Psychological warfare from it's inception has also targeted the people of the United States.
Part Two
Psychological warfare does not in anyway preclude the use of deadly force.
Psychological warfare is warfare that is generated for the specific purpose of producing it's primary reaction in the psychological field. This does not necessarily imply that no blood is shed.
From it's earliest definition in classified government records psychological warfare is defined to include assassinations, covert operations, guerrilla warfare, counter-insurgency, etc. From it's inception psychological warfare has been the mating of violence on the one hand and what people would call today propaganda, or mass communication.
Psychological warfare from it's inception has also targeted the people of the United States. The common preconception is, however, this is something that the US only does to foreign governments. From the governments standpoint, from the standpoint of those that are paying the bills for the development, the targets always involve not only foreign audiences but domestic audiences as well.
Propaganda is a major component of psychological warfare and propaganda is divided into black, white and grey.
White propaganda is like the Voice of America, for example. White propaganda is, depending on ones point of view, NBC News. It is information that is repeated constantly; that has the appearance of veracity, objectivity, naturalness, and so on. But which, in fact, has a distinct ideological subtext. A distinct set of preconceptions about the message that one is trying to put across.
Black propaganda on the other hand is what most people would call covert operations, assassinations, insurgencies, counter-insurgencies, dirty tricks of a variety of sorts, and sabotage. The Contra affair in Nicaragua, which then built on the Iran Contra business and then building on the whole business of the Contra's in Iran and the drugs. Those would be examples of black propaganda.
Grey propaganda exists somewhere between the two and it has characteristics of both. The most common type of grey propaganda is where the organization that's sponsoring it puts disinformation or misinformation in to the news media that has the appearance of being independent. A rather simple example this would be, back when Libya was Americas worst enemy. Back when Qaddafi was supposedly the most dangerous man in the world, the CIA had a psychological warfare campaign to paint him as sexually impotent and had a variety of sexual fetishes and so on. They planted this information as though it were truth in European newspapers. The next step is that type of thing blows back into the United States and into Americans conception of what's going on. The supermarket tabloids presented exactly this story about Qaddafi at the time. Like many psychological operations, this eventually blew up in the face of the people who were sponsoring it and was exposed as having been a misinformation campaign.
If you're sharp enough and care enough to watch the little details of the comings and goings of the CIA, and people of this type, you can see perfectly well what is going on. But most of us who don't have time to do that, we're trying to raise families, trying to go to work, get through the day, and so on. So we get this barrage of information, fake information usually, from the media that takes on the appearance of being true. In reality it is manufactured by people who have a story to promote. And, by and large, the manufacturing is done by people who have the money to pay public relations firms and so forth to put their story out. Those of us who don't have the money to hire our own public relations agent, and so on, have a little more difficult time getting access to the media.
This is the second installment of an original series from No Agenda News. Read part three here.
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