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purplechoe
10-03-2010, 06:57 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20101001/us_yblog_upshot/army-embeds-active-duty-psyops-soldiers-at-local-tv-stations


Fri Oct 1, 4:59 pm ET
Army embeds active-duty PSYOPS soldiers at local TV stations
By John Cook

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The U.S. Army has used local television stations in the U.S. as training posts for some of its psychological-operations personnel, The Upshot has learned. Since at least 2001, both WRAL, a CBS affiliate in Raleigh, N.C., and WTOC, a CBS affiliate in Savannah, Ga., have regularly hosted active-duty soldiers from the Army's 4th Psychological Operations group as part of the Army's Training With Industry program. Training With Industry is designed to offer career soldiers a chance to pick up skills through internships and fellowships with private businesses. The PSYOPS soldiers used WRAL and WTOC to learn broadcasting and communications expertise that they could apply in their mission, as the Army describes it, of "influenc[ing] the emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of foreign audiences."

WRAL and WTOC were on a list of participants in the Army's Training With Industry program provided to The Upshot in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, and a spokeswoman with the Army's Human Resources Command confirmed that PSYOPS soldiers worked at the stations...

awake
10-03-2010, 07:06 PM
In Americas fight against Communists, Terrorists and tinpot dictators the world over, the U.S. "security" and "defense"apparatus has become blinded to the fact that in their efforts to defeat these evils, they have become these very things.

pcosmar
10-03-2010, 07:06 PM
Operation Mockingbird.

Google
Research
Contemplate

heavenlyboy34
10-03-2010, 07:07 PM
in americas fight against communists, terrorists and tinpot dictators the world over, the u.s. "security" and "defense"apparatus has become blinded to the fact that in their efforts to defeat these evils, they have become these very things.

qft!!!!

tpreitzel
10-03-2010, 07:07 PM
A list of names of the participants (soldiers), perhaps?

What our movement really needs is an invention to reveal the blacked-out sections of FOIA requests. ;)

pcosmar
10-03-2010, 07:11 PM
Ron Paul said once in a speech that if elected he would make a lot of secrets known.

I heard it, and thought it very ballsy at the time.

tangent4ronpaul
10-03-2010, 07:25 PM
A list of names of the participants (soldiers), perhaps?

What our movement really needs is an invention to reveal the blacked-out sections of FOIA requests. ;)

THere are ways... NSA has a document out there on how to redact so info can't be unredacted....

http://lwn.net/Articles/181789/

-t

Promontorium
10-03-2010, 07:31 PM
It's PSYOP.

Bitches don't know I was an IO/IW insider.

tpreitzel
10-03-2010, 07:37 PM
THere are ways... NSA has a document out there on how to redact so info can't be unredacted....

[/URL][URL]http://lwn.net/Articles/181789/ (http://lwn.net/Articles/181789/)

-t

Oh, PDF Toolkit. I haven't used it, but since the government loves PDFs ... ;)


THere are ways... NSA has a document out there on how to redact so info can't be unredacted....

Well, the NSA likely assumes with current technology... I'd like to see the NSA's artcle.

Vessol
10-03-2010, 07:37 PM
Heh, when I almost joined the Army when I got out of High School I was going to be 37F, Psychological Operations Specialist, then I got cold feet when I ran into paper work problems that would've taken a few months to clear up.

Brooklyn Red Leg
10-03-2010, 08:32 PM
Well this is fucking depressing but no longer really surprising.

pcosmar
10-03-2010, 08:43 PM
Well this is fucking depressing but no longer really surprising.

I hear that. But it is not new, really.
Folks have said this before,,but were dismissed as nutters.

There are lots of "told ya so's" coming.

johngr
10-04-2010, 05:12 AM
In Americas fight against Communists, Terrorists and tinpot dictators the world over, the U.S. "security" and "defense"apparatus has become blinded to the fact that in their efforts to defeat these evils, they have become these very things.

Those at the top know good and well -- and have been from the start.

Yieu
10-04-2010, 06:15 AM
Since at least 2001
Since only as early as 2001?

How many extra years do they imagine "at least" can add?

Aratus
10-04-2010, 10:31 AM
it truely begs thoughts of WAY much earlier
and all sorts of these merrie & leisurely
Xe + (blank)water Qs an' then some!
dare we opine 'mockingbird' + dirty ops?
clearly the cut-off is the o.s.s era and realm...