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Title: Fake News and the National Security State
Published: 2016-10-09
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNAPeEDujwE
Title: Fake News and the National Security State
Published: 2016-10-09
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNAPeEDujwE
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a London based investigative journalism nonprofit recently broke a story revealing how the Pentagon worked with the PR firm headed up by Margaret Thatcher spin doctor to produce fake al Qaeda videos and other propaganda during the Iraq war bill putting Jr is a London based company specializing in lobbying speech writing search engine out and other services for governments it is known for unethical behavior including posing as2/34
fake representatives of the use back government and violating wikipedia rules by removing negative information and replacing it with positive spin present and past clients include Augusto Pinochet and the Pinochet foundation Dutch oil the government of Bahrain and coca Cola no part injures Tim Collins referred to the company's work as dark arts he has a close connection to the inner circle of British prime minister David Cameron3/34
bill problem Jr was paid over half billion dollars to produce TV segment made in the style of Arabic television according to a former employee the company worked at the CIA and the National purity counts the material was approved by the commander in Iraq at the time David Petraeus he later became the director of the CI a a PR agency was hired soon after George W. bush4/34
and his neocons invaded Iraq in two thousand and three was initially task with running occupational elections soon switched information and psychological operations lord bell told the Sunday times most of the money was spent on propaganda production and distribution so my first thought when I didn't know how big a project this was how my decision was news gathering and backing singer prices and work in the prices5/34
of them realize this is a big project and the budget was large as well %HESITATION for this project the threat of a hundred and twenty million a year for this price and that's a lot of money propaganda produced by the company ran the gamut of white gray and black psychological operations it's disseminated by the military and the CIA most notably through its voice of America and6/34
the United States information agency at the state department grey propaganda is also produced by the military and the CIA but does not clearly identify a source black propaganda is deceptively attributed to another source and is associated with covert psychological operations mmhm for this dated has that a lot of program is a I their chain full size program we'll make them first things tired you during the7/34
Vietnam War United States carried out a campaign of Viet Cong called in addition to propaganda the military used kidnapping jailing interrogation torture and assassination part of a false flag operation it's estimated between twenty thousand and forty thousand Vietnamese were killed during the program a bell potted your propaganda campaign took its cues from a CIA manual psychological operations in guerrilla warfare the manual was published when the8/34
regular administration trained and funded the contras to defeat the Sandinista government in Nicaragua the bill Poucher team produced scripts for Arabic soap operas that delivered propaganda messages they also produced fake al Qaeda videos videos were produced in the RealPlayer format that requires an internet connection to run CD's were embedded with a code linking to Google analytics which allowed the military to track IP addresses the videos9/34
were played down the cities were often planted in homes raided by the military the bureau of investigative journalism broke the story after examined US army contracting census federal procurement transaction records and reports by the department of defense inspector general in addition to belt Hollinger's corporate filings and specialist publications on military propaganda it backed up its research by interviewing a half dozen former officials and contractors involved10/34
in information operations in Iraq prior to the bureau of investigative journalism story details about CIA propaganda in Iraq went public for instance in two thousand and ten the Washington post's accurately blog reported the agency's operations group had considered shooting a fake video of Saddam Hussein having sex with a teenage boy although the Saddam video never made it off the ground another project did it depicted an11/34
actor playing Osama bin laden sitting around a campfire drinking alcohol and bragging about his gay conquests video however was never released the Rendon group was also involved in the CI a propaganda campaign in Iraq the secret of public relations firm assisted a number of U. S. military interventions in nations including Argentina Colombia Haiti Iraq Kosovo Panama in Zimbabwe get organized in name the Iraqi National Congress12/34
a P. R. front group designed to foment the overthrow of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein according to the award winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh the Rendon group was paid close to a hundred million dollars by the CI a for its work with the Iraqi National Congress the Rendon group is credited with creating the Iraqi broadcasting corporation at broadcast propaganda in the country Brendan also worked with the13/34
bush administration to spend military strikes in Afghanistan Iraq is a PR firm for the U. S. installed leader Hamid Karzai and orchestrated the country's counternarcotics program at the time Karzai's brother worked for the CIA and was a major player in Afghanistan's booming opium trade the military also use psychological operations on members of Congress in two thousand and eleven Michael Hastings reported for Rolling Stone that tenet14/34
general William Caldwell a three star general in charge of training Afghan troops illegally ordered a team of soldiers specializing in psychological operations to manipulate visiting American senators into providing more troops in funding for the war well essentially what we have here is that in information operations cell which is a cell that by definition is trained to conduct psychological operations in military deception what is that asked15/34
by lieutenant general Caldwell his staff to use their skills on visiting %HESITATION U. S. senators I and other VIP's now at the the the sell this in for this I owe cell I was led by a gentleman named lieutenant colonel Michael Holmes tentacle homes there raise objections to being asked to do this is that Hey I'm in I AO cell I information operations is only supposed16/34
to be used for foreign audiences it's a really bad idea due to be using out my team because we specialize in psychological operations in and what not I to be doing this %HESITATION but the pressure kept on on on the I. mounting on him to to you know focuses all his efforts not on the Afghans but on but on Americans visiting members of Congress included senators17/34
