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  Propaganda
Propaganda shares many techniques with advertising; in fact, advertising can be said to be propaganda promoting a commercial product.
In this sense, propaganda serves as a corollary to censorship, in which the same purpose is achieved, not by filling people's heads with false information, but by preventing people from knowing true information.
Propaganda techniques were first codified and applied in a scientific manner by journalist Walter Lippman and psychologist Edward Bernays (nephew of Sigmund Freud) early in the 20th century.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pr/Propaganda.html   (2211 words)

  
 Black propaganda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Black propaganda is propaganda that purports to be from a source on one side of a conflict, but is actually from the opposing side.
It contrasts with grey propaganda, the source of which is not identified, and white propaganda, in which the real source is declared.
Black propaganda may be generated by altering genuine enemy propaganda in such a way as to distort its message.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Black_propaganda   (1116 words)

  
 SOG
The term fl propaganda is reserved for those materials planted by the United States but in such as way that it seems to be the product or even an internal document of the target group.
The key to successful fl operations is to develop a general theme upon which to hang all sorts of individual operations.
Black propaganda efforts initiated by SOG included stories that: Chinese troops in North Vietnam were romancing the girlfriends and wives of faraway NVA soldiers; the Chinese were supplying poor quality ammunition; Peking was bleeding its Vietnamese comrades merely to send a political message to America.
www.psywarrior.com /sog.html   (1311 words)

  
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Issued as an OSA NW Order on 18 February 1988.) Black propaganda is a covert communication of false data intended to injure, impede or destroy the activity or life of another person, group or nation, usually issued from a false or removed source from the actual instigator.
What is being attempted by fl propagandists is to _classify_ us firmly in the public mind by constant repetition of certain words like "cult." The more we let such propagandists do this, the more chance we give them, the more opportunity they have.
Black campaigns ARC break people since they depend on false reports and are thus out-_R_.
www.xs4all.nl /~johanw/CoS/black-propaganda.txt   (596 words)

  
 black. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
Although strictly a response to zero stimulation of the retina, the perception of fl appears to depend on contrast with surrounding color stimuli.
However, it was not until the late 1960s that fl (or Black) gained its present status as a self-chosen ethnonym with strong connotations of racial pride, replacing the then-current Negro among Blacks and non-Blacks alike with remarkable speed.
•Black is sometimes capitalized in its racial sense, especially in the African-American press, though the lowercase form is still widely used by authors of all races.
www.bartleby.com /61/22/B0292200.html   (993 words)

  
 Propaganda - SourceWatch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Propaganda shares many techniques with advertising or public relations; in fact, advertising and PR can be said to be propaganda promoting a commercial product.
Black propaganda pretends to be from a friendly source, but is actually from an adversary and is intended to deceive its audience.
Sometimes propaganda can be detected by the fact that it changes before and after a critical event, whereas more honest information like medicine, science or any training manual should largely remain the same after the event as before.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Propaganda   (3476 words)

  
 Mudslinging: Black hole or Black ops? | Pridnestrovie.net - Tiraspol, PMR: Pridnestrovskaia Moldavskaia Respublica ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Black propaganda operations and yellow journalism form a demonizing smear campaign against young, democratic Pridnestrovie.
The country's current president, Igor Smirnov, has as a candidate gone before the electorate seeking their votes as a participant in election campaigns on several occasions; both for his re-election and for proposals put to citizens referenda which are directly modelled Switzerland's direct democracy.
The endless fl propaganda against young and democratic Pridnestrovie, largely based on the wide dissemination of alleged human rights violations and criminal activity, means that no tears will be spilled if Moldova repeats its 1992-invasion.
pridnestrovie.net /blackops.html   (1292 words)

