That is the assertion made not by some loony bin, but by the late investigative journalist Jack Anderson in 1981, back in those days when America's reporters actually had the guts to investigate.
Jack Northman Anderson (1922-2005) was a newspaper columnist, syndicated by United Features Syndicate, considered one of the fathers of modern investigative journalism. Anderson won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for his investigation on secret Nixon administration's policy decision-making between the United States and Pakistan during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. Anderson was a key and often controversial figure in reporting on J. Edgar Hoover's apparent ties to the Mafia, the Watergate scandal, the John F. Kennedy assassination, the search for fugitive ex-Nazi officials in South America, and the savings and loan crisis. He also discovered a CIA plot to assassinate Fidel Castro.
Here's a scanned image of a column Anderson wrote on the disinformation campaign waged against Americans by the CIA, which was published on September 22, 1981, in the Santa Cruz Sentinel. (Source: Activist Post )
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Here are excerpts from Anderson's article:
... the Central Intelligence Agency is . . . trying to shut off channels of information to the electorate . . . and . . . spreading "disinformation" to news agency.
The most disturbing is the disinformation campaign. This poisons the well from which Americans draw the facts they need to govern themselves. The wise Thomas Jefferson sought to lay this issue to rest two centuries ago when he argued that the people's right to know is more important than the officials' right to govern.
Now along comes Bill Casey, the doddering CIA director, with the argument that the government has the right to mislead the public by planting phony stories in the press.
His purpose ostensibly is patriotic. He wants to build public support for the political, economic and military measures that the Reagan administration believes are necessary to counter the worldwide conspiracies of the Soviet Union.
Legal experts have warned that the CIA is forbidden by law from conducting operations within the United States and that disinformation aimed at the American public, therefore, would be illegal. But Casey has found a way that he thinks the CIA can get around the law. The disinformation will be planted with foreign news bureaus whose stories are routinely picked up by U.S. newspapers. [...] Trusted CIA sources have told my associate Ron McRae that the foreign press, in the words of one insider, "is already being manipulated directly."
My question is:
What makes us think the CIA had stopped its disinformation campaigns?
Recall that last February in an interview with Lou Dobbs on the Fox Business Network, retired four-star Admiral James "Ace" Lyons , former Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet (1985-1987), the largest single military command in the world, said that the Benghazi attack on the night of Sept. 11, 2012, was a false flag "October surprise" that went horribly wrong.
According to Adm. Lyons, Obama intentionally had conspired with Muslim "terrorists" to stage a bogus attack against the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya, and the bogus kidnapping of Ambassador Chris Stevens. If the plan had succeeded, Obama would successfully "negotiate" for Stevens' release in a prisoner exchange for "Blind Sheik" Omar Abdel Rahman, which would bolster Obama's then-mediocre approval ratings just prior to the 2012 election.
And so the Obama administration intentionally gutted security at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi prior to the staged kidnapping of Stevens. But former Navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty disobeyed direct orders to stand down. The two men raced to the U.S. compound and killed scores of attackers, but were themselves killed. Obama's Muslim co-conspirators took Woods' and Doherty's heroism to mean Obama had reneged on the deal, so they took their anger out on Stevens by torturing him and dragging his body through the streets.
Admiral Lyons' assertions make sense. They would explain many of the oddities of the Benghazi incident, including:
