Modern Art As CIA Weapon

ꕤ Article SOURCE http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html The Independent Modern art was CIA 'weapon' By Frances Stonor Saunders  |  Saturday 15 June 2013 Revealed: how the spy agency used unwitting artists such as Pollock and de Kooning in a cultural Cold War For decades in art circles it was either a rumour or a joke, but now it is confirmed as a fact. The Central Intelligence Agency used American modern art - including the works of such artists as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko - as a weapon in the Cold War. In the manner of a Renaissance prince - except that it acted secretly - the CIA fostered and promoted American Abstract Expressionist painting around the world for more than 20 years. The connection is improbable. This was a period, in the 1950s and 1960s, when the great majority of Americans disliked or even despised modern art - President Truman summed up the popular view when he said: "If that's art, then I'm a Hottentot." As for the artists themselves, many were ex-communists barely acceptable in the America of the McCarthyite era, and certainly not the sort of people normally likely to receive US government backing. Why did the CIA support them? Because in the propaganda war with the Soviet Union, this new artistic movement could be held up as proof of the creativity, the intellectual freedom, and the cultural power of the US. Russian art, strapped into the communist ideological straitjacket, could not compete. The existence of this policy, rumoured and disputed for many years, has now been confirmed for the first time by former CIA officials. Unknown to the artists, the new American art was secretly promoted under a policy known as the "long leash" - arrangements similar in some ways to the indirect CIA backing of the journal Encounter, edited by Stephen Spender. The decision to include culture and art in the US Cold War arsenal was taken as soon as the CIA was founded in 1947. Dismayed at the appeal communism still had for many intellectuals and artists in the West, the new agency set up a division, the Propaganda Assets Inventory, which at its peak could influence more than 800 newspapers, magazines and public information organisations. They joked that it was like a Wurlitzer jukebox: when the CIA pushed a button it could hear whatever tune it wanted playing across the world. The next key step came in 1950, when the International Organisations Division (IOD) was set up under Tom Braden. It was this office which subsidised the animated version of George Orwell's Animal Farm, which sponsored American jazz artists, opera recitals, the Boston Symphony Orchestra's international touring programme. Its agents were placed in the film industry, in publishing houses, even as travel writers for the celebrated Fodor guides. And, we now know, it promoted America's anarchic avant-garde movement, Abstract Expressionism. Initially, more open attempts were made to support the new American art. In 1947 the State Department organised and paid for a touring international exhibition entitled "Advancing American Art", with the aim of rebutting Soviet suggestions that America was a cultural desert. But the show caused outrage at home, prompting Truman to make his Hottentot remark and one bitter congressman to declare: "I am just a dumb American who pays taxes for this kind of trash." The tour had to be cancelled. The US government now faced a dilemma. This philistinism, combined with Joseph McCarthy's hysterical denunciations of all that was avant-garde or unorthodox, was deeply embarrassing. It discredited the idea that America was a sophisticated, culturally rich democracy. It also prevented the US government from consolidating the shift in cultural supremacy from Paris to New York since the 1930s. To resolve this dilemma, the CIA was brought in. The connection is not quite as odd as it might appear. At this time the new agency, staffed mainly by Yale and Harvard graduates, many of whom collected art and wrote novels in their spare time, was a haven of liberalism when compared with a political world dominated by McCarthy or with J Edgar Hoover's FBI. If any official institution was in a position to celebrate the collection of Leninists, Trotskyites and heavy drinkers that made up the New York School, it was the CIA. Until now there has been no first-hand evidence to prove that this connection was made, but for the first time a former case officer, Donald Jameson, has broken the silence. Yes, he says, the agency saw Abstract Expressionism as an opportunity, and yes, it ran with it. "Regarding Abstract Expressionism, I'd love to be able to say that the CIA invented it just to see what happens in New York and downtown SoHo tomorrow!" he joked. "But I think that what we did really was to recognise the difference. It was recognised that Abstract Expressionism was the kind of art that made Socialist Realism look even more stylised and more rigid and confined than it was. And that relationship was exploited in some of the exhibitions. "In a way our understanding was helped because Moscow in those days was very vicious in its denunciation of any kind of non-conformity to its own very rigid patterns. And so one could quite adequately and accurately reason that anything they criticised that much and that heavy-handedly was worth support one way or another." To pursue its underground interest in America's lefty avant-garde, the CIA had to be sure its patronage could not be discovered. "Matters of this sort could only have been done at two or three removes," Mr Jameson explained, "so that there wouldn't be any question of having to clear Jackson Pollock, for