  
 Black propaganda by radio: the German Concordia broadcasts to Britain, 1940-1941 Historical Journal of Film, Radio and ...
It examines the output for Britain, of `Buro Concordia', a `fl' propaganda department of the Foreign Service of the RRG, which controlled a number of secret or `freedom' radio stations purporting to be based in the country to which they were directed.
The logic behind the establishment of these fl propaganda stations should be readily apparent: It is a commonplace of any psychological conflict, that `propaganda' is produced by the enemy--`they' do `propaganda', while `we' produce `news' or `information'.
Thus, if white propaganda is the strategic wing of a propaganda war, fl propaganda has a tactical function, and its style and content will veer and tack according to the vicissitudes of the greater military campaign.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2584/is_n2_v14/ai_15588719   (942 words)

  
 Gerry Armstrong--Scientology Cult Definitions
BLACK PROPAGANDA,1., about the most involved involved employment of PR is its covert use in destroying the repute of individuals and groups.
It is a common tool of agencies who are seeking to destroy real or fancied enemies or seek dominance in some field.
fl propaganda is in its technical accuracy, a covert operation where unknown authors publicly effect a derogatory reaction and then remain unknown.
www.gerryarmstrong.org /50grand/cult/cult-definitions.html   (561 words)

  
 Black Propaganda - A Weapon of War - National Library of Scotland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The purpose of fl propaganda has been described as the 'disruption of the enemy's will and power to fight on'.
In the early days of the Second World War, fl propaganda from Britain never indicated its origins, but often gave the impression that it came from resistance groups.
The first propaganda leaflet drops were carried out on the night of 3 September 1939, when the conflict was only hours old.
www.nls.uk /propaganda/black/index.html   (274 words)

  
 BLACK PROPAGANDA : Sefton Delmer: WORLD WAR TWO
It was the Navy that first saw the potential of fl propaganda, Ian Fleming personal assistant to Admiral Godfrey approached Delmer with the object of setting up a dept in naval Intelligence to further the U boat war.
The breaking news on the 20th of July the attempt on Hitler’s life, was for the Black Propaganda team, to become the greatest news story of the war.
And so it came down to Black Propaganda to drive the civilians on to the roads of Germany and block the retreat of the German army.
www.seftondelmer.co.uk   (1126 words)

  
 BBC News | AMERICAS | Pentagon plans propaganda war
As part of George Bush's war on terrorism, the military is thinking of planting propaganda and misleading stories in the international media.
The most controversial suggestion is the covert planting of disinformation in foreign media, a process known as fl propaganda.
The Pentagon is forbidden from spreading fl propaganda in the American media, but there is nothing to stop an American newspaper picking up a story carried abroad.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/1830500.stm   (341 words)

  
 Channel 4 - History - Rumours of war
During World War II, fl propaganda, subversive rumours and outright pornography were all used by a secret Whitehall department to undermine the morale of the seemingly invincible Nazis.
Bureaucratic infighting broke out on what was open and what was fl propaganda – that is, propaganda purporting to come from resistance groups in occupied Europe and in Germany itself.
Welch challenges previously held assumptions about the effectiveness of Nazi propaganda, summarises the major current debates and argues that, to be successful, propaganda must preach to the partially converted.
www.channel4.com /history/microsites/H/history/n-s/sexbomb.html   (1892 words)

  
 Propaganda - A Weapon of War - National Library of Scotland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Propaganda – A Weapon of War is a small snapshot of Second World War propaganda that can be found in the National Library of Scotland’s collections.
White propaganda was mostly practical information intended for the Home Front.
Black propaganda targeted enemy morale, and there was a strong Scottish involvement in the clandestine organisation that developed it – the Political Warfare Executive.
www.nls.uk /propaganda/index.html   (125 words)

