Posted on 11/17/2005 5:57:39 PM PST by genefromjersey
Massive Anti-American Disinformation Campaign Underway
It started a few weeks ago : reports of “CIA Torture Planes” that were being used to transport hapless innocents to “secret torture camps” in Eastern Europe.
The source was Belliciao – an Italian Communist publication run by a “writers’ collective” that seems to use the name ‘CLAYTON HALLMARK” for stories by a number of people (assuming Google is not totally confused ) : Greg Szymanski,Wayne Beson,Charlene Fassa,etc.
The story even has a chart of “known CIA aircraft” , and the names of “CIA shell companies “ that operate them.
The New York Times and The Washington Post have picked up on this story , amplified it ,and agonized over it – so naturally, the world press is doing likewise. (Hey : If it’s in the Times and the Post, it must be true-right ?)
Browsing through the worldwide part of the Internet , I see the story has had an adverse reaction on foreign relations. Spain is boarding our Diplomatic Corps aircraft and conducting searches with armed troops and dogs. Denmark is forbidding the use of its airspace to “CIA planes”. The Netherlands is troubled; Germany perturbed. (Al-Jazeera,as might be expected,is beside itself with joy.)
Nobody seems interested in asking the most important question : “Is the information being published TRUE ? “
1. There really is a worldwide-very informal network of “plane spotters”: most of whom are interested in photographing civil aircraft because they like to, and because they able to sell just enough photos to help defray the costs of their hobby.
2. With one possible exception* ,none of these plane spotters appears to have the capability of searching FAA databases – let alone being able to identify an aircraft owner as a “shell” for the CIA.
I have absolutely no reason to believe in the existence of secret CIA torture facilities , and note the various countries in which such facilities might logically be found have gone on record-repeatedly-to deny they host any such thing.
I do believe the CIA uses aircraft –quite a lot ; but most of the usage is purely administrative – such as flying diversity training specialists into Station X-ray , etc.
CIA Torture Flights ? Give me a break !!
* I’ve witheld some extremely interesting information about the “exception”, but will be happy to share it with any interested law enforcement agency.
Ant-American? A new minority group?
It's a tiny minority.
More Italian communists, huh? They're always causing problems.
LOL! Previously considered too insignificant even for Democrats to notice, because they can't reach the voting machines ...
You mean for the last 5 years? 10 years? 20 years. Eternity?
The communists still hate us?
I'm sure they must.
Yes, but they have great shoes, cars, women and food!
How are ants in America any different from ants elsewhere in the world?
THAT'S just more disinformation!
Arriba! They're here in the upper Southeast, you know, biting like mad.
no amount of higher education is a cure for a congenital BUM!!
The more conservative ones wish to be called "Americans of Insectile Heritage".
Well, the Red Ants are clearly Communists.
ROFL!!
Are you *sure* he's American? So many TV personalities turn out to be Canadian ...
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