投稿者 佐藤雅彦 日時 2001 年 10 月 11 日 19:48:20:
●９・１１米国事変が起きた直後の先月１５日に、私は以下の
投稿を行ない、その引用記事のなかでCNN報道の“信頼性
ギャップ”について言及しました。
【 http://asyura.com/sora/war1/msg/243.html
戦争・国際情勢 投稿NO:243 2001/9/15 10:03:15
投稿者: 佐藤雅彦
題 名: 世界貿易センタービル攻撃計画を、金貸し屋たちは事前に
警告を受けていたのに、議会は知らされていなかった！】
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* Least credible news footage
【ニュース報道もまったく信用できない】
CNN's videotape of Palestinians supposedly dancing in the streets of a West Bank town. CounterPuncher Marcio A.V. Carvalho at the state university of Campinas in Brazil tells us that he and his colleagues had compared this tape with one from 1991 showing Palestinian cheering, and found them to be identical. [a claim--though Canadian news footage shows mourning Arabs; U.S. media shows happy, celebrating Arabs. You put the pieces together on who is the enemy: THE U.S CORPORATE MEDIA!]
【CNNは「今回のテロ事件に狂喜乱舞するヨルダン川西岸地区のパレスチナ人たち」というビデオ映像を放映していたが、ブラジルのカンピナス州立大学のマルチウ・カルヴァーリュが同僚とともに、この映像を1991年当時のパレスチナ人を写した映像テープと比較検討してみたところ、まったく同一の映像が使われていたことが判明した。［カナダのニュース報道ではテロ事件を悲しむアラブ人を映していたのに、米国のメディアは“大喜びして祝うアラブ人”を映しだしている。］】
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●この記事の真偽についてはその後、「虚偽だった」という“結論”
になっているようですが、その「デマ打ち消し」のやりかたにも
イカガわしさがつきまとっており、簡単に「虚偽だった」と断定する
わけにもいかないことを、私は上記投稿の追補のなかで指摘
しました。
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戦争・国際情勢 投稿NO:534 2001/9/20 12:44:34
投稿者: 佐藤雅彦
題 名: 【追補】CNNの「米国攻撃に喝采を送るパレスチナ
民衆」映像について 】
●さて、欧米でCNN報道の信憑性に疑義が呈されたのは、
ちゃんとした根拠があったわけで、実は昨年、米軍の心理戦
（psyop: psychological operation）の専門家がCNNに潜入して
“仕事”をしていたことが暴露され、大きな問題になったからでした。
以下に、その一連の暴露記事を紹介します。（英文のままで
スイマセン。）
なお、これらの末尾に、最新のニュースとして、米軍諜報部局
と連中が、南カリフォルニア大学（たしかスピルバーグなどが卒業
した映画学科があったはず……）で、『ダイハード』などの脚本家
を呼んで“相談事”を行なったとのこと。
この件は、本日あたりの日本のスポーツ新聞にも報じられて
いるようですが、軍部が招請したのか、ハリウッド側が招請した
のか――おそらく両者の利害が一致したということだろうが――
興味ぶかいところです。
【ところで、どなたかご存じならば教えてほしいんですが、日本では
今でも深夜に「コンバット」などの昔の戦争テレビ映画が放映されて
いますが、戦後、日本と戦うアメリカ軍を――英国の番組や映画で
日本軍との戦争を描いたものでもいいのですが――描いたテレビ
映画って、あったんでしょうかね？ 私は見たことも聞いたこともない
ので、放映されていたとすれば知りたいのですが。……もっとも、
米国で放映されても、日本での放映はキツかったでしょうね。
ではドイツで「コンバット」が放映されていたのだろうか、というのも
知りたいところですがところですが……。】
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http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/devries/psyops.htm
U.S. Army 'Psyops' Specialists worked for CNN
Trouw, 21 February, 2000
By Abe de Vries Translated from the Dutch by an Emperors-Clothes volunteer
www.tenc.net [emperors-clothes]
WASHINGTON, ATLANTA - For a short time last year, CNN employed military specialists in 'psychological operations' (psyops). This was confirmed to Trouw by a spokesman of the U.S. Army. The military could have influenced CNN's news reports about the crisis in Kosovo.
