From jad@hopper.ACS.Virginia.EDU Thu Oct 21 06:45:49 EDT 1993 Article: 32573 of alt.conspiracy Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa,soc.culture.latin-america Path: murdoch!hopper!jad From: jad@hopper.ACS.Virginia.EDU (John DiNardo) Subject: Part 5, Corporate FBI/CIA Terrorizes American Citizens Message-ID: Followup-To: alt.conspiracy Keywords: Part 5, Corporate FBI/CIA Terrorizes American Citizens Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: U.Va. Internet Public Access Project Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1993 09:58:55 GMT Lines: 172 ____ ____ ____ ____---- ----____ ____---- ----____ ____ ---- ---- ---- T H E P E O P L E'S S P E L L B R E A K E R ____ ____ ____ ---- ----____ ____---- ----____ ____---- ---- ---- ---- DATE OF PRINTING PRICE: __ CENTS THE NEWSPAPER FOR THE PEOPLE OF [your territory; example:] IOWA * * * * * MORNING EDITION * * * * * EDITOR: John DiNardo PUBLISHER: [your name (optional)] ________________________________________ From the free airwaves of The People's Pacifica Radio Network station: WBAI-FM (99.5) 505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707 ________________________________________ Part 5, Corporate FBI/CIA Terrorizes American Citizens ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ROSS GELBSPAN: Basically, it was a shell game of agencies and, using this obscure office in the U.S. State Department called the Office for Public Diplomacy, they [CIA propaganda specialist Walter Raymond] began to pump into the mainstream mass media these opinion-editorial articles, television [political commentators'] discussions and so forth in support of the Reagan Administration's policies, written by and delivered by people who were supposedly independent commentators and who were presented to the American Public as non-partisan people. After the first year of this operation, according to their own records, they had booked FIFTEEN HUNDRED speaking engagements, including radio, television and editorial board interviews, they had distributed material to sixteen hundred college libraries, they had gotten material to a hundred and twenty-two editorial writers, and they had, as you said, placed op-ed pieces in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and the New York Times. It's very interesting because Al Ciardi, who is a fine reporter for the Miami Herald, wrote about this operation, I believe in 1989, and he quoted one individual in the U.S. Government who was familiar with the operation and who refused to be named. And he said to Ciardi: "If you look at it as a whole, the [CIA's] Office for Public Diplomacy was carrying out a huge psychological operation, the kind that the [U.S.] Military conducts to influence populations in enemy territories." This was being done by the Reagan Administration parallel to the FBI investigation and parallel to this rash of break-ins and harrassments against critics of policy that we've been discussing. GARY NULL: Let us also not forget that that same Reagan Administration was also the Reagan-Bush Administration, and that Reagan-Bush Administration was also Bush as the [former] Director of Central Intelligence. To assume that those people have forsaken those particular policies of disinformation, propagandizing -- in effect, brainwashing the American People to accept its [Reagan's] "Evil Empire" concept [of the Soviet Union] is to be extremely naive. As one good example, a little later on, look at how they .... and it was so transparent. It was embarrassing that the American mass media did not challenge it .... that an American soldier's wife was harrassed and the soldier was beaten up and, therefore, that was a PRIMARY reason that the United States Military should be invading Panama. And yet, the mass media bought it and hyped it up and, of course, the media had 1600 different angles about: "How dare any country harrass an American." Of course, it gives the U.S. every right then to bomb the country and to kill its citizens, of which about five thousand Panamanians were killed. And, as mass graves have later turned up, many of these [civilians] had their hands bound behind their backs and they were shot through the head. And they were thrown into mass graves [by American soldiers], including mass graves that were later discovered on the grounds of U.S. Military bases. And NO ONE in the U.S. mainstream mass media ... no one was challenging the absurdity of this. Let's put the situation in reverse. Let's assume that you're from Mexico and some Americans harrass you in a subway, and rob you -- and the next day, the President of Mexico says that this is an intolerable situation and he decides to invade the United States and bomb New York. It's always in its opposite that we see the absurdity. But in the moment, we seem to be CONSTANTLY accepting whatever the mass media prints [or broadcasts]. And the mass media seems to constantly accept whatever the propaganda agencies and their propagandists are offering. And it's hard for me to accept that everyone in the mass media is so naive not to realize that they ARE being used. Your thoughts. ROSS GELBSPAN: My thoughts are that particularly during the Reagan Administration, I was extraordinarily disappointed in the mass media's response to a lot of the things that the Administration did. For example, just in the case of this story of mine on the FBI break-ins and so forth, no other mainstream newspaper really touched it. And I was APPALLED. These were documented cases. If you made a phone call to the local police or the local doctor or the local clergy, you could verify that these things were, in fact, happening. And the mainstream mass media simply would not touch these stories. I do believe that, in the Reagan Presidency, many newspaper editors were afraid of alienating their readerships because they saw the tremendous amount of support that Reagan had. He won by large margins. And I think that many newspaper editors sat on their hands and suppressed their normal instincts -- critical instincts, instincts for demanding accountability, instincts for holding up [to public view] inconsistencies and false statements -- because they were afraid that their own readerships would turn their backs on them. Whatever the case, it was a very disturbing period. And I think I was much more disturbed by the behavior of the Press, in general, toward the Reagan Administration than I was disturbed by the behavior of the FBI [against United States citizens]. There are precedents for the FBI's [fascist] activities in our history. There is not a precedent, to my knowledge, in our recent history for the Press's failure to hold the Administration to account for lies, inconsistencies and outrageous behavior. GARY NULL: Later on in this series, I'll be doing an entire hour on how the Press has allowed itself to be used, or has WILLINGLY participated in the abuse of its responsibilities to report objectively and fairly on these issues. [Reagan Administration fascist and drug runner, Marine colonel] Oliver North had his own parallel intelligence gathering operation in the use of people like Texas private investigator Phil Mabrey[sp] to do surveillance on activists and to report on them. I would also like you to talk about this series of diaries and notebooks that North had wherein SPECIFICALLY he mentions meetings with FBI agents to determine members of dissident groups and the funding sources of those groups, and North's relationship with the FBI's number two man, Buck Ravel[sp]. (to be continued) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * As I see it, the best way that you and I can reap a harvest from the seeds of realization that are being planted here is for each of us to join together to combine our individual strengths into one huge arm powerful enough to wield the awesome sword of the law, forged in Constitutionality, against the totalitarian forces who are subverting our Government and gradually herding us all into subjugation. And so I urge you to contact either one of two legal institutes that I know of having the courage, the resolve and the respect for justice necessary to serve as that sword of legality: William Davis Ramsey Clark The Christic Institute International Action Center 8773 Venice Blvd. 39 West 14th St., suite 206 Los Angeles, CA 90034 New York, NY 10011 1(310)287-1556 1(212)633-6646 John DiNardo ~~~ ~~~