(PSYOP) are planned operations to convey selected information and indicators to audiences to influence their emotions, motives, and objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of governments, organizations, groups, and individuals. ( JP 1-02 DOD Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms)
The purpose of United States psychological operations is to induce or reinforce behavior favorable to U.S. objectives. They are an important part of the range of diplomatic, informational, military and economic activities available to the U.S. They can be utilized during both peacetime and conflict. There are three main types: strategic, operational and tactical. Strategic PSYOP include informational activities conducted by the U.S. government agencies outside of the military arena, though many utilize Department of Defense (DOD) assets. Operational PSYOP are conducted across the range of military operations, including during peacetime, in a defined operational area to promote the effectiveness of the joint force commander's (JFC) campaigns and strategies. Tactical PSYOP are conducted in the area assigned to a tactical commander across the range of military operations to support the tactical mission against opposing forces.
PSYOP can encourage popular discontent with the opposition's leadership and by combining persuasion with a credible threat, degrade an adversary's ability to conduct or sustain military operations. They can also disrupt, confuse, and protract the adversary's decision-making process, undermining command and control.[2] When properly employed, PSYOP have the potential to save the lives of friendly or enemy forces by reducing the adversary's will to fight. By lowering the adversary's morale and then its efficiency, PSYOP can also discourage aggressive actions by creating disaffection within their ranks, ultimately leading to surrender.
The integrated employment of the core capabilities of electronic warfare, computer network operations, psychological operations, military deception, and operations security, in concert with specified supporting and related capabilities, to influence, disrupt, corrupt or usurp adversarial human and automated decision making while protecting our own.[3]
Between 2010 and 2014, PSYOP was renamed Military Information Support Operations (MISO), then briefly renamed PSYOP in Aug 2014, only to return to MISO shortly thereafter in 2015. (1 , 2)
"An operation sponsored or conducted by governmental departments or agencies in such a way as to assure secrecy or concealment. A clandestine operation differs from a covert operation in that emphasis is placed on concealment of the operation rather than on concealment of the identity of the sponsor. In special operations, an activity may be both covert and clandestine and may focus equally on operational considerations and intelligence-related activities." See also covert operation; overt operation. (JP 3-05.1). From The U.S. Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms - Joint Publication JP1-02 dated 05 January 2007
A covert operation is a military or political activity carried out in such a way that the parties responsible for the action can be an open secret, but cannot be proved. Covert and clandestine are related terms, but not interchangeable.
- Covert operation: An operation that is so planned and executed as to conceal the identity of or permit plausible denial by the sponsor. A covert operation differs from a clandestine operation in that emphasis is placed on concealment of identity of sponsor rather than on concealment of the operation.[1]
Covert operations are typically performed in secrecy because they break specific laws or compromise policy in another country. Covert operations are frequently illegal in the target state and are sometimes in violation of the laws of the enacting country.
Covert operations are employed in situations where openly operating against a target would be politically or diplomatically risky, or be counterproductive to the mission's purpose. In the case of enemies, there may be issues regarding violation of neutrality, concerns over military strength, the presence of treaties, laws, moral principles, or aversion to negative media attention. Operations may be directed at or conducted with allies and friends to secure their support or to influence or assist their policy against an enemy. Covert operations may assist espionage efforts, or may diverge from such efforts by attempting to influence events in another country directly.
Covert operations have been employed by many national and sub-national governments and other organizations for centuries, with or without a formal intelligence agency. They are an established and often controversial component of foreign policy throughout the world. The equivalent Soviet terminology would be "active measures".
Law enforcement agencies also use covert operations to infiltrate suspected criminal organizations.
A Black Operation, or Black Op, is the generally accepted worldwide military parlance for types of covert operations typically involving activities that are either secret or of questionable ethics and legality. The term itself is often used in political, military, intelligence and business circles. Agents or persons who specialise or are involved in a black operation are typically referred to as a "Black Operator" or "Black Operative." Black Ops is another name for Special Ops.
Webster's definition of a "Jesuit"
A casuist; hence a crafty, intriguing, or equivocating person.
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"Disinformation"
is a preemptive dissemination of deliberately misleading information announced publicly or leaked by a government, intelligence agency, corporation or other entity to prevent a target audience from realising accurate conclusions.
Misinformation
Misinformation is wrong or inaccurate information. It is distinguished from disinformation by motive. Misinformation is simply erroneous. Disinformation, in contrast, is intended to mislead.
