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The United States has attacked
select nations for invading other countries, and has spoken out and punished
some for human rights abuses, thus “earning” its nickname as “policeman of the
world.” As with its local police, the so-called police are the worst criminals.
Here is a list of nations that
the US attacked, bombed, sabotaged, or attempted to overthrow their government:
China-1945-1946, Syria-1949,
Korea-1950-1953, China – 1950-1953, Iran-1953, Guatemala -1954,
Tibet-1955-1970s, Indoncsia-1958, Cuba -1959, Democratic republic of Congo-1960-1965, Iraq-1960-1963, Dominican Republic-1961,
Vietnam-1961-1973, Brazil -1974, Belgian Congo-1964, Guatemala-1964,
Laos-1964-1973, Dominican Republic- 1965-1966, Peru- 1965, Greece-1967,
Guatemala-1967-1969, Cambodia-1969-1970, Chile-1970-1973, Argentina- 1976,
Turkey-1980, Poland -1980-1981, El Salvador-1981-1992, Nicaragua-1981-1990,
Cambodia-1980-1995, Angola-1980, Lebanon-1982-1984, Grenada-1983-1984,
Philippines- 1986, Libya-1986, Iran – 1987-1988, Libya-1989, Panama-1989-1990,
Iraq-1991, Kuwait-1991, Somalia-1992-1994, Iraq-1993-1996, Bosnia-1995,
Iran-1998, Sudan-1998, Afghanistan-1998, Yugoslavia-Serbia- 1999, Afghanistan
-2001, Iraq-2002-2003, Somalia-2006-2007, Iran-2005-present, Libya-2011….
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from chapters 10-12, plus 19, of my book ANGRY LOUD AND CLEAR TRUTH:
Let us move on to the destruction of the twin towers. This was
shown in EXPOSING THE MONEY MACHINE. The only time we seem to have been
attacked from a foreign power (other than Japan’s one-time assault on Pearl
Harbor) in present history was 9-11. Two planes hit two towers, and a couple of
hours later, they collapsed from fires that resulted from the impact. Or so the
story goes according to all mainstream media. I find there to be so little that
I believe anymore, that I investigated this fully. In 1982, I worked in one of
the towers, so I know that they existed; and in 2013, I saw that the “Freedom
Tower” was there now, and that the twin towers were not. But have you ever
heard of building number seven? It was a shorter (47 stories) and wider
building that no plane hit, but also caught fire unexplainably that day, and
also collapsed. It was not reported because it was too much to be considered as
coincidence. I came upon a lot of informative facts concerning 9-11 that can
lead to only one conclusion. Decide for yourself if you agree. If you doubt the
truth of any statement, I challenge you to prove me wrong, because I know that
you can’t.
Number one: The twin towers were exceedingly strong with many
steel reinforcements. Many weaker high-rises throughout the planet had worse
fires, and none other has collapsed before. One other even had a plane also hit
it, and it didn’t collapse. There were pools of melted steel all over ground
zero afterwards. Steel melts at about 1700 degrees farenheit. According to
calculations, the heat in that building should have been considerably less,
especially in lower floors. How did the steel melt? Traces of the compound
known as “thermite,” which is produced by our government, was found all over
ground zero by scientific research investigators. Thermite is used as a
demolition explosive, and heats to very high temperatures. Did you notice how
the buildings went down at almost freefall speed, one floor after another
exploded in descending order? A perfect example of a professionally executed
demolition job.
Number two: According to what the media stated that the
government found, near the pools of melted steel was found a paper passport
(duh, come on guys- paper survived the inferno that steel didn’t-surely you can
come up with a more credible story-who can possibly trust our government or the
BS media?), one piece of evidence that helped them to find who the terrorists
were in just a couple of days. It is comforting to know that we have competent
and efficient authorities who were able to find the identity of the culprits so
quickly. It is funny how half of them, six months later, popped up and said
“Hey guys, here I am, alive and well!” in Arab nations. But you won’t see that
on the news. The government didn’t tell them to show that, their airtime and
paper and ink are reserved for sports and gossip.
Number three: Our military includes a defensive air-force that
has fighter jets which can respond to that location in minutes to a plane on
radar that does not meet communications requirements and proper identification.