example, or do anything that would involve these people in the organisation. And it couldn't have been any closer, because most of them were people who had very little respect for the government, in particular, and certainly none for the CIA. If you had to use people who considered themselves one way or another to be closer to Moscow than to Washington, well, so much the better perhaps." This was the "long leash". The centrepiece of the CIA campaign became the Congress for Cultural Freedom, a vast jamboree of intellectuals, writers, historians, poets, and artists which was set up with CIA funds in 1950 and run by a CIA agent. It was the beach-head from which culture could be defended against the attacks of Moscow and its "fellow travellers" in the West. At its height, it had offices in 35 countries and published more than two dozen magazines, including Encounter. The Congress for Cultural Freedom also gave the CIA the ideal front to promote its covert interest in Abstract Expressionism. It would be the official sponsor of touring exhibitions; its magazines would provide useful platforms for critics favourable to the new American painting; and no one, the artists included, would be any the wiser. This organisation put together several exhibitions of Abstract Expressionism during the 1950s. One of the most significant, "The New American Painting", visited every big European city in 1958-59. Other influential shows included "Modern Art in the United States" (1955) and "Masterpieces of the Twentieth Century" (1952). Because Abstract Expressionism was expensive to move around and exhibit, millionaires and museums were called into play. Pre-eminent among these was Nelson Rockefeller, whose mother had co-founded the Museum of Modern Art in New York. As president of what he called "Mummy's museum", Rockefeller was one of the biggest backers of Abstract Expressionism (which he called "free enterprise painting"). His museum was contracted to the Congress for Cultural Freedom to organise and curate most of its important art shows. The museum was also linked to the CIA by several other bridges. William Paley, the president of CBS broadcasting and a founding father of the CIA, sat on the members' board of the museum's International Programme. John Hay Whitney, who had served in the agency's wartime predecessor, the OSS, was its chairman. And Tom Braden, first chief of the CIA's International Organisations Division, was executive secretary of the museum in 1949. Now in his eighties, Mr Braden lives in Woodbridge, Virginia, in a house packed with Abstract Expressionist works and guarded by enormous Alsatians. He explained the purpose of the IOD. "We wanted to unite all the people who were writers, who were musicians, who were artists, to demonstrate that the West and the United States was devoted to freedom of expression and to intellectual achievement, without any rigid barriers as to what you must write, and what you must say, and what you must do, and what you must paint, which was what was going on in the Soviet Union. I think it was the most important division that the agency had, and I think that it played an enormous role in the Cold War." He confirmed that his division had acted secretly because of the public hostility to the avant-garde: "It was very difficult to get Congress to go along with some of the things we wanted to do - send art abroad, send symphonies abroad, publish magazines abroad. That's one of the reasons it had to be done covertly. It had to be a secret. In order to encourage openness we had to be secret." If this meant playing pope to this century's Michelangelos, well, all the better: "It takes a pope or somebody with a lot of money to recognise art and to support it," Mr Braden said. "And after many centuries people say, 'Oh look! the Sistine Chapel, the most beautiful creation on Earth!' It's a problem that civilisation has faced ever since the first artist and the first millionaire or pope who supported him. And yet if it hadn't been for the multi-millionaires or the popes, we wouldn't have had the art." Would Abstract Expressionism have been the dominant art movement of the post-war years without this patronage? The answer is probably yes. Equally, it would be wrong to suggest that when you look at an Abstract Expressionist painting you are being duped by the CIA.  [comment:  lol ... I can no longer look at any 'art' crap without thinking CIA is behind it.] But look where this art ended up: in the marble halls of banks, in airports, in city halls, boardrooms and great galleries. For the Cold Warriors who promoted them, these paintings were a logo, a signature for their culture and system which they wanted to display everywhere that counted. They succeeded. * The full story of the CIA and modern art is told in 'Hidden Hands' on Channel 4 next Sunday at 8pm. The first programme in the series is screened tonight. Frances Stonor Saunders is writing a book on the cultural Cold War. Covert Operation In 1958 the touring exhibition "The New American Painting", including works by Pollock, de Kooning, Motherwell and others, was on show in Paris. The Tate Gallery was keen to have it next, but could not afford to bring it over. Late in the day, an American millionaire and art lover, Julius Fleischmann, stepped in with the cash and the show was brought to London. The money that Fleischmann provided, however, was not his but the CIA's. It came through a body called the Farfield Foundation, of which Fleischmann was president, but far from being a millionaire's charitable arm, the foundation was a secret conduit for CIA funds. So, unknown to the Tate, the public or the artists, the exhibition was transferred to London at American taxpayers' expense to serve subtle Cold War propaganda purposes. A former CIA man, Tom Braden, described how such conduits as the Farfield Foundation were set up. "We would go to somebody in New York who was a well-known rich person and we would say, 'We want to set up a foundation.' We would tell him what we were trying to do and pledge him to secrecy, and he would say, 'Of course I'll do it,' and then you would publish a letterhead and his name would be on it and there would be a foundation. It was really a pretty simple device." Julius Fleischmann was well placed for such a role. He sat on the board of the International Programme of the Museum of Modern Art in New York - as did several powerful figures close to the CIA. