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PSYOPs sounds like their operations are funny, but what has been leaked is actually quite chilling and terrifying. I highly recommend the book The Men Who Star
by djsumdog 7y ago
PSYOPs sounds like their operations are funny, but what has been leaked is actually quite chilling and terrifying.
I highly recommend the book The Men Who Stare at Goats. Don't bother with the movie; they fictionalize a lot of it and changes the names of the very real military operatives.
One theory proposed by people interviewed in the books goes back to Abu Ghraib: the soldiers seen posing with the sexually abused Iraqis were pawns. Others reported plain clothes operatives in the facility encouraging the photos and the interrogation techniques.
The various people the book's author interview suggest that it wasn't because of a lack of procedure leading to abuse, but the opposite: intentional abuse. Photos were encouraged to be taken and intentionally leaked to the public, in an effort to scare Iraqis by showing how they could be humiliated in prisons.
This is a terrifying military division that probably does operations similar in ethics to MK Ultra. (The book I mention even suggested one of the suicides in MK Ultra may have even been a coverup for more bizzare PSYOPs operations).
- dingoegret 7y agoTrying to play psyop terrorism in the center of global hardcore terrorist activity was a really dumb idea. Scare Iraqis? That's laughable and all it managed to do was invoke indignation and get a bunch of Americans beheaded.
- gowld 7y agoThat doesn't seem possible. The US are the good guys.