Most Important Video of the Year According to Snowden

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Source: RT  November 10, 2022

It turns out that not only is Fake News allowed now, it’s also actively encouraged and always has been. For the CIA at least, not for us plebs. An explosive video released by whistleblower Edward Snowden shows Frank Snepp, former chief analyst of North Vietnamese strategy for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), casually discussing in 1983 the practice of ‘planting’ false information in the media.

Don’t start questioning things though, because that would make you a *gasp* conspiracy theorist. And we’re sure the CIA would never dream of spreading false information these days…

Snowden, who currently lives in Russia after gaining citizenship in the country, posted a short clip from Snepp’s interview on Monday. In the video, the former intelligence officer explained how he had served as an interrogator, agent debriefer and chief strategy analyst while working in the US embassy in Saigon during the Vietnam War.

Snepp said one his duties was to brief the press when the CIA wanted to “circulate disinformation on a particular issue,” noting this information was not necessarily a lie, and could even be a half-truth. 

“We would pick out a journalist, I would go do the briefing, and hope that he would put the information in print,” Snepp said, noting the journalists would usually have no way of actually verifying any of the information provided to them.

Snepp went on to name a few journalists who the CIA had specifically targeted over their “terrific influence,” and named a few “respected journalists” who were working in Saigon at the time, such as Robert Chaplin of the New Yorker, Kies Beach of the Los Angeles Times, Malcolm Brown of the New York Times, and Maynard Parker of Newsweek magazine, among others.

The whistleblower even revealed how the CIA had managed to plant a story in the New Yorker about supposed North Vietnamese war plans. This story was later used by the agency to convince the US Congress to provide more aid to Saigon and paint North Vietnam as the “chief violators of a ceasefire” accord.

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