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“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”

An interesting topic was posted over at AboveTopSecret.com (ATS) discussing the origins of an infamous quote attributed to a CIA Director.

William Casey was the 13th CIA Director appointed by President Reagan from 1981 until he left in January 1987. Not long after his retirement he died of a brain tumor in May 1987.

During his tenure at the CIA, Casey played a large role shaping Reagan’s foreign policy – particular Reagan’s approach to the Soviet Union. Casey strongly believed that the Soviet Union was the source of most of the terrorist activity in the world.

But did former CIA Director William Casey really say these words? ATS member Sublimecraft points us to this Quora posting.

Did William Casey (CIA Director) really say, "We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false."?

I am the source for this quote, which was indeed said by CIA Director William Casey at an early February 1981 meeting of the newly elected President Reagan with his new cabinet secretaries to report to him on what they had learned about their agencies in the first couple of weeks of the administration.

The meeting was in the Roosevelt Room in the West Wing of the White House, not far from the Cabinet Room. I was present at the meeting as Assistant to the chief domestic policy adviser to the President. Casey first 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.

As he did to all the other secretaries of their departments and agencies, Reagan asked what he saw as his goal as director for the CIA, to which he replied with this quote, which I recorded in my notes of the meeting as he said it.

Shortly thereafter I told Senior White House correspondent Sarah McClendon, who was a close friend and colleague, who in turn made it public.

Barbara Honegger bshonegg@gmail.com

Sublimecraft finishes his opening post (OP) with this tidbit:

In my opinion, terrorism, the meme, is more powerful than terrorism itself and France is a testament to that because the consequential effect resultant from those oxygen thieves going berserk and killing and maiming innocents is a global argument on social media – the net result being to ostracize Islam and its adherents as all being tarred with the same brush – all being terrorists.

The propaganda and disinformation has led to global society divided.

Almost conquered.

ATS member Moreseby has this to say:

The amazing thing about propaganda is … it works!

Look how often (even here on ATS) you see people repeating the government’s memes. Places like Facebook and Twitter, as you’d expect, are even worse. Seemingly, without knowing it, users do the aims of TPTB.

You really have to be vigilant to avoid the influence of propaganda on your life and views. It’s insidious. It creeps into parts of your mind when you least expect it.

"Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of Government, being themselves controlled by the Hidden Hand."

Benjamin Disraeli,
Prime Minister of England

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