#Propaganda

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People (6)

Agustin Edwards Owner of the Santiago daily El Mercurio who met Richard Helms in Washington before Nixon ordered a coup in Chile, and whose paper received 1.665 million dollars in CIA subsidies.
Charles Osgood University of Illinois psychologist whose cross-cultural semantic differential research was extensively funded by the CIA through the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology for its applications to propaganda and persuasion.
Edward Hunter CIA propaganda operative working under journalistic cover who coined the term 'brainwashing' in 1950 to describe Chinese Communist interrogation methods, helping create the Cold War fear that justified the CIA's behavioral control programs.
John Cameron Denton John Cameron Denton, known online as 'Rape,' was Atomwaffen Division's propaganda chief and the architect of a large-scale swatting campaign targeting journalists and civil rights organizations, convicted in federal court and sentenced to 41 months.
Nelson Rockefeller The second Rockefeller son who served as Roosevelt's wartime coordinator of inter-American affairs, Eisenhower's psychological warfare chief, and the architect of the US institutional framework for Cold War Latin American policy.
William Stephenson Sir William Stephenson (1897-1989), codenamed 'Intrepid,' was the Canadian-born British intelligence officer who founded and directed British Security Coordination in New York from 1940 to 1945, coordinating wartime propaganda and counterintelligence and playing a foundational role in creating the OSS.

Organizations (5)

BBC The British Broadcasting Corporation, the publicly funded United Kingdom broadcaster, whose foreign-language services were used for Cold War propaganda and whose monitoring service partnered with the American one; its reporting covered Gladio and BCCI.
CIAA Roosevelt's wartime Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, headed by Nelson Rockefeller, the first official US government propaganda operation, which built economic, media and political infrastructure in Latin America.
El Mercurio Santiago daily of the Edwards family, to which the 40 Committee voted 1.665 million dollars in CIA money in 1971 and 1972, a month after an intelligence estimate found that it had kept its independence.
Radio Free Europe Radio Free Europe was a CIA-funded broadcaster to the Soviet bloc, founded in 1949 and presented as privately funded until the CIA financing was revealed in 1967.
United States Information Agency Federal agency created by Reorganization Plan No. 8 of 1953 to run the government's overseas information and cultural programs, including the Voice of America, known abroad as the U.S. Information Service.

Concepts (1)

Disinformation Disinformation is false information deliberately and often covertly spread in order to influence public opinion or obscure the truth.