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August 2010_june_july_2009.qxd 30/08/2010 3:58 PM Page 16 16 Mind Control or Mind Psychosis? Are Americans Being law. It has also worked to federalize and community harmless, however, it made the Subjected to Mind militarized law enforcement around the country. agency focus on a campaign against 3rd world allies, and ultimately, against the US Brian Glick (War at Home) argues that Control Radio COINTELPRO is a permanent feature of the population. The CIA tried its hand at WAGING government. “The record of the past 50 years SECRET WARS in Latin America, Southeast Transmissions By U.S reveals a pattern of continuous domestic covert Asia, and Africa; it developed a vast group of Government Agencies? action,” Glick wrote in the 1990s. “Its use has businesses to serve as cover for illicit shipping been documented in each of the last nine and arms supplies; and it became utterly Continued from Page 15 administrations, Democratic as well as habituated to corrupting legislators in the Free Republican. FBI testimony shows World. The CIA became an eager tool for an On April 1, 1976, Attorney General Levi ‘COINTELPRO tactics’ already in full swing unaccountable executive branch, provided that announced the establishment of a special review during the presidencies of Democrats Franklin the executive had a flair for covert action; and it committee within the Department of Justice to Delano Roosevelt and Harry Truman. tended to create an echo chamber of self- notify COINTELPRO victims that they were COINTELPRO itself, while initiated under deception that threatened the entire national the subjects of FBI activities directed against Eisenhower, grew from one program to six security establishment. At the very top of its list them. Notification will be made "in those under the Democratic administrations of of priorities was the urgent need to defend its instances where the specific COINTELPRO Kennedy and Johnson… After COINTELPRO mission publicly, and validate its immense activity was improper, actual harm may have was exposed [by the Church Committee], budget. Marchetti spends a modest amount of occurred, and the subjects are not already aware similar programs continued under other names time discussing the inability of the CIA to that they were the targets of COINTELPRO during the Carter years as well as under Nixon, confront the Soviet KGB. When he mentions it, activities." 315 Further, the Department will Ford, and Reagan. They have outlived J. Edgar he avers the KGB and its allied bureaux are have acknowledged -- finally -- that Hoover and remained in place under all of his indeed odious, but also defensive--by necessity. COINTELPRO was wrong. Official repudiation successors.” He dwells in somewhat greater detail on the of the programs is long overdue. (Wiretapping CIA's structure and specialized fields of began with Hoover in 1940)The American 15.Is the NSA Conducting Electronic performance. He includes a broad-brush people need to be assured that never again will Warfare On Americans? Jonas Holmes May 19, description of the overall US intelligence an agency of the government be permitted to 2006 CHRONICLE ARTICLE community, before turning to an analysis of the conduct a secret war against those citizens it separate divisions and their respective behavior. considers threats to the established order. Only 16. Why hasn't the press--aside from This included covert operations (such as the a combination of legislative prohibition and MSNBC--covered Russell Tice's revelations on Bay of Pigs invasion), proprietaries (such as Departmental control can guarantee that the government's massive spy apparatus that Interarmco and Air America), propaganda and COINTELPRO will not happen again. The according to Tice illegally survey's every US disinformation, and espionage / notification program is an auspicious beginning. citizens' purchasing records, emails, phone counterespionage. In all of these enterprises, the This “rough, tough, dirty business” included calls, bank transactions, etc. and maintains the same motivation prevails: the CIA seeks self- infiltration of political groups, psychological information in massive databases for nefarious perpetuation and influence WITHIN the warfare, legal harassment, and extralegal force uses? Western world, but lacks will or ability to and violence. “The FBI and police threatened, seriously combat the Soviets. Towards the end, instigated and conducted break-ins, vandalism, 17. In the Interview of January 03, 2006 he discusses the increasing tendency of the CIA assaults, and beatings. The object was to the following statements were revealed: AMY to interfere in regular US politics, chiefly to frighten dissidents and disrupt their GOODMAN: That was Sibel Edmonds. Russell ingratiate itself with the president. movements,” write Mike Cassidy and Will Tice.RUSSELL TICE: I sent it to the chairs of Marchetti's criticisms of the intelligence Miller. “They used secret and systematic the Senate Intelligence Committee and the community were surprisingly mild.I should methods of fraud and force, far beyond mere House Intelligence Committee, the SSCI and mention in passing that his book had about 170 surveillance, to sabotage constitutionally the HPSCI. or so passages deleted by court order; the CIA protected political activity. The purpose of the had earlier demanded well in excess of 300, and program was, in FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s 18. The CIA and the cult of intelligence the court awarded it half of what it demanded. own words, to ‘expose, disrupt, misdirect, (1974) Reviewed by James R MacLean on Some of the deletions are downright silly (as discredit and otherwise neutralize’ specific 2007-04-09. Incompetence leads to Monstrosity where it refers to a base in [DELETED] granted groups and individuals.”After the Church Marchetti's expose of the CIA was published on by Haile Selassie!), and elsewhere I was Committee exposed COINTELPRO, the the EVE OF THE CHURCH COMMISSION, amused to observe the most numerous deletions government claimed it had dismantled the at a moment when domestic outrage at the in the part dealing with funding appropriations. program. However, in the 1980s, the Reagan culture of duplicity and domestic interference The extreme secrecy of the intelligence administration legalized the tactics by signing had reached its peak. Since that time, successful community with respect to funding has greatly Executive Order 12333.“There is every reason public relations have greatly enhanced the intensified since this book was published, and to believe that even what was not legalized is image of intelligence services. Marchetti's usually the motivation is quite obviously to still going on as well. Lest we forget, Lt. Col. thesis is that, contrary to widespread public conceal how much money these agencies Oliver North funded and orchestrated from the belief,the USA was not locked in an existential actually waste. However, Marchetti concludes White House basement break-ins and other struggle with Soviet or Chinese subversion, and that the CIA is essentially past reform, useless, ‘dirty tricks’ to defeat congressional critics of never really was. Soviet intelligence utterly and so incompetent at its mission as to have U.S. policy in Central America and to neutralize surpassed the CIA in effectiveness, initiative, become narrowly focused on extorting billions grassroots protest. Special Prosecutor Walsh and recruitment of allied agents abroad. In fact, from the nation. found evidence that North and Richard Secord the CIA was effective only against 3rd world (architect of the 1960s covert actions in intelligence organizations, and there, 19. Former United States Government Cambodia) used Iran-Contra funds to harass the spectacularly so. This extreme Soviet edge in Physicist! 1981-Lt Col. US Army Retired, Christic Institute, a church-funded public espionage was more than offset by the superior Pentagon analyst (McRae, Ronald, Mind Wars, interest group specializing in exposing resources of the conventional Western militaries St. Martin's Press, 1984, p 127, Psychic government misconduct,” Cassidy and Miller and the impossibility of waging a direct Weapons continue.In addition, North worked with FEMA confrontation owing to the nuclear stalemate. to develop contingency plans for suspending the Worse, this advantage was not seriously (Continued on Page 17) Constitution, establishing martial law, and mitigated by the abundance of high-tech The ‘X’ Zone with Rob McConnell holding political dissidents in concentration gadgets, such as satellites; such tools merely Returns to Niagara camps. Since the false flag attacks of September facilitated the collection of large amounts of 11, 2001, the government has worked raw data, with virtually no practical usefulness. 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