The Devolution 18 gave a perspective of Putin that I was previously unaware. Not as horrible as I believed. Sounds like a tough life. I am so old I was raised to be terrified of Russians who surely would come kill me. I wonder how much of anything I was taught is completely true.
William Casey, CIA Director 1981-1987
“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”
From Barbara Honegger:
“I am the source for this quote, which was indeed said by CIA Director William Casey at an early February 1981 meeting of the newly elected President Reagan with his new cabinet secretaries to report to him on what they had learned about their agencies in the first couple of weeks of the administration. The meeting was in the Roosevelt Room in the West Wing of the White House, not far from the Cabinet Room. I was present at the meeting as Assistant to the chief domestic policy adviser to the President. Casey first told Reagan that he had been astonished to discover that over 80 percent of the ‘intelligence’ that the analysis side of the CIA produced was based on open public sources like newspapers and magazines. As he did to all the other secretaries of their departments and agencies, Reagan asked what he saw as his goal as director for the CIA, to which he replied with this quote, which I recorded in my notes of the meeting as he said it. Shortly thereafter I told Senior White House correspondent Sarah McClendon, who was a close friend and colleague, who in turn made it public.”
Agree. I have seen worse. I was a little kid during the Cuban Missile crisis in the early 60’s. Russia was behind all of that. There have been worse than Putin, like Hitler, and muslims, and China.