Know thine enemy: psyops, propaganda, from the source

[buycitgo]

our government studies this, so the pugs can study it to USE it on you and me

http://www.psywarrior.com/links.html
http://www.psywarrior.com/FM33-1.html

at the second site, you'll find these interesting topics:

Propaganda Media
Propaganda Planning
Psychological Operation Leaflets
Mind Games by LTC Steve Collins
Employment of Psychological Operations
PSYOP Leaflet Dissemination by Herb Friedman
Intelligence & Electronic Warfare Support to PSYOP
Combat Loudspeakers: Weapon of the Battlefield Evangelists by Dennis Bartow
Centrally Planned & Decentrally Executed -- A Dilemma Facing Military PSYOP
NATO and Strategic PSYOPS: Policy Pariah or Growth Industry? by LTC Steve Collins
Current Challenges and Future Roles for US Army Reserve PSYOP Forces by LTC Steve Collins

[buycitgo]

1. shall we listen to some loud speakers?

or some loudspeakers?





I like this:

Wallace Carroll, Persuade or Perish (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1948), 157.

Americans proved apt at learning the tricks of front-line psychological warfare. Perhaps it was because this type of propaganda, unlike political propaganda, bore a superficial resemblance to advertising.

You did your "market research" by studying intelligence reports on the morale of the enemy units facing you. Then you wrote your copy on the merchandise you had to sell – humane treatment, good food, a chance to live and return after the war. If the advertisement brought results, you continued to run it.

If it failed, you questioned prisoners until you found out what was wrong with it, and then you tried again. A German officer in Tunisia told his interrogators: "You Americans are great advertisers. You made your prison camps sound so attractive that our men could not resist."

[Minstrel Boy]

2. "From PSYOP to Mindwar: The Psychology of Victory"

"From PSYOP to Mindwar: The Psychology of Victory" is a military paper on psychological warfare, written by Lt. Col. Michael Aquino and Col. Paul E. Vallely in 1980. It was sent, writes Aquino, "to various governmental offices, agencies, commands and publications involved or interested in PSYOP."

Who is Aquino? A since-retired Lieutenant Colonel, Military Intelligence, and special-forces officer. Also a longtime Satanist, and founder of the "Temple of Set." Aquino's name frequently appears in ritual child abuse cases which appear to have military-intelligence protection - the Franklin Credit Union and Presidio scandals, for instance (A good introduction to Aquino and this subject is "Uncle Sam Wants Your Children": http://davesweb.cnchost.com/pedo3.html - part three of "The Pedophocracy," which begins here: http://davesweb.cnchost.com/pedo1.html).

Mmm. Okaaay: a satanist and accused pedophile. So who is this Vallely? "The senior military analyst for FOX News Channel and guest on many nationally syndicated radio talk shows, Paul E. Vallely retired in 1991 from the U.S. Army as Deputy Commanding General, U.S. Army, and Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii."
http://www.kepplerassociates.com/speakers/vallelypaul.asp?1

Aquino has said that "assorted cranks tried to make a public issue out of this paper just because of its catchy title.... That paper had no connection to MK-Ultra, nor Paperclip, nor any crazy Nazi experiments." He has posted a .pdf of "From Psyop to Mindwar," with a new introduction, on his "Temple of Set" website:
http://www.xeper.org/maquino/nm/MindWar.pdf

Some excerpts:

"MindWar...is, in fact, the strategy to which tactical warfare must conform if it is to achieve maximum effectiveness. The MindWar scenario must be preeminent in the mind of the commander and must be the principal factor in his every field decision. Otherwise he sacrifices measures which actually contribute to winning the war to measures of immediate, tangible satisfaction. (Consider the rational for 'body counts' in Vietnam).

...