(Latin for To the
Government of the Church Militant) was the papal
bull promulgated by Pope
Paul III on September
27, 1540, which gave a first approval
to the Society of
Jesus, also known as the Jesuits, but limited the number of its members
to sixty. The first group of Jesuits (then known simply as 'reformed priests')
proceeded then to elect Saint Ignatius
of Loyola as their Superior General, against his opposition, and pledged
him obedience, recognizing him as "holding the place of God" in
relation to them.
FBI
Who Formed the FBI? It was a powerful Roman Catholic who was also a Knight of Malta and a trustee of The Catholic University of America. Charles Joseph Bonaparte.
Here you can see they are still close knit. From Left to right you have: Louis B. Freeh, director of the FBI (When Waco went down), President of CUA (Same University Bonaparte' was a trustee of) David M. O'Connell, C.M., SJ (Jesuit), and Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston (Big time Pedophile Priest).
Espionage
Espionage or spying involves a human being obtaining (i.e., using human intelligence HUMINT methods) information that is considered secret or confidential without the permission of the holder of the information. Espionage is inherently clandestine, as the legitimate holder of the information may change plans or take other countermeasures once it is known that the information is in unauthorized hands. See Clandestine HUMINT for the basic concepts of such information collection, and subordinate articles such as Clandestine HUMINT operational techniques and Clandestine HUMINT asset recruiting for discussions of the "tradecraft" used to collect this information.
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Psy-ops (Psychological Operations) in the News
Army Deploys Psy-Ops on U.S. Senators ~Link
Rolling Stone's military psy-ops expose: 5 takeaways ~Link
U.S. military to examine alleged misuse of 'psy-ops' in Afghanistan ~Link
Michael Hastings: Army Deploys Psychological Operations on U.S. Senators in Afghanistan ~Link
Rolling Stone: Army used 'psy-ops' to manipulate Sen. Carl Levin, others on Afghan war funding. ~Link
In 2008, The New York Times exposed how analysts portrayed in the U.S. news media as independent and objective were in fact under the tutelage of the Pentagon.[1] From the NYT:
Hidden behind that appearance of objectivity, though, is a Pentagon information apparatus that has used those analysts in a campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the administration’s wartime performance.
Information Warfare
is the use and management of information in pursuit of a competitive advantage over an opponent. Information warfare may involve collection of tactical information, assurance that one's own information is valid, spreading of propaganda or disinformation to demoralize the enemy and the public, undermining the quality of opposing force information and denial of information collection opportunities to opposing forces.
Information about own forces, allied forces and opposing forces has always been a key feature of military operations, discussed in Sun Tzu's The Art of War
Non-official cover
(
NOC) is a term used in
espionage (particularly by national intelligence services) for agents or operatives who assume covert roles in organizations without ties to the government for which they work. Such agents or operatives are typically abbreviated in espionage lingo as a
NOC (pronounced "knock").
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CIA
Who formed the CIA? It was a Catholic Knight of Malta, William "Wild Bill" Donovan. He was considered the "father of the CIA." he was also the former head of the OSS before he was used to create the CIA.
Donovan was given an especially prestigious form of knighthood that has only been given to a hundred other men in history. ~Source
Over the years there have been many CIA bosses who were also Knights of Malta and/or jesuit trained.
Like CIA directors, William Casey, Allen Dulles, William E. Colby, John McCone, George Tenet. CIA Officers,
William F. Buckley, Jr., James Jesus Angelton.
Nazi Officers, Reinhard Gehlen, Heinrich Himmler, Franz von Papen.
Other Fascist Leaders who were Knights of Malta, Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini, Augusto Pinochet.
These are just a few....
False flag operations are covert operations conducted by governments, corporations, or other organizations, which are designed to appear as if they are being carried out by other entities. The name is derived from the military concept of flying false colors; that is, flying the flag of a country other than one's own. False flag operations are not limited to war and counter-insurgency operations, and have been used in peace-time; for example, during Italy's strategy of tension.
Example: The planned, but never executed, 1962 Operation Northwoods plot by the US Department of Defense for a war with Cuba involved scenarios such as hijacking a passenger plane, sinking a U.S. ship, burning crops and blaming such actions on Cuba. It was authored by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, nixed by John F. Kennedy, came to light through the Freedom of Information Act and was publicized by James Bamford.
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