INTELLIGENCE DUMP

While trying to keep pace with an ever-changing world there is a point where we have difficulty keeping informed of what dangers are out there that might harm our families and ourselves.

So we develop a need for instant information. A flip of the switch gets us a news report. We listen and watch for certain buzzwords or sound bites. If we do not hear anything that sounds dangerous to us or if it does not affect us directly we tend to overlook it, or ignore it.

There are times where we have neglected information that may come back and bite us in the future.

That information, of course, is history, and while some of us were nerds and paid attention to it, there were others who felt that anything dealing with history would have no bearing on our lives in the future.

The more we neglect information or take it for granted that it is all truth, the quicker we will find ourselves more confused and less informed.

Truth is the biggest casualty of war, and the CIA are now bragging about it in a new Intelligence dump that has been making the rounds online.

Throughout history there have been cycles where governments have found ways to use disinformation in order to steer consensus intelligence away from the truth about what is truly happening behind the curtain of government.

The general root of all conspiracy theory is the notion that someone of a group of someones are not telling the truth and therefore it is imperative that the lies that are being told are exposed to the public.

There are those who see conspiracies everywhere, and then there are those who are reasonable and critical that see that there seems to be something out of place, and that the gaping holes in any story need to be filled either with an outrageous hypothesis or to be left alone in a dangling mystery.

There is usually one thing that inclines you to believing in a conspiracy and that is the way more trusting people react to the very idea that government keeps secrets and with those secrets they are actually plotting against you in favor of more rights and freedoms for them.

The eroding sense of values and human rights in this country and they way we allow them to be sucked from us is suspicious and part of what is called an open conspiracy where people are literally participating in it and acting as if they have no choice but to hear and obey.

In the world today, the intelligence arms of the United States government and various operations within the state department have successfully created a reality in America than can be a hell of a lot weirder than any science fiction story you will find in a comic book or playing on a movie screen.

Improbable events are becoming probable and paranoia has supplanted patriotism. For some people this is tragic, and others find it infuriating that there is always a clue or some sort of indication that collusion or a conspiracy to destroy the United States is there and that there are selected individuals that are paid by the government to deliver deliberate disinformation to throw you off the trail of just who is committing activities that are either illegal or questionable.

Disinformation is always a tool to create a murkiness level that can be literally maddening. The alleged participants in any conspiracy first deny their participation and after the news cycle moves on to other stories, they openly admit to being a part of some nefarious operation. By the time they decide to cleanse their souls, the public forum has already made up their minds on the matter and this is why we see many of the psychopaths in the cryptocracy get away with all sorts of criminal activity.

There are many other ways this happens as well. If you recall there was an FCC ruling that was being proposed that thrust the federal government into newsrooms across the country. With its “Multi-Market Study of Critical Information Needs,” or CIN, the agency plans to send researchers to grill reporters, editors and station owners about how they decide which stories to run.
The purpose of the CIN, according to the FCC, is to ferret out information from television and radio broadcasters about “the process by which stories are selected” and how often stations cover “critical information needs,” along with “perceived station bias” and “perceived responsiveness to underserved populations.”

The CIN Study had been in development, largely unnoticed, for two years and included inquiries by the FCC covering various news coverage operations. There were various questions that were posed to station officials such as “General Managers, News Directors, Editors, etc.” included:

What is the news philosophy of the station?

How much does community input influence news coverage decisions?

Who decides which stories are covered?

How much influence do reporters and anchors have in deciding which stories to cover?

The CIN Study also called for review and “coding” of radio and TV newscasts from stations in the test markets. Recordings of newscasts were to be provided to “coders” who would analyze and chart their content both quantitatively and qualitatively The coders would also have to address the fundamentals of the content of each story by evaluating “the frame of the coverage of the CIN”, i.e., whether “the coverage is framed to suggest who/what was responsible for the condition and who/what might be responsible for any action.”

Such dramatic intrusions into basic questions of editorial judgment were obviously treading into violating the free press and so the proposal was later suspended as it was challenged by the public as to its violation of a free press.
However a new Intelligence dump has been made known about the CIA and the State department intruding upon the mainstream news and how the CIA is able to manipulate news stories and stories that deal with foreign countries.

The CIA now has declassified a trove of articles from its in-house journal, “Studies in Intelligence, ” which is ostensibly a semi-academic review of spy-craft. The facts emerge in the various intelligence pieces, which date from the 1970s to the 2000s. In this latest intelligence dump we see information which at times so much more, at turns mocks excessive secrecy and bad writing, to dishing on problematic affairs, and bragging about press manipulation.
The documents include a 2004 interview with Michael Hayden, then head of the NSA where he describes how the NSA had begun a media offensive, to “put a human face on the agency:”

The recent intelligence dump was prompted by a lawsuit from a former CIA employee, Jeffrey Scudder, who has said that his attempt to have these articles released via a Freedom of Information Act request destroyed his career. He was accused of mishandling classified information in making the request, and was fired. The CIA has now released 249 of the 419 documents Scudder requested.

