{"id":10447,"date":"2015-01-20T23:07:16","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T23:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=10447"},"modified":"2015-01-20T23:07:58","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T23:07:58","slug":"cia-disseminates-disinfo-through-the-mainstream-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=10447","title":{"rendered":"CIA Disseminates Disinfo Through The Mainstream Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; font-weight: bold; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; line-height: 1.3em; font-size: 24px;\">1975 Video: CIA Admits to Congress the Agency Uses Mainstream Media to Distribute Disinfo<\/h1>\n<p><span class=\"meta-sep\" style=\"border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #777777; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;\">by<\/span><span style=\"color: #777777; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"author vcard\" style=\"border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #777777; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;\"><span style=\"color: #777777;\">Melissa Melton<br \/>\nTruthStreamMedia.com<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcclothesline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/disinfox.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"disinfox\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dcclothesline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/disinfox-600x387.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"387\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/truthstreammedia.com\/cia-flashback-well-know-our-disinformation-program-is-complete-when-everything-the-american-public-believes-is-false\/\" target=\"_blank\">It has been verified<\/a>\u00a0by a source who claims she was there that then-<a title=\"CIA Flashback: \u201cWe\u2019ll Know Our Disinformation Program Is Complete When Everything the American Public Believes Is False.\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dcclothesline.com\/2015\/01\/15\/cia-flashback-well-know-disinformation-program-complete-everything-american-public-believes-false\/\" target=\"_blank\">CIA Director William Casey<\/a>\u00a0did in fact say the controversial and often-disputed line \u201cWe\u2019ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false,\u201d reportedly in 1981.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Casey being\u00a0under investigation\u00a0by Congress for being involved in a major disinformation plot involving the overthrow of Libya\u2019s Qaddafi in 1981, and despite Casey arguing on the record that\u00a0<a title=\"Busted: Associated Press Journalist Caught Coordinating Stories with the CIA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dcclothesline.com\/2014\/09\/11\/busted-associated-press-journalist-caught-coordinating-stories-cia\/\" target=\"_blank\">the CIA<\/a>\u00a0should have a legal right to spread disinformation via the\u00a0<a title=\"Who Owns The Media? The 6 Monolithic Corporations That Control Almost Everything We Watch, Hear And Read\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dcclothesline.com\/2014\/10\/23\/owns-media-6-monolithic-corporations-control-almost-everything-watch-hear-read\/\" target=\"_blank\">mainstream news<\/a>\u00a0that same year, this quote continues to be argued by people who weren\u2019t there and apparently cannot believe a CIA Director would ever say such a thing.<\/p>\n<p>But spreading disinfo is precisely what the CIA would \u2014 and\u00a0<i>did<\/i>\u00a0\u2014 do.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This 1975 clip of testimony given during a\u00a0House Intelligence Committee hearing has the agency admitting on record that the CIA creates and uses disinformation against the American people.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"more\"><\/a><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5ED63A_hcd0?feature=player_embedded\" height=\"400\" width=\"639\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Question: \u201cDo you have any people being paid by the CIA who are contributing to a major circulation \u2014 American journal?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Answer: \u201cWe do have people who submit pieces to American journals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Question: \u201cDo you have any people paid by the CIA who are working for television networks?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Answer: \u201cThis I think gets into the kind of uh, getting into the details Mr. Chairman that I\u2019d like to get into in executive session.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(later)<\/p>\n<p>Question: \u201cDo you have any people being paid by the CIA who are contributing to the national news services \u2014 AP and UPI?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Answer: \u201cWell again, I think we\u2019re getting into the kind of detail Mr. Chairman that I\u2019d prefer to handle at executive session.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s easy enough to read between the lines on the stuff that was saved for the executive session. Then-CBS President Sig Mickelson goes on to say that the relationships at CBS with the CIA were long established before he ever became president \u2014 and that\u2019s just one example. Considering\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.corporations.org\/media\/\" target=\"_blank\">90% of our media<\/a>\u00a0today has been consolidated into\u00a0<a title=\"Who Owns The Media? The 6 Monolithic Corporations That Control Almost Everything We Watch, Hear And Read\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dcclothesline.com\/2014\/10\/23\/owns-media-6-monolithic-corporations-control-almost-everything-watch-hear-read\/\" target=\"_blank\">six major corporations<\/a>\u00a0over the past decade, it\u2019s not hard to see that you shouldn\u2019t readily believe everything you see, hear or read in the \u201cnews.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought that it was a matter of real concern that planted stories intended to serve\u00a0a national\u00a0purpose abroad came\u00a0home\u00a0and were circulated here and believed here because this would mean that the CIA could manipulate the news in the United States by channeling it through some\u00a0foreign country,\u201d Democratic Idaho Senator Frank Church said at a press conference surrounding the hearing. Church chaired the Church Committee, a precursor to the Senate Intelligence Committee, which was responsible for investigating illegal intelligence gathering by the NSA, CIA and FBI.<\/p>\n<p>This exact tactic \u2014 planting disinformation in foreign media outlets so the disinfo would knowingly surface in the United States as a way of circumventing the rules on domestic operations \u2014 was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/truthstreammedia.com\/cia-flashback-well-know-our-disinformation-program-is-complete-when-everything-the-american-public-believes-is-false\/\" target=\"_blank\">specifically argued for<\/a>\u00a0as being legal simply because it did not originate on U.S. soil by none other than CIA Director William Casey in 1981.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/truthstreammedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/trumancia.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"trumancia\" src=\"http:\/\/truthstreammedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/trumancia.jpg\" width=\"306\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Former President Harry S. Truman, who oversaw the creation of the CIA in 1947 when he signed the National Security Act, later wrote that he never intended the CIA for more than intelligence gathering.\u00a0\u201cI never had any thought that when I\u00a0set up\u00a0the CIA that it would be injected into peacetime cloak and dagger operations,\u201d Truman penned in 1963 a year after the disastrous CIA Bay of Pigs operation.<\/p>\n<p>Again, please keep this in mind when you watch the\u00a0mainstream\u00a0\u201cnews\u201d in this country\u2026<\/p>\n<p>In their\u00a0<a title=\"CNN Caught Faking War Footage AGAIN, This Time in Syria\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dcclothesline.com\/2013\/09\/04\/cnn-caught-faking-war-footage-again-this-time-in-syria\/\" target=\"_blank\">propaganda<\/a>\u00a0today\u2019s dictators rely for the most part on repetition, suppression and rationalization \u2013 the repetition of catchwords which they wish to be accepted as true, the suppression of facts which they wish to be ignored, the arousal and rationalization of passions which may be used in the interests of the Party or the State. As the art and science of manipulation come to be better understood, the dictators of the future will doubtless learn to combine these techniques with the non-stop\u00a0distractions\u00a0which, in the West, are now threatening to drown in a sea of irrelevance the rational propaganda essential to the maintenance of\u00a0individual\u00a0liberty and\u00a0the survival of democratic institutions.<br \/>\n<i>(H\/T Daniel LeBlanc)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1975 Video: CIA Admits to Congress the Agency Uses Mainstream Media to Distribute Disinfo by\u00a0Melissa Melton TruthStreamMedia.com It has been verified\u00a0by a source who claims she was there that then-CIA Director William Casey\u00a0did in fact say the controversial and often-disputed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=10447\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}