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Behind the Modern Man Mind Control Part 2 by Michael Visockis World War II Was Nearing the End Veritas News Service Exclusive 28Jun11 Behind the Modern Man Mind Control Part 2 By Michael Visockis World War II was nearing the end. At the same time the American government and the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), with the cooperation of the US military leadership, granted asylum for Nazi SS doctors that performed psychological, surgical, and chemical experiments on the prison camp inmates. These people were never tried for any crimes in Nuremberg because they were grafted in to the newly formed CIA. It is the ideas of these very Nazi doctors that were applied in Vietnam by the US military research and are used even today. Knowing about the involvement of the CIA and US military is a key to understanding the anatomy of PSYOPS in Vietnam. In the North Vietnam arena in the 1960′s, the Viet Cong ruled every facet of society. This Viet Cong Infrastructure (VCI) consisted of more than 75,000 South Vietnamese brainwashed by the Viet Cong (VC) which returned to fight the American military. Back in 1941 Ho Chi Minh, who studied in the United States, formed the Vietminh to throw the Japanese and French out of Vietnam led by “… General Vo Nguyen Giap and his First Armed Propaganda Detachment … By mid-1945 the Vietminh held six provinces near Hanoi and was working with the forerunner of the CIA, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) …” As of September 1945 Minh declared Vietnam an independent state, partly because he received significant support from the American military supplies left behind for him as World War II ended in Japan. The CIA even assisted the British, and released French Legionnaires, in South Vietnam to fight the Vietminh. Early in the Vietnam War the Vietminh in North Vietnam, “Secret cells were organized, and guerilla units were formed to monitor and harass French units … and organize armed propaganda teams.” The CIA even organized military units to hunt down these Vietminh propaganda units. “The GCMA’s [French-Vietnamese commandos] were formed concurrently with the US Army’s First Special Forces at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.” And you thought only US soldiers were taught at Fort Bragg. U.S. Air Force Colonel Edward Lansdale ran psychological warfare operations in the Philippines, and in his autobiography In the Midst of War he wrote, “A combat psywar team was brought in. It planted stories among town residents of a vampire living on the hill where the Huks were based … the psywar squad setup an ambush along a trail used by the Huks.” These squads would then continue to attack and make the evidence look like a vampire strike. Air America Do you remember hearing about Air America? By July 1954 Lansdale was using the CIA-owned airline Civil Air Transport, which was later renamed Air America in 1959. Kevin Generous in Vietnam: The Secret War wrote that, “The Vietnamese Special Forces … were always available for special details dreamed up by President Diem and his brother Nhu.” Those “special” details sometimes involved “terrorism against political opponents.” Lansdale also worked with the CIA in Operation Brotherhood where they infiltrated the Eastern Construction Company to spy for them. Are these techniques still used today? And who exactly do they consider “political opponents?” Rand Corp. analyst Zasloff said that after 1956 the Viet Cong, instead of resorting to violence “… return to their home provinces and were instructed, it appears, to limit their activities to organizational and propaganda tasks.” Then Diem initiated his “notorious Denunciation of the Communists campaign.” The CIA chaired the committees in which the “… security officers who had the authority to arrest, confiscate land from, and summarily execute communists…Vietminh flags were burned in public ceremonies, and portable guillotines were dragged from village to village and used on active and inactive Vietminh alike. In 1956 in the Central Highlands fourteen thousand people were arrested without evidence or trial … there were and estimated twenty thousand political prisoners worldwide.” This sounds Just like what the Russians did with political prisoners in their Gulags and mental hospitals (Valentine, p. 28-9). Political Warfare APT’s, the staple of the Viet Cong psyop campaign. “The dynamics of political warfare, as conceived by the Communists and copied by the CIA, revolved around armed propaganda teams…The APT [armed propaganda teams] would go through its routine, then announce that a spy had been discovered – usually a secret policeman … sometimes a wife and children too … The unfortunate person was put on trial before a ‘people’s court’ and, after being summarily convicted, was brutally murdered in the centre of the village. A death notice was pinned to the body, and the body put