For some unexplainable (except the “coincidence” of an exercise being done
elsewhere) reason, those jets never came to the nation’s defense. If all this
has not yet convinced you, the following takes the cake: The military officers
in charge of defending us from foreign or domestic attack were PROMOTED after the event.
Number four: The plane
that was piloted to collide into the Pentagon had some untold information also.
I viewed official government released recorded videos and some unofficial ones.
The “plane” that hit it was traveling at too high a speed to see clearly, it was
a blur. But no visibly discernible wings were evident. The hole left by the
collision in the pentagon was far too narrow to even entertain the idea that an
ordinary plane with wings assaulted it. I am convinced that it was a missile.
No large pieces of wreckage remained. It was very convenient that the area of
the pentagon that the assault happened was evacuated shortly before the impact.
I don’t know about you, but the one and only obvious conclusion I can come to,
is that our leaders (wardens) devised the event. But if this evidence is not
enough, I will give some evidence that either our political leaders are all
totally incompetent and unbelievably stupid (at convenient times) or that all were complicit.!
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Democrats called Republicans “racists” “bigots” “narrow minded” and so on. But on September 20th 2001, Bush gave a speech to congress, and in response, house democrat leader Richard Gephart said “We want America to speak with one voice tonight, and we want enemies and the whole world and all of our citizens to know that America speaks tonight with one voice.” Regarding Bush, he pledged: “We have faith in him and his colleagues in the executive branch to do this in the right way.”
After the president’s address, senate democratic leader Tom Daschle also showed full support: “tonight there is no opposition party. We stand here united not as republicans and democrats, not as southerners and northerners or Midwesterners or easterners, but as Americans.” “We want Bush to know, we want the world to know, that he can depend on us.”
How comforting.
The act of war- the twin towers destruction- which had no country’s flag as responsible, and for a long time it was not clear who was responsible-had a relatively quick response from all our leaders, and a lapse of the usual bickering. Accusations and party antics were set aside, so that we can perceive the real enemies.
When 9-11 had just happened, and there are videos on youtube recording this, Bush had been watching a class of schoolchildren (look it up, it is very telling) participate in their class. We see an aid walk into the classroom and whisper a few words to the president. It was only five or six words, less than ten seconds. This was minutes after the disaster, and was obviously the subject of the brief interruption. The president showed no disturbance, he just nodded, and the class continued. There was not enough time transpired by the aid for him to have explained to him what had happened, all that could have been said was something like: “all happened as planned.” The only response from Bush was a nod, he did not excuse himself from the class to address the crisis. Nothing surprising seemed to have happened.
Then a call to war, to send our youth to kill and to be killed, and no questions, no challenges, no oppositions from politicians; all our leaders were in accord. “GO DESTROY THE ARABS” and if you don’t agree you are unpatriotic. Since when is patriotism associated with attacking foreign nations without good reason to?
You may call me unpatriotic, I know who and what I am. I love human beings. Of all nations. But I know who the enemy is, and it was not Saddam Hussein. It is obvious that Bush knew that the demolition would happen, if he was or wasn’t one of the ones who planned it is the only question. Were all our leaders complicit? Judge for yourself. They all gathered together to attack Afghanistan and Iraq, and being somewhat intelligent, they must have known that the little evidence that they had did not justify war. The CIA’s claim that they “might” have weapons of mass destruction does not cut it. China has that, Korea has that, Russia has that, many nations have deadly weapons. Why pick on Iraq? At any time, attacking and annihilating another peoples with such little evidence of justification for war, betrays their evil doings. Do you suppose something is rotten in DC? The answer is …….every one of them is rotten to the core. And there is much more proof. Bush and Cheney convinced Daschle to not commission an independent investigation. “Anything you say, buddy” (not a quote, just an illustration). National security advisor Condoleeza Rice also spoke against an investigation: “In the context of this ongoing war, it is extremely important to protect the sources and the methods and the information so that we can try and disrupt further attacks.” “The problem is that this is an act that is not finished. It is ongoing. We are still fighting a war on terrorism.”(that is a quote).
A joint congressional committee gave inconclusive results.
