John Stockwell on CIA Espionage and Intelligence Gathering

October 1979 http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.... Watch the full program: http://thefilmarchived.blogspot.com/2010/08/john-stockwell-on-cia-soviet-unio...

The Special Activities Division (SAD) is a division of the United States Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) National Clandestine Service (NCS), responsible for covert action and "special activities". These activities include covert political action and paramilitary operations. Within SAD there are two separate groups, one for paramilitary operations and another for political action. The Political Action Group within SAD is responsible for covert activities related to political influence, psychological warfare, and economic warfare. The rapid development of technology has also added computer or cyber warfare to this type of operation. A large covert operation usually has components that involve many or all of these categories, as well as paramilitary operations.

Special Operations Group (SOG) is the element within SAD responsible for paramilitary operations. These operations include the collection of intelligence in hostile countries and regions, and all high-threat military and/or intelligence operations which the U.S. government does not wish to be overtly associated with conducting. As such, members of the unit (called Paramilitary Operations Officers) normally do not carry any objects or clothing (e.g., military uniforms) that would associate them with the United States. If they are compromised during a mission, the government of the United States often denies all knowledge.

SAD provides the President of the United States with an option when overt military and/or diplomatic actions are not viable or politically feasible. SAD can be directly tasked by the President of the United States or the National Security Council at the President's direction. This is unlike any other U.S. special mission force. However, SAD/SOG has far fewer members than most of the other special missions units, such as Delta Force or SEAL Team Six. As the action arm of the NCS, SAD/SOG conducts military direct action missions such as raids, ambushes, sabotage, assassinations, and unconventional warfare (e.g. training and leading guerrilla and military units of other countries in combat). SAD/SOG also conducts special reconnaissance, that can be under either military or intelligence-driven, but is carried out by Paramilitary Operations Officers when in "denied areas". SAD/SOG officers are selected exclusively from the most elite U.S. military units.

The political action group within SAD conducts the deniable psychological operations, also known as black propaganda, as well as "Covert Influence" to effect political change as an important part of the President's foreign policy. Covert intervention in a foreign election is the most significant form of political action. This could involve financial support for favoured candidates, media guidance, technical support for public relations, get-out-the-vote or political organizing efforts, legal expertise, advertising campaigns, assistance with poll-watching, and other means of direct action. Policy decisions could be influenced by assets, such as subversion of officials of the country, to make decisions in their official capacity that are in the furtherance of U.S. aims. In addition, mechanisms for forming and developing opinions are key and involve propaganda.

Propaganda includes leaflets, newspapers, magazines, books, radio, and television, all of which are geared to convey the U.S. propaganda message appropriate to the region. These techniques have expanded to cover the Internet as well. They may employ officers to work as journalists, recruit agents of influence, operate media platforms, plant certain stories or information in places it is hoped it will come to public attention, or seek to deny and/or discredit information that is public knowledge. In all such propaganda efforts, "black" operations denote those in which the audience is to be kept ignorant of the source; "white" efforts are those in which the originator openly acknowledges himself; and "gray" operations are those in which the source is partly but not fully acknowledged.

Some examples of political action programs were the prevention of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) from winning elections between 1948 and the late 1960s; overthrowing the governments of Iran in 1953, Guatemala in 1954, and Indonesia in 1957, as well as providing funds and support to the trade union federation Solidarity following the imposition of martial law in Poland after 1981.

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[captainmutiny]

@1973Johnny2bad

Yes killing Islamics in the name of Christianity.. what makes you any different?

[MudHut67]

@Icarusdecending82

If you listened to the whole thing he states that the CIA lobbied the gov to enact laws which would enable people like him to be arrested. And I guess they succeeded: we have the patriot act etc and just look at what happened to Bradley Manning.

[winni4tubes]

@1973Johnny2bad - Well, t'was Christian Cursaders from the "West" who sacked Constantinople! Left the doors open.. Seems the infidels in this case were on both sides of the Christian divide at the time..

Killing in the name of the mighty dollar more like..

Try reading john Stockwell's book ffs, to see how the United States of the Almighty treats it's own soldiers..

Remember the White House's description of OBL, a little coward who tells jihadis to die on the frontline.. Sounds like the US gov...

[TheVampyreCat]

@renegadekav Oh boy...

[renegadekav]

@TheVampyreCat they are a threat similar to the nazis in some respects they want world domination and will attack any target even soft targets simply to send a message and inflict casulties on the "infidels" or non muslims,not saying they are the only problem but they are a big one,my only complaint with these middleeast wars are we don't kill enough and fight too nice and we spend too much money on worthless people the governments we install will probably fall without more support.

[TheVampyreCat]

@renegadekav Yeah, its real but its blown out of proportion. Oh and you yourself have witnessed "Islamic extremism?" Other than on video? It doesn't justify any war involving the States in the middle east. Islamic extremists are not the only "extremists" in the world either you know.

[renegadekav]

@TheVampyreCat dude you can say the sky isn't blue till your blue in the face but i've plainly seen it and so have most people islamic extremism is real and widespread.

[TheVampyreCat]

@renegadekav Wow you're misinformed (stupid), they use Jihad and 9/11 as an excuse to "fight".

[ORACLE063]

@qxpetra its all the better its from 1979. It shows the nay sayers and those who call us "tin foil hats" that the process we clearly see has been moving steadily toward their planned objective.

[userid8765]

Transcript?  Does any one know the spelling of the Koreagate whistleblower referenced at the 7:10 mark? It sounds like Paul something.

[qxpetra]

Even though this interview was taken in 1979, the material is impressive; i.e. I think the import still applies today. Well said. Super thanks for putting up film of John Stockwell.