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Immanuel Goldstein
Obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by the National Security Archive
at George Washington University and posted on the Web today, the 74-page
"Information Operations Roadmap" admits that "information intended for foreign
audiences, including public diplomacy and PSYOP, increasingly is consumed by our
domestic audience and vice-versa," but argues that "the distinction between
foreign and domestic audiences becomes more a question of USG [U.S. government]
intent rather than information dissemination practices."
The Smith-Mundt Act of 1948, amended in 1972 and 1998, prohibits the U.S.
government from propagandizing the American public with information and
psychological operations directed at foreign audiences; and several presidential
directives, including Reagan's NSD-77 in 1983, Clinton's PDD-68 in 1999, and
Bush's NSPD-16 in July 2002 (the latter two still classified), have set up
specific structures to carry out public diplomacy and information operations.
These and other documents relating to U.S. PSYOP programs were posted today as
part of a new Archive Electronic Briefing Book.
Several press accounts have referred to the 2003 Pentagon document but today's
posting is the first time the text has been publicly available. Sections of the
document relating to computer network attack (CNA) and "offensive cyber
operations" remain classified under black highlighting.
Complete text of the article:
<http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB177/>
Internet Operations Roadmap [PDF]:
<http://www.iwar.org.uk/iwar/>
<http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB177/>
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Closely Monitored,
Immanuel Goldstein
"It's just a god-damned piece of paper!"
- Bush on the U.S. Constitution, <http://www.counterpunch.org/leupp12142005.html>
"Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act."
- Orwell
"The history of the present [Junta] is a history of repeated injuries and
usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute
Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world."
- Declaration of Independence
"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same
Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their
right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards
for their future security."
- Declaration of Independence
at George Washington University and posted on the Web today, the 74-page
"Information Operations Roadmap" admits that "information intended for foreign
audiences, including public diplomacy and PSYOP, increasingly is consumed by our
domestic audience and vice-versa," but argues that "the distinction between
foreign and domestic audiences becomes more a question of USG [U.S. government]
intent rather than information dissemination practices."
The Smith-Mundt Act of 1948, amended in 1972 and 1998, prohibits the U.S.
government from propagandizing the American public with information and
psychological operations directed at foreign audiences; and several presidential
directives, including Reagan's NSD-77 in 1983, Clinton's PDD-68 in 1999, and
Bush's NSPD-16 in July 2002 (the latter two still classified), have set up
specific structures to carry out public diplomacy and information operations.
These and other documents relating to U.S. PSYOP programs were posted today as
part of a new Archive Electronic Briefing Book.
Several press accounts have referred to the 2003 Pentagon document but today's
posting is the first time the text has been publicly available. Sections of the
document relating to computer network attack (CNA) and "offensive cyber
operations" remain classified under black highlighting.
Complete text of the article:
<http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB177/>
Internet Operations Roadmap [PDF]:
<http://www.iwar.org.uk/iwar/>
<http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB177/>
--
Closely Monitored,
Immanuel Goldstein
"It's just a god-damned piece of paper!"
- Bush on the U.S. Constitution, <http://www.counterpunch.org/leupp12142005.html>
"Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act."
- Orwell
"The history of the present [Junta] is a history of repeated injuries and
usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute
Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world."
- Declaration of Independence
"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same
Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their
right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards
for their future security."
- Declaration of Independence