NEW:Fake stamp' on Broward Cty absentee ballot. *Psy Ops*

[DBtv]

Not unlike those who suspect conspiratorial influence in 9/11; just paranoid, right? These things can't actually be PLANNED. That's all just crazy talk. Move along, nothing to see here. Re-assume willfully ignorant bliss, or risk taunting.

[hero_antagonist]

I immediately thought it was a psyop when I saw the news story. Waaaay too improbable.

Hadn't considered the 'backwards' <--> 'upside-down' linkage though. Nicely spotted.

[Telexx]

In 1977, Carl Bernstein - of Woodward/Bernstein fame - reported that "more than four hundred American journalists... in the past twenty-five years have secretly carried out assignments" for the CIA...

We may never know the full scope of the CIA's media manipulations, thanks to the deft maneuvers of former Agency directors William Colby and George Bush, who managed to curtail a Senate probe into the matter. Stonewalled at every turn and cowed by warnings that it was embarking on a latter-day "witch hunt" the Senate Select Intelligence Committe chaired by Frank Church "deliberately buried" the results of its enquiry into the CIA-journalist connection, wrote Bernstien...

The list of print and broadcast news executives who collaborated with the CIA was a rarefied one, including former New York Times publisher Athur Hayes Sulzberger, Columbia magazine founder Henry Luce, and James Copley of Copley News Service (which happily turned over information an antiwar and black protesters, published CIA-produced editorials, and loaned at least twenty-three employees to the Agency). Other media mastodons who lent themselves to the CIA included ABC TV (a well-known, unnamed correspondent was said to be a CIA asset), NBC, the Associated Press, United Press International, Reuters, Newsweek magazine, Scripps-Howard, Hearst Newspapers, and the Miami Herald...

A classified CIA report that surficed in 1992 would suggest that the affair continues. The report on CIA "openness" stated that the Agency's public affairs office "now has relationships with reporters from every major wire service, newspaper, news weekly, and television network in the nation." Apparently these relationships have been fruitful for the CIA, because they have "helped us turn some 'intelligence failure' stories into 'intelligence success' stories..." In many cases, the report continued, "we have persuaded reporters to postpone, change, hold, or even scrap storeis that could have adversely affected national security interests."

Abridged entry taken from my dog-eared copy of The Giant Book of Conspiracies which cites these sources:

Bernstein, Carl. "The CIA and the Media." Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 1977
Crewdson, John M. and Joseph B Treaster. "CIA: Secret Shaper of Public Opinion." New York Times 25-27 December 1977
Lee, Martin A, and Norman Solomon. Unreliable Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias in News Media (New York: Lyle Stuart, 1991).

Thanks,

Telexx

[professorpan]

Media manipulation is one thing. Seeing the hand of the CIA behind every news story is something else entirely -- particularly when there's no evidence whatsoever to indicate the involvement of spooks.

[DBtv]

They wouldn't be very good spooks if they left evidence lying around, now would they.

[PeterofLoneTree]

I don't remember where I caught the link to the following article. It might have been right on this board.

The headline:
"The NSA's relationship with Reuters and AP"

The first paragraph or so:
By Jeremy Bigwood,
Posted on Mon Feb 6th, 2006 at 03:20:17 PM EST
"Sometimes Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) responses produce unexpected results. Such is the case in a recent response from the secretive United States government’s National Security Agency (NSA) -- the agency that is now in the public limelight for listening to U.S. citizen’s telephone conversations without legal authorization or oversight. In a letter dated February 2, 2006 and signed by its Director of Policy, the NSA revealed that it has contracts with at least two of the major mainstream press wire services, Reuters and Associated Press (AP), and that the information that it had received from these wire services could not be released to the public. Here in part is what the letter said:

“Information provided to NSA by Reuters and AP is protected against disclosure pursuant to 5 U.S.C. Section 552(b)(4). The NSA contract with these companies precludes our release of this information. Violation of these contracts could prevent the government from obtaining similar information in the future.”

"The way the NSA response is written makes it seem like there is something major to hide, but this may not be the case. Reuters and many other “mainstream” press agencies have contracts with not only the NSA, but with other U.S. government entities as well -- to supply news to these agencies as if they were newspapers. This is “business as usual” and more than likely occurs with other governments too. But it is also true that in a technical sense, Reuters and AP journalists work for these U.S. government agencies, although the funds from that work only represent an infinitely miniscule part of their salaries."

Rest of the article is at
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/ ... 52017/9363