“Disinformation Officers”
OK. So you think that the military creates these stories, gives them the appearance of authenticity, to scare our enemies — as if we know something that they don’t — that we perhaps have taken alien technology for weapons use or are just trying to mess up their minds and distract them from the Jihad?
No. I should have said Disinformation Officers on Free Republic at the ready.
Then I became a born again Christian and realized that they are nothing more than tools of Satan.
I threw away every book I had on the topic and have stayed away from reading about them (except for the occasional post here on FR) since then.
UFOs were SOP in the Soviet Cold War disinformation tactics - http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&q=soviet+disinformation+UFOs
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"According to my opinion, and the opinions of many defectors of my caliber, only about 15% of time, money, and manpower is spent on espionage as such. The other 85% is a slow process which we call either ideological subversion, active measures, or psychological warfare. What it basically means is: to change the perception of reality of every American that despite of the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country.
It's a great brainwashing process which goes very slow and is divided into four basic stages."[snip]3. The next stage of course, is crisis...
KGB Defector Yuri Bezmenov