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- Sam Smith of the Progressive Review passed along a summary
of this very interesting article which appeared at: http://www.emperors-clothes.com
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- ABE DE VRIES, TROUW, NETHERLANDS - For a short time last
year, CNN employed military specialists in 'psychological operations'.
This was confirmed to Trouw by a spokesman of the US Army . . . "Psyops
personnel, soldiers and officers, have been working in CNN's headquarters
in Atlanta through our program 'Training With Industry,'" said Major
Thomas Collins of the US Army Information Service in a telephone interview
last Friday. "They worked as regular employees of CNN. Conceivably,
they would have worked on stories during the Kosovo war. They helped in
the production of news" . . .
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- CNN is the biggest and most widely viewed news station
in the world. The intimate liaisons with army psyops specialists raise
serious doubts about CNN's journalistic integrity and independence. The
military CNN-personnel belonged to the airmobile Fourth Psychological Operations
Group, stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. One of the main tasks of
this group of almost 1200 soldiers and officers is to spread 'selected
information'.
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- American psyops troops try with a variety of techniques
to influence media and public opinion in armed conflicts in which American
state interests are said to be at stake. The propaganda group was involved
in the Gulf war, the Bosnian war and the crisis in Kosovo. So far CNN has
not commented on the allegations.
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- FROM AN EARLIER ARTICLE BY DE VRIES: Colonel Christopher
St. John is Commander of the Fourth Psychological Operations Group. In
a military symposium on Special Operations on that was held behind closed
doors in Arlington Virginia in early February, Col. St. John said the cooperation
with CNN was a textbook example of the kind of ties the American army wants
to have with the media. According to a report in the latest edition of
the French magazine "Intelligence Newsletter" the Kosovo experience
was the focus at this symposium. In the Kosovo crisis there was no military
censorship of the kind that existed during the Gulf war. This time NATO
tried to use more subtle methods to regulate the flow of information. The
US Army leadership seems to have concluded that new and more aggressive
measures in psychological warfare are needed. Not only do the psyops people
want to spread hand-picked 'information' and keep other news quiet, the
army also wants to control the Internet, to wage electronic warfare against
disobedient media, and to control commercial satellites.
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- ARTICLES BY ABE DE VRIES http://www.emperors-clothes.com/articles/devries/psyops.htm
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