Nor Cal Truth Oct 31, 2010
The following is from War is a Crime:
On Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010, the “Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear” hit the National Mall, in Washington, D.C. One of the activists in attendance at the spirited event was Louis Wolf. He’s an author and a peace and justice activist from the Washington, D.C. area. He shared with me his views on 9/11. Mr. Wolf said: “9/11 was an inside job!” See for background on this issue: DC911Truth and also check out my review of Phil Shenon’s insightful book: “The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation,” at AmericanChronicle. Keep in mind, too, that John Farmer, who was the senior counsel to the 9/11 Commission, said: “The official version of what had occurred that morning–that is, what government and military officials had told us–was almost entirely, and inexplicably, untrue.”
Louis Wolf has been an author and activist for a long time. The following is from 1982, the entire segment can be found at the The Film Archive:
This program, featuring former CIA official John Stockwell and Louis Wolf, co-editor of Covert Action Information Bulletin, begins with an overview of the general nature and activities of the CIA. More at the original source..
The following is from Louis Wolfs’ “Government Manipulation and Distortion of History“, written in 1994 during the George H.W. Bush Gulf War:
There is a CIA branch within its Directorate of Operations which deals entirely in media operations, mostly abroad (they’re strictly illegal in the US–though it is known that doesn’t always stop them), designed to influence public opinion. One scholar on this subject posited that the CIA’s budget for covert propaganda and generalized media operations alone, fifteen years ago, ranged between $75 and $200 million. 1
Since the Rockefeller Commission report, 2 the multi-volume US Senate Church Committee was report issued in 1976-77, 3 the 1977 article by Carl Bernstein in Rolling Stone 4, and the House CIA media report, 5 (each disclosing large-scale domestic media operations by the Agency) successive Directors of Central Intelligence have issued internal directives prohibiting certain domestic activities directed at or involving US media, as well as planting propaganda abroad that will return to the US–known in the trade as “blowback.” 6 The reality is that, with the electronic revolution in media technology, there can be little or no control over what will happen to a false article or broadcast that the CIA plants in any media anywhere in the world.
It is not only false CIA propaganda that finds its way into the media, and into more than a few history texts. One of the critical problems of both journalists and historians is a virtually routine, and often blind, acceptance as fact of many prominent myths, including more than a few initially spawned by the designers of disinformation in the ranks of the military and intelligence agencies. Some of the myths arise more than anything from an ideological base, others from a conscious distortion of history. These myths then inexorably grow in stature and become, as expressed by one of the best investigative journalists in the country, Robert Parry, “conventional wisdom.” 7
The profound popular opposition to the war, and mass demonstrations both in the U.S. and across the globe, were largely ignored by both the White House and the Congress amid the headlong rush to war. Alongside dozens of demonstrations nationwide estimated to have mobilized over three-quarters of a million people, there were more than 3,200 demonstrations against the war worldwide, where more than four million people took to the streets. 10 Whether the various histories of the war and the policies leading to it give weight to this mass opposition to the war policy remains to be seen.
