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In 1967, the CIA Created the Label "Conspiracy Theorists" ... to Attack Anyone Who Challenges
Zero Hedge ^ | 02/23/2015

Posted on 07/28/2016 3:46:10 PM PDT by Enlightened1

Conspiracy Theorists USED TO Be Accepted As Normal

Democracy and free market capitalism were founded on conspiracy theories.

The Magna Carta, the Constitution and Declaration of Independence and other  founding Western documents were based on conspiracy theories. Greek democracy and free market capitalism were also based on conspiracy theories.

But those were the bad old days …Things have now changed.

The CIA Coined the Term Conspiracy Theorist In 1967

That all changed in the 1960s.

Specifically, in April 1967, the CIA wrote a dispatch which coined the term “conspiracy theories” … and recommended methods for discrediting such theories.  The dispatch was marked “psych” –  short for “psychological operations” or disinformation –  and “CS” for the CIA’s “Clandestine Services” unit.

The dispatch was produced in responses to a Freedom of Information Act request by the New York Times in 1976.

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; History
KEYWORDS: cia; conspiracy; conspiracytheories; disinformation; psychological; psyops; theory
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To: SoCal Pubbie

So, what happened in that Miami courtroom in 1985? Nothing of consequence? The C.I.A. with the help of George Bush, Sr. killed Kennedy. Our government has lied about it ever since it happened and along with a compliant media has been able to get away with it for quite some time now. All of the factual evidence screams this is the case.


21 posted on 07/29/2016 5:59:06 AM PDT by Uncle Sham
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To: holden

I didn’t know any of them. Neither did most of their neighbors. Sandy Hook had zero internet activity after 2009. It had been closed and was NOT a functioning school at the time of the alleged incident. There is a vast family of liars roaming the internet on behalf of the government. Why should you be believed?


22 posted on 07/29/2016 8:12:52 AM PDT by Uncle Sham
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To: 1rudeboy

Where is your argument proving Sandy Hook occurred as presented? You asked for a debate. Let’s see what your story is.


23 posted on 07/29/2016 8:16:36 AM PDT by Uncle Sham
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To: Uncle Sham

Fat chance. Begin with your nonsense, first. Tell me the kids are not dead, and the rest were actors in a play.


24 posted on 07/29/2016 9:17:10 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Enlightened1

So wait, now there’s a conspiracy theory about where the phrase “conspiracy theory”?! Very meta.

Meanwhile most conspiracy theories desperately fail Occam’s razor.


25 posted on 07/29/2016 9:20:28 AM PDT by discostu (If you need to load or unload go to the white zone, you'll love it, it's a way of life)
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To: 1rudeboy
Fat chance is right. The kids are NOT dead and the rest are basically actors in a play. The evidence and FACTS say this and you've done nothing to prove otherwise. Just because the government and news media peddle a story doesn't make it true. You cannot make your case because there isn't one that would hold up to scrutiny. You say it really happened. Prove it.

Tell me the sequence of events, who was the shooter and where the shootings occurred. What was the weapon and how did the shooter end things? Answer these questions. You wanted a debate. I am giving you one.

26 posted on 07/29/2016 10:38:10 AM PDT by Uncle Sham
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To: Uncle Sham

You’re not giving me squat. If the kids are alive, where are they? If the rest are actors, how many of them are acting? A hundred? A thousand? Who is pulling all those strings? George Soros? Bugs Bunny, perhaps?


27 posted on 07/29/2016 10:42:02 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

You are the non-debater. You refuse to state your case. Tell us what happened at Sandy Hook. You claim something happened there. Why can’t you tell us?


28 posted on 07/29/2016 10:57:48 AM PDT by Uncle Sham
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To: Uncle Sham
Some whackjob kid shot up a school and killed some kids. Now, what's your version of events? C'mon, it's almost Happy Hour.
29 posted on 07/29/2016 11:03:06 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

Why waste your time?

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30 posted on 07/29/2016 11:08:56 AM PDT by Mears
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To: Mears

Like I said, it’s almost Happy Hour (and I started waaay early because I work nights and don’t have to be back at work until Monday evening).


31 posted on 07/29/2016 11:11:31 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy
That's all you have? Wow. I thought you KNEW what actually happened there. You think a jury would buy your argument so far? You don't have names. You don't have a sequence of events. You have NO hard evidence of anything. In our country, you need to present these sorts of things to prove a case don't you?

It appears to me that all you "know" is what you were told by your government and the news media. That used to work in the old Soviet Union but in this country it ain't gonna fly. No facts, No evidence. No case.

I'll be the first to admit that I don't know what happened but everything I have seen and read on this "Sandy Hook" story raises more questions than answers. The story itself is full of holes, from the "official" investigation account to the supposedly actual 911 call which last almost twenty minutes from right across the hall of most of the shootings, with NO gunfire noise in the background. Something stinks here and I am not believing the official story just because the government and the news media have sponn fed it to me.

32 posted on 07/29/2016 11:28:06 AM PDT by Uncle Sham
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To: Uncle Sham
Yup, that's "all" I have.

And you have nothing.

33 posted on 07/29/2016 11:32:53 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

I have nothing but the truth. All you have is a big internet mouth with nothing to back it up and I might add, an appropriate screen name.


34 posted on 07/29/2016 11:38:26 AM PDT by Uncle Sham
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To: Uncle Sham

Yeah, I here that a lot. Usually from people who know the facts and the truth but can provide neither.


35 posted on 07/29/2016 11:40:18 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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here = hear


36 posted on 07/29/2016 11:41:07 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Uncle Sham

There is zero factual evidence pointing to anyone other than Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone killing John Kennedy.


37 posted on 07/29/2016 1:13:09 PM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: Uncle Sham
Sandy Hook had zero internet activity after 2009. It had been closed and was NOT a functioning school at the time of the alleged incident.

So, thousands of people were in on it? The entire town? The county? Not one person would cry foul? Give me a break. If that school was closed, and wasn't active at the time of the shooting, then the entire town was in on it, nearly 30,000 people. Yeah, that's rich.

By the way, I know of one little girl who used to live in my town who was killed there. Tell her family and friends she's not dead.

http://www.koat.com/news/rio-rancho-school-dedicates-garden-to-emilie-parker/20184186

38 posted on 07/29/2016 1:23:30 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Warning: This post has little to do with reality, and nothing to do with polite society.)
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To: Enlightened1

Today they’ve created the new term “Liberal World Order” to confuse LIVS and RAT voters (but I repeat myself). They’ll hear “New World Order” and think “Liberal World Order”. And they’ll think the New World Order is a good thing for liberals.


39 posted on 07/29/2016 1:26:50 PM PDT by uncitizen (Americanism NOT Globalism! - Trump)
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To: SoCal Pubbie

Yes there is. The Zapruder film. If, as you say, Lee Harvey acted alone, then why was there a need to rearrange frames in a film of the shooting? Your friendly government had possession of this film and Lee Harvey Oswald was dead so HE couldn’t arrange to have this done. Modern technology has caught up to the lies presented to us in 1963. There are so many trails of evidence pointing to the C.I.A./Mob/F.B.I., etc that it is absurd to believe Lee Harvey Oswald was anything but an unwilling patsy. Talk your crap, and that’s what it is, to someone who is gullible enough to believe you.


40 posted on 07/29/2016 3:19:27 PM PDT by Uncle Sham
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