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In September 2002, an independent commission was attached to the bill establishing homeland security. The Bush administration fought to gain control over the naming, staffing, and powers of the commission. Why did they need to control it so closely? Duh! It was not allowed to issue a subpoena without its chairman’s approval- and the chairman was a presidential appointee. Bush appointed former secretary of state Henry Kissinger-alleged war criminal, international corporate fixer, and notorious liar. He was replaced by Thomas Kean after much protest over the appointment of Kissinger. The Bush administration granted the 9/11 commission only $3 million to investigate the attack on the twin towers, while $50 million was allocated to the commission that investigated the space shuttle crash. The same administration refused to release 27 pages of a congressional report that allegedly detailed the Saudi Arabian government’s connections to the “hijackers.” Bush said “You can’t distinguish between Al Queda and Saddam when you talk about the war on terror” before he admitted that Saddam had no role in 9-11.
There were no huge protests. So are all the federal politicians complicit? I have concluded that they are. I will now reveal the events in the white house that transpired immediately after September 11th, events that expose US politician’s deceitfulness.
As I stated in EXPOSING THE MONEY MACHINE, the real motivation for the destruction of the twin towers was to strike fear into the citizens of the United States, enabling the government to establish Homeland Security, the Patriot Act, and the wars on Afghanistan and Iraq. In future chapters of this book, I will expose that our media intentionally stifle the truth from being known, and why; as well as providing evidence that the attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq had been planned well before the twin towers went down, in a chapter titled “International Terroristic Actions” in the second part of this book. The terrorist is the United States.
As you probably know, Homeland Security is like H G Wells’ “big brother”, it conducts surveillance on every internet search and telephone call on the planet, and includes all fields of the military under its auspices. The story of the passing of the Patriot Act, according to Herbert Goerstel, is as follows (I have made a shorter version as I pen here): The morning after the 9-11 attacks, attorney general John Ashcroft had his policy specialist Viet Dinh present Ashcroft’s wish-list of expanded police powers codified and transmitted to congress in a bill. Ashcroft demanded that the proposal be enacted within three days, and suggested publicly that congress would be held responsible for any subsequent attacks if it didn’t meet the deadline. The Patriot Act is a sizable technically worded document. Such speedy work to be composed in one night is unbelievable. Further, no time to study, consider, discuss, and collaborate its validity and merits, is highly questionable policy. This was important legislation, and the more reason to take their time to do a thoroughly complete job legislating it. Why was there such a rush to vote on legislation that would take years to establish? And with all the important laws that have been introduced and passed, why would our legislators be afraid of some blame being put on them by another politician? Who pays attention to politician’s mud-slinging?
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On October 11th, the senate convened to vote on it. Since every republican senator had committed to support it, senate majority leader Tom Daschle pressured fellow democrats to vote unanimously for it also. The only dissenting voice was that of Russ Feingold (D- Wisconsin) saying: “if we lived in a country where the police were allowed to search your home at any time for any reason; if we lived in a country where the government was entitled to open your mail, eavesdrop on your phone conversations or intercept your email conversations, if we lived in a country where people could be held in jail indefinitely based on what they write or think, or based on mere suspicion that they were up to no good, the government would probably discover and arrest more terrorists….but they would not be in a country in which we would want to live .... preserving our freedom is the reason we are now engaged in this new war on terrorism. We will lose that war without a shot being fired if we sacrifice the liberties of the American people in the belief that by doing so we will stop the terrorists.”
This may sound like a patriotic speech, but think about it. Could this be an explanation instead of a protest? Could Feingold be telling us that they were attempting to defeat the people without any opposing shots being fired? Just a thought, but one that I take very seriously.
Passing the senate with only Feingold against it, the bill was scrapped and altered that night, and the rewritten Patriot Act was passed on the 12th, voted on for fear of being considered unpatriotic (their excuse) if they didn’t. Three republicans dissented, one of them was Ron Paul of Texas, who said “Our forefathers would think it is time for a revolution .… they revolted against much more mild oppression.”
I don’t buy that our “representatives” voted on this legislation out of fear of being considered unpatriotic. That being mentioned publicly is a ruse. Feingold gave a rousing patriotic speech against it. Something is rotten in DC, and it is conspiracy. Freemasonry is serving an evil entity, and the RC church and wealthy and powerful people have been covertly making many decisions and strategic moves. A few pieces about the Patriot Act. Federal agents and police may conduct searches of homes and offices and confiscate personal property without notification.