"Psyops personnel, soldiers and officers, have been working in CNN's headquarters in Atlanta through our program 'Training With Industry,'" said Major Thomas Collins of the U.S. Army Information Service in a telephone interview last Friday. "They worked as regular employees of CNN. Conceivably, they would have worked on stories during the Kosovo war. They helped in the production of news.''
These military, a "handful" according to Collins, stayed with CNN for at least a couple of weeks "to get to know the company and to broaden their horizons''. Collins maintains that "they didn't work under the control of the army." The temporary outplacement of U.S. Army psyops personnel in various sectors of society began a couple of years ago. Contract periods vary from a couple of weeks to one year.
CNN is the biggest and most widely viewed news station in the world. The intimate liaisons with army psyops specialists raise serious doubts about CNN's journalistic integrity and independence. The military CNN-personnel belonged to the airmobile Fourth Psychological Operations Group, stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. One of the main tasks of this group of almost 1200 soldiers and officers is to spread 'selected information'.
American psyops troops try with a variety of techniques to influence media and public opinion in armed conflicts in which American state interests are said to be at stake. The propaganda group was involved in the Gulf war, the Bosnian war and the crisis in Kosovo.
So far CNN has not commented on the allegations. "I don't believe that we would employ military personnel; it doesn't seem like something we would normally do," said CNN-spokeswoman Megan Mahoney on Friday evening. But when the U.S. Army Information Service confirmed the news, Mahoney said she would have to contact CNN's senior officials. However, on Sunday evening CNN still could not provide an official statement to Trouw.
CNN's coverage of the war in Kosovo, and that of other media, has attracted criticism from several sides as having been one-sided, overly emotional, over-simplified and relying too heavily on NATO officials. On the other hand, journalists have complained about the lack of reliable information from NATO; for almost all of them it was impossible to be on the battlefield and file first-hand reports.
For more on the connection between CNN and U.S. Army opinion-control operations, see 'The American army loves CNN'
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http://www.emperors-clothes.com/articles/devries/love.htm
THE AMERICAN ARMY LOVES CNN
By Abe de Vries
(Author of ''U.S. Army Psyops Specialists worked for CNN," at http://www.emperors-clothes.com/articles/devries/psyops.htm )
From Trouw, 21 February, 2000
Translated by Emperor's Clothes
"Not only do the PsyOps people want to spread handpicked 'information' and keep other news quiet, the army also wants to control the Internet, to wage electronic warfare against disobedient media, and to control commercial satellites." - Abe de Vries, Trouw, 2/21/00
BELGRADE - In the first two weeks of the war in Kosovo, CNN produced thirty articles for the Internet. An average CNN article had seven mentions of NATO politicians like Bill Clinton and Tony Blair, NATO spokesmen like Jamie Shea and David Wilby or other NATO officials.
Words like refugees, ethnic cleansing, mass killings and expulsions were used nine times on the average. But apparently the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (0.2 mentions) and the Yugoslav civilian victims (0.3 mentions) didn't exist for CNN.
Concentration on one central message is a favorite technique in audiovisual mass media, but it is also important with military personnel trying to win a war using 'Psychological Operations' (PsyOps). A media organization may be interested in the maximum number of viewers and a state may have special goals; these two can share an interest in simplification and mystifying. The news that CNN employed PsyOps specialists really leaves only one question to be answered: Did the military learn from the TV people how to hold viewers' attention? Or did the PsyOps people teach CNN how to help the U.S. government garner political support?
No doubt, CNN will soon declare that the military (of course) didn't influence their news. However, this whole thing looks very bad and appearances count in these matters.
Colonel Christopher St. John is Commander of the Fourth Psychological Operations Group. In a military symposium on Special Operations on that was held behind closed doors in Arlington Virginia in early February, Col. St. John said the cooperation with CNN was a textbook example of the kind of ties the American army wants to have with the media.