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html Mainstream Media - Concentrated Big-6 Corporate Control - Lies & Indoctrination Post | here ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT As if the CIA has given up controlling the media and the intelligentsia. It probably explains all those shill journalists supporting American foreign policy & their ludicrous propaganda. [Massive headache from keeping weird hours (again) ... might have to come back to comment further on this post.  Interesting stuff.] ꕤ

Mainstream Media - Concentrated - Big-6 Corporate Control - Lies & Indoctrination

ꕤ Article SOURCE Activist Post | here Activist Post Investigative Journalist For CBS News Exposes How Mainstream Media Brainwashes The Public November 30, 2015 By Amanda Froelich If you’re aware that only a handful of corporations (6, to be exact) control over 90% of the media, you’re one of the few. What this means is that everything you hear on the radio, read in the news, and see on television (including the ‘news’), is controlled by one of these six corporations: General Electric (GE), News Corp, Disney, Viacom, Time Warner, and CBS. This startling truth has become more commonly accepted in recent years, especially since Operation Mockingbird, a CIA-based initiative to control mainstream media, was exposed. Popular avenues of information are now bombarded with clever marketing tactics telling the public what to think and what to buy, how to look, and where to spend hard-earned dollars. Such is evident once you wake up and note the blatant lies continuing to spam the TV screen and newspaper headlines – especially concerning the topics of health, food, war (“terrorism”), poverty, and more. Sadly, people aren’t even aware of how brainwashed they’ve become. That’s where Sharyl Attkisson comes in. For her eye-opening TEDx talk (below), the veteran investigative journalist (and former CBS News investigative reporter) reveals how “astroturf,” or fake grassroots movements, funded by political, corporate, or other special interests very effectively manipulate and distort media messages. It’s time the populace wake up and question everything with integrity. SOURCE Activist Post | here Operation Mockingbird secret campaign by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to influence media https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird Newly Declassified Govt Docs Reveal Operation Mockingbird is Alive and Well By Jay Syrmopoulos on October 2, 2015 An agency of the U.S. government was exposed trying to control the public narrative over WikiLeaks in 2011 by influencing media outlets coverage, as revealed in the latest batch of Hillary Clinton emails released by the State Department. The emails from Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs at the time, Philip J. Crowley, expose the U.S. State Department “planting” a number of “questions and concerns” with CBS News for a 60 minutes piece on WikiLeaks, featuring Julian Assange. ARTICLE CONTINUED AT SOURCE http://thefreethoughtproject.com/feds-exposed-planting-talking-points-questions-60-minutes-episode-wikileaks/ Modern Art As CIA Weapon Operation Mockingbird Post | here ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT Maybe that's why I don't watch TV or listen to radio.  lol ꕤ

Syria: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) - Fraud

ꕤ Video | Transcript BBC FRAUD - SYRIA ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- ☢  ☢ Transcript [ Confirm Audio / Video For Quotation Purposes ] The Truth Seeker Daniel Bushell RT News Daniel Bushell RT News Stunning fakery in the alleged chemical weapons attack, according to a former UK ambassador. Coming up. Other narration: The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is accused of staging chemical weapons attack. The CIA admits planting CNN reporters. And international lawyers call for journalists inciting violence to be expelled. Daniel Bushell RT News August 2013. NATO leaders can't get the public on side for the imminent bombing of Syria. Suddenly, BBC says it was filming a small rural hospital and a game-changing atrocity happens right there, the moment they were filming. CUTS TO FILM CLIP:  'Syria Crisis', Ian Pannell, BBC (August, 2013) BBC Narrator Ian Pannell "... we were filming the doctors working at this hospital when victims of an incendiary bomb attack on a school playground started pouring in." CUTS TO FILM CLIP:  'Syria Crisis', Ian Pannell, BBC (August, 2013) Female - [kitted up in dramatic face-mask] "Absolute chaos and carnage here. It must be some sort of napalm." [At issue:  BBC footage August 2013 vs BBC Footage September 2013] Daniel Bushell RT News But a highly sceptical public stayed hostile to military intervention. Exactly one month later, the leaders are trying to pin a chemical weapons attack on Syria, without success. The BBC airs exactly the same footage, but digitally alters the word 'napalm' for 'chemical weapons', hoping no-one will notice. CUTS TO FILM CLIP:  'Saving Syria's Children', Ian Pannell, BBC (September, 2013) Female - [kitted up in dramatic face-mask] "Absolute chaos and carnage here. It must be some sort of chemical weapon." Daniel Bushell RT News Not only did folks notice, but it's unleashed a massive public investigation which made some extremely disturbing findings. Robert Stuart This is the total fabrication, from beginning to end, of an atrocity, with BBC 'reporter' Ian Pannell standing amidst a tableau of very bad actors.  