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Memo on the Margin
February 21, 2002
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A DR. GOEBBELS IN RED, WHITE AND BLUE
Memo To: The Fourth Estate Editors
From: Jude Wanniski
Re: The Office of Strategic Influence
The lead story in the Tuesday, February 19 NYTimes was headlined: “PENTAGON
READIES EFFORTS TO SWAY SENTIMENT ABROAD,” and as I read it I first
wondered if it were some kind of joke. The subhead read: “New Office Proposes to
Send News or Maybe False News to Even Friendly Lands.” What it comes down to is
the Pentagon is cranking up something called the “Office of Strategic Influence,”
which will have as its mission the manipulation of public opinion in foreign lands in
ways that will win support for our “war on terrorism.” The story makes no attempt to
disguise the fact that manipulation is at the core of the mission. Unlike the Voice of
America or Radio Marti broadcasts to Cuba, which have been kept scrupulously
objective in presenting news, the OSI intends to feed “disinformation” into the global
population in ways that will lead the people of the world to do what Uncle Sam would
like them to do. “Disinformation” is a nice word for “falsehoods,” and when applied to
official government falsehoods, the dictionary word is “propaganda.”
As I read on, I soon realized that this is the brainchild of Richard Perle, the
chairman
of the Defense Policy Board, whose underling, Paul Wolfowitz, serves President
George W. Bush as Deputy Secretary of Defense. Perle is a world class
propagandist and absolute master of the Big Lie. I’ve written in this space before that
Perle, who I have known since 1969 when his skills helped win the Cold War, will not
be happy until he makes the world safe for an American Imperium, no matter how
that objective is achieved. At the top of his list of “things to do” is to crank up a
war
with Iraq, to rid the earth of Saddam Hussein. It remains a personal affront to him
and his henchman Wolfowitz that the first President Bush was talked out of
destroying Baghdad in 1991, when he should have had our troops march to Iraq’s
capital in order to kill Saddam. Perle has an uncanny ability to “cloud men’s minds,”
like the Shadow of yore, and over the years he has not only clouded the mind of
Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld, but also of a great many world leaders. Perle
loves not only war, but war against small countries that can be easily squashed by
America’s military might. He has a long list in his pocket of those he proposes to
squash after he takes care of Iraq.
I, of course, knew there would be some editorial commentary on plans for this
Orwellian Office of Strategic Propaganda (OSP) and I thought the NYTimes would
lead the way in denouncing the idea in no uncertain terms. When I turned to the op-
ed page Wednesday morning, I found a secondary editorial that said the idea of such
an agency was not very nice and maybe it should not be done. That’s it folks. In
rolling over so quietly, the NYT must be part of the plot. I knew The Wall Street
Journal would not say a word about it, as the editorial page has been taking orders
from Richard Perle ever since his father-in-law, Albert Wohlstetter, died four years
ago. Wohlstetter was the behind- the-scenes genius who masterminded nuclear
strategy against the Soviet Union, and Perle was his Minister of Deception. Perle
inherited Albert’s vast private network of agents, a network that includes former
British Prime Minister Maggie Thatcher. The idea of an Office of Strategic Influence
can only have come from Perle and its only purpose would be to foment the casus
belli which would prove to the world that it should join the Coalition to Bring Down
Saddam. I note the Times story says “Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld,
while broadly supportive of the new office, has not approved its specific proposals
and has asked the Pentagon’s top lawyer, William J. Haynes, to review them, senior
Pentagon officials said." Of course, Lawyer Haynes has had his mind clouded too,
and has no idea of the evil intent behind this “black operation.” The Times reports a
senior Pentagon official saying, “It goes from the blackest of the black to the whitest
of the white.” Feeling the heat of widespread alarm and criticism within the foreign
policy establishment over the OSI mission, Sec. Rumsfeld now gives assurances
that the DOD will "tell the American people and the people of the world the truth." But
then, why is there still a need for the OSI? Certainly the Pentagon does not need a
second press office, but as long as the OSI remains, the probability for deliberate
lies
and disinformation is high.
If you do not believe me, way down in its story the Times says: “To help the new
office, the Pentagon has hired the Rendon Group, a Washington-based international
consulting firm run by John W. Rendon Jr., a former campaign aide to President
Jimmy Carter. The firm, which is being paid about $100,000 a month, has done
extensive work for the Central Intelligence Agency, the Kuwaiti royal family and the
Iraqi National Congress, the opposition group seeking to oust President Saddam
Hussein... the firm is well known for running propaganda campaigns in Arab
countries, including one denouncing atrocities by Iraq during its 1990 invasion of
Kuwait.”
The Times reporters, James Dao and Eric Schmitt, are practically giving us hand
signals that this is a Perle/Wolfowitz black operation from the gitgo and the object is
to spread stories of Iraqi atrocities of one kind or another. If I know Perle, he will
have several Iraqi “defectors” turn up in places where there are no Pentagon
fingerprints, telling of Saddam’s plans to wipe out Israel with chemical or biological
weapons he already has on hand. In a February 2 debate with Leon Fuerth, a
professor at George Washington University, Perle insisted action against Saddam
cannot wait for more than “weeks or months.” Richard expects the bombing of Iraq to
begin in early September, so the American people will rally behind President Bush
and the Republicans in the Congressional elections. This means his propaganda
campaign has to get underway forthwith. In the debate, Perle revealed that “it would
be a great mistake to insist on the return of the inspectors. Because if Saddam were
shrewd enough to take us up on it, it might make it more difficult for us to act in
other
respects.” In other words, the objective is not to find weapons of mass destruction at
all, but to kill as many Iraqi people as are necessary to kill Saddam, and to heck with
the consequences.
Fuerth actually put the question to Perle: Suppose Saddam says “I have the
capability to launch missiles with chemical or biological warheads against the gulf
states, Saudi Arabia and Israel, and if I’m attacked I’m going to go ahead and destroy
as many people in those countries as possible, just as you’re proposing to kill the
Iraqi people,” what if it comes down to that? What do we do? To which Perle replies:
“I’m not sure we would need Saudi Arabia....and the scenario you’ve just painted
(laughter) is a reason for not attempting to enlist the Saudis. Israel is a special
situation. Israel is menaced by Saddam in a way that most Israelis
understand...although no one can give you a guarantee that he could not
successfully launch a weapon of mass destruction within the ranges of his present
missile force.”
You see, editors of the Fourth Estate, Richard Perle is a madman, totally out of
control, possessed by the Forces of Darkness. If Albert Wohlstetter were alive, he
would tell Perle that chances are another six million Jews would perish in a second
Holocaust, if his Orwellian black operation were to move forward. If any of you
editors would take the trouble to look further into the operations of the Rendon
Group, you will no doubt find it helped with most, if not all, of the falsehoods spread
about Iraqi atrocities over the past dozen years. Perle knows Saddam never “gassed
his own people.” He also knows Saddam never attempted to assassinate former
President Bush, the daddy of our current President. Perle is the Prince of Darkness,
the most evil man on the face of the earth. Hannibal Lecter only ate his victims one
at a time. Perle likes to eat them en masse.
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