Presidential direction; without National Security Council
approval so they say; and, generally, without official Congressional knowledge.
This trend increases. Its scope expands ... even I pointed out, years ago in public pronouncements, that the ClA's most important "Cover Story" is that of an "intelligence" agency. Of course the CIA does make use of "intelligence" and its assumed role of "intelligence gathering," but that is largely a front for its primary interest, "Fun and Games" ... as the "Old Boys" or "Jedburgh's" of the WW II period Office of Strategic Services (OSS) called it. The CIA is the center of a vast, and amorphous mechanism that specializes in Covert Operations ... or as Allen Dulles always called it, "Peacetime Operations." In this sense, the CIA is the willing tool of a higher level High Cabal, that may include representatives and highly skilled agents of the CIA and other instrumentality's of the government, certain cells of the business and professional world and, almost always, foreign participation. It is this ultimate Secret Team, its allies, and its method of operation that are the principal subject of this book. It must be made clear that at the heart of Covert Operations is the denial by the "operator," i.e. the U.S. Government, of the existence of national sovereignty. The covert operator can, and does, make the world his playground ... including the U.S.A. Today, in the mid-1990's, the most important events of this century are taking place with the ending of the "Cold War" era, and the beginning of the new age of "One World" under the control of businessmen and their lawyers, rather than under the threat of military power and ideological differences. This scenario for change has been brought about by a series of Secret Team operations skillfully orchestrated while the contrived hostilities of the Cold War were at their zenith. Two important events of that period have been little noted. First, on Feb. 7, 1972 Maurice Stans, Nixon's Secretary of Commerce opened a "White House Conference on the Industrial World Ahead, A Look at Business in 1990." This three-day meeting of more than fifteen hundred of the country's leading businessmen, scholars, and the like were concluded with this memorable summary statement by Roy L. Ash, president of Litton Industries:
That was an astounding forecast as we consider events of the seventies and eighties and discover that his forecast, if it ever was a forecast and not a pre-planned arrangement, was right on the nose. This amazing forecast had its antecedent pronouncements, among which was another "One World" speech by this same Roy Ash during the Proceedings of the American Bankers Association National Automation Conference in New York City, May 8,9,10, 1967. The affairs of the world are becoming inextricably interlinked ... governments, notably, cannot effectively perform the task of creating and distributing food and other essential products and services ... economic development is the special capability and function of business and industrial organizations ... business organizations are the most efficient converters of the original resources of the world into useable goods and services. The flash of genius, the new ideas, always comes from the marvelous workings of the individual brain, not from the committee sessions. Organizations are to implement ideas, not to have them. As a Charter Member of the American Bankers Association's Committee on Automation Planning and Technology I was a panelist at that same convention as we worked to convert the 14,000 banks of this country to automation and the ubiquitous Credit Card. All of these subjects were signs of the times leading toward the demise of the Soviet Union in favor of an evolutionary process toward One World. In addition to the 1972 White House Conference on the Industrial World Ahead, a most significant yet quite unnoticed action took place during that same year when President Nixon and his then-Secretary of the Treasury, George Shultz, established a Russian/American organization called the "USA USSR Trade and Economic Council." Its objective was to bring about a union of the Fortune 500 Chief Executive Officers of this country, among others, such as the hierarchy of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, with their counterparts in the Soviet Union. This important relationship, sponsored by David Rockefeller of Chase Manhattan Bank and his associates, continues into the "One World" years. This bilateral activity increased during the Reagan/Shultz years of the Eighties despite such "Evil Empire" staged tantrums as the Korean Airlines Boeing 747 Flight 007 "shootdown" in 1983. It is this "US-TEC" organization, with its counterpart bilateral agreements among other nations and the USSR, that has brought about the massive changes of the former Communist world. These did not go unnoticed. During a speech delivered in 1991, Giovanni Agnelli, chief executive officer of the Fiat Company and one of the most powerful men in Europe, if not the world, remarked:
Now, is this what Nixon, Stans, Shultz, Ash, Rockefeller and others had in mind during those important decades of the sixties, seventies and eighties. For one thing, it may be said quiet accurately, that these momentous events marked the end of the Cold War and have all but shredded the canopy of the nuclear umbrella over mankind. The Cold War was the most expensive war in history. R. Buckminister Fuller wrote in Grunch of Giants:
The
power structure that kept the Cold War at that level of cost and intensity had
been spearheaded by the Secret Team and its multinational covert operations, to
wit: It will be interesting to see what "enemy" develops in the years ahead. It appears that "UFO's and Aliens" are being primed to fulfill that role for the future. To top all of this, there is the fact that the CIA, itself, has assumed the right to generate and direct secret operations. --L. Fletcher Prouty, * * * Excerpts, Preface 1972: From President to Ambassador, Cabinet Officer to Commanding General, and from Senator to executive assistant-all these men have their sources of information and guidance. Most of this information and guidance is the result of carefully laid schemes and ploys of pressure groups.In this influential coterie one of the most interesting and effective roles is that played by the behind the scenes, faceless, nameless, ubiquitous briefing officer. He is the man who sees the President, the Secretary, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff almost daily, and who carries with him the most skillfully detailed information. He is trained by years of experience in the precise way to present that information to assure its effectiveness. He comes away day after day knowing more and more about the man he has been briefing and about what it is that the truly influential pressure groups at the center of power and authority are really trying to tell these key decision makers. In Washington, where such decisions shape and shake the world, the role of the regular briefing officer is critical. Leaders of government and of the great power centers regularly leak information of all kinds to columnists, television and