John McCain Joe Lieberman Jack reed al Franken and Carl Levin as well as representative Steve Israel of the house Appropriations Committee admiral Mike Mullen that the joint chiefs of staff and a host of influential think tank analysts following his story and a less than laudatory profile of U. S. army general Stanley McChrystal Hastings died in a suspicious car accident in two thousand and eight The New18/34
York Times revealed the Pentagon used retired military officers acting as analysts at CNN fox news and MSNBC to spend coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan most of the analysts had ties to military contractors with vested interests in the foreign policy of the bush administration according to the times records and interviews show how the bush administration used its control over access in information in an19/34
effort to transform the analysts into a kind of media Trojan horse an instrument intended to shape terrorism coverage from inside the major TV and radio networks psychological operations conducted by the government are numerous one of the more infamous was operation Northwoods in his book body of secrets author James Bamford reveals secret and long hidden documents detailing a plan approved by the joint chiefs of staff at20/34
the Pentagon operation Northwoods called for innocent people to be shot on American streets for boats carrying refugees fleeing Cuba to be sunk on the high seas for a wave of violent attacks to be launched in Washington DC Miami and other American cities the terrorism would be blamed on Fidel Castro and the Cuban government president Kennedy rejected the plan more recently military personnel from the fourth psychological21/34
operations group based at Fort Bragg North Carolina were in bed at CNN's Atlanta headquarters in two thousand the Dutch journalist Abe devries published a story showing sy ops personnel soldiers and officers worked as regular employees at CNN through the training with industry program devries told counterpunch to psychological program was confirmed by CNN and military personnel Iraqis Afghans and members of Congress are not the only people22/34
subjected to psychological operations in two thousand and twelve a bill was included as amendment one fourteen of the defense authorization act passed in the house of representatives it amended the Smith Monday act of nineteen forty eight and the foreign relations authorization act passed in nineteen eighty seven the law allows a state department and the Pentagon to push propaganda on the American people over television radio newspaper23/34
and social media the US information and educational exchange act of nineteen forty eight for bids propaganda intended for foreign audiences to be used in the United States the amendments however were little more than a formality in the early nineteen fifties the CIA launched operation mockingbird the secret program organized by cord Meyer and Allen Dulles in later led by Frank with singer recruited leading American journalists into24/34
a propaganda network Wizna recruited Phil Gramm of The Washington Post to run the project Graham had worked for military intelligence during the second World War in addition to the Washington post The New York Times time magazine the Chicago Daily News and other influential publications participated in the project CIA paid some of the journalists through it office of policy coordination a covert psychological operations and paramilitary action25/34
organization folded into the CIA in nineteen fifty one money for the project came from the Marshall Plan a program intended to rebuild Europe after the war in addition to feeding propaganda to the establishment media operation mocking bird restricted news and CIA plots to overthrow the government W. round in Guatemala the church committee chaired by senator Frank church in the nineteen seventies revealed details about operation mocking26/34
bird that remained hidden up until that time I thought that it was a matter of real concern that planted story is intended to serve the national purpose abroad %HESITATION came home and were circulated here and believe it here because %HESITATION this would mean that the CIA could manipulate the news in the United States by channeling it through some foreign country that we're looking at that very27/34
carefully nineteen ninety nine during the wrongful death lawsuit of Lloyd's hours and co conspirators in the assassination of Martin Luther king attorney William Shep describe the breach of operation mocking bird but most people didn't realize the you stand on that you're organizations which fairly credible sort brag about it read the posts about see I am a one of the heroes was the first man in charge28/34
media operations manager Frank listeners and they referred to his formalization of the mighty Wurlitzer this was image of this guy sitting at one of those shy and organs you know with seventeen boards here playing this was selected Cochran and there was the guy running the CI a meeting alright world and he really loves you because you every single city of any size earth you have some29/34
employees who was supposedly working for a newspaper or flyers and they could get stories anywhere shops that about a third of the CIA's budget went into media secret propaganda operations he estimated the amount that close to a billion dollars a year in nineteen seventy six following the revelations of the church committee the CIA announced new guidelines restricting the relationship between the agency and the media by30/34
this time however the connections between the national security state and the establishment media hard wired and the guidelines were more or less meaningless the bureau of investigative journalism revelations shed new light on a number of Osama bin laden videos released during the bush years although video and terrorism experts routinely dismissed videos and audio tapes as fakes the government and the establishment media portrayed them as legitimate31/34
an early video allegedly shows the Saudi confessing to orchestrating the nine eleven attacks all others are less specific and left open to interpretation by translators and news reporters reading from government scripts spite ample evidence of fakery and manipulation the media routinely feigned ignorance the videos provide imagery for a narrative that keeps the manufactured war on terror alive many of the videos were released by the Intel32/34
center her Virginia based private contractor that works for the military law enforcement and intelligence agents I defense also released videos our company is comprised of long serving ex military intelligence officials such as senior military siap intelligence officer Jim Melnick who served sixteen years in the U. S. army and the defense intelligence agency in psychological operations Melnick work directly with former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld the bureau33/34
of investigative journalism article exposes covert psychological warfare waged against not only the people of Iraq but the world at large including and importantly the people of America the establishment media works in concert with the national security state and the military to convey in a positive light the foreign policy narrative of the global elite distort the truth about its subterfuge and war crimes and build consensus for