MindWar: Full Spectrum Fake Terrorism

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MindWar: Full Spectrum Fake Terrorism

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MindWar: Full Spectrum Fake Terrorism

 

August 21st, 2005

 

Jeffrey Steinberg, in an article appearing in the August 26 issue of

the Executive Intelligence Review,

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mentions Col. Paul E. Vallely, the Commander of the 7th Psychological

Operations Group, United States Army Reserve, and a document he

authored entitled From PSYOP to MindWar: The Psychology of Victory

(note: link is a PDF document). " MindWar must be strategic in

emphasis, with tactical applications playing a reinforcing,

supplementary role, " Vallely wrote in 1980. " In its strategic context,

MindWar must reach out to friends, enemies, and neutrals alike across

the globe—neither through primitive `battlefield' leaflets and

loudspeakers of PSYOP nor through the weak, imprecise, and narrow

effort of psychotronics [the relationship between matter, energy, and

consciousness]—but through the media possessed by the United States

which have the capabilities to reach virtually all people on the face

of the Earth. " In short, the corporate media, Vallely wrote 25 years

ago, is an integral and essential component and " force multiplier " of

forever war waged against enemies, including the American people.

 

Steinberg spends a lot of time documenting the occult and paranormal

activities of Pentagon researchers (and also " weapons that directly

attack the targetted population's central nervous system and brain

functioning, " including " such phenomena as atmospheric electromagnetic

activity, air ionization, and extremely low frequency waves), but for

my dime the interesting part of Steinberg's analysis concerns the use

of fake terrorism, or " pseudo gang " terrorism and " psychological

operations " of the sort used against the " targetted population " here

in the United States since nine eleven and, more recently, in Britain.

For instance, Steinberg references Seymour Hersh, who quoted Naval

Postgraduate School defense analyst and Pentagon counterinsurgency

advisor John Arquilla (see my January blog entry on Hersh and Arquilla

in regard to pseudo terrorism and the kidnapping and apparent murder

of Margaret Hassan). " Hersh hinted [in his New Yorker article, The

Coming Wars]

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that U.S. Special Forces units were being unleashed to create their

own terrorist `pseudo gangs' to more easily infiltrate terrorist

groups like al-Qaeda, " as Steinberg summarizes. " When conventional

military operations and bombing failed to defeat the Mau Mau

insurgency in Kenya in the 1950s, the British formed teams of friendly

Kikuyu tribesmen who went about pretending to be terrorists, " writes

Arquilla. " These `pseudo gangs,' as they were called, swiftly threw

the Mau Mau on the defensive, either by befriending and then ambushing

bands of fighters or by guiding bombers to the terrorists' camps. What

worked in Kenya a half-century ago has a wonderful chance of

undermining trust and recruitment among today's terror networks.

Forming new pseudo gangs should not be difficult. "

 

It is my contention al-Qaeda (or more precisely, al-CIA-duh) is just

such a " pseudo gang, " initially created in Afghanistan in the 1980s to

fight the Soviets but held over—as are all successful intelligence

operations (and the CIA admits the creation of the Islamic Terror

Network is its largest and most successful operation to date; see

Chalmers Johnson).

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As the corporate media (as a willing participant in psychological

warfare against the American people) would have it, al-CIA-duh

reformulated itself without intelligence assistance after the United

States abandoned Afghanistan in the wake of the Soviet defeat in that

backwater and more or less strategically meaningless country (that is

until a consortium of oil and natural gas corporations decided they

wanted to build a pipeline there in the 1990s). There is ample

evidence that al-CIA-duh remained a valued intelligence " asset " (and

covert warfare workhorse) after Afghanistan, the primary example being

its activities in the Balkans (see my From Afghanistan to Iraq:

Transplanting CIA Engineered Terrorism) and elsewhere.

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As Steinberg notes, once again referencing the detective work of

Hersh, " [Evangelical Christian Lieutenant-General William " Jerry "

Boykin] and his immediate boss, Undersecretary of Defense for

Intelligence Stephen Cambone, are directly in charge of the Special

Operations search-and-kill squads touted by John Arquilla in his

pseudo-gang promo. " Joe E. Kilgore, writing for Special Warfare in the

Winter of 2002, declares that the " future holds great promise for the

Center and School and for the students it trains. The commanding

general of SWCS [John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School],

Major General William G. Boykin, is developing the ARSOF School of the

Future, an innovative concept designed to ensure that SWCS

instructional facilities and techniques will meet the challenges of

the 21st century. The SWCS Special Forces Evolution Steering Committee

is developing a road map to facilitate the transformation of the

Special Forces Branch. Improvement plans for both CA and PSYOP have

been approved, and those plans are scheduled to be implemented

beginning in FY 2002. " An integral component of the Pentagon's

ambitious psyop program is Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group

(P2OG). " P2OG would launch secret operations aimed at 'stimulating

reactions' among terrorists and states possessing weapons of mass

destruction, meaning it would prod terrorist cells into action, thus

exposing them to `quick-response' attacks by US forces. The means by

which it would do this is the far greater use of special operations

forces, " David Isenberg wrote for the Asia Times in November, 2002.

P2OG, however, is only the public relations face of a much larger and

sinister plan that stretches back at least to 1980 and Col. Paul E.

Vallely's seminal MindWar document and the idea of psychological

warfare waged against the American people.

 

Vallely, of course, does not mention " pseudo-gang " warfare explicitly

and instead puts forward the idea of " full spectrum " warfare in all

fronts, including disinformation or propaganda warfare waged against

the American people. Indeed, the idea of fake or deceptive terrorism

is much older and originated in its modern form and was field tested

by General Frank Kitson, a British officer " who first thought up the

concept that was later used in the formation of Al Qaeda. He called it

the `pseudo gang'—a state sponsored group used to advance an agenda,

while discrediting the real opposition. The strategy was used in both

Kenya and Northern Ireland. In the case of Northern Ireland, most of

the violence that was attributed to `Loyalists' was in actuality not

their handiwork, but the result of the activities of the death squads

affiliated to the British secret state, " writes Ian Buckley (see my

General Frank Kitson: Trail Blazing Fake Terrorism).

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