This is completely beyond the pale'. Daniel Bushell RT News This audio analysis by media investigator Robyn Upton shows both versions [of BBC audio] are identical and from the same speech. The BBC then altered the words from 'napalm' to 'chemical weapon', the EXACT justification  NATO was finding difficult prove. That game-changing allegation was made by two doctors have travelled with the BBC, who claimed the number of sudden casualties is "overwhelming". What kind of doctor, notes media investigator Robert Stuart, gives interviews when she is surrounded by supposedly seriously burned and dying teenagers. Translated English overdub: "Get anyone who isn't a patient out out of here." Daniel Bushell RT News When a nurse does finally start to help, her order to "get anyone who isn't a patient out of here" doesn't apply to the cameramen. Even worse, notes Stuart [Roberts], is the bizarre acting which starts when the man in the centre gives the sign. 'Doctor Rola', on whose sole claim the BBC sends 'napalm chemical weapons' allegations around the world is actually the daughter of Syrian rebel Mousa al-Kardi. The parallel to the Gulf War and [the testimony of] Nurse Nayirah is stunning. Congressmen said the nurse's tearful testimony that Iraqis were killing children swung their vote in favour of war. [Cuts to footage of 'Nurse Nayirah' - 'Lies Pushed US to Bomb Iraq', Courtesy C-Span] 'Nurse Nayirah' tearful footage: " ... and left the children to die on the cold floor."  [sniff, sniff] Daniel Bushell RT News Nurse Nayirah became the mainstream's darling, but once the vote had safely passed, she admitted INVENTING the whole thing and was actually the daughter of the Kuwaiti Ambassador to Washington, lying to get the public to back war. UK Member of Parliament joins us. Thank you very much for coming on. Why do we get almost identical claims before each war, which then prove lies? George Galloway UK Member of Parliament: Well, the 'Bush and Blair Corporation' [ie the BBC], as it became in the run-up to the Iraq war, has almost entirely lost its reputation for journalistic integrity. A full inquiry must be lodged into why the BBC used a piece of material which was not just wrong, but was falsified and falsified with the purpose of propelling out country into war. That's not what the British public pays its BBC licence fee for, so that it can be tricked into a war. Daniel Bushell RT News In a statement, the British Broadcasting Corporation says it stands by its report. The Syrian opposition denies the allegations. Investigators such as Robert Stuart note there are many questions sent to the Corporation [BBC] remaining unanswered. There are also numerous such precedents both in this war and in previous invasions. 'Brilliant' is how a top Western called tricking the public through routine faking of atrocities, commonly aired on mainstream bulletins. Nightly news shows just a few cases of what happened next, after mainstream cameras ended their reports. Male Voice American 'Nightly News': "It shows people putting on, you know, fake wounds; it shows -- look, there some guys there, there's their head wounds, peace everybody -- you know, we're doing the right thing, we're creating fake propaganda.  I mean, it's not even real atrocities so they're lined up; there's another video showing a guy kicking his leg and with a fake blood wound.  Here's a guy who wakes up from his funeral. Watch this -- oh, he's awake.  He's not even really dead.  So, I mean, this is just crazy what goes on.  There's another video that was shot of a supposed massacre and it cuts -- you don't see the whole thing.  When you go to the Al Jazeera footage it shows real quick clips of a guy kicking his leg and he's got blood coming out.  It turned out to be fake blood." Daniel Bushell RT News The so-called activists behind the fakes are by far the most popular source of despite them never being verified and regularly disproved as fabrications to justify more NATO arms. The term 'activist' may sound like a well-meaning Western campaigner or charity, but the Foreign Policy Journal notes it's just newspeak for insurgents. The official source of Syria casualties, or what mainstream claims is official, is an impressive sounding organisation THE SYRIAN OBSERVATORY FOR HUMAN RIGHTS. Reuters exposed the fact three (3) years ago it was not an organisation at all, or even working in Syria. It's a single pro-insurgent supporter living in Coventry, England. Here pictured at the Foreign Office after instructions from Britian's Foreign Minister himself. In leaked footage, ordinary Syrians told the BBC they're tired of its lies and the insurgents they're cheer-leading are a tiny minority led by foreign gangs. [Cuts to footage:  males challenging female American sounding journalist and asserting that Assad is widely supported by most of the 22-million Syrians and that very small minority, number in the thousands, are in opposition.] Daniel Bushell RT News Pro-war media is forced to resort to colossal lies since intelligence chiefs reveal to America's top investigative reporter Sy Hersh: "Obama's cronies are making it up.  