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- Thare are laws explicitly prohibiting the CIA from producing propaganda intended to influence US citizens in the US (the infamous NY Times' Ahmed Chalabi Iraq
by grandalf 17y ago
- Thare are laws explicitly prohibiting the CIA from producing propaganda intended to influence US citizens in the US (the infamous NY Times' Ahmed Chalabi Iraq chemical weapons truck articles were in violation of these laws and came to exist semi-accidentally b/c the CIA funded Chalabi who generated the "smoking gun" photo which was picked up by the British press and then the US press).
- We all know that the CIA funds things like opposition groups, etc. Funds them to do what? Buy guns? Recruit new members? The membership recruitment aspect is obviously propaganda, and I think one could easily consider (for example) a bomb detonated by an opposition group to be propaganda, much like a radio spot or infomercial.