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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, APRIL 26, 1985
The Post in particular, and the liberal media.};;! �eneral, dismiss
the very notion of Soviet and Soviet-proxy disinformation as a
manifestation of nilndless antf-communism. In a column headi'Ined
"Sandinista Dis'Information?"--the question mark was designed to.
discredit the president's irrefutable statement of fact--The
Post's deputy editorial page director, Stephen s. Rosenfeld,
wrote, in effect, "Yes, but so what?" So a lot, Mr. Rosenfeld.
Vietnamese officials (e.g., General Giap himself) and defectors
have confirmed that disinformation operations in the
u.s.
media
and on Capitol Hill played a major role in changing perceptions
about that war. The former justice minister of so-called Nation
al Liberation Front of South Vietnam•••escaped among the boat
people. He has testified that clever disinformation operations
led us to believe that the 1968 Tet offensive was an unmitigated
disasterfor the UnitedStates.�o pervasive"wasthis percep
tion--this misperception--that President Johnson felt compelled
to abdicate a few months later. The reality, according to Truong
Nhu Tang, was the other way around.
Tet was an unmitigated
disaster for Hanoi••••
There� also every indication that disinformation� Soviet
Cuban-Nicaraguan "active measures" have played� crucial role in
laying the groundwork for yet another U.S. strategic defeat.
There are many groups in the United States whose media connec
tions are an open secret. Their mission is to shade, embroider
and distort the truth for their own disinformation agenda••••
These groups have helped nurture an entire � generation of
Journalists who have made it their duty to transform America's
sworn enemie�into mfstinderstood innocents, while at the same
time portraying our own leaders as the foes of democracy and
freedom••••
How is it possible that so many intelligent people accept these
dangerous misconceptions as the geopolitical gospel? Disinforma
tion is the key•••• How does it do this? Quite simply by dis
torting the data and corrupting the process of understanding in
such a way that it leads public opinion to react differently than
if it understood the true nature of reality.
It would behoove the Congress to take note before our elected
representatives vote yet another resolution that will once again
make it possible for the Marxists to steal a revolution from the
people, only to impose a totalitarian dictatorship more draconian
than the authoritarian regime that was overthrown.
Well, the elected representatives did not listen--or rather, listened to
the disinformers. As a result, an unmitigated disaster awaits a sin-laden
America not far down the road.
--Gene H. Hogberg, News Bureau