All the evidence actually points to the jihadis staging the chemical attacks. SY HERSH Author:  'Whose Sarin?' The 'attack was not the result of the current regime', the high-level intelligence officer wrote in an email to a colleague. ‘The guys are throwing their hands in the air and saying, “How can we help this guy” – Obama – “when he and his cronies in the White House make up the intelligence as they go along?”, said a former intelligence official." Daniel Bushell RT News The distortion, he said, reminded him of the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. [RT on film:  'Wag the Dog', Barry Levinson, New Line Cinema (1997)] Daniel Bushell RT News The thought a US President would start a horrific foreign war by staging a pretty female front as a victim made people laugh. [Cuts to film footage] [Film:  'Wag the Dog', Barry Levinson, New Line Cinema (1997)] [Subsequently cuts to: [Film:  'I Am A Ukrainian', Appleseed Entertainment (2014)] Daniel Bushell RT News Meet 'Julia' (if that's her real name), the celebrated face the mass media called the creator of a viral video asking the US to help Ukraine. It was actually created by the [US] State Department's National Endowment for Democracy (NED), to mask the fact that Washington joined Ukraine thugs and murdered their way to power. A leaked phone call with EU Foreign [Catherine] Ashton revealed the opposite planned and executed the infamous sniper violence of Kiev, shooting both the police and their own supporters in the back. A study found a total of 250 mainstream sources lied that the snipers belonged to Yanukovych. Only seven (7) of the entire mass media even mentioned the bombshell leak, and those that did, framed the report to suggest it couldn't possibly be true. Former Wall Street Journal editor, Paul Criag Roberts, called the coverage in Ukraine a new low in the history of the mainstream, which is now simply what he described as a ministry of lies. Investigative reporter John Helmer's uncovered mainstream staging demonstrations and attempts to provoke disorder. He joins us. Great to speak to you. One US scholar notes the coverage has become Orwellian.  What's going on? John Helmer Investigative Reporter So the weaker your government, the more interested the leader might be in threatening Russia to look strong at home, when it's obvious he's not strong at home and couldn't get re-elected. That's particularly true of, let's say, the French president, or Prime Minister Cameron at the moment. Arguably President Obama is not only a lame duck, but having great difficulty in putting together a winning coalition for the Democratic Party's next candidate for president. When you've got weak political leaders, you need to look stronger than you are in public opinion in the media.  So there's this process of misleading and disinforming. Daniel Bushell RT News The Senate Committee enquiry revealed CIA running mainstream media in a vast operation known as Mockingbird. More than 400 journalists and media chiefs claiming to watchdog the government were the exact opposite:  joining to mask US government crime at home and abroad. The operation continues despite [CIA] agency denials. Counterpunch discovered CIA imposing agents on firms like CNN. Former CIA [officer] Michael Scheuer notes British media are even closer to intel targets. Scheuer adds that BBC now takes the lead in regime change operations that cause 'anarchy' and violence. Let's speak to Francis Boyle, professor of international law at Illinois University. Great to talk to you. How can nations stop war media that now perform the CIA's covert operations? FRANCIS BOYLE PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL LAW CHAMPAIGN, ILLINOIS Certainly, have their visas revoked and sent packing home, because I really don't understand why some of these countries keep, you know, European journalist, certainly in the United States, why they let them into the countries; because they're just using their cover to provoke war and military intervention at home. [Split Screen / Cut to footage: ABCNews #ABCWorldNews - Crisis in Ukraine, Blood in the Streets LiveCNN - Crisis in Ukraine - Breaking News - 'Putin Threatens More Military Action'  |  Anderson Cooper depicted] In addition, Bush junior administration lifted what was supposed to be the previous prohibition that intelligence agents were not supposed to infiltrate the media. You know, you have to be very careful, certainly dealing with US reporters, whether or not they're intelligence agents. Daniel Bushell RT News [???] active units of the military, also known as Wall Street media, show how serious the situation now is.  They're policies aren't popular with their own viewers. Mainstream audiences are in free-fall. CNN and MSNBC have shed half their entire viewership in the last year alone. The question is, how many more coups they will stage or help, before they lose the public's trust altogether. Seek truth from facts. This is the Truth Seeker. [end audio/video] Whose sarin? Seymour M. Hersh Vol. 35 No. 24 · 19 December 2013 http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n24/seymour-m-hersh/whose-sarin ꕤ

Mary Pinchot Meyer

