{"id":96,"date":"2011-01-23T17:59:40","date_gmt":"2011-01-23T16:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dzambas.ch\/dzblog\/?p=96"},"modified":"2011-05-01T03:06:28","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T01:06:28","slug":"wikileaks-is-the-cognitive-infiltration-operation-demanded-by-cass-sunstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dzambas.ch\/dzblog\/archives\/96","title":{"rendered":"WikiLeaks is the &#8220;Cognitive Infiltration&#8221; Operation demanded by Cass Sunstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Webster G. Tarpley<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/tarpley.net\/\">Tarpley.net<\/a><br \/>\nJanuary 22, 2011<\/p>\n<p>Awareness is growing around the world that the Wikileaks-Julian  Assange theater of the absurd is radically inauthentic \u2013 a psyop.   Wikileaks and its impaired boss represent a classic form of limited  hangout or self-exposure, a kind of lurid striptease in which the front  organization releases doctored and pre-selected materials provided by  the intelligence agency with the intent of harming, not the CIA, nor the  UK, nor the Israelis, but rather such classic CIA enemies\u2019 list figures  as Putin, Berlusconi, Karzai, Qaddafi, Rodriguez de Kirchner, etc. In  Tunisia, derogatory material about ex-President Ben Ali leaked by  Wikileaks has already brought a windfall for Langley in the form of the  rare ouster of an entrenched Arab government.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"366\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"16\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/freespeech.vo.llnwd.net\/o25\/pub\/images\/onepixel.gif\" alt=\"\" height=\"16\" \/><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zaq9DnfeXRI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"16\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"350\">\n<div style=\"margin-top: 3px;\">\n<a style=\"margin-left: 4px; font-size: 11px;\" style=\"margin-left: 4px; \n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td height=\"8\"><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"8\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"photo-caption\" width=\"350\">Obama White House NSC Russia Director Michael McFaul Deploying IMF Shock Therapist Boris Nemtsov as Wheelhorse of Feeble \u201cStop Putin in 2012\u2033 Bid.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"8\"><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>At Foggy Bottom and Langley, a manic fit has been building since the  flight of Ben Ali.  US imperialist planners now believe they can  re-launch their shopworn model of the color revolution, CIA people-power  coup, or postmodern putsch against a whole series of countries in the  Arab world and far beyond, including Italy. The color revolutions had  been looking tarnished lately, as a result of the failure of the Twitter  Revolution in Iran back in June 2009.  Previously, the Cedars  Revolution of 2005 had failed in Lebanon.  The Orange Revolution in  Ukraine had been rolled back with the ouster of NATO-IMF kleptocrats  Yushchenko and Timoshenko.  In Georgia, the Roses Revolution was  increasingly discredited by the repressive and warmongering regime of  fascist madman Saakashvili.<\/p>\n<p><strong>US Seeks to Mobilize a New Generation of Young Nihilists Across the Globe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But now, NSC, State, and CIA believe that the color revolution has a  new lease on life, thanks to their estimate that the United States,  because of Wikileaks and Assange, has captured the imagination of a new  generation of young nihilists across the globe who are described as the  post-9\/11 generation, estranged from governments and opposition parties,  and thus ready to follow Langley\u2019s peroxide Pied Piper.<\/p>\n<p>Assange started his intensive deployment phase this year with video  of a Class A US war crime in Iraq, which was very graphic but which  dealt with an incident which was already widely known.  The second  document dump focused on Iraq, but now the targeting had shifted to  Prime Minister Maliki, and the Iranian asset whom the US by some strange  coincidence was trying to oust as leader of Iraq in favor of the US  puppet Allawi.  With the third document dump, this time involving State  Department cables, we found out much derogatory gossip about such  classic CIA targets as Russian prime minister Putin, Italian Prime  Minister Berlusconi, the Russian-Italian strategic alliance, President  Fernandez de Kirchner of Argentina,  and President Karzai of  Afghanistan, along with jabs at supposed US allies who need to be kept  off-balance and dependent, including the Saudi Arabian royal family,  French President Sarkozy, and others.  Wikileaks thus directs the vast  majority of its fire against figures who are part of the CIA\u2019s enemies  list.<\/p>\n<p><strong>No Equal Time for CIA Covert Operations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Assange also provides a splendid pretext for draconian censorship and  limitations on the freedom of the internet.  The totalitarian liberal  Senator Feinstein wants to bring back Woodrow Wilson\u2019s infamous  Espionage Act of 1917 in honor of Assange.  Assange must be seen not as  an activist, not as a journalist, and not as an entertainer, but rather  as a spook.  