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In this chapter, I intend to drive home a few more points regarding US military policy in the middle- east before and after 9-11, to illustrate who the people are behind the actions in world terrorism, and its course of action leading to where we are now. The media’s complicity and role will be made clear. You will see who the terrorists really are, and then we can proceed to further truths, concepts, and revelations.
Soon after 9-11 demolition job, within a few weeks, a “war on terror” was declared. This was not the first time that the United States waged “war on terror.” The Reagan administration also announced a “war on terror” as it assumed office, aimed at South America and the middle-east. Donald Rumsfeld was appointed secretary of defense by Bush Jr., and he had been Reagan’s special envoy to the middle- east. Rumsfeld and Cheney had been closely aligned since working together under President Ford. According to a document prepared for secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld titled “Special Operations and Joint Forces in Countering Terrorism” by his Defense Science Board, an organization was planned to be created to be a team of 100 covert counter-intelligence agents to be responsible for missions targeting terrorist leaders. These missions’ purpose is to “stimulate reactions” among terrorist groups, inciting them into violent acts that would then make it acceptable to be subject to “counterattack” by US forces. In other words, the United States military planned to use secret operations to provoke murderous terrorist attacks on innocent people. Combating terrorism by causing it. Strategies mentioned included tricking terrorist cells with fake communications. This counter-terror operations group was named “Proactive Preemptive Operations Group (P2OG). Since being mentioned in Los Angeles Times and Counterpunch on 11/12/2002, there has been silence regarding P2OG. That there is no more press interest in such activity is telling. There is no more evidence revealed about its existence.
In September of 2001, the US started to bomb Afghanistan. Bush informed the Afghans that the attacks would continue until they handed over wanted suspects considered to be 9-11 accomplices. The Afghanistan officials requested evidence, which the US dismissed, as well as refusing to consider offering papers of extradition. A front-page story on the 10/28/2001 issue of the NY Times stated the official US-British reaction by Admiral Sir Michael Boyce, chief of British defense staff, informing the citizens of Britain, the United States, and Afghanistan that the two allied powers would continue attacking Afghanistan “until they get their leadership changed.” It was made apparent that this was an “afterthought” brought in a couple of weeks after initiating the bombing. Yes, and the amazing way that the Patriot Act was so quickly composed as a reaction to the 9-11 “surprise.”
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According to a French book “Bin Laden, La Verite Interdite” (Bin Laden, the Forbidden Truth), the United States had decided to invade Afghanistan in the interest of profits, long before September 2001. In February 1998, congress discussed ways to deal with Afghanistan to enable a US –held oil pipeline. Jane’s Defense Newsletter dated March 2001 revealed that an invasion of Afghanistan was being planned. July 2001 the planned invasion was reported by George Arney of the BBC. “Times of India” stated in June 2001 that the US government told India that there would be an invasion of Afghanistan in October of that year. But the US media insisted that the 9-11 terrorist attack instigated US invasion of Afghanistan and the Taliban regime. The twin towers had no flag bearing responsibility. The right legitimate thing to do would have been to prove who the culprits were, and to bring them to justice. The US blamed Afghanistan, and attacked innocent people, showed no evidence of anybody’s guilt, and endeavored to install a puppet government. Then they did likewise with Iraq. After much futile and senseless destruction, the death toll of Arabs fanned the flame of Islamic radicalism and anti-imperialism. Bush’s “war on terrorism” and the wars on Iraq and Afghanistan in particular were strategically successful in giving new life to Islamic radicalism and made violent resistance popular among Arabs, playing into the elite’s plan of genocide of Arab peoples. The US, after all, has to defend itself. Whether it was an afterthought that developed over the years, or had been planned previously, I am not sure, but the United States had further devious designs to use Afghanistan for more of its evil purposes. The leaders of Afghanistan; the Taliban, had banned its people from producing opium, and under their rule, Afghanistan produced 3% of the world’s opium. Upon the United States taking power in 2010, it soon leaped to producing 90% of the world’s opium. Perceiving the poverty of the Afghan farmers, being such magnanimous benefactors, the US government loaned those farmers the necessary capital and means to grow poppies. For a fee, US military guard the poppy fields, while the farmers labor to earn a meager income, and the smugglers reap wild profits (as do the dealers), importing most of the opium used by Americans and many other nations. Since 2010, Afghanistan has been steadily exporting 13 million pounds of opium annually.