ꕤ Video SOURCE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNIkwDgzKuQ&feature=youtu.be ❦ Mary Pinchot Meyer   Murdered b.   October 14, 1920 d.   October 12, 1964 ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- Ex-wife of Cord Meyer Cord Meyer CIA under:  Frank Wisner Office of Policy Coordination (OPC) OPC = mounting operations, rigging elections, controlling newspapers, swaying opinion Cord Meyer CIA:   Operation Mockingbird ie  CIA program to influence the mass media Cord Meyer "the creative genius behind convert operations" "By the early 1950s, Wisner had implemented his plan and 'owned' respected members of the New York Times, Newsweek, CBS, and other communications vehicles, plus stringers, four to six hundred in all... Whether the journalists thought of themselves as helpers of the agency or merely as patriots, agreeing to run stories that would benefit their country." CIA Operation Mockingbird program Cord Meyer (MPM's former husband) James Jesus Angleton (CIA 'Israeli Desk') Ben Bradlee (brother-in-law) 1958 divorce filed January, 1962 Mary Pinchot Meyer sexual relationship with President John F. Kennedy April 1962 Mary Pinchot Meyer visiting Timothy Leary director of research projects at Harvard University professor of psychology / researcher advocate psychedelic drug use biography | here January, 1963 Philip Graham, publisher of the Washington Post at convention of American newspaper editors in Phoenix disclosed affair:  JFK & Mary Pinchot Meyer No newspaper reported this. November 22, 1963 JFK assassinated Days later intoxicated, fearful call from Mary Pinchot Meyer to Timothy Leary "They couldn't control him any more. He was changing too fast. They've covered everything up. I gotta come see you. I'm afraid." October 12, 1964, Mary Pinchot Meyer shot dead one bullet to back of head one bullet to heart close range, possibly point blank Georgetown James Jesus Angleton, CIA (since 1951, managed 'Israeli Desk') seeks Mary Pinchot Meyer's diary Trial Press did not report: former husband, Cord Meyer, was with CIA victim's affair with JFK The Judge, Howard Corcoran (brother of Tommy Cocoran, a close friend of Lyndon B Johnson) RULED that the private life of Mary Pinchot Meyer "should not be mentioned in court." Ben Bradlee (brother-in-law, Washington Post crime reporter, press attaché in the American embassy in Paris, on staff of USIE embassy's propaganda arm, worked for Newsweek) did not inform the court that he found a diary that he had passed on to James Jesus Angleton. Antoinette Pinchot Bradlee Mary Pinchot Meyer's sister admitted there had been an affair with JFK Knowledge of diary denied by Bradlee & Angleton. 1992 - Leo Damore, journalist said a figure close to the CIA told him it was a professional "hit" & that Mary Pinchot Meyer targeted for "termination" by certain forces in US government Carol Delaney personal assistant to Cord Meyer: "... murder had all the markings of an in-house rubout." Cord Meyer terminal illness interview:  2001 those responsible: ""The same sons of bitches," he hissed, "that killed John F. Kennedy."" from widely researched article by:  John Simkin http://spartacus-educational.com/JFKmeyerM.htm ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- When a U.S. president demanded inspections of a nuclear facility in the Middle East (and failed) Philip Weiss on July 27, 2015 "... Seymour Hersh reports that Kennedy was dead-set against Israel getting the bomb and frequently pressured David Ben-Gurion, Eshkol’s predecessor, to agree to inspections at Dimona. Kennedy even sold out his concerns about Palestinian refugees’ return in order to gain concessions on Dimona– much to the consternation of the State Department.  Hersh says that the Israelis misled American inspectors at the site, which had gone “critical” in 1962 with the help of the French.  And some members of Congress undercut Kennedy’s policy in private communications with the Israelis." http://mondoweiss.net/2015/07/president-inspections-facility ꕤ

PsyOp, MSM Lapdogs, Aspies & Psychopaths & the Whole Damn DSM

............................................................................... FORBES Sprinkle a little 'Hitler' here and 'Nazi leader' there; mix it up with a little 'neurotic psychopath'; and launch into 'Pentagon's Putin profile', 'based on no less substantial research'. Don't forget to add:  normal people don't rise to the top in political cultures like Russia's! Ummm, I don't know about you, but I wouldn't be buying anything Forbes and the Western MSM is selling ... E.V.E.R. Just take a look at this disgraceful gutter level political smear from the Pentagon down to the lapdog Western press, at the expense of a public whose intelligence politicos and newsmen insult with this blatant, laughable propaganda, masquerading as 'news'. ............................................................................... Examiner "USA Today released a [2008] Pentagon Report that reveals  ..." Unless there were multiple media releases of an old 2008 Pentagon [cough] 'report' ... USA Today is the vehicle for this? Well, it might be worthwhile keeping an eye on these fearless, ground-breaking American journalists. ............................................................................... BayouBuzz " PUTIN AUTISTIC? ... which affects all his decisions ..." ...............................................................................  Brisbane Times "top secret Pentagon report concludes ..." ............................................................................... CNBC "Pentagon think tank theorizes ..."  ...............................................................................   Eurasia Review   Going with: 'Press Speculates" and a 'rumors' (sic) 'rundown' ............................................................................... Examiner Examiner goes with a 'sage':   "may actually explain some of Putin's behavior (sic) ..."  ...............................................................................   The Guardian   "Pentagon thinktank claims Putin has Asperger's"   ............................................................................... The Inquisitr   Hey, why stop at Asperger's when you can add:  "has been accused of possibly being secretly gay ..."