"In its strategic context, MindWar must reach out to friends, enemies, and neutrals alike across the globe -- neither through primitive "battlefield" leaflets and loudspeakers of PSYOP nor through the weak, imprecise, and narrow effort of psychotronics - but through the media possessed by the United States which have the capabilities to reach virtually all people on the face of the Earth. These media are, of course, the electronic media -- television and radio. State of the art developments in satellite communication, video recording techniques, and laser and optical transmission of broadcasts made possible a penetration of the minds of the worlds such as would have been inconceivable just a few years ago. Like the sword Excalibur, we have but to reach out and seize this tool; and it can transform the world for us if we have the courage and the integrity to civilization with it. If we do not accept Excalibur, then we relinquish our ability to inspire foreign cultures with our morality. If they then desire moralities unsatisfactory to us, we have no choice but to fight them on a more brutish level.

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"Unlike PSYOP, MindWar has nothing to do with deception or even with 'selected' -- and therefore misleading -- truth. Rather it states a whole truth that, if it does not now exist, will be forced into existence by the will of the United States. The examples of Kennedy's ultimatum to Khrushchev during the Cuban Missile Crisis and Hitler's stance at Munich might be cited. A MindWar message does not have to fit conditions of abstract credibility as do PSYOP there; its source makes it credible. As Livy once said: 'The terror of the Roman name will be such that the world shall know that, once a Roman army had laid siege to a city, nothing will move it -- not the rigors or winter nor the weariness of months and years -- that it knows no end but victory and is ready, in a swift and sudden stroke will not serve, to preserve until that victory is achieved.'

...

"For the mind to believe in its own decisions, it must feel that it made those decisions without coercion. Coercive measures used by the operative, consequently, must not be detectable by ordinary means. There is no need to resort to mind-weakening drugs such as those explored by the CIA; in fact the exposure of a single such method would do unacceptable damage to MindWar's reputation for truth. Existing PSYOP identifies purely-sociological factors which suggest appropriate idioms for messages. Doctrine in this area is highly developed, and the task is basically one of assembling and maintaining individuals and teams with enough expertise and experience to apply the doctrine effectively. This, however, is only the sociological dimension of target receptiveness measures. There are some purely natural conditions under which minds may become more or less receptive to ideas, and MindWar should take full advantage of such phenomena as atmospheric electromagnetic activity, air ionization, and extremely low frequency waves."

Thanks for the thread, buycitgo. Disturbing links, duly bookmarked.

[buycitgo]

3. you and me, mein freunt

jesus, I vaguely remember seeing that name somewhere....Vallely?

nice group of people, eh?

there are those who are convinced that Geronimo's skull is writ large on the entire BFEE......taking foil off now

[Fovea]

6. Damn

I knew I should have dealt with this back in the day.
I failed to recognize a public service when I saw one and I never dreamed they would take the mysterious Mr. Eyebrow seriously. Sorry.

I always saddens me to see really shallow readings of the masters like RAW, Joyce, and GKC so maladapted. Its bad enough that they steal from the best, their own stuff is so awful--from 'The End of History' to 'Atlas Shrugged', the whole cannon is so debased, so self deluding, so banal. It boggles me to see otherwise intelligent souls get all gooey over the intellectual Ubermench of the hour. When Zarathustra shows up in the town square, you gotta just kick the little nimrod in the balls, people. Otherwise he tries to sell you on his own little nilist power trip.

Any sane participant of the 21st Century world has a tinfoil hat. These dweebs live in the world of the tinfoil soul. They are like G. Gordon on a Ketamine drip.

To hear them use the word morality is like hearing Madonna sing the word virgin. You know that there is a highly nuanced version of the word at work. His type uses lexicography like Hext0r uses, well, Hex.

Yes, they are turning the language inside out. Anyone who read Orwell in highschool gets it. Yes, they have no moral compass, as most recognize it. Their moral compass is the will to power, nothing more, nothing less. Greed is good, literally for them. Gordon Liddy Gecko.
But the lack of any firm center bigger than self interest is easy to expose. And it is costing them dear that it is so.

So odd. Some people read Zarathustra and start nodding hypnotically.
Some people read Wilson and root for the Illuminati. Big ass wake up call to the SocCon true believers and Mindfuck operators-- the too oft bent zeitgeist leads straightway to the inhuman heart of banality, and you only think you'll like it there. Imagine you've become half Ann Coulter and half six foot cockroach. It is surely much like that.