According to a report in the latest edition of the French magazine "Intelligence Newsletter" the Kosovo experience was the focus at this symposium. In the Kosovo crisis there was no military censorship of the kind that existed during the Gulf war. This time NATO tried to use more subtle methods to regulate the flow of information. The U.S. Army leadership seems to have concluded that new and more aggressive measures in Psychological warfare are needed. Not only do the PsyOps people want to spread handpicked 'information' and keep other news quiet, the army also wants to control the Internet, to wage electronic warfare against disobedient media, and to control commercial satellites.
NATO's message in the Kosovo war was simple. That's how it's done in PsyOps. NATO's line was: it had had to confront Serbian troops who committed genocide, that it only waged war to allow the return of Albanian refugees, that when it bombed Yugoslavia it was very careful to avoid 'collateral damage'. Mass media like CNN took this message at face value and avoided disturbing questions.
The war in Kosovo was far less bloody than the one in Bosnia; many Albanians fled Kosovo from fear of bombings or on orders of the KLA; NATO killed more than 500 innocent Yugoslav civilians in 'accidents'; by using imprecise and outdated cluster bombs NATO has, according to many experts in international law, violated the Geneva Conventions - but all of that, it seems, was not, or not really, worth mentioning.
Still, the PsyOps people in Arlington were not completely satisfied. In their opinion, too much information about the unplanned results of the bombings has come to the surface. Rear-admiral Thomas Steffens of the U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) reportedly would like to have the capacity to bring down an 'informational cone of silence' over areas where special operations are in place. What that can mean in reality was shown by the bombing of the Serbian state television RTS in Belgrade. At least fourteen people died [in that NATO attack].
Another high-ranking officer of SOCOM, Colonel Romeo Morrissey, said in his review that NATO should have taken out the Serbian radio station B-92. The B-92 coverage of the bombings did not correspond with the information NATO brought out on its press shows in Brussels. Journalists who regularly logged in on the internet site of B-92 succeeded, bit by bit, in undermining NATO's message. And that is something PsyOps people don't like.
PsyOps people love CNN.
Send this article to a friend!
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Further Reading:
1) For more on the CNN-PsyOps connection see ''U.S. Army Psyops Specialists worked for CNN," by Abe de Vries, at http://www.emperors-clothes.com/articles/devries/psyops.htm
Here are some articles that examine the techniques by which news is distorted...
* ''Misleading from the Start,'' by Jared Israel. Examines how the 'AP' distorted news about local residents' protest against police brutality during the World Trade Organization demonstrations in Seattle. Can be read at: http://www.emperors-clothes.com/analysis/misleadi.htm
* ''Credible Deception,'' by Jared Israel. Examines NY Times coverage of the U.S. missile attack on a pill factory in Sudan in 1998. Breaks down specific techniques of disinformation used by the 'Times.' Mind boggling. Can be read at: http://www.emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/sudan.html
* "Lies, Damn Lies and Maps," by Jared Israel. A tragedy of errors as the media, NATO & US spokesmen trip over themselves trying to produce an acceptable cover story after the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. Can be read at: http://www.emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/Lies.html
* "Reporting Kosovo: Journalism vs. Propaganda," by Phil Hammond. In which the author examines various newspapers and discovers an amazing continuity of pro-NATO coverage: different journalists post haunting personal accounts - - using exactly the same haunting phrases. Can be read at: http://www.emperors-clothes.com/articles/hammond/propagan.html
* "Collateral Damage in Seattle," by Jim Desyllus. Can be read at: http://www.emperors-clothes.com/analysis/collater.htm Possibly the best eyewitness account of the Seattle WTO demonstrations, the writer witnessed the police herding a small group of violent demonstrators from media photo op to media photo op. Can be read at: http://www.emperors-clothes.com/analysis/collater.htm
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Army Active Duty 'psyops' personnel at CNN (for real)
News/Current Events News Keywords: PSYOP, MEDIA, PROPOGANDA, WE TOLD YOU SO
Source: World Net Daily
Published: 3/3/2000 Author: Geoff Metcalf
Posted on 03/03/2000 04:39:16 PST by Dialup Llama
Army 'psyops' at CNN: News giant employed military 'psychological operations' personnel
By Geoff Metcalf
c 2000 WorldNetDaily.com
CNN employed active duty U.S. Army psychological operations personnel last year, WorldNetDaily has confirmed through several sources at Fort Bragg and elsewhere.