? ............................................................................... RFE/RL (aka ‘Radio CIA’)  "All The President's Ailments" ............................................................................... Sky News  "Russian leader may have suffered an "insult" to his brain ... " The only insult here is the insult to the readers. ............................................................................... Telegraph "The report concluded that "the Russian President carries a neurological abnormality" and ..." ............................................................................... The Hill (blog) "White House ... refused to comment on reports that the Pentagon prepared a study theorizing Russian President Vladimir Putin has Asperger's" ............................................................................... NOTE The ludicrous 'Aspie' propaganda attack on a democratically elected leader of a sovereign nation is hot on the heels of another DSM 'diagnosis'...  TA-DAH! The Independent Joan Smith Sunday 1 February 2015 President Putin is a dangerous psychopath - reason is not going to work with him A secret war in Ukraine, murder in London, incursions into others' airspace. His behaviour is getting worse http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/president-putin-is-a-dangerous-psychopath--reason-is-not-going-to-work-with-him-10015896.html Smith goes on to reflect on George W Bush and 'history': I think it’s more accurate to say that world leaders got Putin wrong, treating him as an authoritarian who would nevertheless keep his behaviour within recognisable boundaries. Remember when George W Bush gave him the affectionate nickname Pootie-Poot? If history teaches us anything, it is that treating unstable psychopaths as if they are normal, reasonable people doesn’t work. 'Pootie-Poot' all you like and file away this schizophrenic article in the 'Voices' directory (which is quite apt, then), while bleating Saddam Hussein, Stalin and 5,000 dead (that the Western-backed Kiev regime has slaughtered while Western media has kept silent); it's a histrionic propaganda hatchet job. That hatchet job ignores crimes and misdemeanours of the West and its leaders, some of whom are convicted war criminals -- including, Tony Blair and dear old, 'Crimmy-Crim', George W Bush. Foreign Policy Journal May 12, 2012: Kuala Lumpur — It’s official; George W Bush is a war criminal. The article's not only demeaning the target of a Western regime-change and target of US-NATO aggression (that's geared to propelling a war in Eastern Europe), it's also twisting facts around to suit the Western establishment narrative. As for those Russian 'incursions' into 'foreign airspace', you'll find that while the Russians may get close they're within their legal limits and not flying their jets in anybody's designated airspace.   Reports of Russian air 'incursions' are much like reports of that 'Russian' submarine in Swedish waters and Russian forces 'invading' Ukraine:  utter crap.  So is this mire of anti-Putin and anti-Russia smear aimed at lulling the public psyche into acceptance of a war with Russia, failing a Western-engineered Russian coup?  Sure sounds like it to me. Mainstream media is the lapdog of Western ruling elites and this is an example of press lapdogs serving their purpose. MSM puppets are churning out outlandish propaganda on behalf of their masters, in the process of manufacturing apathy and public consent, aimed at furthering the hidden agenda of corporate and political ruling elites. [see Chomsky] LINKS: OPERATION MOCKINGBIRD PSYOP

CIA & US-Allied Intelligence - Lies, Propaganda, in-house plants & push to war

Editor of major newspaper says he planted stories for CIA By Ralph Lopez     Jan 26, 2015 in World  Becoming the first credentialed, well-known media insider to step forward and state publicly that he was secretly a "propagandist," an editor of a major German daily has said that he personally planted stories for the CIA.  Saying he believes a medical condition gives him only a few years to live, and that he is filled with remorse, Dr. Udo Ulfkotte, the editor of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, one of Germany's largest newspapers, said in an interview that he accepted news stories written and given to him by the CIA and published them under his own name. Ulfkotte said the aim of much of the deception was to drive nations toward war.  Dr. Ulfkotte says the corruption of journalists and major news outlets by the CIA is routine, accepted, and widespread in the western media, and that journalists who do not comply either cannot get jobs at any news organization, or find their careers cut short.  Dr. Ulfkotte is the author of a book currently available only in German, "Bought Journalists" (Kopp 2014.) Aged 55, he was also once an advisor to the government of German Chancellor Helmet Kohl.  The book has become a bestseller in Germany but, in a bizarre twist which Ulfkotte says characterizes the disconnect caused by CIA control of the western media, the book cannot be reported on.  Ulfkotte says: ""No German mainstream journalist is allowed to report about [my] book. Otherwise he or she will be sacked. So we have a bestseller now that no German journalist is allowed to write or talk about."" Among the stories Ulfkotte says he was ordered to plant in his newspaper over the years was a story that Libyan President Moammar Gaddafi was building poison gas factories in 2011. Ulfkotte also says he was an eyewitness to Saddam Hussein's use of poison gas against Iranians in the war between Iran and Iraq, but that the editors he worked for at the time were not interested, because Iraq was a US ally at the time.  