#Propaganda

9 entries tagged Propaganda.

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Charles Osgood University of Illinois psychologist whose cross-cultural semantic differential research was extensively funded by the CIA through the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology for its applications to propaganda and persuasion.
Edward Hunter CIA propaganda operative working under journalistic cover who coined the term 'brainwashing' in 1950 to describe Chinese Communist interrogation methods, helping create the Cold War fear that justified the CIA's behavioral control programs.
John Cameron Denton John Cameron Denton, known online as 'Rape,' was Atomwaffen Division's propaganda chief and the architect of a large-scale swatting campaign targeting journalists and civil rights organizations, convicted in federal court and sentenced to 41 months.
Nelson Rockefeller The second Rockefeller son who served as Roosevelt's wartime coordinator of inter-American affairs, Eisenhower's psychological warfare chief, and the architect of the US institutional framework for Cold War Latin American policy.
William Stephenson Sir William Stephenson (1897-1989), codenamed 'Intrepid,' was the Canadian-born British intelligence officer who founded and directed British Security Coordination in New York from 1940 to 1945, coordinating wartime propaganda and counterintelligence and playing a foundational role in creating the OSS.

BBC The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) is the United Kingdom's publicly funded national broadcaster, operating under Royal Charter since 1927; it appears in this vault primarily as a media institution whose foreign-language services were used for Cold War propaganda purposes, and whose investigative journalism produced significant coverage of intelligence scandals including Gladio, arms-to-Iraq, and BCCI.
CIAA Roosevelt's wartime Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, headed by Nelson Rockefeller, which served as the first official US government propaganda operation and built the economic, media, and political infrastructure for postwar American hegemony in Latin America.
Radio Free Europe Radio Free Europe was a CIA-funded broadcast organization established in 1949 to broadcast into Soviet-bloc countries, operated under the cover of private funding until its CIA financing was publicly revealed in 1967, and whose broadcasts to Hungary during the 1956 revolution - which some analysts argue implied American support that was never forthcoming - contributed to CIA officer Frank Wisner's psychological breakdown.

Disinformation Disinformation is false information deliberately and often covertly spread in order to influence public opinion or obscure the truth.