Posted on 07/28/2016 3:46:10 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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.
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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It's designed to distract the public and move the direction of the debate away from questioning the narrative.
Interesting that this CIA attack came about as a program for silencing the critics of the Warren Commission that ascribed the JFK assassination to a lone nut subsequently offed by another lone nut. The methods for countering opponents of the government line seem to be in use to this day on critics of obvious coverups like the TWA 800 center fuel tank explosion and Obama’s eligibility.
Dollars to doughnuts they created it to smear the John Birch Society.
What happened to the JBS was classic Alinsky Rule #5.
The real irony is that everything the JBS was saying back in the ‘60s has come to pass.
To this day people who should know better scoff when you mention their name.
Sometimes a conspiracy theory is just that . . . witness our own Sandy Hook nuts, for example. Debate them? Fat chance.
They wrote a dispatch in 1967 in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by the New York Times in 1976.
Okay, zerosenseblog.com
Yep and I have to admit it works well to turn people away from listening to what others are saying.
Today the words racist, sexist, homophob when they want to silence a messenger.
No doubt about that. Agree 100%
That’s right I forgot. Great point!
I wonder his many people know how much the KGB supported people like Mark Lane in their efforts to obfuscate the Warren Commission?
I’m here. Make your case that Sandy Hook really took place.
AND STILL FREAKING DOES !!!
There are those who say that WFB and NR were a CIA front in the 1950s and 60s. It isn’t a “conspiracy theory”, but a logical extension of the fact that such magazines as Encounter were admitted CIA fronts.
COINTELPRO was an FBI program to infiltrate radical groups, with agents even acting as agents provocateur.
I have no doubt that the CIA/FBI continues to run COINTELPRO-like programs, probably targeting right-wing groups even more than left-wing groups.
Mark Lane represented Spotlight Magazine in a retrial of a libel case that had been tossed out on a technicality in Miami in 1985. The case involved allegations that E. Howard Hunt, as a C.I.A. employee, was involved in the J.F.K. assassination. The jury found that Spotlight’s accusation was credible enough for Hunt to lose the case. It was only the second trial ever which took place in this country where the assassination of J.F.K. was the central theme. Lane’s book “Plausible Denial” is about this trial and the evidence presented. Believe what you want, but Mark Lane is legit.
Here’s few facts for you:
KGB disinformation effort to link Clay Shaw to the CIA
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/sii.htm
Soviet forgery of assassination “evidence.”
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/bogus.htm
KGB disinformation blaming the CIA for the assassination and support of Mark Lane.
http://paulmitchinson.com/articles/jfk-conspiracy-a-kgb-hoax
Lane is as legit as Oliver Stone. In other words not very.
BTW the term “Conspiracy theory” goes back to at least the 1880s.
http://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/nope_it_was_always_already_wrong
Indeed.
When there is no proof of a conspiracy, that proves how good the conspiracy is.
Try telling Vicky Soto’s family members, whom I know, that she isn’t gone.
HF
Try telling Vicky Soto’s family members, whom I know, that she isn’t gone.
HF
The term itself might only go back that far, but the concept of some sort of conspiracies (plural) trying to control one’s life is embedded in America’s body politic, and goes all the way back to the Founding. A professor from Florida wrote a book about it, and I’m kicking myself for not remembering the title.
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