Maj. Thomas Collins, U.S. Information Service has confirmed that "psyops" (psychological operations) personnel, soldiers and officers, have worked in the CNN headquarters in Atlanta. The lend/lease exercise was part of an Army program called "Training With Industry." According to Collins, the soldiers and officers, "... worked as regular employees of CNN. Conceivably, they would have worked on stories during the Kosovo war. They helped in the production of news."
When asked if the introduction of military personnel into a civilian news organization was standard operating procedure, one source said, "That question is above my pay grade ... but I hope so. It's what we do."
The CNN military personnel were members of the Airmobile Fourth Psychological Operations Group, stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. One of the main tasks of this group of almost 1200 soldiers and officers is to spread 'selected information.' Critics say that means dissemination of propaganda.
Cable News Network suffered a major embarrassment in the wake of the 'Tailwind' story it aired, alleging the U.S. government used lethal sarin gas to kill suspected defectors during the Vietnam war. After WorldNetDaily was the first news organization to expose the fraudulent news production, two CNN producers were fired and, eventually, CNN veteran reporter Peter Arnett also was ousted. In that case, Retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Perry Smith quit his long-time job as a military adviser to CNN.
What about now? Has the U.S. military been in a position to have influenced directly CNN's news reports about the crisis in Kosovo?
Collins claims a "handful" of military assets were assigned to CNN for weeks "to get to know the company and to broaden their horizons." The Major asserts "they didn't work under the control of the army."
Several sources have confirmed the temporary outplacement of U.S. Army psyops personnel started two or three years ago, and they have been integrated into "various sectors of society." The assignment durations have been short-term up to one full year, depending on the mission. When asked, "What were the missions?" responses to WND varied from "No comment.", "... need to know," to smiles, and, in one case, an obscene recommendation.
CNN is the most watched and widely viewed news outlet in the world. During Operation Desert Storm, Saddam Hussein regularly watched CNN for battlefield intelligence. The symbiotic, intimate relationship between CNN and army psyops specialists has raised many eyebrows, with critics saying it raises doubts about CNN's journalistic integrity and independence.
The Fourth Psyop Group has been involved in the Gulf War, the Bosnian War and the Kosovo crisis. American psyops troops attempt to influence media and public opinion in armed conflicts in which American state interests are said to be at stake.
News coverage of the war in Kosovo, by CNN and other media, has been criticized as "one-sided, overly emotional, over-simplified and relying too heavily on NATO officials," observed a report from the Netherlands.
CNN has not thus far commented officially on the allegations. Megan Mahoney, a CNN spokeswoman recently said, "I don't believe that we would employ military personnel; it doesn't seem like something we would normally do." However, now that the U.S. Army Information Service has confirmed the news, Mahoney said she would have to contact CNN's senior officials.
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The ravings of right wing crazies? No, just every day happenings at the Clinton News Network. Little wonder CNN broadcasts seem so much like propoganda.
1 Posted on 03/03/2000 04:39:16 PST by Dialup Llama
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http://www.counterpunch.org/cnnpsyops.html
March 26, 2000
CNN AND PSYOPS
By Alexander Cockburn
Military personnel from the Fourth Psychological Operations Group based at Fort Bragg, in North Carolina, have until recently been working in CNN's hq in Atlanta.
CNN is up in arms about our report in the last issue of CounterPunch concerning the findings of the Dutch journalist, Abe de Vries about the presence of US Army personnel at CNN, owned by Time-Warner. We cited an article by de Vries which appeared on February 21 in the reputable Dutch daily newspaper Trouw, originally translated into English and placed on the web by Emperor's Clothes. De Vries reported that a handful of military personnel from the Third Psychological Operations Battalion, part of the airmobile Fourth Psychological Operations Group based at Fort Bragg, in North Carolina, had worked in CNN's hq in Atlanta.
