How C0int3lpro Applies To The Web
marco, 04.08.2005 22:02
How C0int3lpro Applies To The Web
Applying the Glick Book to the Internet.
Here are a few items from the Glick book "War At Home"
that can be applied with ease to the internet.
As many of you already know, the book is subtitled,
"Covert Action Against U.S. Activists And What We
Can Do About It."
Those who don't, I strongly suggest you get to know
this book. Its work is mega-valuable while you watch
"them" try to apply some of the same crap on the web
that worked so well via snailmail, fone, and inter-
personal.
IE: impersonations, cartoons, "bad-jackets," whispers,
etc. In fact, while you watch the Bush administration
out CIA operatives, a quick re-read of the Glick book
gives you some added perspective where you just sorta
pick up your morning paper and go "ah, yup. Seen it
before..." etc.
So here are a few things I'll lift from the book a line
or two at a time that jump out at me right away.
Feel free to type in a few more if you see I've missed
some. I bet there are still a bunch of good'ns in there.
hint... hint...
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FBI Headquarters secretly instructed its field offices to
propose schemes to "expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit
or otherwise neutralize" specific individuals and groups.
planted false media stories and published bogus leaflets
and other publications in the name of targeted groups.
They forged correspondence, sent anonymous letters, and
made anonymous telephone calls. They spread misinformation
about meetings and events, set up pseudo movement groups
run by government agents...
...to exacerbate the movements' internal stresses until
beleaguered activists turned on one another.
"Anonymous" accusations of infidelity ripped couples apart.
Otherwise manageable disagreements were inflamed by COINTELPRO
until they erupted into hostile splits that shattered
alliances, tore groups apart, and drove dedicated activists
out of the movement.
What proved most devastating in all of this was the effective
manipulation of the victims of COINTELPRO into blaming
themselves.
In one operation, the FBI fabricated reports that AIM "Dog
Soldiers" planned widespread "sniping at tourists" and "burning
of farmers" in South Dakota. The son of liberal U.S. Senator
(and Arab-American activist) James Abourezk, was named as a
"gunrunner," and the Bureau issued a nationwide alert picked
up by the media across the country.
[dynamic minds might want to try this exercise:
synthesize that with fabricated stories that
Hussein amassed half a million troops along
the Saudi Arabia border to get their bases in
(1989ish)
and "weapons of mass destruction" lies to
justify the whole "reason2be" for the George
W Bush war. (2002ish)]
Senate Intelligence Committee announced on June 23, 1975 that
it would hold public hearings on FBI operations against AIM.
Three days later, armed FBI agentes assaulted an AIM house on
Pine Ridge. When the smoke cleared, AIM activist Joe Stutnz
Killsright and two FBI agents lay dead. The media, barred
from the scene "to preserve the evidence," broadcast the
Bureau's false accounts of a bloody "Indian ambush," and
the congressional hearings were quietly cancelled.
...described how specialists were flown in from FBI HQ
to help him forge bogus documents and "establish a 'sham'
political group, 'the Red Star Cadre,' for disruptive purposes."
...ultra-left proclamations in the union's name antagonized
newly organized workers and gave credibility to the company's
red-baiting. Burton also helped the FBI move against the
United Farm Workers and the American Federation of State,
County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME).
The FBI vastly expanded its operations during WWII and
acquired new covert technology, including the capacity
for expert forgery.
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