radio commentators, and to other media masters with the hope that the material will surface and thus influence the President, the Secretary, the Congress, and the public. Those other inside pressure groups with their own briefing officers have direct access to the top men; they do not have to rely upon the media, although they make great use of it. They are safe and assured in the knowledge that they can get to the decision maker directly. They need no middleman other than the briefing officer. Such departments as Defense, State, and the CIA use this technique most effectively. For nine consecutive, long years during those crucial days from 1955 through January 1, 1964, I was one of those briefing officers. I had the unique assignment of being the "Focal Point" officer for contacts between the CIA and the Department of Defense on matters pertaining to the military support of the Special Operations[1] of that Agency. In that capacity I worked with Allen Dulles and John Foster Dulles, several Secretaries of Defense, and Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as well as many others in key governmental places. My work took me to more than sixty countries and to CIA offices and covert activities all over the world--from such hot spots as Saigon and to such remote places as the South Pole. Yes, there have been secret operations in Antarctica. It was my job not only to brief these men, but to brief them from the point of view of the CIA so that I might win approval of the projects presented and of the accompanying requests for support from the military in terms of money, manpower, facilities, and materials. I was, during this time, perhaps the best informed "Focal Point" officer among the few who operated in this very special area. The role of the briefing officer is quiet, effective, and most influential; and, in the CIA, specialized in the high art of top level indoctrination. It cannot be expected that a John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, a Richard Nixon, or a following President will have experienced and learned all the things that may arise to confront him during his busy official life in the White House. It cannot be expected that a Robert McNamara or a Melvin Laird, a Dean Rusk or a William Rogers, etc. comes fully equipped to high office, aware of all matters pertaining to what they will encounter in their relationship with the Congo or Cuba, Vietnam or Pakistan, and China or Russia and the emerging new nations. These men learn about these places and the many things that face them from day to day from an endless and unceasing procession of briefing officers. Henry Kissinger was a briefing officer. General John Vogt was one of the best. Desmond Fitzgerald, Tracy Barnes, Ed Lansdale, and "Brute" Krulak, in their own specialties, were top-flight briefing officers on subjects that until the publication of the "Pentagon Papers," few people had ever seen in print or had ever even contemplated. (You can imagine my surprise when I read the June 13, 1971, issue of the Sunday New York Times and saw there among the "Pentagon Papers" a number of basic information papers that had been in my own files in the Joint Chiefs of Staff area of the Pentagon. Most of the papers of that period had been source documents from which I had prepared dozens -- even hundreds -- of briefings, for all kinds of projects, to be given to top Pentagon officers. Not only had many of those papers been in my files, but I had either written many of them myself or had written certain of the source documents used by the men who did.) The briefing officer, with the staff officer, writes the basic papers. He researches the papers. He has been selected because he has the required knowledge and experience. He has been to the countries and to the places involved. He may know the principals in the case well. He is supposed to be the best man available for that special job. In my own case, I had been on many special assignments dating back to the Cairo and Teheran conferences of late 1943 that first brought together the "Big Four" of the Allied nations of WW II: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Chiang Kai-shek and Joseph Stalin. The briefing officer reads all of the messages, regardless of classification. He talks to a number of other highly qualified men. He may even have staff specialists spread out all over the world upon whom he may call at any time for information. Working in support of the "Focal Point" office, which I headed, there were hundreds of experts and agents concealed in military commands throughout the world who were part of a network I had been directed to establish in 1955-1956 as a stipulation of National Security Council directive 5412, March 1954. In government official writing, the man who really writes the paper--or more properly, the men whose original work and words are put together to become the final paper--are rarely, if ever, the men whose names appear on that paper. A paper attributed to Maxwell Taylor, Robert McNamara or Dean Rusk, of the Kennedy era, would not, in almost all instances, have been written by them; but more than likely would have been assembled from information gathered from the Departments of Defense and State and from CIA sources and put into final language by such a man as General Victor H. Krulak, who was among the best of that breed of official writers. From l955 through 1963, if some official wanted a briefing on a highly classified subject involving the CIA, I would be one of those called upon to prepare the material and to make the briefing. At the same time, if the CIA wanted support from the Air Force for some covert operation, I was the officer who had been officially designated to provide this special operational support to the CIA. If I was contacted by the CIA to provide support for an operation which I believed the Secretary of Defense had not been previously informed of, I would see to it that he got the necessary briefing from the CIA or from my office and that any other Chief of Staff who might be involved would get a similar briefing. In this unusual business I found rather frequently that the CIA would be well on its way into some operation that would later require military support before the Secretary and the Chiefs had been informed. During preparations for one of the most important of these operations, covered in some detail in this book, I recall briefing the chairman of the Joint Chief's of Staff, General Lyman L. Lemnitzer, on the subject of the largest clandestine special operation that the CIA had ever mounted up to that time: and then hearing him say to the other Chiefs, "I just can't believe it. I never knew that." Here was the nation's highest ranking military officer, the man who would be held responsible for the operation should it fail or become compromised, and he had not been told enough about it to know just how it was being handled. Such is the nature of the game as played by the "Secret Team." I have written for several magazines on this subject, among them the Armed Forces Journal, The New Republic, the Empire Magazine of the Denver Sunday Post, and The Washington Monthly. It was for this latter publication