De Vries quoted Major Thomas Collins of the US Army Information Service as having confirmed the presence of these Army psy-ops experts at CNN, saying, "Psy-ops personnel, soldiers and officers, have been working in CNN's headquarters in Atlanta through our program, 'Training with Industry'. They worked as regular employees of CNN. Conceivably, they would have worked on stories during the Kosovo war. They helped in the production of news."
This particular CounterPunch story was the topic of my regular weekly broadcast to AM Live, a program of the South Africa Broadcasting Company in Johannesburg. Among the audience of this broadcast was CNN's bureau in South Africa which lost no time in relaying news of it to CNN hq in Atlanta, and I duly received an angry phone call from Eason Jordan who identified himself as CNN's president of newsgathering and international networks.
Jordan was full of indignation that I had somehow compromised the reputation of CNN. But in the course of our conversation it turned out that yes, CNN had hosted a total of five interns from US army psy-ops, two in television, two in radio and one in satellite operations. Jordan said the program had only recently terminated, I would guess at about the time CNN's higher management read Abe de Vries's stories.
When I reached De Vries in Belgrade, where's he is Trouw's correspondent, and told him about CNN's furious reaction, he stood by his stories and by the quotations given him by Major Collins.For some days CNN wouldn't get back to him with a specific reaction to Collins's confirmation, and when it did, he filed a later story for Trouw, printed on February 25 noting that the military worked at CNN in the period from June 7, (a date confirmed by Eason to me) meaning that during the war a psy-ops person would have been at CNN during the last week.
"The facts are", De Vries told me, " that the US Army, US Special Operations Command and CNN personnel confirmed to me that military personnel have been involved in news production at CNN's newsdesks. I found it simply astonishing. Of course CNN says these psyops personnel didn't decide anything, write news reports, etcetera. What else can they say. Maybe it's true, maybe not. The point is that these kind of close ties with the army are, in my view, completely unacceptable for any serious news organization. Maybe even more astonishing is the complete silence about the story from the big media. To my knowledge, my story was not mentioned by leading American or British newspapers, nor by Reuters or AP."
Here at CounterPunch we agree with Abe de Vries, who told me he'd originally come upon the story through an article in the French newsletter, Intelligence On-line, February 17, which described a military symposium in Arlington, Virginia, held at the beginning of February of this year, discussing use of the press in military operations. Colonel Christopher St John, commander of the US Army's 4th Psyops Group, was quoted by Intelligence On-Line's correspondent, present at the symposium, as having, in the correspondent's words, "called for greater cooperation between the armed forces and media giants. He pointed out that some army PSYOPS personnel had worked for CNN for several weeks and helped in the production of some news stories for the network."
So, however insignificant Eason Jordan and other executives at CNN may now describe the Army psyops tours at CNN as having been, the commanding officer of the Psy-ops group thought them as sufficient significance to mention at a high level Pentagon seminar about propaganda and psychological warfare. It could be that CNN was the target of a psyops penetration and is still too naive to figure out what was going on.
It's hard not to laugh when CNN execs like Eason Jordan start spouting high-toned stuff about CNN's principles of objectivity and refusal to spout government or Pentagon propaganda. The relationship is most vividly summed up by the fact that Christiane Amanpour, CNN's leading foreign correspondent, and a woman whose reports about the fate of Kosovan refugees did much to fan public appetite for NATO's war, is literally and figuratively in bed with spokesman for the US State Department, and a leading propagandist for NATO during that war, her husband James Rubin.If CNN truly wanted to maintain the appearance of objectivity, it would have taken Amanpour off the story. Amanpour, by the way, is still a passionate advocate for NATO's crusade, most recently on the Charlie Rose show.
In the first two weeks of the war in Kosovo CNN produced thirty articles for the Internet, according to de Vries, who looked them up for his first story. An average CNN article had seven mentions of Tony Blair, NATO spokesmen like Jamie Shea and David Wilby or other NATO officials. Words like refugees, ethnic cleansing, mass killings and expulsions were used nine times on the average. But the so-called Kosovo Liberation Armmy (0.2 mentions) and the Yugoslav civilian victims (0.3 mentions) barely existed for CNN.
