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> The operations of secret intelligence agencies
> aiming at the manipulation of public opinion
> generally involve a combination of cynical
> deception with the pathetic gullibility of the
> targeted populations.
>
>
> There is ample reason to believe that the case of
> Edward Joseph Snowden fits into this pattern. We
> are likely dealing here with a limited hangout
> operation, in which carefully selected and
> falsified documents and other materials are
> deliberately revealed by an insider who pretends
> to be a fugitive rebelling against the excesses of
> some oppressive or dangerous government agency.
>
> But the revelations turn out to have been prepared
> with a view to shaping the public consciousness in
> a way which is advantageous to the intelligence
> agency involved. At the same time, gullible young
> people can be duped into supporting a personality
> cult of the leaker, more commonly referred to as a
> “whistleblower.” A further variation on the
> theme can be the attempt of the sponsoring
> intelligence agency to introduce their chosen
> conduit, now posing as a defector, into the
> intelligence apparatus of a targeted foreign
> government. In this case, the leaker or
> whistleblower attains the status of a triple
> agent.
>
> Any attempt to educate public opinion about the
> dynamics of limited hangout operations inevitably
> collides with the residue left in the minds of
> millions by recent successful examples of this
> technique. It will be hard for many to understand
> Snowden, precisely because they will insist on
> seeing him as the latest courageous example in a
> line of development which includes Daniel Ellsberg
> and Julian Assange, both still viewed by large
> swaths of naïve opinion as authentic challengers
> of oppressive government.
>
> This is because the landmark limited hangout
> operation at the beginning of the current
> post-Cold War era was that of Daniel Ellsberg and
> the Pentagon papers, which laid the groundwork for
> the CIA’s Watergate attack on the Nixon
> administration, and more broadly, on the office of
> the presidency itself. More recently, we have had
> the case of Assange and Wikileaks. Using these two
> cases primarily, we can develop a simple typology
> of the limited hangout operation which can be of
> significant value to those striving to avoid the
> role of useful idiots amidst the current cascade
> of whistleblowers and limited hangout artists.
>
> In this analysis, we should also recall that
> limited hangouts have been around for a very long
> time. In 1620 Fra Paolo Sarpi, the dominant figure
> of the Venetian intelligence establishment of his
> time, advised the Venetian senate that the best
> way to defeat anti-Venetian propaganda was
> indirectly. He recommended the method of saying
> something good about a person or institution while
> pretending to say something bad. An example might
> be criticizing a bloody dictator for beating his
> dog - the real dimensions of his crimes are thus
> totally underplayed.
>
> Limited hangout artists are instant media darlings
>
>
> The most obvious characteristic of the limited
> hangout operative is that he or she immediately
> becomes the darling of the controlled corporate
> media. In the case of Daniel Ellsberg, his
> doctored set of Pentagon papers were published by
> the New York Times, the Washington Post, the
> Boston Globe, and eventually by a consortium
> totaling seventeen corporate newspapers. These
> press organs successfully argued the case for
> publication all the way to the United States
> Supreme Court, where they prevailed against the
> Nixon administration.
>
> Needless to say, surviving critics of the Warren
> Commission, and more recent veterans of the 9/11
> truth movement, and know very well that this is
> emphatically not the treatment reserved for
> messengers whose revelations are genuinely
> unwelcome to the Wall Street centered US ruling
> class. These latter are more likely to be
> slandered, vilified and dragged through the mud,
> or, even more likely, passed over in complete
> silence and blacked out. In extreme cases, they
> can be kidnapped, renditioned or liquidated.
>
> Cass Sunstein present at the creation of Wikileaks
>
>
> As for Assange and Wikileaks, the autumn 2010
> document dump was farmed out in advance to five of
> the most prestigious press organs in the world,
> including the New York Times, the London Guardian,
> El Pais of Madrid, Der Spiegel of Hamburg, and Le
> Monde of Paris. This was the Assange media cartel,
> made up of papers previously specialized in
> discrediting 9/11 critics and doubters. But even
> before the document dumps had begun, Wikileaks had
> received a preemptive endorsement from none other
> than the notorious totalitarian Cass Sunstein,
> later an official of the Obama White House, and
> today married to Samantha Power, the author of the
> military coup that overthrew Mubarak and currently
> Obama’s pick for US ambassador to the United
> Nations. Sunstein is infamous for his thesis that
> government agencies should conduct covert
> operations using pseudo-independent agents of
> influence for the “cognitive infiltration of
> extremist groups” - meaning of those who reject
> in the establishment view of history and reality.