John Young of Cryptome, according to some reports, has  denounced Wikileaks, to which he formerly belonged, as a CIA front. <a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/cryptome-classified-secret-wikileaks\/\" target=\"_blank\">In a December 29 RT interview<\/a>, Young described the internet as \u201ca very large-scale spying machine.\u201d1   The internet is indeed a vast battlefield, where the intelligence  agencies of the US-UK, China, Israel, Russia, and many others clash  every hour of the day, with commercial spies, hackers, anarchists,  cultists, mercenary trolls, and psychotics all getting into the act as  well.  Intelligence agencies deliberately feed real and doctored  material to various websites, sometimes using their own disgruntled  employees as cutouts, conduits, and go-betweens. This means among other  things that Bradley Manning cannot be taken at face value, although it  is also clear that he like anyone else should not be tortured.<\/p>\n<p>Assange is now famous, it might be argued.  But the Wall Street  controlled media can make anyone famous, from Lady Gaga to Justin Bieber  to Snooki, and this is what they have done with Assange.  It is wrong  to capitulate to the demagogic power of these media by making it appear  that there might be some legitimate value to Assange. Up to now, the CIA  has been organizing color revolutions using Twitter, Facebook, Youtube,  and so forth as vehicles. Now they think they have a cult figure whom  they can sell to the youth bulge in the Arab world and other developing  countries, where most of the population is under 30.  This is an  operation which must be exposed.<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, Wikileaks has played a role in the CIA\u2019s new \u201cJasmine  Revolution\u201d in Tunisia by publishing some State Department cables about  the sybaritic luxury and lavish lifestyle of the Ben Ali clan, leading  to the downfall of that regime.  The CIA is now gloating that with the  help of Wikileaks it can now topple all the Arab regimes at will, from  Mubarak to Qaddafi to Bouteflika, and replace them with new and more  pliable puppets eager to clash with Iran, Russia, and China<\/p>\n<p>If Assange ever launches his much-touted doomsday machine against the  Bank of America or some other financial institutions, we will be  justified in asking that the Securities and Exchange Commission make  public the extent of short interest in those stocks by certain hedge  funds, especially those controlled by George Soros.  And as far as  Assange\u2019s attacks on the Vatican are concerned, they fit neatly into  four centuries of British intelligence warfare against the Holy See,  going back to Guy Fawkes and Lord Robert Cecil\u2019s Gunpowder Plot of 1605  and beyond. Not much new or radical here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wikileaks: No Serious Derogatory Information about US, UK, Israel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is illuminating that none of Assange\u2019s document dumps have  revealed any notable scandals involving Great Britain or Israel.  No US  public figures have had to resign because of anything Wikileaks has  done.  No major ongoing covert operation or highly placed agent of  influence has been blown.  After all these months, there are still no US  indictments against Assange, even though we know that a US grand jury  will readily indict a ham sandwich if the US Attorney demands it.  If  the CIA had wanted to silence Assange, they could have subjected him to  the classic kidnapping aka rendition, meaning that he would have been  beaten, drugged, and carted off to wake up in a black site prison in  Egypt, Poland, or Guantanamo Bay.  Otherwise, the CIA could have had  recourse to the usual extralegal wetwork.   We must also assume that the  new US Cybercommand with its vast resources would have little trouble  shutting down the Wikileaks mirror sites, no matter how numerous they  might be.  The same goes for Anonymous and other flanking organizations  of Wikileaks.  But these considerations are purely fantastic.  Assange  emerges today as the pampered darling and golden boy of The New York  Times, Der Spiegel. The Guardian, El Pais \u2014  in short, of the entire  Anglo-American official media Wurlitzer.  He reclines today in baronial  splendor in the country house of a well-connected retired British  officer who should be quizzed by the media about his ties to British  intelligence.  The radical-chic world, from Bianca Jagger to Michael  Moore, is at Assange\u2019s feet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cass Sunstein Present at the Creation of Wikileaks<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"beacon_05333674d7\" style=\"position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 0px; visibility: hidden;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 0px; height: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/rotate.infowars.com\/www\/delivery\/lg.php?bannerid=436&amp;campaignid=81&amp;zoneid=49&amp;loc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.infowars.com%2Fwikileaks-is-the-cognitive-infiltration-operation-demanded-by-cass-sunstein%2F&amp;referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.infowars.com%2F&amp;cb=05333674d7\" alt=\"\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<p><noscript><a href='http:\/\/rotate.infowars.com\/www\/delivery\/ck.php?n=2f6ed6&amp;cb=9265aa697ab8d022665a8012819ddada' target='_blank'><img src='http:\/\/rotate.infowars.com\/www\/delivery\/avw.php?zoneid=49&amp;cb=9265aa697ab8d022665a8012819ddada&amp;n=2f6ed6' border='0' alt='' \/><\/a><\/noscript><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wikileaks was apparently founded in 2006.  