During the war on Serbia, as with other recent conflicts involving the US, wars, CNN's screen was filled with an interminable procession of US military officers. On April 27 of last year, Amy Goodman of the Pacifica radio network, put a good question to Frank Sesno, who is CNN's senior vice president for political coverage.
GOODMAN:"If you support the practice of putting ex-military men -generals - on the payroll to share their opinion during a time of war, would you also support putting peace activists on the payroll to give a different opinion during a time of war? To be sitting there with the military generals talking about why they feel that war is not appropriate?"
FRANK SESNO: "We bring the generals in because of their expertise in a particular area. We call them analysts. We don't bring them in as advocates. In fact, we actually talk to them about that - they're not there as advocates."
Exactly a week before Sesno said this, CNN had featured as one of its military analysts, Lt Gen Dan Benton, US Army Retired.
BENTON: "I don't know what our countrymen that are questioning why we're involved in this conflict are thinking about. As I listened to this press conference this morning with reports of rapes burning, villages being burned and this particularly incredible report of blood banks, of blood being harvested from young boys for the use of Yugoslav forces, I just got madder and madder. The United States has a responsibility as the only superpower in the world, and when we learn about these things, somebody has got to stand up and say, that's enough, stop it, we aren't going to put up with this. And so the United States is fulfilling its leadership responsibility with our NATO allies and are trying to stop these incredible atrocities."
Please note what CNN's supposedly non-advocatory analyst Benton was ranting about: a particularly bizarre and preposterous NATO propaganda item about 700 Albanian boys being used as human blood banks for Serb fighters.
So much for the "non-advocate" CNN. CP
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http://www.current.org/rad/rad007psyop.html
NPR news chiefs deny they knew of Army interns
Originally published in Current, April 17, 2000
By Mike Janssen
Sergeants from a specialized propaganda unit of the U.S. Army interned on NPR news shows over a nine-month period, according to a statement by network President Kevin Klose released last week. The April 10 announcement coincided with the publication of an article in TV Guide that revealed the surprising news.
Similar reports about officers from the 4th Psychological Operations Group (PSYOP) interning at CNN surfaced weeks before the TV Guide article, first in a Dutch newspaper and later in stateside media. Media watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting and Nation columnist Alexander Cockburn suggested that the military was spying on CNN and highlighted the rich potential for conflicts of interest. However, CNN and NPR officials agree with a PSYOP spokesman: the interns did not influence the networks' journalism.
"No journalism was committed" by the interns, says NPR Ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin, who was v.p. of news when the interns were employed. Dvorkin says the interns answered phones, filed away scripts, and prepared program lists and schedules. Maj. Jonathan Withington, a public affairs officer with the U.S. Army Special Operations Command which includes PSYOP, adds that the interns carried equipment and did "background research," and stresses that they did not influence reporting. Regardless, Dvorkin calls the internships "a real goof."
The first intern at NPR rotated among newsmagazines from September to November 1998. The other two worked for Talk of the Nation, one from January to February 1999, the other from March to May 1999. NPR and Withington would not identify the interns or allow them to be interviewed for this article.
All of the interns were non-commissioned U.S. Army officers from the 4th Psychological Operations Group based at Ft. Bragg, N.C. PSYOP overtly disseminates information supporting U.S. goals and policy to other countries. For example, the unit has placed signs in Colombian airports discouraging drug smuggling. "In civilian terms, it's like working in an ad agency or a public relations firm," Withington says.
The Army began to arrange the internships through NPR's human resources office in February 1998, according to Withington.
NPR spokeswoman Jess Sarmiento says the human resources department, including Vice President for Human Resources Kathleen Jackson, knew the interns worked for PSYOP when it hired them, but thought news staffers had okayed the plan. Dvorkin says he wasn't aware the interns were from PSYOP until a few weeks ago. It's possible that the interns' immediate supervisors knew, but Sarmiento says the PSYOP tie was news to a higher-up, whom she would not name, who learned of it only near the end of the third intern's stint. And Dvorkin says he wasn't aware the interns were from PSYOP until a few weeks ago.