that I wrote "The Secret Team", an article that appeared in the May 1970 issue and that led to the development of this book. With the publication of the "Pentagon Papers" on June 13,1971, interest in this subject area was heightened and served to underscore my conviction that the scope of that article must be broadened into a book. Within days of The New York Times publication of those "Pentagon Papers," certain editorial personnel with the BBC-TV program, "Twenty-Four Hours", recalling my "Secret Team" article, invited me to appear on a series on TV with, among others, Daniel Ellsberg. They felt that my experience with the Secret Team would provide material for an excellent companion piece to the newly released "Pentagon Papers," which were to be the primary topic of the discussions. I flew to London and made a number of programs for BBC-TV and Radio. Legal problems and the possible consequences of his departure from the country at that time precluded the simultaneous appearance of Daniel Ellsberg. The programs got wide reception and served to underscore how important the subject of the "Pentagon Papers" is throughout the world. I have not chosen to reveal and to expose "unreleased" classified documents; but I do believe that those that have been revealed, both in the "Pentagon Papers" and elsewhere, need to be interpreted and fully explained. I am interested in setting forth and explaining what "secrecy" and the "cult of containment" really mean and what they have done to our way of life and to our country. Furthermore, I want to correct any disinformation that may have been given by those who have tried to write on these subjects in other related histories. I have lived this type of work; I know what happened and how it happened. I have known countless men who participated in one way or another in these unusual events of Twentieth Century history. Many of these men have been and still are members of the Secret Team. It also explains why much of it has been pure propaganda and close to nationwide "brainwashing" of the American public. I intend to interpret and clarify these events by analyzing information already in the public domain. There is plenty. Few concepts during this half century have been as important, as controversial, as misunderstood, and as misinterpreted as secrecy in Government. No idea during this period has had a greater impact upon Americans and upon the American way of life than that of the containment of Communism. Both are inseparably intertwined and have nurtured each other in a blind Pavlovian way. Understanding their relationship is a matter of fundamental importance. Much has been written on these subjects and on their vast supporting infrastructure, generally known as the "intelligence community." Some of this historical writing has suffered from a serious lack of inside knowledge and experience. Most of this writing has been done by men who know something about the subject, by men who have researched and learned something about the subject, and in a few cases by men who had some experience with the subject. Rarely is there enough factual experience on the part of the writer. On the other hand, the Government and other special interests have paid writers huge amounts to write about this subject as they want it done, not truthfully. Thus our history is seriously warped and biased by such work. Many people have been so concerned about what has been happening to our Government that they have dedicated themselves to investigating and exposing its evils. Unfortunately, a number of these writers have been dupes of those cleverer than they or with sinister reasons for concealing knowledge. They have written what they thought was the truth, only to find out (if they ever did find out) that they had been fed a lot of contrived cover stories and just plain hogwash. In this book I have taken extracts from some of this writing and, line by line, have shown how it has been manipulated to give a semblance of truth while at the same time being contrived and false. Nevertheless, there have been some excellent books in this broad area. But many of these books suffer from various effects of the dread disease of secrecy and from its equally severe corollary illness called "cover" (the CIA's official euphemism for not telling the truth). The man who has not lived in the secrecy and intelligence environment--really lived in it and fully experienced it--cannot write accurately about it. There is no substitute for the day to day living of a life in which he tells his best friends and acquaintances, his family and his everyday contacts one story while he lives another. The man who must depend upon research and investigation inevitably falls victim to the many pitfalls of the secret world and of the "cover story" world with its lies and counter-lies. A good example of this is the work of Les Gelb and his Pentagon associates on the official version of the purloined "Pentagon Papers." That very title is the biggest cover story (no pun intended) of them all; so very few of those papers were really of Pentagon origin. The fact that I had many of them in my office of Special Operations in Joint Staff area, and that most of them had been in the files of the office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs did not validate the locale of their origin. They were "working copies" and not originals. Notice how few were signed by true military officers. It is significant to note that the historical record that has been called the "Pentagon Papers" was actually a formal government-funded "study of the history of United States involvement in Vietnam from World War II to the present" i.e. 1945 to 1968. On June 17, 1967 the Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara directed that work. A task force consisting of "six times six professionals" under the direction of Leslie H. Gelb produced "37 studies and 15 collections of documents in 43 volumes" that were presented on January 15, 1969 to the then-Secretary of Defense, Clark M. Clifford by Mr. Gelb with the words from Herman Melville's Moby Dick:
As you may recall, this treasure trove of TOP SECRET papers was delivered to the New York Times, and other newspapers in mid-June, 1971, by a then-unknown "Hippie" of that period. His name was Daniel Ellsberg. What few people have learned since that time is the fact that both Daniel Ellsberg, who pirated these highly classified papers, and Leslie Gelb the Director of that Task Force, had worked in that same office of International Security Affairs (ISA). The "misappropriation" of those documents was not the work of some "true patriots" as Noam Chomsky wrote in 1972. Rather it was an inside job. That ISA office had been the home of many of the "big names" of the Vietnam War period, among them Paul H. Nitze, John T. McNaughton, Paul C. Warnke and William Bundy, among others. The fact that I had many of them in my office, that I had worked with them, and that I had written parts of some of them proves that they were not genuine Pentagon papers, because my work at that time was devoted to support of the CIA. The same is true of General Krulak, William Bundy, and to a degree, Maxwell Taylor among others.
