Subverting the 9/11 Truth Movement via a CIA-run COINTELPRO-type Operation
COINTELPRO (COunterINTELligence PROgram) is the term for FBI counterintelligence programs that were supposed to neutralize political dissidents as well as discredit people promoting government conspiracies. For background on COINTELPRO, go here and here.(Note, I do not know much about these sites, but they seem to have good information)
There is no surprise the US government would do a COINTELPRO-type job on the 9/11 Truth Movement, but nonetheless, Dan Hopsicker has the first fairly clear evidence of this type of operation. Details are here.
Basically, the CIA, through operatives such as John Gray and assets such as Adnan Kashoggi, is apparently trying to link the Heaven's Gate Wacko Cult group with legitimate 9/11 skeptics.
I guess it will be very interesting to see how quickly the first mainstream news article comes out describing the 9/11 truth movement that also refers to the Heaven's Gate cult. Probably they are keeping this linkage in check until the public opinion tide seems to be moving significantly towards a 9/11 government conspiracy. Perhaps this will be when a number of the 9/11 skeptic books start reaching a critical mass of people.
Interestingly, and not surprisingly, the Washington Post published an article talking about the various conspiracies involving the Pentagon hit, and they immediately link the theories to a "wacko":
The Pentagon video could be a case study. Williams created a Web site for the video, www.pentagonstrike.co.uk. Then he e-mailed a copy to Laura Knight-Jadczyk, an American author living in France whose books include one on alien abduction. Williams, 31, a systems analyst, belongs to an online group hosted by Knight-Jadczyk that blends discussions of science, politics and the paranormal.
See? It's all a bunch of wacko fringe people that are pushing these conspiracies. It's already started.
Note, the author (Carol Morello) really goes out of her way to link the Pentagon theory to some sort of nut-job. Laura Knight-Jadczyk merely received an e-mail with the flash video, but somehow she is representative of the whole Pentagon skeptic movement. They devote a lot of space to her, even though I have never heard of her or her site before. But I'm sure she seemed to be a good "weirdo" to pick on.
To be fair, the Washington Post article has some balance and doesn't blatantly link 9/11 conspiracies and cult-groups, but I suppose they know how to do counter-intelligence at the WaPo in a very subtle and effective way. I would love to know what sort of editorial pressures Morello faced, and who in the government she talked to for the article (besides Phil Zelikow).
Note: The INN World Report has articles on both of these stories.
Update: Brian Salter has some background on the John Gray - Adnan Khashoggi connection.
There is no surprise the US government would do a COINTELPRO-type job on the 9/11 Truth Movement, but nonetheless, Dan Hopsicker has the first fairly clear evidence of this type of operation. Details are here.
Basically, the CIA, through operatives such as John Gray and assets such as Adnan Kashoggi, is apparently trying to link the Heaven's Gate Wacko Cult group with legitimate 9/11 skeptics.
I guess it will be very interesting to see how quickly the first mainstream news article comes out describing the 9/11 truth movement that also refers to the Heaven's Gate cult. Probably they are keeping this linkage in check until the public opinion tide seems to be moving significantly towards a 9/11 government conspiracy. Perhaps this will be when a number of the 9/11 skeptic books start reaching a critical mass of people.
Interestingly, and not surprisingly, the Washington Post published an article talking about the various conspiracies involving the Pentagon hit, and they immediately link the theories to a "wacko":
The Pentagon video could be a case study. Williams created a Web site for the video, www.pentagonstrike.co.uk. Then he e-mailed a copy to Laura Knight-Jadczyk, an American author living in France whose books include one on alien abduction. Williams, 31, a systems analyst, belongs to an online group hosted by Knight-Jadczyk that blends discussions of science, politics and the paranormal.
See? It's all a bunch of wacko fringe people that are pushing these conspiracies. It's already started.
Note, the author (Carol Morello) really goes out of her way to link the Pentagon theory to some sort of nut-job. Laura Knight-Jadczyk merely received an e-mail with the flash video, but somehow she is representative of the whole Pentagon skeptic movement. They devote a lot of space to her, even though I have never heard of her or her site before. But I'm sure she seemed to be a good "weirdo" to pick on.
To be fair, the Washington Post article has some balance and doesn't blatantly link 9/11 conspiracies and cult-groups, but I suppose they know how to do counter-intelligence at the WaPo in a very subtle and effective way. I would love to know what sort of editorial pressures Morello faced, and who in the government she talked to for the article (besides Phil Zelikow).
Note: The INN World Report has articles on both of these stories.
Update: Brian Salter has some background on the John Gray - Adnan Khashoggi connection.
posted by spooked at 1:06 PM
1 Comments:
If you understand this tactic, then why are your links to other 9/11 sites about half real, half disinformation?
Several of these links promote sites that have the fake "pod" and "hologram" disinformation memes as their central arguments.
Hopsicker's article on the "cointelpro 911" is laughable. Some of his arguments (that the pod stuff is bs) are good. Some of his arguments reek of jealousy that Mike Ruppert's work is getting more attention than his own. Really, it is embarrassing to read, especially the parts where Hopsicker is making up stuff that only exists in his head.
Some sites (such as the "woodybox / INN" articles) make grand claims but don't provide much in the way of verifiable evidence.
Ruppert's book clearly links 9/11 to the motivation of Peak Oil, and that is why ultra-conspiracy sites such as INN, davesweb, etc must discredit Ruppert's "Crossing the Rubicon" book (so that fewer people read it). It's intellectually dishonest for Hopsicker to write a hatchet job that is a mix of truth and fantasy without even mentioning the existence of the book.
A much more accurate deconstruction of the disinformation is at http://www.oilempire.us/bogus.html
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