In his
documentary The
Power Of Nightmares,
Adam Curtis presents the case of William Casey, head of the CIA under
Reagan administration.
As has
been described
previously, to persuade the President, the neoconservatives set out
to prove that the Soviet threat was far greater than anyone. They
would demonstrate that the majority of terrorism and revolutionary
movements around the world, were actually part of a secret network,
coordinated by Moscow to take over the world.
The main
proponent of this theory was a leading neoconservative who was the
special adviser to the Secretary of State. His name was Michael
Ledeen and he had been influenced by a best-selling book called "The
Terror Network". It alleged that terrorism was not the
fragmented phenomenon that it appeared to be. In reality, all
terrorist groups, from the PLO to the Baader-Meinhof Group in Germany
and the provisional IRA, all of them, were a part of coordinated
strategy of terror run by the Soviet Union.
But the
CIA completely disagreed. They said this was just another
neoconservative fantasy.
But the
neoconservatives had a powerful ally. He was William Casey, and he
was the new head of the CIA. Casey was sympathetic to the
neoconservative view. And when he read "The Terror Network"
book, he was convinced. He called a meeting of the CIA's Soviet
analysts at their headquarters and told them to produce a report for
the President that proved this hidden network existed.
But the
analysts told him, this would be impossible because much of the
information in the book came from black propaganda the CIA themselves
had invented to smear the Soviet Union. They knew that the terror
network didn't exist because they themselves had made it up.
Melvin
Goodman, head of CIA office of Soviet Affairs from 1976 to 1987,
states: “And when we looked through the book, we found very
clear episodes where CIA black propaganda - clandestine information
that was designed under a covert action plan to be planted in
European newspapers - were picked up and put in this book. A lot of
it was made up. It was made up out of whole cloth. [...] And we even
had the operations people to tell Bill Casey this. I thought maybe
this might have an impact, but all of us were dismissed. Casey had
made up his mind. He knew the Soviets were involved in terrorism so
there was nothing we could tell him to disabuse him. Lies became
reality.”
In the
end, Casey found a university professor, who described himself as a
terror expert and he produced a dossier that confirmed that the
hidden terror network did, in fact, exist. Under such intense
lobbying, Reagan agreed to give the neoconservatives what they
wanted, and in 1983, he signed a secret document that fundamentally
changed American foreign policy.
The
country would now fund covert wars to push back the hidden Soviet
threat around the world.
However,
it appears that Casey, the central figure of this story, knew very
well what he was doing. It is almost certain now that he told Reagan
back in 1981, that "we'll know our disinformation program is
complete when everything the American public believes is false".
According
to Barbara Honegger, assistant to the chief domestic policy adviser
to the President at the time, Casey told Reagan that he had been
astonished to discover that over 80 percent of the 'intelligence'
that the analysis side of the CIA produced was based on open public
sources like newspapers and magazines.
Today,
as Russiagate has collapsed, with Robert Mueller's investigation
finding no proof of collusion, the analogy is quite obvious.
It
appears that CIA "evidence" about the alleged "hacking"
of the 2016 presidential election by Russia and connection with
Trump, was planted inside the media. CIA manufactures some "evidence"
based on zero facts. The "evidence" is circulated among the
corporate media to brainwash the public and returns to CIA as "hard
evidence".
But the
job in the Russiagate fiasco was so ridiculously sloppy, that Mueller
was impossible to support the black propaganda narratives. Many
independent journalists identified immediately the fraud. And when
the Russiagate collapsed, the great embarrassment of the mainstream
media well-paid mouthpieces became quite evident. They are still
trying to save whatever remained from their credibility by insisting
on this travesty, but it's too late now and they are making things
worse.
And what
did they eventually achieve? To revive Trump's popularity and make
him a victim in the eyes of his supporters. Next time, they should
sit quiet and make some self-criticism before they start blaming
everyone but themselves about another disastrous Trump term.
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