To
look at this matter in another way, the man who has lived and experienced this
unnatural existence becomes even more a victim of its unreality. He becomes
enmeshed beyond all control upon the horns of a cruel dilemma. On the one hand,
his whole working life has been dedicated to the
cause of secrecy and to its protection by means of cover stories (lies). In this
pursuit he has given of himself time after time to pledges, briefings, oaths,
and deep personal conviction regarding the significance of that work. Even if he
would talk and write, his life has been so interwoven into
the fabric of the real and the unreal, the actual and the cover story, that he
would be least likely to present the absolutely correct data. I would know of this because inevitably somewhere along the line both groups would come to the Department of Defense for hardware support. I actually designed a special office in the Pentagon with but one door off the corridor. Inside, it had a single room with one secretary. However, off her office there was one more door that led to two more offices with a third doorway leading to yet another office, which was concealed by the door from the secretary's room. I had to do this because at times we had CIA groups with us who were now allowed to meet each other, and who most certainly would not have been there had they known that the others were there. (For the record, the office was 4D1000--it may have been changed by now; but it had remained that way for many years.) Another group of writers, about the world of secrecy, are the "masters"--men like Allen W. Dulles, Lyman Kirkpatrick, Peer de Silva and Chester Cooper. My own choice of the best of these are Peer de Silva and Lyman Kirkpatrick. These are thoroughly professional intelligence officers who have chosen a career of high-level intelligence operations. Their writing is correct and informative--to a degree beyond that which most readers will be able to translate and comprehend at first reading; yet they are properly circumspect and guarded and very cleverly protective of their profession. There is another category of writer and self-proclaimed authority on the subjects of secrecy, intelligence, and containment. This man is the suave, professional parasite who gains a reputation as a real reporter by disseminating the scraps and "Golden Apples" thrown to him by the great men who use him. This writer seldom knows and rarely cares that many of the scraps from which he draws his material have been planted, that they are controlled leaks, and that he is being used, and glorified as he is being used, by the inside secret intelligence community. Allen Dulles had a penchant for cultivating a number of such writers with big names and inviting them to his table for a medieval style luncheon in that great room across the hall from his own offices in the old CIA headquarters on the hill overlooking Foggy Bottom. Here, he would discuss openly and all too freely the same subjects that only hours before had been carefully discussed in the secret inner chambers of the operational side of that quiet Agency. In the hands of Allen Dulles, "secrecy" was simply a chameleon device to be used as he saw fit and to be applied to lesser men according to his schemes. It is quite fantastic to find people like Daniel Ellsberg being charged with leaking official secrets simply because the label on the piece of paper said "TOP SECRET," when the substance of many of the words written on those same papers was patently untrue and no more than a cover story. Except for the fact that they were official "lies", these papers had no basis in fact, and therefore no basis to be graded TOP SECRET or any other degree of classification. Allen Dulles would tell similar cover stories to his coterie of writers, and not long thereafter they would appear in print in some of the most prestigious papers and magazines in the country, totally unclassified, and of course, cleverly untrue. Lastly there is the writer from outside this country who has gained his inside information from sources in another country. These sources are no doubt reliable; they know exactly what has taken place -- as in Guatemala during the Bay of Pigs era -- and they can speak with some freedom. In other cases, the best of these sources have been from behind the Iron Curtain. In every case, the chance for complete information is very small, and the hope that in time researchers, students, and historians will be able to ferret out truth from untruth, real from unreal, and story from cover story is at best a very slim one. Certainly, history teaches us that one truth will add to and enhance another; but let us not forget that one lie added to another lie will demolish everything. This is the important point. Consider the past half century. How many major events--really major events--have there been that simply do not ring true? How many times has the entire world been shaken by alarms of major significance, only to find that the events either did not happen at all, or if they did, that they had happened in a manner quite unlike the original story? The war in Vietnam is undoubtedly the best example of this. Why is it that after more than thirty years of clandestine and overt involvement in Indochina, no one had been able to make a logical case for what we had been doing there and to explain adequately why we had become involved; and what our real and valid objectives in that part of the world were? The mystery behind all of this lies in the area we know as "Clandestine activity", "intelligence operations", "secrecy", and "cover stories", used on a national and international scale. It is the object of this book to bring reality and understanding into this vast unknown area. L. FLETCHER PROUTY