  
 Gray and Black Radio Propaganda against Nazi Germany - a paper by Bob Rowen
Nazi Minister of Propaganda Josef Goebbels considered his own propaganda vital and, remembering the upheavals in Germany in the wake of WW I, strongly felt that the enemy's propaganda might well be deadly.
Goebbels knew that propaganda, especially gray and fl propaganda, was a double-edged sword.
The history of the uses of gray and fl, especially in the enormously successful efforts to get the Iraqi officer corps to "just walk away" during the 2003 invasion, has yet to be written.
libraryautomation.com /nymas/radioproppaper.htm   (7044 words)

  
 roorback: M-W 's Word of the Day : SF Indymedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Sometimes they post obvious propaganda, which people are then tricked into reading because it is purported to have been written by someone they have come to trust and respect.
Black Propaganda -- This term refers to information that appears to come from one source (EF!) but actually comes from another source (FBI or timber).
First, there is the matter of "grey and fl propaganda" through which U.S. covert agencies, working hand in glove with the mainstream media, distort or fabricate information concerning the groups they have targeted.
sf.indymedia.org /news/2002/12/1555696_comment.php   (1063 words)

  
 What is Propaganda?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Concealed propaganda is used to influence people without making the purpose behind the message obvious.
Propaganda influences what we buy, what we believe, how we behave and how we make important decisions.
Both revealed and concealed propaganda can be found throughout the mediain ads, news reporting and entertainment.
www.esrnational.org /whatispropaganda.htm   (933 words)

  
 BBC News | AMERICAS | US well versed in 'black arts'
That case showed the value of fl propaganda - it is designed for the short term.
Practitioners of the "fl arts" had a wonderful time during the Cold War and the KGB was a grandmaster in this game.
Some of the best fl propaganda attacks are on the personal attributes of the target.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/1832200.stm   (965 words)

  
 PsyWar.Org - PsyWar & PSYOP
Herb has also updated his article Propaganda and Espionage Philately including illustrations of the American WWII Office of Strategic Services (OSS) forged Hitler postage stamps and the infamous Hitler Skull Futsches Reich stamp plus more information on the British PWE fake Himmler stamp and the Witzleben parody.
Propaganda - A Weapon of War is a small snapshot of Second World War propaganda that can be found in the National Library of Scotland collections.
In 1942 the "fl" propaganda section of the British Political Warfare Executive (PWE) produced the first in a range of disguised booklets designed to assist would be malingerering German soldiers and munitions workers to fake illness to avoid military service or compulsory factory work.
www.psywar.org   (1078 words)

  
 An Introduction to Propaganda
Propaganda consists of the planned use of any form of public or mass-produced communication designed to affect the minds and emotions of a given group for a specific purpose, whether military, economic, or political."
Black propaganda purports to emanate from a source other than the true one.
This type of propaganda is associated with covert psychological operations.
www.stentorian.com /propagan.html   (1074 words)

  
 OSA Network Order 15
: : : : : Black propaganda is a covert communication of false data : intended to injure, impede or destroy the activity or life of : another person, group or nation, usually issued from a false : or removed source from the actual instigator.
Hubbard also said that fl propaganda is "a covert operation where unknown authors publicly affect [bring about] a derogatory reaction and then remain unknown" and that "the most involved employment of PR is its covert use in destroying the repute of individuals and groups".
The assertion that the AMA is waging a Black PR campaign against Scientology by classifying it as a "Cult" is laughable on its face.
www.sweenytod.com /cos/Theology/OSANWO/15.htm   (1524 words)

  
 Black Propaganda - Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The pieces are usually accompanied by "then and now" maps and photographs depicting historic places as they appeared during the war and as they appear in more contemporary times.
This effort was headed up by the well-known British fl propaganda figure, Sefton Delmer.
However, he was asked to help the BBC with their German-language broadcasts, within which he would occasionally take the initiative to make impromptu, anti-Hitler talks, seemingly on behalf of the British government.
www181.pair.com /otsw/review-kenyon.html   (426 words)

