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  • Dan Rather's Phony Scoop, Sept 4, 2001 (Yes, 2001!)

    09/09/2004 11:57:54 PM PDT · by Robert A Cook PE · 9 replies · 949+ views
    Media Monitor ^ | Sept 4, 2001 | By Reed Irvine and Cliff Kincaid
    "Espionage then and today is very real and active measures, manipulation of public opinion, was very real at that time." On the CBS Evening News on July 30th, Dan Rather acted as if he had a big scoop. He said, "Newly released FBI documents obtained by CBS News reveal a widespread domestic spying and intelligence operation. Thousands of ordinary American citizens were under surveillance throughout the 1980s." Rather said these individuals appeared in FBI files because the bureau was monitoring Soviet "active measures" or influence activities directed at Americans. Rather said they included disinformation, the use of front groups and...
  • Disinfo Campain Follow-up (Was: Envoy's letter in Times is revealed as a forgery)

    07/16/2003 5:46:00 AM PDT · by jriemer · 23 replies · 290+ views
    The Washington Times ^ | 7/16/03 | Nicholas Kralev
    <p>A letter to the editor of The Washington Times, purported to be from a senior U.S. diplomat with scathing criticism of the Foreign Service for lack of loyalty to the Bush administration, was exposed yesterday as a forgery.</p> <p>Wesley Pruden, the editor in chief of The Times, said the newspaper learned "from the highest level at the State Department" that the letter was a hoax and the newspaper fully accepts "as true that the ambassador was not the author of this letter."</p>