US government planned sniper attacks On April 24, 2001 the Baltimore Sun and ABC News reported on a shocking, declassified Pentagon document, titled Operation Northwoods. In Operation Northwoods the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff called for hijacking jet airliners, attacking US military bases, blowing up US ships and wounding civilians in Miami, Florida and Washington, DC using paramilitary sniper teams. Page eight of the formerly Top Secret Pentagon plan stated that "casualty lists in US newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation." The opening paragraph in the Baltimore Sun read " US leaders proposed in ’62 a secret plan to commit terrorist acts against Americans and blame Cuba to create a pretext for invasion. "The Northwoods Document spells out the US Government's plan to frame innocent people for the shootings and bombings that the US Government was preparing to commit. Page 9 of the Northwoods Document states that after the Government carried out shootings and bombings in Washington DC that "the arrest of Cuban agents and the release of prepared documents substantiating Cuban involvement also would be helpful in projecting the idea of an irresponsible government." Now in 2002 they're telling us that they think that they have the two men responsible for the sniper shootings in DC. Can the government be trusted? Forty years after the Northwoods plan was rejected by John F. Kennedy, we see striking similarities between the sniper attacks and the terrorist activities called for in the Northwoods plan. Whereas the Northwoods document planned to create a pretext for war with Cuba, the sniper attacks are being used as a pretext to put military on the streets of America and to push for gun control. Now, White House officials are saying that there’s a good chance that al-Qaeda or Iraq are behind the sniper attacks and are warning the American people to look for similar attacks in other cities, thus creating a timely pretext justifying military action to capture Middle Eastern and Central Asian oil supplies in a war with Iraq . On his Nationally Syndicated Radio Show, Documentary Filmmaker Alex Jones has consulted with many law enforcement and military experts, including Colonel Craig Roberts (formerly of US Army Intelligence, a former Marine Corps Sniper and the Best-selling Author of One Shot One Kill) who stated on-air that - this operation could only be State-sponsored and was clearly the work of a rogue element from the top levels of global intelligence agencies. On The Alex Jones Show, Roberts said that - the MO of the sniper attacks are indicative of a 2-3 man team trained in the Special Forces ambush tactics of reconnaissance, insertion, concealment and successful evasion. According to Jones’ research, the sniper team’s attack profile is consistent with US Special Forces ambush assassination tactics. Best-selling Doubleday Author James Bamford, who broke the Northwoods Story in His Book, 'Body of Secrets' reported on page 82 that, "the plan, which had been written with the approval of the Chairman and every member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff called for innocent people to be shot on American Streets." Says Jones, "In Operation Northwoods, we have a declassified US Government document, approved right up to the President, that advocates carrying out terrorism against the American people to terrify them into accepting tyranny. It is now public knowledge that Roosevelt allowed the Japanese to attack Pearl Harbor as a pretext for war and that the Gulf of Tonkin attack that launched the Vietnam War was staged by LBJ. This is all now admitted historical fact, and there is no way to ignore the US government terror plan contained in the Northwoods document. The plan even lists the cities to be targeted, and one of them is DC." The national media from day one told us that the sniper was a lone gunman. Now politicians are telling us that we must give up our liberties for security, Senator Charles Schumer wants to ban so-called assault rifles and to institute ballistic fingerprinting on all guns as well as on ammunition, the new North American Military Command (NORTHCOM) that was activated October 1, 2002 has been provided with a mission on the ground and in the air over America just weeks after the White House told us that we needed to get rid of Posse Comitatus (Federal law prohibiting US military forces in search in seizure operations of US soil) for our "safety." Now the Washington Post is reporting that the CIA will be directing local FBI field offices in 56 US cities. Vice President Cheney has pubicly threatened Congress not to investigate the 911-Government prior knowledge story. He cryptically made the statement on Meet the Press that Congressional investigations would only cause a larger terrorist attack. "There’s no doubt about it," says Jones "the US Government is the number one suspect in the sniper attacks." It is absolutely vital that outlets reading this press release take some time out and go to Alex Jones’ website, http://www.infowars.com. Jones has an extensive archive containing mainstream media reports proving the claims of this release. The Northwoods Document can be found on infowars.com’s main page, its government prior knowledge page ( http://www.infowars.com/resources.html) and can be downloaded as an Adobe Acrobat file at this link: http://www.infowars.com/saved%20pages/northwoods.pdf. It can also be obtained from the US National Security Archives. Alex Jones is a syndicated radio talk show host, a documentary filmmaker and a recognized expert on Civil Liberties, Government Black Ops and the Police State. He has produced eight documentary films, including 911: The Road to Tyranny (free web download at http://sf.indymedia.org/uploads/the_road_to_tyranny__34kbps_.ram ) and The Masters of Terror, which detail US Government prior knowledge and involvement in the September 11th attacks. He has also written a new book, titled 911: Descent into Tyranny, exposing the total government takeover of our society using manufactured crises.