> Sunstein’s article entitled “Brave New
> WikiWorld” was published in the Washington Post
> of February 24, 2007, and touted the capabilities
> of Wikileaks for the destabilization of China.
> Perhaps the point of Ed Snowden’s presence in
> Hong Kong is to begin re-targeting these
> capabilities back towards the original
> anti-Chinese plan.
>
> Snowden has already become a media celebrity of
> the first magnitude. His career was launched by
> the US left liberal Glenn Greenwald, now writing
> for the London Guardian, which expresses the
> viewpoints of the left wing of the British
> intelligence community. Thus, the current scandal
> is very much Made in England, and may benefit from
> inputs from the British GCHQ of Cheltenham, the
> Siamese twin of the NSA at Fort Meade, Maryland.
> During the days of his media debut, it was not
> uncommon to see a controlled press organ like CNN
> dedicating one third of every broadcast hour of
> air time to the birth, life, and miracles of Ed
> Snowden.
>
> Another suspicious and tell-tale endorsement for
> Snowden comes from the former State Department
> public diplomacy asset Norman Solomon. Interviewed
> on RT, Solomon warmly embraced the Snowden Project
> and assured his viewers that the NSA material
> dished up by the Hong Kong defector used reliable
> and authentic. Solomon was notorious ten years ago
> as a determined enemy of 9/11 truth, acting as a
> border guard in favor of the Bush
> administration/neocon theory of terrorism.
>
> Limited hangouts contain little that is new
>
> Another important feature of the limited hangout
> operation if that the revelations often contain
> nothing new, but rather repackage old wine in new
> bottles. In the case of Ellsberg’s Pentagon
> Papers, very little was revealed which was not
> already well known to a reader of Le Monde or the
> dispatches of Agence France Presse. Only those
> whose understanding of world affairs had been
> filtered through the Associated Press, CBS News,
> the New York Times, and the Washington Post found
> any of Ellsberg’s material a surprise.
>
> Of course, there was method in Ellsberg’s
> madness. The Pentagon papers allegedly derived
> from an internal review of the decision-making
> processes leading to the Vietnam War, conducted
> after 1967-68 under the supervision of Morton
> Halperin and Leslie Gelb. Ellsberg, then a young
> RAND Corporation analyst and militant warmonger,
> was associated with this work. Upon examination,
> we find that the Pentagon papers tend to cover up
> such CIA crimes as the mass murder mandated under
> Operation Phoenix, and the massive CIA drug
> running associated with the proprietary airline
> Air America. Rather, when atrocities are in
> question, the US Army generally receives the
> blame. Politicians in general, and President John
> F. Kennedy in particular, are portrayed in a
> sinister light - one might say demonized. No
> insights whatever into the Kennedy assassination
> are offered. This was a smelly concoction, and it
> was not altogether excluded that the radicalized
> elements of the Vietnam era might have carried the
> day in denouncing the entire package as a rather
> obvious fabrication. But a clique around Noam
> Chomsky and Howard Zinn loudly intervened to
> praise the quality of the exposé and to lionize
> Ellsberg personally as a new culture hero for the
> Silent Generation. From that moment on, the
> careers of Chomsky and Zinn soared. Pentagon
> papers skeptics, like the satirical comedian Mort
> Sahl, a supporter of the Jim Garrison
> investigation in New Orleans and a critic of the
> Warren Commission, faced the marginalization of
> their careers.
>
> Notice also that the careers of Morton Halperin
> and Leslie Gelb positively thrived after they
> entrusted the Pentagon papers to Ellsberg, who
> revealed them. Ellsberg was put on trial in 1973,
> but all charges were dismissed after several
> months because of prosecutorial misconduct.
> Assange lived like a lord for many months in the
> palatial country house of an admirer in the East
> of England, and is now holed up in the Ecuadorian
> Embassy in London. He spent about 10 days in jail
> in December 2010.
>
> Assange first won credibility for Wikileaks with
> some chum in the form of a shocking film showing a
> massacre perpetrated by US forces in Iraq with the
> aid of drones. The massacre itself and the number
> of victims were already well known, so Assange was
> adding only the graphic emotional impact of
> witnessing the atrocity firsthand.
>
> Limited hangouts reveal nothing about big issues
> like JFK, 9/11
>
> Over the past century, there are certain
> large-scale covert operations which cast a long
> historical shadow, determining to some extent the
> framework in which subsequent events occur. These
> include the Sarajevo assassinations of 1914, the
> assassination of Rasputin in late 1916,
> Mussolini’s 1922 march on Rome, Hitler’s
> seizure of power in 1933, the assassination of
> French Foreign Minister Barthou in 1934, the
> assassination of President Franklin D. Roosevelt
> in 1945, in 1963 Kennedy assassination, and 9/11.