  
 Sun.Star Cebu - Nalzaro: Battle of black propaganda
As the campaign period rea-ches the homestretch, national and local candidates are becoming more serious and aggressive in their effort to court votes and ensure victory.
What caught my attention at the national level are the advertisements printed in various broadsheets that can be considered fl propaganda against leading presidential and vice presidential candidates.
Even Loren’s love life was not spared, with the ads saying she left her former husband and lived in with Leviste because of the latter's vast wealth.
www.sunstar.com.ph /static/ceb/2004/04/21/oped/bobby.g..nalzaro.html   (592 words)

  
 The Black Commentator - Propaganda War Intensifies Against Haiti - Issue 62   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The main themes of this media spin cycling through the press today should be more than familiar to those who follow Haiti in the news: politicization of the Haitian police force, Lavalas grassroots organizations cast as armed gangs, and government corruption.
The easiest photos to prove their claim of the existence of this “phenomenon” — namely “armed civilians dressed in fl t-shirts with the yellow inscription "BS" on the back” — were conspicuously absent from the exposé.
The remaining “proof” could not be corroborated as authentic despite a calculated effort to give the appearance it originated from someone with access to internal Haitian police records.
www.blackcommentator.com /62/62_haiti_1.html   (1325 words)

  
 Black Propaganda: Anti-independence misinformation | Pridnestrovie.net - Tiraspol, PMR: Pridnestrovskaia Moldavskaia ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Despite having to contend with a barrage of ill-intentioned propaganda, folks in Pridnestrovie are optimistic on their young country's future.
After first having been misled by Moldova, a group funded by the British government visited Pridnestrovie to verify and is now producing an updated report for the United Nations Development Program, stating the truth about the accusations against Pridnestrovie.
In a misguided attempt to defend a socalled territorial integrity which legal experts say does not exist, the U.S. Embassy in Moldova pays for propaganda by lobbyists who want to turn back the clock on Pridnestrovie's independence.
pridnestrovie.net /taxonomy/term/49   (626 words)

  
 Proslavery Propaganda I: Black Labor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
INSTRUCTIONS: This assignment raises questions about a specific antiabolitionist propaganda strategy stemming from the anxieties of white men over the threat posed by free fl labor.
Its argument, that freeing southern slaves would lead to "fl supremacy," had been a part of proslavery doctrine since the eighteenth century.
Abolitionists often sought to refute proslavery propaganda in their literature, sometimes directly, sometimes indirectly.
www.wwnorton.com /college/english/naaal/mab/labor.htm   (200 words)

  
 The Observer | Politics | Revealed: MI6 plan to infiltrate extremists
British intelligence officers planned a 'fl propaganda' campaign against Islamic extremists, infiltrating their groups through the internet, documents leaked to The Observer reveal.
The letter reveals that the FCO planned to spread anti-Western propaganda as a way of gaining the trust of Islamic extremists and then arguing that violence was not the way forward.
His only concerns were that similar operations during the Cold War 'had a mixed record' and that he might not have the linguists and Islamic experts necessary for the job.
observer.guardian.co.uk /politics/story/0,6903,1562428,00.html   (880 words)

  
 St. Louis Independent Media Center – stlimc.org :: Zionist Black Propagandist exposed
As you are aware, IndyMedia is subject to a vicious Zionist Black Propaganda campaign.
Moreover, the Black Propaganda campaign is the work of an inveterate liar and con-artist named Steven Plaut.
I have a suspicion the administrative staff of Israel's Haifa University are unaware of "professor" Plaut's unethical Zionist Black Propaganda campaign.
www.stlimc.org /newswire/display/767/index.php   (503 words)

  
 Firedoglake - Firedoglake weblog » Who Started the Iranian Badge Story? — updated —
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Chicago charged Black with eight counts of mail fraud and wire fraud relating to the alleged diversion of millions from Hollinger International.
Black pleaded not guilty and was released after posting a $20 million US bond.
This neocon/Likud propaganda, Abu Gonzalez with his disgraceful attempt to threaten/intimidate the media.
www.firedoglake.com /2006/05/22/who-started-the-iranian-badge-story   (3754 words)

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