When The CIA and Its Media Stooges Turned "Conspiracy Theorist" Into a Term of Derision
Channel: Jason Zenith
Date: 2020-03-30

CIA in 1967 made 'conspiracy theorist' an epithet to discredit exposers of Warren Commission hogwash.


Professor Mark Crispin Miller explains to Abby Martin the origin of the use of "conspiracy theory" as a way to ridicule and dismiss with contempt true facts about state crimes instead of having to disprove or refute them, and "conspiracy theorist" to discredit individuals as crackpots.


In November 1963 elements of the CIA assassinated the president of the U.S., John F. Kennedy (JFK). This effort was masterminded by Allen Dulles, who had been earlier fired by head of the CIA by Kennedy because Dulles duped Kennedy into approving the Bay of Pigs debacle, an invasion of Cuba by an oversized battalion of exile  Cuban fascists created by the CIA. The plot was to force Kennedy to approve a U.S. military attack to save the doomed terrorist battalion from defeat. (Kennedy was so stupid that he fell for the CIA's lie that the invasion by their Cuban fascists was going to cause a mass uprising against Fidel Castro.)


With JFK's murder, vice president Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ) became president, and moved to create the necessary coverup with a fake "investigation" and pseudo-definitive report, the so--called "Warren Commission Report," named after the man Johnson appointed to chair the Commission, Republican Supreme Court Chief Justice and former California governor Earl Warren. Among the other commissioners hand-picked by Johnson was Republican Michigan Congressman Gerald R. Ford. A lifelong reactionary who belonged to the pro-Third Reich America First Committee (a leading member of which was aviator Charles Lindbergh, who happily received a medal personally from Reichsmarshal and second in the Nazi hierarchdy to Hitler, Herman Goering, a few years before Germany declared war on the U.S.- Lindbergh flew a fighter plane in the war- against the Japanese, not the Germans) Ford functioned as a spy on the Commission for FBI secret police boss J. Edgar Hoover. Ford became infamous when in 1974 as the unelected president of the U.S., he pardoned Richard Nixon to protect him from prosecution for his many crimes. Ford became president when Nixon resigned in 1974 to avoid impeachment. Ford became unelected vice president when Nixon chose him to replace disgraced vice president Spiro Agnew, a reactionary thug whose criminal corruption as Governor of Maryland was belatedly exposed by the media to force him from office. (The Senate voted to approve Nixon's pick of Ford as vp.) Ford pardoned Nixon just one month after becoming the unelected president. (Most probably Nixon had a deal with Ford to do just that in the event it became necessary to protect Nixon.)

 
Johnson's most important pick as a Warren Commission commissioner was... Allen Dulles, the man who organized the murder of JFK and who would now take charge of "investigating" that same murder. Cute, huh? That's the cynical, ruthless U.S. ruling elite for you. Dulles, a lifelong fascist, spent the last year of World War II as an OSS agent (Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the CIA) in Switzerland, where he secretly conspired with SS general Karl Wolff, the number two man in the SS after Heinrich Himmler, to protect Wolff from prosecution as a war criminal after the war. (Dulles and Wolff succeeded.)


Predictably, the Warren Commission Report was an absurdist pack of lies that made assertions that were literally physically impossible. Inevitably some citizens published debunkings of it. This prompted the CIA to leap into action in 1967, ordering all its stations around the world to tell their media stooges to unleash a counterattack. One of the elements of this counterattack was the use of the term "conspiracy theorist" to indicate "kook," a label pasted on those who speak of state crimes ever since. (Including the 9/11 set-up and the anthrax letters mailed to members of Congress and the media.). Thus does the propaganda system have a convenient tool and weapon to discredit inconvenient truths without having to engage the actual facts.


History is important. Because THE PAST IS WHAT MADE THE PRESENT, just as the future will be determined by the present. The world isn't recreated totally anew every second of existence. There is temporal causality. Reality has a TIME dimension. 



This clip is from "Propaganda & Engineering Consent for Empire with Mark Crispin Miller," from Martin's "Empire Files" program, June 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7HmFH-Wo1s


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