> A common feature of the limited hangout operations
> is that they offer almost no insights into these
> landmark events.
>
> In the Pentagon Papers, the Kennedy assassination
> is virtually a nonexistent event about which we
> learn nothing. As already noted, the principal
> supporters of Ellsberg were figures like Chomsky,
> whose hostility to JFK and profound disinterest in
> critiques of the Warren Commission were
> well-known. As for Assange, he rejects any further
> clarification of 9/11. In July 2010, Assange told
> Matthew Bell of the Belfast Telegraph: “I’m
> constantly annoyed that people are distracted by
> false conspiracies such as 9/11, when all around
> we provide evidence of real conspiracies, for war
> or mass financial fraud.” This is on top of Cass
> Sunstein’s demand for active covert measures to
> suppress and disrupt inquiries into operations
> like 9/11. Snowden’s key backers Glenn Greenwald
> and Norman Solomon have both compiled impressive
> records of evasion on 9/11 truth, with Greenwald
> specializing in the blowback theory.
>
> The Damascus road conversions of limited hangout
> figures
>
> Daniel Ellsberg started his career as a nuclear
> strategist of the Dr. Strangelove type working for
> the RAND Corporation. He worked in the Pentagon as
> an aide to US Secretary of Defense Robert
> McNamara. He then went to Vietnam, where he served
> as a State Department civilian assistant to CIA
> General Edward Lansdale. In 1967, he was back at
> RAND to begin the preparation of what would come
> to be known as the Pentagon papers. Ellsberg has
> claimed that his Damascus Road conversion from
> warmonger to peace angel occurred when he heard a
> speech from a prison-bound draft resister at
> Haverford College in August 1969. After a mental
> breakdown, Ellsberg began taking his classified
> documents to the office of Senator Edward Kennedy
> and ultimately to the New York Times. Persons who
> believe this fantastic story may be suffering from
> terminal gullibility.
>
> In the case of Assange, it is harder to identify
> such a moment of conversion. Assange spent his
> childhood in the coils of MK Ultra, a complex of
> Anglo-American covert operations designed to
> investigate and implement mind control through the
> use of psychopharmaca and other means. Assange was
> a denizen of the Ann Hamilton-Byrne cult, in which
> little children that were subjected to aversive
> therapy involving LSD and other heavy-duty drugs.
> Assange spent his formative years as a wandering
> nomad with his mother incognito because of her
> involvement in a custody dispute. The deracinated
> Assange lived in 50 different towns and attended
> 37 different schools. By the age of 16, the young
> nihilist was active as a computer hacker using the
> screen name “Mendax,” meaning quite simply
> “The Liar.” (Assange’s clone Snowden uses
> the more marketable codename of “Verax,” the
> truth teller.) Some of Assange’s first targets
> were Nortel and US Air Force offices in the
> Pentagon. Assange’s chief mentor became John
> Young of Cryptome, who in 2007 denounced Wikileaks
> as a CIA front.
>
> Snowden’s story, as widely reported, goes like
> this: he dropped out of high school and also
> dropped out of a community college, but reportedly
> was nevertheless later able to command a salary of
> between $120,000 and $200,000 per year; he claims
> this is because he is a computer wizard. He
> enlisted in the US Army in May 2004, and allegedly
> hoped to join the special forces and contribute to
> the fight for freedom in Iraq. He then worked as a
> low-level security guard for the National Security
> Agency, and then went on to computer security at
> the CIA, including a posting under diplomatic
> cover in Switzerland. He moved on to work as a
> private contractor for the NSA at a US military
> base in Japan. His last official job was for the
> NSA at the Kunia Regional SIGINT Operations Center
> in Hawaii. In May 2013, he is alleged to have been
> granted medical leave from the NSA in Hawaii to
> get treatment for epilepsy. He fled to Hong Kong,
> and made his revelations with the help of
> Greenwald and a documentary filmmaker Laura
> Poitras. Snowden voted for the nominally anti-war,
> ultra-austerity “libertarian” presidential
> candidate Ron Paul, and gave several hundred
> dollars to Paul’s campaign.
>
> Snowden, like Ellsberg, thus started off as a
> warmonger but later became more concerned with the
> excesses of the Leviathan state. Like Assange, he
> was psychologically predisposed to the world of
> computers and cybernetics. The Damascus Road shift
> from militarist to civil libertarian remains
> unexplained and highly suspicious.