Originally, the group was  programmed to attack China, and its board was heavily larded with fishy  Chinese dissidents and \u201cdemocracy\u201d activists from the orbit of the Soros  foundations.  Interestingly, the first big publicity breakthrough for  Wikileaks in the mainstream US media was provided by an infamous  totalitarian liberal today ensconced in the Obama White House \u2013 none  other than Cass Sunstein.  In Sunstein\u2019s op-ed published in the <em>Washington Post<\/em> of February 24, 2007 under the title \u201cBrave new Wikiworld,\u201d we read:  \u201cWikileaks.org, founded by dissidents in China and other nations, plans  to post secret government documents and to protect them from censorship  with coded software.\u201d  How interesting that Sunstein was present at the  creation of the new Wikileaks psywar operation!<\/p>\n<p>This  is the same Sunstein who today heads Obama\u2019s White House Office  of Information and Regulatory Affairs. In his January 2008 Harvard Law  School Working Paper entitled \u201cConspiracy Theories,\u201d Sunstein infamously  demanded that the United States government deploy groups of covert  operatives and pseudo-independent agents of influence for the  \u201ccognitively infiltration of extremist groups\u201d \u2013 meaning organizations,  activists and Internet websites who espouse beliefs which Sunstein  chooses to classify as \u201cfalse conspiracy theories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wikileaks = Cass Sunstein\u2019s Program for Cognitive Infiltration In Action<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It should be clear that Assange and Wikileaks are precisely the  practical realization  of Sunstein\u2019s program for \u201ccognitive  infiltration\u201d shock troops to counteract and overwhelm any real mass  understanding of oligarchical domination in the modern world, and any  discussion of what kind of economic policies are needed to secure a  recovery from the present world depression.<\/p>\n<p>In line with Sunstein\u2019s recipe, Assange is a self-declared enemy of 9\/11 truth. As Assange <a href=\"http:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/lifestyle\/features\/wanted-by-the-cia-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-14880073.html\" target=\"_blank\">told Belfast Telegraph reporter Matthew Bell last July<\/a>,  \u201cI\u2019m constantly annoyed that people are distracted by false  conspiracies such as 9\/11, when all around we provide evidence of real  conspiracies, for war or mass financial fraud.\u201d  In other words, Assange  argues that the truth about 9\/11 truth is not nearly as radical as the  various scandals which Wikileaks claims to expose.  But the scandals  Assange is offering target mostly the adversaries of the CIA.<\/p>\n<p>Assange must also be seen as a deeply troubled individual and a  possible psychopath.  He has the ravaged emotional complexion that we  might expect from an alumnus of one of the many MK-Ultra operations.  He  reportedly spent several years in the menticidal Anne Hamilton-Byrne  cult (also known as The Family and Santiniketan) near Melbourne,  Australia.  Here little children were separated from their parents and  made to ingest LSD, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fluphenazine\" target=\"_blank\">Anatensol<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diazepam\" target=\"_blank\">Diazepam<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Haloperidol\" target=\"_blank\">Haloperidol<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chlorpromazine\" target=\"_blank\">Largactil<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nitrazepam\" target=\"_blank\">Mogadon<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oxazepam\" target=\"_blank\">Serepax<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trifluoperazine\" target=\"_blank\">Stelazine<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carbamazepine\">Tegretol<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Imipramine\" target=\"_blank\">Tofranil<\/a>,  and other potent psychopharmaca.  Dozens of children were told that  Hamilton-Byrne was their real mother, and had their hair dyed blond.  Anne Hamilton-Byrne reportedly regarded blond hair as a sign of racial  superiority.  Careful observers will have noted that Assange\u2019s hair is  sometimes blond, sometimes more brownish, raising the question of  whether his grooming practices are a residue of his time with  Hamilton-Byrne, whom he says he does not remember.  When other kids were  getting cookies and milk, was Assange being lobotomized by LSD and  other potent psychopharmaca dished up by Hamilton-Byrne? There is  evidence pointing in that direction.<\/p>\n<p>With Assange, we thus have the tragic spectacle of the emotionally  mutilated product of a CIA (or MI-6) covert operation of 40 years ago,  who has now been given a prominent role in a key counter-insurgency ploy  of the present time. Will the youth of the world, already burned by  their recent fatuous obsession with Obama, be duped again by such an  impaired individual?