The CIA Mind Control program (MK Ultra) was largely secret until journalist Seymour Hersch shamed Congress into investigating CIA domestic ops in the mid-seventies (albeit some thirty plus years after L. Ron Hubbard originally exposed it). One of the subsequent Senate Committees barely touched upon a broader mind control program the CIA had been cultivating on the heels of MK Ultra. That was Operation Mockingbird, designed to weaponize the U.S. media to control the minds of Americans on a mass scale. The Committee found “fifty journalists who had official, but secret, relationships with the CIA” to influence media.
This aligned with the CIA’s apparent intent to use propaganda as a more “acceptable” form of mass ‘behavior control.” That is detailed in a 1973 CIA memo summarizing control techniques:
“[T]he most innocuous, most effective and acceptable means of effecting behavioral control or change is education. The educative process which includes propaganda techniques, does not merely transmit information but a belief or value system as well. It is the latter which often provides the impetus to dramatic and difficult to understand behavior, e.g., suicidal terrorist activities.” (The document)
We are learning in real time that despite representations to the contrary those programs to control our minds with misinformation and disinformation were expanded and are apparently in full force today. Our current Director of National Intelligence, decidedly senior to the CIA and its alphabet soup, expanding network of US intelligence agencies, has recently been alerting the American public to current clandestine propaganda operations that make Operation Mockingbird look like child’s play. This is big news over alternative, citizen media. Tellingly, very little of it is in corporate media. Here is a short sum up:
The Trump administration weathered several months of nationwide violent riots, sponsored by leftwing nonpolitical groups largely funded by our own government (coordinated by CIA through USAID and the thousands of NGO’s – non government political fronts – it funds). Their issue? The cancellation of your tax dollars being used to create such destruction of property and persons. How could this be happening in real time, against the titular head of all US intelligence and in defiance of the sitting United States President? CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou answers that question in a lengthy interview with Tucker Carlson. He describes how CIA veterans have innumerable means of non complying with a Commander in Chief who thinks he is senior to them. They use banks of psychiatrists and psychologists to analyze and coach the CIA on how to manipulate and confuse sitting presidents. They reckon they can conduct business as usual before even an energetic President can get to the bottom of their clandestine ops. These are short segments within a lengthy interview. If you care about your presidential vote being meaningful, you may want to hear the whole thing: Carlson with John Kireakou.
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