Ulfkotte says he is better positioned to come forward than many journalists because he does not have children who could be threatened. Ulfkotte told the Russian newspaper Russian Insider (RI):  ""When I told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Ulfkotte's nwspaper) that I would publish the book, their lawyers sent me a letter threatening with all legal consequences if I would publish any names or secrets – but I don’t mind. You see, I don’t have children to take care of. And you must know I was severely injured during the gas attack I witnessed in Iran in 1988. I'm the sole German survivor from a German poison gas attack. I’m still suffering from this. I’ve had three heart attacks. I don’t expect to live for more than a few years."" Ulfkotte says that remorse of having "lied" to mass audiences over the years drove him to come forward. He told RI that he was:  ""taught to lie, to betray and not to tell the truth to the public."" Ulfkotte says:  ""I'm ashamed I was part of it. Unfortunately I cannot reverse this.""  Among the admissions that Ulfkotte makes in the interview are putting his own name to articles completely written by intelligence agencies. He said:  ""I ended up publishing articles under my own name written by agents of the CIA and other intelligence services, especially the German secret service.""  Ulfkotte detailed the pattern of cajolery and outright bribery used by the CIA and other US-allied intelligence agencies, for the purpose of advancing political agendas. Ulfkotte said:  ""once you're connected, you make friends with selected Americans. You think they are your friends and you start cooperating. They work on your ego, make you feel like you're important. And one day one of them will ask you 'Will you do me this favor'...""  Ulfkotte noted that a journalists on international press trips paid for by organizations close to the government are unlikely to submit a storyline not favorable to the sponsor.  Of the gassing of Iranians he had witnessed in the Eighties, Ulfkoppe said:  ""they asked me to hand over the photo's that I had made to the German association of chemical companies in Frankfurt, Verband der Chemischen Industrie. This poison gas that had killed so many Iranians was made in Germany.""  In an interview with Russia Today, Ulfkotte said that it was "not right" what he had done, and that his fear was that politicians were actively driving the world toward war:  ""it is not right what I have done in the past, to manipulate people, to make propaganda against Russia, and it is not right what my colleagues do, and have done in the past, because they are bribed to betray the people not only in Germany, all over Europe. … I am very fearful of a new war in Europe, and I don’t like to have this situation again, because war is never coming from itself, there is always people who push for war, and this is not only politicians, it is journalists too. … We have betrayed our readers, just to push for war. … I don’t want this anymore, I’m fed up with this propaganda. We live in a banana republic, and not in a democratic country where we have press freedom...""  In his book "The CIA and the Media," Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein quotes William B. Bader, former CIA intelligence officer, in his testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Baeder said:  ""There is quite an incredible spread of relationships. You don’t need to manipulate Time magazine, for example, because there are [Central Intelligence] Agency people at the management level.""  Bernstein writes:  ""The Agency’s relationship with the Times was by far its most valuable among newspapers, according to CIA officials. From 1950 to 1966, about ten CIA employees were provided Times cover under arrangements approved by the newspaper’s late publisher, Arthur Hays Sulzberger. The cover arrangements were part of a general Times policy—set by Sulzberger—to provide assistance to the CIA whenever possible.""  Ulfkotte was on the staff of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation from 1999 to 2003, according to his Wikipedia entry. He won the civic prize from the Annette Barthelt Foundation in 2003. http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/world/editor-of-major-german-newspaper-says-he-planted-stories-for-cia/article/424470 COMMENT So much for the 'free press'. The world's a corrupt cesspit ... and we're all doomed.  Look-Ups Arthur Hays Sulzberger publisher of The New York Times from 1935 to 1961 anti Zionism & anti Jewish state supporter of the American Council for Judaism, founded in June 1942 to oppose Zionism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Hays_Sulzberger Operation Mockingbird commencing 1950s, CIA campaign to influence media CIA "recruited leading American journalists into a network to help present the CIA's views, and funded some student and cultural organizations, and magazines as fronts. As it developed, it also worked to influence foreign media and political campaigns, in addition to activities by other operating units of the CIA." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird Udo Ulfkotte German journalist formerly an editor for one of Germany's main dailies, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) an advisor to the Kohl government 1986-1998 [Disclosed that]   CIA and German intelligence (BND) bribe journalists in Germany to write pro-NATO propaganda articles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udo_Ulfkotte Looks like Operation Mockingbird has never really ended.