The allies, led by the US, have been attacking Afghanistan since 2001. While the current Afghan government is basically a puppet of the United States, its citizens have been constantly targeted. In a rare media exposure, the NY Times put a front page article (12/31/2018) describing how CIA-sponsored strike forces were conducting murderous raids on citizens, detaining and torturing many innocent families: “Those fighting forces are recruited, trained and equipped by CIA agents or contractors who work closely with them on their bases.” They are paid almost three times as much as regular soldiers. Dirty work costs more. Karl Eikenberry, former commander of American forces and ambassador to Kabul said: “The CIA needs to fight its wars in the shadows. But when the US also takes on the mission of state building, then the contradictions between the two approaches-stealth, black-ops, and non-transparency vs. institution building, rule of law, and accountability- become extremely difficult to resolve, and our standing as a nation suffers.”
The article said that “former president Hamid Karzai spent years trying to rein in American forces from carrying out night raids that angered villages and set them against his government, only to realize that the CIA’s Afghan forces were doing the same.” Elders from three districts of Nangarhar said that over one hundred innocent civilians were killed by the smaller strike force in August 2018 alone.
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The article said that “former president Hamid Karzai spent years trying to rein in American forces from carrying out night raids that angered villages and set them against his government, only to realize that the CIA’s Afghan forces were doing the same.” Elders from three districts of Nangarhar said that over one hundred innocent civilians were killed by the smaller strike force in August 2018 alone.
Anybody who has investigated all that I have, would come to the obvious conclusion that I have. See if you agree. The United States is using force and unjust tactics to incite Afghan citizens to join the Taliban and to desperately defend their nation from the US and the puppet Afghan government’s military. This, in turn, “forces” the United States military to annihilate Arabs there. It was at that time that Trump “resolved” to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, or so he told the public in a wonderfully staged face of peace. Of course the US media attacked Trump for such “stupidity,” with practically no spokesman agreeing with him, hawks being the only ones given a voice in the press. And surprise, surprise, surprise. Two or three weeks later it is all over the media that the Taliban had attacked the US troops, killing Americans. If they hadn’t, there would have been something wrong with them. Absent from the articles on the attacks by the Taliban were the reasons why, which could be recalled only by careful readers of the NY Times who had read that article a few weeks earlier. Of course, to America, this is justification to annihilate the surviving Afghans. The Taliban’s attack appeared in the US press in the category of terrorism, providing no justification.
Many people are aware that Iraq attacked Kuwait in August 1990, precipitating the first “Gulf war.” As a reaction, the US attacked Iraq. A University of Massachusettes study showed that two out of three people in the United States felt that their military should intervene with force to reverse illegal occupation or serious human rights abuses. Sadam’s actions were similar to that of El Salvador, Guatemala, Indonesia, Syria, Israel, South Africa, Turkey, and the US; but not more-so. Why did we not defend the victims of those other nations? Because the public were not aware of the actions taken by them, thanks to the media. While the terrorism of the other nations, especially that committed by Indonesia and the United States, are indeed extreme, let us now focus a little on atrocities performed by poor little innocent Israel. In February 1991, as the US was bombing Iraq, the government of Lebanon beseeched Israel to observe resolution 425 of the United Nations Security Council, which demanded that Israel withdraw immediately and unconditionally from Lebanon. The resolution was passed in March 1978, and had been ignored by Israel, as had been two other subsequent likewise resolutions from the UN addressed to Israel regarding Lebanon. Back in 1978, Israel attacked Lebanon, bombed Beirut, murdered 20,000 people (80% were civilians), destroying hospitals and more terror; and the United States supported it. In 1991, Lebanon was still pleading to the world for assistance in defending itself from Israel’s aggression, and getting none except for a few UN resolutions, as Israel was backed by a big bully. United States citizens were unaware of these events, and of the United Nations resolutions, thanks to the media. Nor did the media cover Indonesia invading East Timor and killing 200,000 people, as Indonesia was strongly backed by the US. These kinds of activities are not mentioned by the media, which have been criminal in intentionally creating wrong mindsets and worldviews, and diverting and subverting the minds of billions of people who watch television and read newspapers and magazines. The truth can be found by reading books authored by investigative truth-tellers such as Noam Chomsky, Chris Hedges, Jesse Ventura, Howard Zinn, and Michael Kahn; as well as scores of others whose revelations will not be published in establishment media. In addition, there are many truthers on the internet, some entrepreneurs like Alex Jones planting exposes and documentaries on youtube. If you want to be awake and aware, turn off the television news and start to read select books. You can receive more accurate news in your email inbox from Realnews and Global Research, which provide somewhat more accurate coverage.
