"HE WHO
CASTS THE VOTES DECIDES NOTHING. HE WOULD COUNTS
THE VOTES DECIDES EVERYTHING.........."
STALIN. "THE
MEDIA IS THE MOST EFFICIENT WEAPON OF TYRANNY AND
OPPRESSION EVER CREATED....."
Confessions of a
Covert Agent
Psychological Operations are my specialty
Global
Research, December 3, 2007
artofmentalwarfare.com - 2007-12-02
The author of the text below claims to be highly
experienced in covert intelligence programmes and
psychological operations - psyops. Interestingly, he
charges that Robert Gates personally helped rig the
presidential elections of 2000 an 2004 via massive
computer fraud. Stating that this opinion is taken for
granted throughout the US intelligence community, the
author warns against future elections manipulated via
computer fraud. He paints a vivid and disturbing picture
of the levels of moral depravity now surging out of the
Neocon volcano.
Worth reading and remembering.
Michael Carmichael
Michael Carmichael is the Director of the Planetary Movement , a
nonprofit public affairs organization based in the United
Kingdom and a frequent contributor to Global Research.
The following article is excerpted from the
upcoming edition of the book The Art of Mental Warfare by David
Vincent.
The Art of Mental Warfare
Editor's Note
This message comes from an anonymous source
believed to be within the US intelligence community. Some
of the statements cannot be verified for authenticity,
but the general themes and references speak for
themselves. I've researched everything that is possible
to research and it all stands up. I have no reason to
believe any of this is untrue. Read it and decide for
yourself.
Psychological Operations are my specialty. PsyOps
Everything I've done has been highly classified, all
black programs and black operations. Some people I know
thought I worked for the CIA, but it's much more
complicated than that. I've worked with people in the
CIA, DIA, NSC, NSA, SAIC, Army Intel and many more lesser
known agencies within the intelligence apparatus.
Before focusing on PsyOps I started out running covert
combat missions, special operations. I was good at what I
did and rose through the ranks fast. When the "War
on Terror" started I was paid a lot of money to
consult with private military contractors. When private
paramilitary units needed to get the jobs done that paid
the most money they would come to me with checkbooks
filled with US taxpayer dough.
I've seen the worst things imaginable, hell on earth. Had
friends die in my arms. Seen piles of rotten corpses.
Seen men, women and children tortured. I've seen the eyes
of terrified and confused children being sold into a
vicious life of slavery and an early death.
I could get a lot more graphic, but you get the idea.
That was my life, and all along I was told that I was
fighting for freedom and working for the "good
guys." What a ridiculous comment that is! In the
black world, that is, in the covert world, there aren't
any "good guys" just varying degrees of
evil.
As Brigadier General Butler famously stated, "War is
a racket." It doesn't have anything to do with
freedom and democracy. It is not good fighting evil.
There's just a bunch of old greedy gangsta motherfuckers
making obscene amounts of cash and breeding hatred,
violence, terrorists and sex slaves.
The truth is, there is no oversight! Meaning, you can get
away with anything, nothing is illegal because no one
knows about it, or the few who do are either in on it or
have a vested interest in keeping quiet. Whether you're
runnin' guns, weapons, drugs, gold, diamonds, women,
children, it just doesn't matter. As long as the old
guard gets their resources, it's all good. And in the
end, it's all about power. The people who really run this
planet know that natural resources (oil, water, coltan,
cobalt, etc.) are the key. The "War on Terror"
is just a front for a geo-strategic resource grab on a
massive scale. Even the wars in Northern Africa are all
about exploitation of resources. Once the good ole CIA
boys at Bechtel did their NASA satellite studies of the
Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) mineral resources
and discovered that it was the "richest patch of
earth on the planet," all hell broke loose! They
figured out that the DRC has 80% of the world's coltan,
among many other vital resources. Without coltan, you
can't have any technology that requires a computer chip:
computers, cell phones, satellites and weapon systems, of
course. So Bechtel, the CitiBank boys, the World Bank,
IMF and various covert elements have been supplying
brutal regime after brutal regime in the region. Well
over four million and counting have died there.