on display.” Those tactics sound more like the eighteenth century to me. The CIA has a brand of propaganda teams who were referred to as a different kind of selective terror, called counter-terrorism teams. To this day they even have a whole department dedicated to it, to say nothing about the Department of Defence departments. “… the Mountain Scouts were a unilateral CIA operation managed by CIA- funded province and district chiefs … the Mountain Scout political officer would denounce the Communists … If possible, the team returned with defectors, left informers behind, and stuck a VC head on a pole as they left.” The selective terror CIA teams even posed as Viet Cong in their operations (Valentine, p. 43-5). An example of this terror was, “As CIA Director William Colby explained, communication is the essence of political warfare … the role of language.” Once again we can see the use of CIA front companies being used “Further to ensure plausible denial, the CIA conducts covert action under cover of proprietary companies like Air America and the Freedom Company … and various other fronts.” These covert actions “…In CIA Jargon is called black propaganda and is the Job of political and psychological (PP) officers in the covert action branch” (Valentine, p. 48). Everyone in the CIA, even the Director, knows the importance and value of manipulating language. It has to be mentioned that “The assassination [of JFK], curiously, came shortly after Kennedy had proposed withdrawing U.S. advisers from Vietnam. Three days after JFK’s death, President Lyndon Johnson signed National Security Action Memorandum 273, authorizing planning for covert military operations against North Vietnam.” This new policy fell right in line with the CIA’s psyops program that was already under way. We now know for a fact that the Gulf of Tonking incident, that initiated the full scale US involvement in Vietnam, was a complete scam (Retrieved June 22, 2011, from: http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2261). Besides igniting the Vietnam War, the “Tonkin Gulf also allowed LBJ to sell himself as tougher than the Republican candidate Barry Goldwater and to win the 1964 presidential election” (Valentine, p. 53). Of course Johnson continued the Vietnam War machine going full bore. For instance the Navy Seals in Vietnam and “… other Seal's were headquartered inside a US Special Forces camp.” They were told “You’re going to get orders to do something, and the orders are going to be verbal.” “It was always ‘Go there and do what you think you ought to do.’” What did they expect was going to happen? Secret Society Rituals One of the most glaring examples of the US Special Forces link to secret society methods is “… [US Navy Seal, Elton] Manzione would snatch a NVA courier … crush the man’s larynx, then use his dagger to remove the man’s liver. Some of the CT’s would actually devour their enemies’ vital organs.” Manzione explains their counter terror techniques, “We left our calling card nailed to the forehead of the corpses we left behind. They were playing card size with a light green skull [like the logo for the Skull & Bones secret society] with red eyes and red teeth dripping blood sat against a black background. We hammered them into the third eye, the pituitary gland, with our pistol butts. The third eye is the seat of consciousness for Buddhists, and this was a form of mutilation that had a powerful psychological effect.” This tactic was “Used by morale officers in World War I … Ed Lansdale applied the trick in the Philippines. ‘At night when the town was asleep, a psywar team would creep into town and paint an eye (copied from the Egyptian eye that appears atop the pyramid in the Great Seal of the United States) on a wall facing the house of each suspect.’” Imagine the sheer panic this would create in the populace. Big Brother is definitely watching. The All-Seeing-Eye and Mystery Babylon The all-seeing-eye is not a new symbol by any means. As the allegorical, or esoteric, story goes, “In ancient Egypt, the eye of God was plucked from Horus, an anthropomorphic sun-god with a falcon’s head. [This is the falcon headed being in all the Egyptian hieroglyphics. In all of them it is the symbol for Horus. This is the same being that we got the word for hour and why we have the name horizon, which means Horus-rising.] Pictured as the morning sun cresting a pyramid, the eye of God represents the dawn of self- awareness … the Egyptians endowed Horus with the bird’s predatory prowess, so he could avenge the murder of his father, Osiris, whose name means ‘the seat of the eye’ … the falcon as sun-god – as the manifestation of enlightenment – carries out the work of organization and pacification, imposing moral order on earth.” Even the author had a good grip of the new moral order that the secret societies of the world want to impose on all people.
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