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NOW FOR THE SOURCE OF "FAKE NEWS" -
Let me move on to name a few higher level inter-locks. Robert McNamara, who was
Defense Secretary for Kennedy and Johnson retired from the board of directors
of the Washington Post Company, and
Nicholas Katzenbach, who was Attorney General, also sat on the Post
board. Much more influential than journalists are the high-placed top
executives who decide policy and editorial practices to be followed
meticulously. Other former cabinet-ranking officials also sat on boards of
major print media, including NY Times, Los Angeles Times, and Reader’s Digest
Association. Corporate boards of the three major television networks are
infiltrated with government power-brokers. Carter’s Defense Secretary Harold
Brown, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, and General David Jones, Reagans’
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff; were all on the board of GE/NBC, as was
former Attorney General William French Smith. William Casey had been chief
counsel and original board member of CapCities, and became CIA director in
1981, later CapCities acquired ABC during Reagan’s second term. Casey had also been Securities and Exchange
Commissioner under Nixon, and owned much CapCities stock until his death in
1987. He advocated covert operations, and was part of a network of spooks who
used American companies, especially mass media, as tools of espionage. GE,
owner of NBC, had a contract with the CIA to estimate Soviet military strength-while GE accumulated huge profits as a key player in the military industrial complex. Now, they wouldn’t lie, would
they?
Ever since the CIA was formed in 1947, publishers and executive management of the media have volunteered their services for the agency- page 114. On page 115, we find some revealing quotes:
“One journalist is worth 20 agents” a high-level CIA agent told investigative reporter Carl Bernstein. Former CIA Deputy
Director Ray S Cline called the American news media: “the only unfettered
espionage agencies in the country.” In exchange for career-enhancing scoops and
leaks, reporters alter stories and disseminate propaganda at the request of the
CIA. For decades, hundreds of journalists have maintained covert associations
with the CIA, and are paid for their services to it. Former CIA director
William Colby stated: “Let’s not pick on some poor reporters. Let’s go to the
managements. They were witting.”
Tom
Braden headed the CIA’s Global Propaganda Operation; after leaving it, he
worked as a syndicated columnist and co-host of CNN Crossfire. He once wrote an
article in the Saturday Evening Post, called: “Why I’m Glad the CIA is
Immoral.” Embarrassing revelations by Carl Bernstein in Rolling Stone magazine
in 1977 included the following statement: “There is ample evidence that
America’s leading publishers allowed themselves and their news organizations to
become handmaids to the intelligence services.” The NY Times ran a three- part
series on the CIA and media shortly later, disclosing that at various times, the CIA owned
or subsidized over fifty newspapers, news services, radio stations,
periodicals, book publishers and news entities, most of which were overseas. A
CIA official told the Times: “We had at least one newspaper in every foreign
capital at any given time.” Page 117. CIA documents display that the US public
was targeted by CIA propaganda. A July 13th, 1951 memo stated the
CIA’s beginnings of mind control operations: “broad and comprehensive,
involving both domestic and overseas activities.” Another CIA document of that
time explained that CIA officers met regularly to exchange ideas regarding “the
broader aspects of psychology as it pertains to the control of groups or masses
rather than the mind of an individual.”The CIA
and the press appear to have an attitude in common. That it is okay to deceive
the public. Philip Geyelin, a CIA agent who became an editor for the Washington
Post, said: “We will get nowhere without first stipulating that while circumstances
alter almost any case you can think of, the President has an inherent right-
perhaps an obligation in particular concerns-to deceive.”
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