Same thing with oil in the Middle East. Do you think they
really give a shit about Iraqi freedom? We worked hard to
make you believe that, but c'mon, they don't give a shit
about the Iraqi people. They've killed about a MILLION of
them! And that's NOT an exaggeration! They sure as hell
give a shit about Iraqi oil though. They also care about
Saudi oil, and have a nice deal with a dictatorship that
brutally oppresses their people.
If you look at the
history of covert special operations, it's all about
securing a piece of land that has some valuable resource.
Once the resource is identified, special ops figures out
the most efficient way to suppress or extinguish the
population that is unfortunate enough to live near it.
Then the big companies come in, from the United Fruit
Company to the Bechtels and Halliburtons of the world.
That is the way it has been and still is, from John D.
Rockefeller and Allen Dulles right through Kissinger,
Bush Sr. and Cheney. Millions of innocent civilians have
been slaughtered. Let me repeat that: Millions of
innocent civilians have been slaughtered. And I'm not
kidding you. These are evil motherfuckers and they are no
friends of ours. These things don't have anything to do
with protecting the US people or standing up for freedom
and democracy. They don't give a shit about the average
American. In this age of the global economy, the concept
of nation state is obsolete. If only proud Americans
could understand that. Pride in the American way is just
another propaganda device for PsyOps agents people
like me to use to manipulate you and make you think
that black is white and white is black.
If you were to ask me who is a bigger threat to the
people of the US, Cheney or bin Laden, or who has done
more damage to the US, I would say Cheney without
hesitation. Cheney, along with Bush Sr. and Kissinger,
has been running the covert world for about 40 years now.
A little side note for you: I firmly believe Robert
Gates, the current Secretary of Defense and Bush Sr.'s
right-hand man in the covert world, used computer
cryptography and software security assets to get Bush Jr.
elected both times. I do not have direct knowledge of the
operation, but research "Robert Gates,"
"Bill Owens," "electronic voting
security," "HAVA," "VoteHere"
and "Scientific Applications International
Corp." [We will post more on this in the near
future.] The operation went so well that Gates was going
to be made the first ever Director of National
Intelligence. He turned down the job, but then took the
Secretary of Defense position when Rumsfeld was removed
from his public position. I don't think there will ever
be solid evidence linking directly to members of the
administration; it's all a tangled web of plausible
deniability. But I do think it will eventually be proven
that the elections were manipulated to deliver Bush the
victory. Many people in the covert world take this for
granted, as common sense. Please don't confuse this as
partisan propaganda. I don't give a shit about the
Democrat or Republican PsyOps mind-fuck dynamic. They're
just labels to divide a potentially powerful united US
public.
It's hard to get the average American to understand these
things. Most everyone in this country has been
mind-fucked since birth. For a very blatant example, you
can look at the advertising industry and the way they
have increased intensely their focus on the youth. It's
all about breeding impulsive emotionally driven consumers
through repetition - over and over again - buy, buy, buy.
You hear something enough and you internalize the
message. It becomes something like the air you breathe,
like gravity. It's there, omnipresent, but you don't
realize it or consciously think about it. It becomes the
spring from which your thoughts leap forth.
What it all boils down to is the exposure rate. You take
a simple message and you repeat it over and over, such as
mentioning Saddam and 9/11. You don't have to say Saddam
was involved in 9/11, because that is not true. You just
have to mention Saddam and 9/11 in the same simple
repetitive message thousands of times and people will
support an attack on a country that didn't have anything
to do with 9/11 because they've been psychologically
conditioned to link the two.
It's psychological operations on a grand scale, mass
psychology. The scientific art of manipulating public
opinion is 100 years old now. PsyOps have evolved to the
point, thanks to the all pervasive mass media, where we
can make you believe, or at least passively accept,
whatever we want you to. I secretly worked with the
world's most powerful media companies to get you to
believe what "they" want you to believe. The
media is the most efficient weapon of tyranny and
oppression ever created. No need to physically control
populations anymore when you can do it mentally - program
it in, internalize the rules.
