Pentagon Psychological Warfare Operations Against U.S. Citizens


http://www.planetnetopia.com/forum/posts/id_95/title_psychological-warfare-operations-u-s-citizens/


Evidence of Pentagon Psychological Warfare Operations Against U.S.
Citizens Surfaces in Want Ads


The U.S. military's domestic operations command says it is not
planning or conducting a secret psychological warfare campaign to
manipulate the opinions of American citizens, despite a U.S. Air
Force document suggesting such activities might be taking place.

"We do not do information operations against the American public,"
said Lt. Cmdr. Sean Kelly, a spokesman for the Pentagon's Northern
Command, known as NORTHCOM, based in Colorado Springs, Colo.

Kelly confirmed that there is a "psyops," or psychological warfare
operations, unit at NORTHCOM but said its work is "designed to
influence and deter foreign enemies from attacking the United
States."

NORTHCOM was created after the 9/11 attacks to direct military
operations, including intelligence analysis, air defense and support
for civilian first responders, inside the United States. It shares
the military's counterterrorism mission with the Pentagon's Pacific
Command, Central Command and Strategic Command.

The possibility of a propaganda program run out of the military's
domestic headquarters surfaced with a phrase in an online employment
ad.

Flashback:
Propaganda: Remember the Kuwaiti babies?

If you liked the lie about the murder of Kuwaiti babies after Iraq's
invasion of the oil-rich emirate in 1990, you'll love the Office of
Strategic Information.

That is, if the Pentagon's new office of shadow plays survives in the
form it had been envisioned.

Last week The New York Times reported that the Defense Department is
paying the Rendon Group, a Washington-based international consulting
firm, $100,000 per month to help the OSI with a broad campaign that
would include "black" propaganda, or disinformation -- commonly known
as lies.

This brought to mind one of the most notorious pieces of
disinfor