>
> Snowden is also remarkable for the precision of
> his timing. His first revelations, open secrets
> though they were, came on June 5, precisely today
> when the rebel fortress of Qusayr was liberated by
> the Syrian army and Hezbollah. At this point, the
> British and French governments were screaming at
> Obama that it was high time to attack Syria. The
> appearance of Snowden’s somewhat faded material
> in the London Guardian was the trigger for a
> firestorm of criticism against the Obama regime by
> the feckless US left liberals, who were thus
> unwittingly greasing the skids for a US slide into
> a general war in the Middle East. More recently,
> Snowden came forward with allegations that the US
> and the British had eavesdropped on participants
> in the meeting of the G-20 nations held in Britain
> four years ago. This obviously put Obama on the
> defensive just as Cameron and Hollande were
> twisting his arm to start the Syrian adventure. By
> attacking the British GCHQ at Cheltenham,
> Britain’s equivalent to the NSA, perhaps Snowden
> was also seeking to obfuscate the obvious British
> sponsorship of his revelations.
>
> Stories about Anglo Americans spying on high
> profile guests are as old as the hills, and have
> included a British frogman who attempted an
> underwater investigation of the Soviet cruiser
> that brought party leader N. S. Khrushchev for a
> visit in the 1950s. Snowden has also accused the
> NSA of hacking targets in China -- again, surely
> no surprise to experienced observers, but
> guaranteed to increase Sino-American tensions. As
> time passes, Snowden may emerge as more and more
> of a provocateur between Washington and Beijing.
>
> Limited hangouts prepare large covert operations
>
> Although, as we have seen, limited hangouts rarely
> illuminate the landmark covert operations which
> attempt to define an age, limited hangouts
> themselves do represent the preparation for future
> covert operations.
>
> In the case of the Pentagon papers, this and other
> leaks during the Indo-Pakistani Tilt crisis were
> cited by Henry Kissinger in his demand that
> President Richard Nixon take countermeasures to
> restore the integrity of state secrets. Nixon
> foolishly authorized the creation of a White House
> anti-leak operation known as the Plumbers. The
> intelligence community made sure that the Plumbers
> operation was staffed by their own provocateurs,
> people who never were loyal to Nixon but rather
> took their orders from Langley. Here we find the
> already infamous CIA agent Howard Hunt, the CIA
> communications expert James McCord, and the FBI
> operative G. Gordon Liddy. These provocateurs took
> special pains to get arrested during an otherwise
> pointless break-in at the headquarters of the
> Democratic National Committee in the summer of
> 1972. Nixon could easily have disavowed the
> Plumbers and thrown this gaggle of agent
> provocateurs to the wolves, but he instead
> launched a cover up. Bob Woodward of the
> Washington Post, equipped with a top secret
> security clearance from the Office of Naval
> Intelligence, then began publicizing the story.
> The rest is history, and the lasting heritage has
> been a permanent weakening of the office of the
> presidency and the strengthening of the worst
> oligarchical tendencies.
>
> Assange’s Wikileaks document dump triggered
> numerous destabilizations and coups d’état
> across the globe. Not one US, British, or Israeli
> covert operation or politician was seriously
> damaged by this material. The list of those
> impacted instead bears a striking resemblance to
> the CIA enemies’ list: the largest group of
> targets were Arab leaders slated for immediate
> ouster in the wave of “Arab Spring.” Here we
> find Ben Ali of Tunisia, Qaddafi of Libya, Mubarak
> of Egypt, Saleh of Yemen, and Assad of Syria. The
> US wanted to replace Maliki with Allawi as prime
> minister of Iraq, so the former was targeted, as
> was the increasingly independent Karzai of
> Afghanistan. Perennial targets of the CIA included
> Rodriguez Kirchner of Argentina, Berlusconi of
> Italy, and Putin of Russia. Berlusconi soon fell
> victim to a coup organized through the European
> Central Bank, while his friend Putin was able to
> stave off a feeble attempt at color revolution in
> early 2012. Mildly satiric jabs at figures like
> Merkel of Germany and Sarkozy of France were
> included primarily as camouflage.
>
> Assange thus had a hand in preparing one of the
> largest destabilization campaigns mounted by
> Anglo-American intelligence since 1968, or perhaps
> even 1848.
>
> If the Snowden operation can help coerce the
> vacillating and reluctant Obama to attack Syria,
> our new autistic hero may claim credit for
> starting a general war in the Middle East, and
> perhaps even more. If Snowden can further poison
> relations between United States and China, the
> world historical significance of his provocations
> will be doubly assured. But none of this can occur
> unless he finds vast legions of eager dupes ready
> to fall for his act. We hope he won’t.
>
>
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