<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Precedent: Pentagon Papers Whitewashed CIA, Blamed Army, Demonized Kennedy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Assange\u2019s revelations mainly involve communications labeled  Confidential or Secret, and which in reality would be over-classified if  marked Official Use Only.  In other words, Assange is in reality a  purveyor of low level cable traffic, not of earth-shattering secrets.   This reminds us of an earlier CIA limited hangout operation, the one  known as the Pentagon Papers.  This was a carefully screened selection  of historical documents, supplemented by outright forgeries, relating to  the Vietnam War and compiled by Morton Halperin and Leslie Gelb, both  of whom have gone on to glittering careers in the imperialist foreign  policy establishment \u2013 Gelb became president of the Council on Foreign  Relations, while Halperin serves today as chief political officer of the  Soros wolfpack of foundations.  The papers were leaked by former RAND  Corporation official Daniel Ellsberg, who had been a very bellicose hawk  in Vietnam before a suspicious Damascus Road conversion to pacifism,  and then published in the US establishment press \u2013 similarly to Assange  today.  There was nothing in the Pentagon papers which a casual reader  of <em>LeMonde<\/em> or <em>Corriere della Sera<\/em> did not already  know.  But, as Mort Sahl  later said, left liberals have generally had  very few heroes, so they battened on to Ellsberg and lionized him \u2013 led  by Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, and some others.  (This is a syndrome  which we see again today: at the moment when Obama\u2019s treacherous sellout  on the Bush tax cuts was providing a final disillusionment for many  gullible left libs, Assange arrived on the scene as their new Savior.   Not by chance, Ellsberg has now designated Assange as his own  reincarnation, and thus surely the new Messiah.)<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon papers had been carefully selected by the CIA itself to  cover up CIA war crimes in Vietnam, blaming these on the US Army  wherever possible, while also obscuring the CIA\u2019s massive program of  drug production and narcotics smuggling.  The Pentagon Papers  systematically hid the salient political fact of the entire Vietnam era,  which is that President John F. Kennedy before he was assassinated was  preparing to end the de facto US combat role in that country.  Instead,  Kennedy was systematically demonized and smeared, emerging as the  villain of the piece.  Needless to say, the Pentagon papers throw no  light whatsoever on the CIA role in the Kennedy assassination \u2013 in the  same way that Assange\u2019s various document dumps tell us nothing of  importance about 9\/11, the Rabin assassination, Iran-contra, the 1999  bombing of Serbia, the Kursk incident, the various CIA color  revolutions, or many of the other truly big covert operations of the  past decades.<\/p>\n<p>The limited hangout is not new; it was described in a secret  memorandum by Venetian intelligence chief Paolo Sarpi to the Venetian  Senate in 1620 as the art of \u201csaying something good about somebody while  pretending to be saying something bad.\u201d That is the common denominator  of the CIA\u2019s limited hangout operations from Ellsberg to Philip Agee to  Assange, with so many other \u201cformer\u201d CIA operatives turned  \u201cwhistleblowers\u201d along the way.<\/p>\n<p>___________________________<\/p>\n<p>1John Young of Cryptome, \u201c\u2018Internet a very large-scale spying  machine\u2019 \u2013 info leaking site co-founder,\u201d RT, 29 December, 2010, at <a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/cryptome-classified-secret-wikileaks\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/cryptome-classified-secret-wikileaks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Webster G. Tarpley<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/tarpley.net\/\">Tarpley.net<\/a><br \/>\nJanuary 22, 2011 <\/p>\n<p>Awareness is growing around the world that the Wikileaks-Julian Assange theater of the absurd is radically inauthentic \u2013 a psyop. Wikileaks and its impaired boss represent a classic form of limited hangout or self-exposure, a kind of lurid striptease in which the front organization releases doctored and pre-selected materials provided by the intelligence agency with the intent of harming, not the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6,13],"tags":[47,35,41,39,38,33,36,37,40,34,44,46,45,15,3,42,43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dzambas.ch\/dzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dzambas.ch\/dzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dzambas.ch\/dzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dzambas.ch\/dzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dzambas.ch\/dzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.dzambas.ch\/dzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346,"href":"http:\/\/www.dzambas.ch\/dzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dzambas.ch\/dzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dzambas.ch\/dzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dzambas.ch\/dzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}