To give a little more background on publicly revealed
psychological operations, in 1977, after the
Congressional Church Committee investigated CIA
manipulation of the news media, and right after George
Bush Sr. left his post as the Director of the CIA, famed
Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein searched a little
deeper into what was known as Operation Mockingbird. He
revealed that over 400 US journalists were actually
carrying out clandestine CIA PsyOps services. Bernstein
identified operations involving almost every major US
news outlet, most notably The New York Times, CBS and
Time magazine. The CIA responded to all of this with a
"limited hangout." A "limited
hangout" is CIA speak for when classified
information gets out and you have to make it seem as if
you are "coming clean" with all the information
on the operation, but in reality you are really just
admitting part of the operation so you can cover up other
deeper parts and continue the program. This worked very
effectively for them, as the US public quickly moved on
and this operation has largely been forgotten. Currently,
I would estimate, with cable news and the Internet now,
that there are well over a thousand covert operatives
spread throughout the news media. They have a firm grip
on television, newspapers, wire services, radio and
magazines. However, with the Internet - that's their weak
spot - it's too decentralized and difficult to control.
The Pentagon's Information Operations Roadmap now
describes the Internet as an enemy "weapons
system." The Pentagon doesn't hide the fact that
they want total control over information, or as they call
it "information dominance." They very plainly
state that they seek to "control land, sea, space
and information." This is what they refer to as
"full spectrum dominance." If you don't think
they see this as a top priority, look at Iraq. The plan
to "embed" journalists with the military in
Iraq was a strategic operation that considered
"journalism as part of psychological
operations." The journalists that weren't
"embedded" were considered "enemy
combatants." More journalists have been killed in
Iraq than in any other war, and it is the US doing a
large portion of the killing.
Before I go too far here, the point I want to make to the
US public, the bottom line is that the most power crazed
and greed addicted people are above the law and get away
with everything. In the covert world rules do not apply.
Democracy is a fairy tale. Nothing is what it seems,
reality isn't real. Through the looking glass Alice goes.
I've fought against it and got nowhere. I've informed
people that I naively thought could do something, but
nothing could be done. I took all the blood money I've
made and donated it to humanitarian causes. Will it make
a difference? No. Not in the grand scheme of things, but
in the short run it may save a few people
maybe.
And that's all I can hope for at this point.
I've become so cynical! I live with guilt and cynicism
weighing on my every move, my every thought.
When you've seen the things I have seen, been involved
with the things I've been involved with, when you've
spent the majority of your life living like I have, what
do you do when you decide to give it up and get out? Can
you ever get out?
I was able to get out, thus far, when no one I knew
thought I could get out. But once you lived in the covert
world, "normal" civilian life feels like a
prison sentence. Then again, the covert world was a
prison sentence.
I've been strongly advised to keep a very low profile and
forget about things for a while. But I find it hard to
just fade into the night when we are reaching an event
horizon, a breaking point. Despite my cynicism, there is
a part of me that knows I have to keep fighting. The
stakes are just too high, higher then they've ever been.
The human species is in serious trouble, facing a set of
crises unlike anything we've ever faced before. Unless
these covert forces are exposed, and ultimately
eliminated, I don't see how we can even begin to make the
bold actions that we need to start making now - and I
mean right fucking now! These covert forces are a root
cause and driver, a cancer spreading through the system
and planet.
As far as I can tell, you can't change the system from
within the intelligence community itself. This includes
the Senate Intel Committee. If the urgently needed
changes are ever to happen, it has to come from the US
public. Now I know first hand how the American public has
been conditioned to be apathetic and not get involved in
politics and has been fed a steady diet of
misinformation. But propaganda only works to the point
where the population being propagandized is not feeling
the direct impact and negative consequences on a personal
level in their daily lives. That's why the draft played a
large role in bringing an end to Vietnam. We need another
draft to push the mainstream over the edge and into
action, but the façade is beginning to crack - 9/11 had
some effect, the war in Iraq certainly, Katrina, massive
job loses and an economic downturn that has really just
begun have all factored into creating a critical mass.
