1975 Video: CIA Admits to Congress the Agency Uses Mainstream Media to Distribute Disinfo

[Judi Lynn]

1975 Video: CIA Admits to Congress the Agency Uses Mainstream Media to Distribute Disinfo
Posted on January 14, 2015 by Melissa Melton

(Truthstream Media) It has been verified by a source who claims she was there that then-CIA Director William Casey did in fact say the controversial and often-disputed line “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false,” reportedly in 1981.

Despite Casey being under investigation by Congress for being involved in a major disinformation plot involving the overthrow of Libya’s Qaddafi in 1981, and despite Casey arguing on the record that the CIA should have a legal right to spread disinformation via the mainstream news that same year, this quote continues to be argued by people who weren’t there and apparently cannot believe a CIA Director would ever say such a thing.

But spreading disinfo is precisely what the CIA would — and did — do.

This 1975 clip of testimony given during a House Intelligence Committee hearing has the agency admitting on record that the CIA creates and uses disinformation against the American people.

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http://truthstreammedia.com/1975-video-cia-admits-to-congress-the-agency-uses-mainstream-media-to-distribute-disinfo/

[underpants]

1. Marking for view later

Thanks

[Historic NY]

2. Its easier now just put a story on Facebook..

or other social media, people do it for them.

Its nothing new plant a story and wait for it to come home and roost. FOX News and its newspaper world, the NY Post have been doing it here since they started. They put a story in the paper and later track back to it in a news report and then use it as the source. Its happened to other media like the NY times.

Government plant stories really....

[Enthusiast]

3. This goes far beyond their original mission.

They are doing this even more extensively now than they did in 1975.

How is this helping the American people? It isn't.

[yurbud]

4. A decade or two later, they used it to take down Gary Webb:

On September 18, the agency released a trove of documents spanning three decades of secret government operations. Culled from the agency’s in-house journal, Studies in Intelligence, the materials include a previously unreleased six-page article titled “Managing a Nightmare: CIA Public Affairs and the Drug Conspiracy Story.” Looking back on the weeks immediately following the publication of “Dark Alliance,” the document offers a unique window into the CIA’s internal reaction to what it called “a genuine public relations crisis” while revealing just how little the agency ultimately had to do to swiftly extinguish the public outcry. Thanks in part to what author Nicholas Dujmovic, a CIA Directorate of Intelligence staffer at the time of publication, describes as “a ground base of already productive relations with journalists,” the CIA’s Public Affairs officers watched with relief as the largest newspapers in the country rescued the agency from disaster, and, in the process, destroyed the reputation of an aggressive, award-winning reporter.

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/09/25/managing-nightmare-cia-media-destruction-gary-webb/

[MinM]

5. Rupert Murdoch has put disinfo on steroids...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016113003

[MinM]

6. Editor of major newspaper says he planted stories for CIA

Becoming the first credentialed, well-known media insider to step forward and state publicly that he was secretly a "propagandist," an editor of a major German daily has said that he personally planted stories for the CIA.

Saying he believes a medical condition gives him only a few years to live, and that he is filled with remorse, Dr. Udo Ulfkotte, the editor of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, one of Germany's largest newspapers, said in an interview that he accepted news stories written and given to him by the CIA and published them under his own name. Ulfkotte said the aim of much of the deception was to drive nations toward war.

Dr. Ulfkotte says the corruption of journalists and major news outlets by the CIA is routine, accepted, and widespread in the western media, and that journalists who do not comply either cannot get jobs at any news organization, or find their careers cut short.

Dr. Ulfkotte is the author of a book currently available only in German, "Bought Journalists" (Kopp 2014.) Aged 55, he was also once an advisor to the government of German Chancellor Helmet Kohl.

The book has become a bestseller in Germany but, in a bizarre twist which Ulfkotte says characterizes the disconnect caused by CIA control of the western media, the book cannot be reported on...

In his book "The CIA and the Media," Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein quotes William B. Bader, former CIA intelligence officer, in his testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Baeder said:

""There is quite an incredible spread of relationships. You don’t need to manipulate Time magazine, for example, because there are [Central Intelligence] Agency people at the management level.""

Bernstein writes:

""The Agency’s relationship with the Times was by far its most valuable among newspapers, according to CIA officials. From 1950 to 1966, about ten CIA employees were provided Times cover under arrangements approved by the newspaper’s late publisher, Arthur Hays Sulzberger. The cover arrangements were part of a general Times policy—set by Sulzberger—to provide assistance to the CIA whenever possible."" ...

http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/world/editor-of-major-german-newspaper-says-he-planted-stories-for-cia/article/424470#ixzz3QTFEacWC

[delrem]

7. Better late than never.

The grim reaper steps in with its judgement "a few years to live" and long terms plans that include the most despicable collaboration with evil in order to get ahead become as nothing. New plans, how to get into heaven, must be made.

Well, whatever the motivation, better late than never.

[Judi Lynn]

8. You have posted such an important article. It's irreplaceable. People must read it.

Will be keeping this for future reference.

Hope it goes FAR before anyone can block it from travelling further.

Thank you, so much, for providing this information for us. I'm sure we have all been thinking this has happened for ages.