Disinformation campaigns.Your issue on conspiracy theories (THE NEW AMERICAN, May 2, 2005) was both intriguing and impressive. Indeed, many conspiracy theories are so ludicrous as to boggle bog·gle v. bog·gled, bog·gling, bog·gles v.intr. 1. To hesitate as if in fear or doubt. 2. the mind, such as the one you were able to dismiss about the substitution of a missile for an airliner in the attack on the Pentagon on 9/11. You correctly caution that one must be careful to separate the wheat from the chaff chaff 1. chaffed hay; called also chop. 2. the winnowings from a threshing, consisting of awns, husks, glumes and other relatively indigestible materials. and that there is much disinformation dis·in·for·ma·tion n. 1. Deliberately misleading information announced publicly or leaked by a government or especially by an intelligence agency in order to influence public opinion or the government in another nation: about. I couldn't agree more. Nevertheless, as a so-called JFK assassination Assassination See also Murder. assassins Fanatical Moslem sect that smoked hashish and murdered Crusaders (11th—12th centuries). [Islamic Hist.: Brewer Note-Book, 52] Brutus conspirator and assassin of Julius Caesar. [Br. buff, I will adamantly defend those who patiently, over the years, have assembled an impressive array of facts that totally discredit the Warren Report. There was a monstrous disinformation effort on the part of the U.S. government to discredit the critics of the Warren Report. Such an effort has recently come to light in a book published in 2002, Regicide REGICIDE. The killing of a king, and, by extension, of a queen. Theorie des Lois Criminelles, vol. 1, p. 300. , by Gregory Douglas (Monte Sante Media). It was the deliberate policy of the CIA CIA: see Central Intelligence Agency. (1) (Confidentiality Integrity Authentication) The three important concerns with regards to information security. Encryption is used to provide confidentiality (privacy, secrecy). to establish a disinformation campaign, to swamp the press with many reports and books on the subject so that the public would soon either be tired of the subject or be so totally confused as to lose interest in the subject. The purpose of this campaign was to defuse the recognition of the public that the CIA was involved in the JFK assassination. The implications of these revelations are staggering. You raise the same point in your article, that the government itself was recently involved in addressing such conspiracy theories through the popular press, witness the Popular Mechanics article cited about the 9/11 events. Both government disinformation campaigns used the same tactics: saturate sat·u·rate v. Abbr. sat. 1. To imbue or impregnate thoroughly. 2. To soak, fill, or load to capacity. 3. To cause a substance to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance. the press with accusations about wild conspiracy theories and overwhelm them with books and reports supporting the official view, and the opposition will eventually die. When the CIA can spend unaccountable millions of dollars on such adventures to deceive the public, what is the hope that the "rule of the people" will survive? (I avoid the term democracy, since we are a republic.) I fear for our future. JOHN D. S. MUHLENBERG Vienna, Virginia |
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