From: Biniam Haile \(SWE\) (eritrea.lave@comhem.se)
Date: Sun Jul 26 2009 - 08:28:20 EDT
By Sam Abrams [samab2021@yahoo.com]
Quotations from renowned personalities - some of the quotations would
tell you the truth about the 'cia' and the so called "free press" in the
U.S.
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"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in
the major media." --William Colby, former CIA Director,
(1973-1976)quoted by Dave Mcgowan, Derailing Democracy
"You could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple
hundred dollars a month."
--CIA operative, discussing the availability and prices of journalists
willing to peddle CIA propaganda and cover stories. Katherine the Great,
by Deborah Davis
"There is quite an incredible spread of relationships. You don't need
to manipulate Time magazine, for example, because there are [Central
Intelligence] Agency people at the management level."
--William B. Bader, former CIA intelligence officer, briefing members of
the Senate Intelligence Committee, The CIA and the Media, by Carl
Bernstein
"The Agency's relationship with [The New York] Times was by far its most
valuable among newspapers, according to CIA officials. [It was] general
Times policy ... to provide assistance to the CIA whenever possible."
--The CIA and the Media, by Carl Bernstein
"For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been
diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and
at times a policy-making arm of the government.... I never had any
thought that when I set up the CIA that it would be injected into
peacetime cloak and dagger operations."
--former President Harry Truman, in a letter to the Washington Post, one
month after the JFK assassination, December 21, 1963
"Senator William Proxmire has pegged the number of employees of the
federal intelligence community at 148,000 ... though Proxmire's number
is itself a conservative one. The "intelligence community" is
officially defined as including only those organizations that are
members of the U.S. Intelligence Board (USIB); a dozen other agencies,
charged with both foreign and domestic intelligence chores, are not
encompassed by the term.... The number of intelligence workers employed
by the federal government is not 148,000, but some undetermined multiple
of that number." --Jim Hougan, Spooks
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"The Press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of the
government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press
can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the
responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the
government from deceiving the people." -- Hugo Black, Supreme Court
Justice
"Our republic and its press will rise or fall together. An able,
disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know
the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without
which popular government is a sham and a mockery. A cynical, mercenary,
demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself. The
power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the
journalism of future generations."
-- Joseph Pulitzer, American newspaper publisher
"Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can
fail. Without it nothing can succeed. He who molds public opinion is
greater than he who enacts laws."
-- President Abraham Lincoln
"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in
the major media."
-- William Colby, Former Director, CIA
"The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the
wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed
to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less
dissent."
-- Gore Vidal
"Promote then as an object of primary importance, Institutions for the
general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a
government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public
opinion should be enlightened."
-- George Washington, Farewell Address, September 19, 1796
"The Greatest Enemy Of Knowledge Is Not Ignorance...
...It Is The Illusion Of Knowledge"
-- Stephen Hawking
"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."
-- Henry David Thoreau
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the
American public believes is false."
-- William Casey, CIA Director (first staff meeting, 1981)
"You could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple
hundred dollars a month." - CIA operative discussing with Philip
Graham, editor Washington Post, on the availability and prices of
journalists willing to peddle CIA propaganda and cover stories.
"Katherine The Great," by Deborah Davis (New York: Sheridan Square
Press, 1991)
"The essence of the lie implies, in fact, that the liar is actually in
complete possession of the truth which he is hiding."
-- Jean-Paul Sartre
"The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he
who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence that it
is not utterly absurd."
-- Bertrand Russell, British mathematician, philosopher
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The World is divided into three classes of people: a very small group
that makes things happen, a somewhat larger group that watches things
happen, and the great multitude which never knows what happened.
Nicholas Murray, Presiedent of Colombia University, 1931 Nobel Peace
Prize Winner.