Programs were funded for law, economics,
political science and business recruits.
Fellowships and Chairs helped to create
the American Enterprise Institute.
More than thirty of its scholars
populated the Reagan Administration,
including Interior Secretary James Watt
and William Bennett of Education.
Through the 70s and 80s rightwing tentacles
increasingly embraced American politics.
The Smith-Richardson Foundation incubated
trickle down, voodoo economics.
Conservative strategy benefited
from Bush One's year at the CIA.
He brought ex-spies into politics
as Ronald Reagan's running mate.
They staffed important offices
throughout the administration,
so by 1981 the assault
on the Analytical Division escalated.
Operatives who didn't "believe"
got shunted aside or shown the door
and those who were allowed to remain
were very careful to ignore
the increasingly rapid decline
in the Soviet Union's fortunes
and march in rigid lockstep
to the new CIA tune's distortion.
After the overhaul
of the CIA's analytical side,
Reagan-Bush turned to whipping
the American People into line.
When Ronald Reagan signed off on
National Security Decision Directive #77,
psychological warfare experts and Special Forces
began to shape the American public's perceptions.
Ex-CIA propagandist, Walter Raymond, Jr.,
administration pointman for the mission,
was deployed and began to develop
a homeland propaganda division,
which was carried out
from the National Security Council of the President
and a Public Diplomacy Bureau began to operate
from offices inside the State Department.
Teams of Public Diplomacy officials
made the rounds of Washington, D.C.,
pressuring all the news offices,
editors and bureau chiefs
to remove or keep "troublesome" reporters
on a tight and very short leash
and all the while went about developing
their Soviet Boogeyman themes.
Perception management/public diplomacy
was originally designed
to bring a targeted population's
point of view into line
with support for American policy
within the targeted country
after the intelligence service
had completed a psychological autopsy.
The first step is to discover
a people's cultural tendencies
and analyze them for weaknesses
the service can use to exploit these.
Then develop propaganda themes
that America can use as "hot buttons"
to push and immediately activate
anger and exploitable passions.
Success depends on the amount of media
and think tanks you can build or buy
to continually keep the themes devised
in front of the public eye.
The American People and the press
were targeted for such Public Diplomacy abuse
and propaganda techniques the CIA used abroad
finally came home to America to roost.
Threats were quickly invented
from Leftist peasant rebellion agendas
in El Salvador, Guatemala,
and Nicaragua in Central America.
They were portrayed as Soviet assaults
on America's southern border
at a time the CIA believed Moscow
couldn't keep its own ducks in order.
Moscow was fighting Afghan rebels
Carter'd started secretly funding in '79
who supplemented the U.S. weapons conduit
with a profitable heroin pipeline.
In the 80s the Reagan Administration
sent them so many weapons to fight the Russians
these Islamic fundamentalists
were able to turn around and sell them.
They said it was for when we'd abandon them
like everyone else we'd dealt with,
but Reagan kept on spending billions
arming a global network of militant Islamists.
And after the Iranian Revolution
that overthrew Shah Reza Pahlavi,
installed by the US in 1953
after overthrowing Iran's democracy,
the Reagan Administration preferred
to deal with Iraq's Saddam Hussein
rather than the Islamic Republic of Iran
under theocrat Ayatollah Khomeini.
By 1980 Saddam Hussein
had invaded Iran
in a border dispute
over the Shatt-al-Arab,
to end religious propaganda
aimed at the Shiia of Iraq
by Iran's Islamic government,
and for control of Khuzestan.
And, just as a bonus,
prevent the Iranians
from commandeering the oil fields
of Saudi Arabia.
In '82 the Reagan Administration removed Iraq
from the list of countries sponsoring terrorism
permitting billions of taxpayer dollars worth
of agricultural and other forms of assistance
which freed AT&T, IBM, Bechtel and Dow,
Du Pont, Halliburton and Union Carbide,
to trade with Iraq unimpeded
with assistance ably provided by
the Departments of Agriculture and Commerce,
the Departments of Defense and State,
the CDC, NSC, US Nuclear Weapons Labs
and, of course, the CIA.
The bearer of such glad tidings
was Donald Rumsfeld in Dec. 1983,
who traveled to Baghdad for the meeting
as Reagan's Special Envoy to the Middle East.
And while Reagan/Bush officially denounced
Saddam's use of chemical weapons,
in March '84 Rumsfeld returned
to say we didn't mean what we said about him.
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