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Title: We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.
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Published: Oct 14, 2013
Author: William Casey, CIA Director
Post Date: 2013-10-14 09:34:52 by Itistoolate
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We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false. "The CIA worked very closely with them and United States supported Saddam Hussein at every level - gave him arms, gave him money, gave him political backing, the military helped him; none of this is really fully understood by the American people." - Peter Camejo "The connections piled up quickly. Contra planes flew north to the U.S., loaded with cocaine, then returned laden with cash. All under the protective umbrella of the United States Government. My informants were perfectly placed: one worked with the Contra pilots at their base, while another moved easily among the Salvadoran military officials who protected the resupply operation. They fed me the names of Contra pilots. Again and again, those names showed up in the DEA database as documented drug traffickers. When I pursued the case, my superiors quietly and firmly advised me to move on to other investigations." - Former DEA Agent Celerino Castillo, Powder Burns, 1992 "We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things the general public does not need to know, and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows." - Katherine Graham 
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#9. To: Itistoolate (#0)
I searched for verification of this quote by Casey and can't find any. I am not saying he didn't say it, but without a solid source to go by I wouldn't push it.
We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false. (from first staff meeting in 1981) It's generally traced vaguely to Mae Brussell, who was on two local radio stations in California during the 70s and 80s as an investigative journalist/commentator but I couldn't find a particular broadcast or writing of hers that mentioned it. If the quote was from a CIA staff meeting in 1981, it likely would have been classified for sometime afterwards and she died 7 years later in 1988. It's possible that she filed a Freedom of Information Act to obtain it but doubtful, imo. The phrase "disinformation campaign" turns up in a search for Casey linked to the book, "Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981-1987" (partially online here at books.google.com), which is authored by Watergate teamster-scribe, Bob Woodward, who claims to have interviewed Casey as he was dying but that's denied by Casey's widow: October 05, 1987 | Reviewed by James O`Shea, a Tribune Washington correspondent. Casey`s widow says the interview never occurred. It is difficult to understand how Woodward could write a book about Casey`s constantly misleading Congress and almost everyone else in Washington, yet believe a comment uttered by the CIA director when he was recovering from brain surgery and probably under medication. A Soviet disinformation campaign is listed for Page 141 of the book but that page is unavailable at the above books.google.com link. Pages 477-484 [and maybe Pages 278-280] are listed in regards to a Libyan disinformation campaign, which is denied by Casey on Page 483. On that page, Woodward had purportedly confronted him about top-secret, code-worded memos re: a disinformation campaign against Gaddafi/Qaddafi. Then, Woodward goes on to state: Page 275 mentions interlocking false flags.
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#16. To: RickyJ, Itistoolate (#9)
RickyJ: I searched for verification of this quote by Casey and can't find any. I am not saying he didn't say it, but without a solid source to go by I wouldn't push it.
Peering Behind The Controversial `Veil` - Chicago Tribune article excerpt:
On October 2, we ran a long story on the memos, headlined "Qaddafi Target of Secret U.S. Deception Plan, Elaborate Campaign Included Disinformation That Appeared as Fact in American Media."
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