The Poor-Man's Guide to Modernity - Independent Media Center

Caption NSC 10/2 directed CIA to conduct “covert” rather than merely
“psychological” operations, defining them as all activities “which are
conducted or sponsored by this Government against hostile foreign
states or groups or in support of friendly foreign states or groups but
which are so planned and executed that any US Government
responsibility for them is not evident to unauthorized persons and that if
uncovered the US Government can plausibly disclaim any responsibility
for them.” – Furthermore, in order to preempt such uncovering, to
continually seed red herrings and false theories; to delegitimize their
unraveling by labeling them as kookish “conspiracy theories”; to defocus
public energies by introducing “beneficial cognitive diversity”, fabricated
leaks of half-truths which retain core-lies, and “Limited Hangout” mea
culpae, all fed through the “Mighty Wurlitzer” messaging machinery; to
brand the few daring and persistent unravellers of “truth's protective
layers” as deniers of reality suffering from “emotional or mental illness”,
an “oppositional defiant disorder” exhibiting a pattern of “negativistic,
defiant, disobedient and hostile behavior toward authority figures” and
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