Upon discovering the connection, Sarmiento says, NPR's news department ordered Human Resources to stop hiring PSYOP officers. "Once we discovered it, we said, 'This is not for us,' and so we severed the relationship," Dvorkin says. He adds that the network needs to be more vigilant about hiring news interns in the future. Withington says the interns worked at CNN and NPR to get hands-on experience with technical aspects of news production. After their internships, they reported back to colleagues and shared their experiences. For instance, their feedback helped Ft. Bragg design a new center for media production that will reduce the number of PSYOP officers the Army deploys abroad.
PSYOP officers have not interned at any other media outlets, and Withington says the unit currently has no other officers in similar internships. But he doesn't think the internships were inappropriate, noting that industry training is commonplace in other branches of the military, and says he's disappointed that they're over. "The soldiers were really gaining a lot of experience," he says.
写真キャプション：Several personnel of the Army's airborne PSYOP unit learned media techniques as interns at CNN and NPR in recent years. This sergeant is pictured at Ft. Bragg's Media Production Center. (Photo: U.S. Army.)
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http://www.stopnato.org.uk/du-watch/bein/psyops.htm#5
2nd January 2001 Depleted Uranium Watch
Psy-Ops and Depleted Uranium
Piotr Bein, piotr.bein@imag.net,
Vancouver, Canada
（中略）
Dutch paper Trouw reported that PsyOp officers worked at two leading US news channels during the Kosovo war. A liberal US commentator Alexander Cockburn remarked, “In the Kosovo conflict [...] CNN’s screen was filled with an unending procession of bellicose advocates of bombing, many of them retired US generals.” However, the few interns seen at CNN and NPR don’t explain the systematic, decade-long bias across the mass media in NATO countries. The infiltration must be subtler. In fact, the story in Trouw may have been a PsyOp trick designed to divert public attention from permanent ties of the media with the power complex.
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US Army Gets Secret Advice from Hollywood
[Posted 8 October 2001]
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"In particular...the entertainment industry can offer [the Army] expertise in understanding plot and character, as well as advice on scenario training." - (BBC, 8 October 2001)
TENC Note: The following is a report from BBC about secret meetings between US military intelligence and Hollywood movie makers, including the screenwriter of terrorist-thriller 'Die Hard,' a movie which features terrorists who plot to blow up a skyscraper. The US military is seeking advice on how to develop the plot, the characters, and the sense of suspense in future terrorist attacks.
[START of REPORT]
Monday, 8 October, 2001, 12:36 GMT 13:36 UK
American intelligence specialists are reported to have "secretly" sought advice on handling terrorist attacks from Hollywood film-makers.
According to the trade paper Variety, a discussion group between movie and military representatives was held at the University of Southern California last week.
The group is said to have been set up by the US Army to discuss future terrorist activity in the wake of the attacks of 11 September.
Among those reported to have been involved were Die Hard screenwriter Steven E De Souza and Joseph Zito, director of Delta Force One and Missing in Action.
Other, more conventional, feature makers were also said to have been present, including Randal Kleiser, who made Grease.
Expertise
Such a scenario - where the army turns to the creators of film fantasy for advice about real-life disaster - would seem an unusual, not to say unlikely, reversal of roles.
Variety dismissed the notion that such a scenario - where the army turns to the creators of film fantasy for advice about real-life disaster - was unusual, not to say unlikely, reversal of roles.
The paper argues that there is much the masters of screen suspense can offer the US Army in the way of tactical advice.
In particular, says Variety, the entertainment industry can offer expertise in understanding plot and character, as well as advice on scenario training.
The US Army is also behind the university's Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT).
The ICT calls upon the resources and talents of the entertainment industry and computer scientists to help with virtual reality scenario simulation.
Variety reported that the ICT's creative director James Korris confirmed that the meetings between the film-makers and the US Army were taking place.
However, the paper added that Mr Korris had refused to give details as to what specific recommendations had been made to the US government.
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Source:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/film/newsid_1586000/1586468.stm
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FURTHER READING
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For related articles on the connection between the US Army's opinion-control operations and CNN studios, see
'U.S. Army 'Psyops' Specialists worked for CNN' at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/devries/psyops.htm
Also see 'The American army loves CNN' at:
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/articles/devries/love.htm
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