Even though the intelligence dump brags about Intelligence operations and manipulation of the media, the history of the CIA’s involvement with the American press continues to be shrouded by an official policy of obfuscation and deception. There are still many individuals that will continue to deny that the news business has a very long and deceptive relationship with the State department and the CIA.

There are many conspiracy theorists that will tell you that media disinformation provided by the CIA or NSA is old news, however the leaks and the bragging in the new intelligence dump is worthy of exposure due to the fact that there has been a sense of denial amongst the populace that the conspiracy theorists were correct in their assumptions about our so called free press.

According to Carl Bernstein the famed reporter of the Washington Post, the use of journalists has been among the most productive means of intelligence gathering employed by the CIA. Although the Agency has cut back sharply on the use of reporters since 1973 primarily as a result of pressure from the media), some journalist operatives’ are still posted abroad.

The CIA’s use of the American news media has been much more extensive than Agency officials have acknowledged publicly or in closed sessions with members of Congress. The general outlines of what happened are indisputable; the specifics are harder to come by. CIA sources hint that a particular journalist was trafficking all over Eastern Europe for the Agency; the journalist says no, he just had lunch with the station chief. CIA sources say flatly that a well known ABC correspondent worked for the Agency through 1973; they refuse to identify him.

However it has been revealed that the well known anchor on ABC Anderson Cooper worked for the CIA 20 years ago. Cooper admits in a blog that for a couple months over the course of two summers, that he worked at the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.

In his blog explaining the stint after his attending Yale, Cooper is incredulous as to why so many people want to know what he did for the CIA.

According to CNN spokespeople he left the CIA and nothing more was said about it. The only thing that seems strange is that after he allegedly left the CIA he went to Burma and got involved with dissident students fighting the government there while claiming to be a reporter though having no affiliation with any news outlet. After that he moved to Vietnam, he also lived in Somalia, Bosnia, and Rwanda.

According to Carl Bernstein’s The CIA and the media here is a summary of the agency’s control of the news flow:

“During the 1976 investigation of the CIA by the Senate Intelligence Committee, chaired by Senator Frank Church, the dimensions of the Agency’s involvement with the press became apparent to several members of the panel, as well as to two or three investigators on the staff. But top officials of the CIA, including former directors William Colby and George Bush, persuaded the committee to restrict its inquiry into the matter and to deliberately misrepresent the actual scope of the activities in its final report. The multi volume report contains nine pages in which the use of journalists is discussed in deliberately vague and sometimes misleading terms. It makes no mention of the actual number of journalists who undertook covert tasks for the CIA. Nor does it adequately describe the role played by newspaper and broadcast executives in cooperating with the Agency.”—Carl Bernstein

Forty-two percent of Americans watch TV and base their opinions on what they see as the news.

The control of information is vital to the elite, because information is what shapes public thought and opinion.

According to a recent Gallup survey Americans’ confidence in the media’s ability to report “the news fully, accurately, and fairly” has returned to its previous all-time low of 40%. Americans’ trust in mass media has generally been edging downward from higher levels in the late 1990s and the early 2000s.

Prior to 2004, Americans placed more trust in mass media than they do now, with slim majorities saying they had a “great deal” or “fair amount” of trust. But over the course of former President George W. Bush’s re-election season, the level of trust fell significantly, from 54% in 2003 to 44% in 2004. Although trust levels rebounded to 50% in 2005, they have failed to reach a full majority since.

With this in mind let us think about world events and how we all have an opinion on what is going on based on the narrative provided by the media. There have been several events in history that have been traumatizing to the nation as a whole.

So traumatizing in fact that people are confused about what really went on and rather than overload with details are satisfied to the watered down explanations provided by the media that is under the direction of corporate interest and quite frankly produces news that is sanitized by the Pentagon, or even the CIA , NSA and in some cases the executive branch of government.

Very few average people have the discipline to check their views and beliefs with the criteria of consistency. The average person when listening to proposed authority needs to also internally decide if any claim that has been made provides verifiable documentation to your satisfaction.

Do all of the pieces of information provided fit the dialogue and time line provided?

If they don’t then do you reject the claim or do you investigate further? The average person will not even go that far.

While the experiences of the world differ do you still decide that what you have seen in the narrative is reality?

Who in the world has the ambition to weigh everything based on what is really transpiring and not what the narrative provides or what the inner core belief you possess tends to cloud?

Problems in any of the traits I have described go ignored by the average person. They are also forgotten and are replaced by emotional belief and not on anything dealing with fact.

In the mainstream narrative fact is elusive.

The internal dynamic that is being presented in the media is that anyone who questions their Newspeak, any outspoken independent reporter or activist is a target that should be maligned and viewed as a tinfoil hat wearing crank.

There was a time when one reporter declared an all out war on conspiracy theorists. Is it any surprise that the reporter was Anderson Cooper?

Perhaps Mr. Cooper should not complain so much.