Caveat

To back-load the word morality with moral relativism is to risk ending up with the taliban on your own doorstep with a large sword, someday. Those for whom the word morality is interchangeable with ethics generally do reach a point where they turn on you. Such is the fate of all Machiavels who lie down with Savanarolas. My best advice--read some Buber and Harvey Cox while you can still find a library. And say hi to Lee and Karl in Tartarus.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

4. You found the Repubs REAL Bible. They follow these tactics to a tee.

n/t

[kerry-is-my-prez]

5. "I am the broadcast of reason over radio, television and loudspeaker."

http://www.psywarrior.com/creed.html
I am the broadcast of reason over radio, television and loudspeaker.
I am the light of truth in print media, leaflet, newspaper, handbill or poster.
I am the force multiplier that wins my country's wars.
I was, I am and I will forever remain...PSYOP.

[Viking12]

7. Psyop at CNN and NPR

Military Interns Booted From CNN, NPR
How Did Army Officers Get Into The News Business?

TV Guide April 15-21, 2000
The Robins Report By J. Max Robins


Top executives at CNN and National Public Radio were more than a bit surprised when they learned that their organizations had used interns from a rather nontraditional source-the United States Army's Psychological Operations unit (PSYOP).

"We have interns from all over the world, but they are accredited journalists or studying ," says Eason Jordan, CNN president of news gathering and international networks. "But those interns had no business being here."

-snip-

A highly specialized unit of the military, PSYOP personnel are often trained in the production of videos as well as television and radio programming used to advance American policy abroad. "In Somalia, we broadcast on radio and shortwave," says Lt. Col. Paul J. Mullin. "We've helped countries in South America produce antidrug public-service announcements."

According to CNN executives and military officials, the intern program began last June and ended in March. A total of five PSYOP sergeants were assigned to the network's Atlanta headquarters-two at the Southeast bureau, two at CNN Radio and one at the satellite department. At NPR's Washington, D.C., base, three PSYOP personnel worked for periods ranging from six weeks to four months from September 1998 through May 1999 on such programs as All Things Considered and Morning Edition.

http://www.greaterthings.com/News/Martial_Law/Turner_psyops.htm

[kerry-is-my-prez]

9. Holy Shit!!! Good find.

n/t

[kerry-is-my-prez]

8. OMG! : article "Psyop in Support of Hurrciane Andrew Recovery Oper."

Maybe we should be checking this site out a bit more closely...

http://www.psywarrior.com/PSYOPHurricaneAndrew.html

Psychological Operations (PSYOP) are seldom practiced within the Continental United States. The military rightfully knows that some citizens see connotations of brain washing and control in the term "PSYOP." As a result, active duty troops from Ft. Bragg and reservists from the various PSYOP and Civil Affairs units will deploy only in the case of a great disaster or emergency. Such was the case when Hurricane Andrew slammed into the east coast of Florida in August 1992.

A United States Army Southern Command document dated 1 July 1998 justifies the use of psychological operations in cases like Hurricane Andrew. "Psychological Operations (PSYOP) are prohibited by law from targeting U.S. audiences. The National Command Authority has granted exceptions for specific disaster situations, such as Hurricane Andrew.

-snip-

I have always believed that Hurricane Andrew was one of the major reasons that President George Bush failed to be reelected. Nightly television news showed American citizens living among the rubble for days. The television anchors implied that the Federal Government did very little to ease their suffering. Partisan politics may have been involved, since the Democratic Governor of Florida apparently hesitated before asking for federal aid. Three days passed between Andrew's assault and the arrival of federal help. Kate Hale, the Dade County emergency director, went on live national television on 27 August with tears in her eyes and castigated the federal government.

-snip-

August 25 - President Bush had flown in for a two-hour visit, but so far there was no federal relief. Electric power lines were down, food and clean water were in short supply, and people were sleeping outside with no place to wash up and no way to begin cleanup. On Tuesday, September 1, President Bush made a second visit to Dade County, but it was two weeks after the storm before 22,000 National Guard members finally came to southern Florida.