The Port Arthur massacre Are we to believe that a bunch of planners sat round a table and arranged the premeditated murders of 35 Australians? Unfortunately the answer is yes. All of the hard evidence at Port Arthur bears the distinctive trademark of a planned "psyop", meaning an operation designed to psychologically manipulate the belief mechanisms of a group of people or a nation for geopolitical or military reasons. Because of their illegal nature, psyops are never formally ordered by governments, but are discreetly arranged through multinational corporations and others. Some psyops ordered during the last forty years are known to have been carried out by independent contractors hired from a small specialist group, staffed mostly by retired members of American and Israeli special forces. Patsies are normally used as decoys, deliberately inserted into the psyop to deflect attention away from the specialist group, allowing the latter time to extract safely from the operational area while the patsy takes the blame, But the planners leave tell-tale signs and occasionally make critical mistakes. It is a little-known fact that Lee Harvey Oswald was proved a patsy when a New Zealand newspaper printed a story about his guilt several hours before he was accused of the crime in Dallas. The planners put the decoy story on the news wires too early, forgetting the crucial time difference would allow the New Zealand paper to print the story long before Oswald was even accused. It was a single planning error, but one that proved in ABSOLUTE SCIENTIFIC TERMS that Lee Harvey Oswald was deliberately set up as a patsy.
US Government Mind Control There is a huge effort to suppress any and all information regarding the United States government sponsored experimentation on human subjects for the purpose of mind control and ultimately assassination. Early US efforts at developing the methods of mind control date back to the 1950's project Monarch and the infamous Project MK-Ultra (The MK, in spy-speak sophistry, stands for Mind Control) Through a combination of hypnosis and powerful drugs it was discovered that a human subject could in fact be programmed to kill at hearing a "trigger" word or command that had been planted in a subject's mind through intensive programming effort. The subjects were often mental patients with a history of drug use. These made it easier to cover the trail of the mind control programming. Since they were already isolated and troubled no one would know and since they already had a history of mental trouble and drug use no one would care or even believe any strange revelations, should the experimentation go awry.
Interview with Abu Bakar Ba'asyr Williams: Who do you think was behind the bombing in Bali then, if it wasn’t you.... your group? Ba’asyir: I’m certain that it was engineered by foreign intelligence, which means I deeply suspect Americans – my main reason being that it is justification by the Americans that Indonesia is the centre of terrorism, even though this never happened before in Indonesia. They engineered such a huge bomb blast in Bali, which is a very safe holiday place. They did it to prove that in Indonesia there are terrorists. This is to justify the issues being pushed by America and its cronies. * * * * * * Williams: The world is looking at Bali – at the bombing – and saying it looks like it is an Islamic group tied to al-Qaeda. Are you tied to al-Qaeda? Do you have any links to al-Qaeda? Ba’asyir: I don’t understand what al-Qaeda is. Al-Qaeda is a fictional organisation. It’s been blown up by America. I’d never heard of al-Qaeda before. I’ve only just heard of al-Qaeda. And about what happened in Bali, I’m convinced it was America, 100 percent. No others were involved. It is not possible that Muslims did that. It’s not possible that Muslim fighters did something as crazy as that. It’s useless. Why wouldn’t non-Muslims attack Islam if we kill them? We will kill them if they want to kill us. They are the ones we want to kill. It’s revenge – so it’s all from America.
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flag operations Then the next day I see a former CIA director interviewed on C-Span, revealing that a major obstacle to countering terrorism is the difficulty of identifying the real culprits, long after assigned villains have been burned into the public consciousness by a series of press "reports" that have then worked their way into the fabric of popular opinion. He spoke quite matter-of-factly about the problem of investigating "false flag" operations, committed by one side of a protracted war, who bomb or assassinate for the express purpose of molding public opinion against enemies. A false flag operation, as he called them, is an act of terrorism against friendly targets. This is a popular method for terrorists to enlist public support for their causes. A famous example of an accepted false flag operation was the burning of the Reichstag by Nazi's who sought German support for their cause. On the other side of that war, an enduring controversy suggests that Roosevelt knew in advance of Pearl Harbor, yet did not intervene to prevent the bombing. A hitherto complacent America had been unreceptive to the idea of war, and the attack on Pearl Harbor created the proper resolve. I don't pretend to know the truth.