Even the most propagandized population in the history of
civilization will have to act when their very survival
and well- being is directly threatened and impacted. I
just hope enough people will understand the need for bold
decisive action now, before it's too late.
So, to the people who have awareness of the problems
facing us, if I could give advice, it would be this:
1. Try the Bush Administration for war crimes. If the
case could ever be brought to court, the evidence to
convict is definitely there. This is why the
administration has been strongly against the
International Criminal Court. If we are to begin
repairing this country, and the world, we must begin by
showing these power crazed and covert forces that they
are accountable. If we can convict someone like Cheney,
we will send a powerful message to the covert world. If
we let them walk, we will keep having these problems. New
people will follow them and take their place.
2. Investigate where all the military spending has been
vanishing off to. There are literally trillions of
taxpayer dollars unaccounted for. This money is fueling
the covert world and terrorism in general. As part of
this, I would include an investigation into war
profiteering as well.
3. Make it mandatory that all electronic voting machines
must have a 100% verifiable paper trail.
4. Get people into the Federal Communications Commission
(FCC) who will smash the current media ownership rules.
The concentration of media ownership is the foundation of
the covert power structure. Without that, the whole thing
is a house of cards. That's why the FCC is currently
trying to ram through rules that will further consolidate
media ownership before the Bush administration leaves
office. As part of this, it is pivotal that we protect
the open architecture of the Internet. The media belongs
to the people, as does the government, in theory anyway,
but we need an information system that actually serves
the public interest.
5. Declare a national and global emergency on the
environmental front. We have already reached the breaking
point. We need organized, governmental, policy driven,
bold action now.
6. We need to address entities that now have power over
the Constitution, such as the undemocratic and unelected
corporate global governing structure - institutions like
the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the International
Monetary Fund (IMF) and "agreements" like NAFTA
and DR-CAFTA, to name a few. Most Americans don't even
know what these power structures are, let alone that they
have power that supersedes the Constitution. We must also
address the National Security Act, that's where the
ultimate power of our country lies. The National Security
Act has effectively made the Constitution meaningless and
is the primary driver of the covert world. The PATRIOT
Act and various other newly granted powers must also be
drastically revised or eliminated completely in order to
protect our civil liberties.
7. Lastly, we need to have publicly financed elections.
As long as we have a system that requires candidates to
raise tens of millions of dollars to even be considered
for office, we will have politicians who bend over
backwards for the richest one percent and the most
powerful elements of society at the citizens' expense. An
important aspect of this has to be a requirement for
large media companies to provide candidates with free
airtime. Candidates have to spend the majority of their
money on advertising in the mainstream media. That's why
the major news media spend so much time focusing on who
is raising the most money, because they are the ones who
end up with all that money. Once we have publicly
financed elections and free airtime for candidates, we
will get people in office who will work in the interests
of the public because they are not beholden to the large
and powerful entities. When you have politicians
depending on the public instead of the private sector for
survival, all the issues mentioned above could be
addressed because they won't have to fear the withdrawal
of support from large corporations and the wealthy and
powerful who do not want these things to happen. This
will also enable us to eliminate tax breaks for the
richest one percent, put an end to corporate welfare
practices, and stop funding for obscene military and
prison industrial companies that are profiting off of
disasters and no longer serve security interests. Then we
can redirect that money into environmental, education,
health care and social security programs, to mention a
few.
In the current political environment this may all sound
like an unrealistic pipe dream, but these are the seven
pivotal things that MUST happen. If all seven don't
happen within the next few years, we will have set the
world on a disastrously irreversible course. This is
"the unfortunate reality of our current
situation." It is not going to be easy, but you
better start fighting for it now, while we still can.
It really does come down to us. You have to personally,
in your daily life, do everything you can. With enough
public pressure all of these things are achievable. Once
we get a small portion of the population acting in this
direction, it will quickly catch on and spread. Even
though the overwhelming majority of the US population is
incredibly propagandized on the surface, just underneath
is the realization of the need for mass action. They just
need leaders to point this out. The mainstream just needs
a spark. Do what you can to set it off. It is a matter of
unprecedented significance.
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