<http://www.globalresearch.ca>www.globalresearch.ca The following article is excerpted from the upcoming
edition of the book The Art of Mental Warfare by http://artofmentalwarfare.com/pog/category/about-book The Art of Mental Warfare Read it and decide for yourself. Psychological Operations are my specialty. PsyOps Everything I've done has been highly classified, all black
programs and black operations. Some people I know thought I worked for the CIA,
but it's much more complicated than that. I've worked with people in the CIA,
DIA, NSC, NSA, SAIC, Army Intel and many more lesser known agencies within the
intelligence apparatus. Before focusing on PsyOps I started out running covert
combat missions, special operations. I was good at what I did and rose through
the ranks fast. When the "War on Terror" started I was paid a lot of
money to consult with private military contractors. When private paramilitary
units needed to get the jobs done that paid the most money they would come to me
with checkbooks filled with I've seen the worst things imaginable, hell on earth. Had
friends die in my arms. Seen piles of rotten corpses. Seen men, women and
children tortured. I've seen the eyes of terrified and confused children being
sold into a vicious life of slavery and an early death. I could get a lot more graphic, but you get the idea. That was my life, and all along I was told that I was
fighting for freedom and working for the "good guys." What a
ridiculous comment that is! In the black world, that is, in the covert world,
there aren't any "good guys" - just varying degrees of evil. As Brigadier General Butler famously stated, "War is a
racket." It doesn't have anything to do with freedom and democracy. It is
not good fighting evil. There's just a bunch of old greedy gangsta motherfuckers
making obscene amounts of cash and breeding hatred, violence, terrorists and sex
slaves. The truth is, there is no oversight! Meaning, you can get
away with anything, nothing is illegal because no one knows about it, or the few
who do are either in on it or have a vested interest in keeping quiet. Whether you're runnin' guns, weapons, drugs, gold,
diamonds, women, children, it just doesn't matter. As long as the old guard gets
their resources, it's all good. And in the end, it's all about power. The people
who really run this planet know that natural resources (oil, water, coltan,
cobalt, etc.) are the key. The "War on Terror" is just a front for a
geo-strategic resource grab on a massive scale. Even the wars in Same thing with oil in the If you look at the history of covert special operations,
it's all about securing a piece of land that has some valuable resource. Once
the resource is identified, special ops figures out the most efficient way to
suppress or extinguish the population that is unfortunate enough to live near
it. Then the big companies come in, from the United Fruit Company to the
Bechtels and Halliburtons of the world. That is the way it has been and still
is, from John D. Rockefeller and If you were to ask me who is a bigger threat to the people
of the A little side note for you: I firmly believe "HAVA," "VoteHere" and "Scientific
Applications International Corp." [We will post more on this in the near
future.] The operation went so well that Gates was going to be made the first
ever Director of National Intelligence. He turned down the job, but then took
the Secretary of Defense position when Rumsfeld was removed from his public
position. I don't think there will ever be solid evidence linking directly to
members of the administration; it's all a tangled web of plausible deniability.
But I do think it will eventually be proven that the elections were manipulated
to deliver Bush the victory. Many people in the covert world take this for
granted, as common sense. Please don't confuse this as partisan propaganda. I
don't give a shit about the Democrat or Republican PsyOps mind-fuck dynamic.
They're just labels to divide a potentially powerful united It's hard to get the average American to understand these
things. Most everyone in this country has been mind-fucked since birth. For a
very blatant example, you can look at the advertising industry and the way they
have increased intensely their focus on the youth. It's all about breeding
impulsive emotionally driven consumers through repetition - over and over again
- buy, buy, buy. You hear something enough and you internalize the message. It
becomes something like the air you breathe, like gravity. It's there,
omnipresent, but you don't realize it or consciously think about it. It becomes
the spring from which your thoughts leap forth. What it all boils down to is the exposure rate. You take a
simple message and you repeat it over and over, such as mentioning Saddam and
9/11. You don't have to say Saddam was involved in 9/11, because that is not
true. You just have to mention Saddam and 9/11 in the same simple repetitive
message thousands of times and people will support an attack on a country that
didn't have anything to do with 9/11 because they've been psychologically
conditioned to link the two. It's psychological operations on a grand scale, mass
psychology. The scientific art of manipulating public opinion is 100 years old
now. PsyOps have evolved to the point, thanks to the all
pervasive mass media, where we can make you believe, or at least passively
accept, whatever we want you to. I secretly worked with the world's most
powerful media companies to get you to believe what "they" want you to
believe. The media is the most efficient weapon of tyranny and oppression ever
created. No need to physically control populations anymore when you can do it
mentally - program it in, internalize the rules. To give a little more background on publicly revealed
psychological operations, in 1977, after the Congressional Church Committee
investigated CIA manipulation of the news media, and right after George Bush Sr.
left his post as the Director of the CIA, famed Watergate reporter Carl
Bernstein searched a little deeper into what was known as Operation Mockingbird.
He revealed that over 400 However, with the Internet - that's their weak spot - it's
too decentralized and difficult to control. The Pentagon's Information Operations Roadmap now describes
the Internet as an enemy "weapons system." The Pentagon doesn't hide
the fact that they want total control over information, or as they call it
"information dominance." They very plainly state that they seek to
"control land, sea, space and information." This is what they refer to
as "full spectrum dominance." If you don't think they see this as a
top priority, look at Before I go too far here, the point I want to make to the I've fought against it and got nowhere. I've informed
people that I naively thought could do something, but nothing could be done. I
took all the blood money I've made and donated it to humanitarian causes. Will it make a difference? No. Not in the grand scheme of
things, but in the short run it may save a few people? maybe. And that's all I
can hope for at this point. I've become so cynical! I live with guilt and cynicism
weighing on my every move, my every thought. When you've seen the things I have seen, been involved with
the things I've been involved with, when you've spent the majority of your life
living like I have, what do you do when you decide to give it up and get out?
Can you ever get out? I was able to get out, thus far, when no one I knew thought
I could get out. But once you lived in the covert world, "normal"
civilian life feels like a prison sentence. Then again, the covert world was a
prison sentence. I've been strongly advised to keep a very low profile and
forget about things for a while. But I find it hard to just fade into the night
when we are reaching an event horizon, a breaking point. Despite my cynicism,
there is a part of me that knows I have to keep fighting. The stakes are just
too high, higher then they've ever been. The human species is in serious
trouble, facing a set of crises unlike anything we've ever faced before. Unless
these covert forces are exposed, and ultimately eliminated, I don't see how we
can even begin to make the bold actions that we need to start making now - and I
mean right fucking now! These covert forces are a root cause and driver, a
cancer spreading through the system and planet. As far as I can tell, you can't change the system from
within the intelligence community itself. This includes the Senate Intel
Committee. If the urgently needed changes are ever to happen, it has
to come from the So, to the people who have awareness of the problems facing
us, if I could give advice, it would be this: 1. Try the Bush 2. Investigate where all the military spending has been
vanishing off to. There are literally trillions of taxpayer dollars unaccounted
for. This money is fueling the covert world and terrorism in
general. As part of this, I would include an investigation into war profiteering
as well. 3. Make it mandatory that all electronic voting machines
must have a 100% verifiable paper trail. 4. Get people into the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
who will smash the current media ownership rules. The concentration of media
ownership is the foundation of the covert power structure. Without that, the
whole thing is a house of cards. That's why the FCC is currently trying to ram
through rules that will further consolidate media ownership before the Bush
administration leaves office. As part of this, it is pivotal that we protect the
open architecture of the Internet. The media belongs to the people, as does the
government, in theory anyway, but we need an information system that actually
serves the public interest. 5. Declare a national and global emergency on the
environmental front. We have already reached the breaking point. We need
organized, governmental, policy driven, bold action now. 6. We need to address entities that now have power over the
Constitution, such as the undemocratic and unelected corporate global governing
structure - institutions like the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and
"agreements" like NAFTA and DR-CAFTA, to name a few. Most Americans
don't even know what these power structures are, let alone that they have power
that supersedes the Constitution. We must also address the National Security
Act, that's where the ultimate power of our country lies. The National Security
Act has effectively made the Constitution meaningless and is the primary driver
of the covert world. The PATRIOT Act and various other newly granted powers must
also be drastically revised or eliminated completely in order to protect our
civil liberties. 7. Lastly, we need to have publicly financed elections. As
long as we have a system that requires candidates to raise tens of millions of
dollars to even be considered for office, we will have politicians who bend over
backwards for the richest one percent and the most powerful elements of society
at the citizens' expense. An important aspect of this has to be a requirement
for large media companies to provide candidates with free airtime. Candidates
have to spend the majority of their money on advertising in the mainstream
media. That's why the major news media spend so much time focusing on who is
raising the most money, because they are the ones who end up with all that
money. Once we have publicly financed elections and free airtime for candidates,
we will get people in office who will work in the interests of the public
because they are not beholden to the large and powerful entities. When you have
politicians depending on the public instead of the private sector for survival,
all the issues mentioned above could be addressed because they won't have to
fear the withdrawal of support from large corporations and the wealthy and
powerful who do not want these things to happen. This will also enable us to
eliminate tax breaks for the richest one percent, put an end to corporate
welfare practices, and stop funding for obscene military and prison industrial
companies that are profiting off of disasters and no longer serve security
interests. Then we can redirect that money into environmental, education, health
care and social security programs, to mention a few. In the current political environment this may all sound
like an unrealistic pipe dream, but these are the seven pivotal things that MUST
happen. If all seven don't happen within the next few years, we will have set
the world on a disastrously irreversible course. This is "the unfortunate
reality of our current situation." It is not going to be easy, but you
better start fighting for it now, while we still can. It really does come down to us. You have to personally, in
your daily life, do everything you can. With enough public pressure all of these
things are achievable. Once we get a small portion of the population acting in
this direction, it will quickly catch on and spread. Even though the
overwhelming majority of the
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