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Obfuscation

a User's Guide for Privacy and Protest
Jun 27, 2017StarGladiator rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This is a neat little book with a wealth of information. I was especially impressed with the subchapter 2.18 Manufacturing conflicting evidence: confounding investigation [p. 41], describing the account of the investigation into the murder of Bishop Gerardi of Guatemala [The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop? by Francisco Goldman] and how those behind the murder [and too many others] produced TOO MUCH CONFLICTING EVIDENCE, too many witnesses and testimonials, too many possible stories. By drowning the investigators and public with ambiguous data they would instill despair at ever discovering the truth! This harkens back to the aftermath of the murder of President Kennedy - - while other political assassinations ere far greater controlled events [Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Sen. Bobby Kennedy and Sen. Paul Wellstone and members of his family], the JFK assassination was too public - - thus endless stories were concocted about pro-Castro Cubans, and anti-Castro Cubans, the KGB, Mafia, Texan super-rightwingers, and as truth-seekers edged closer to the French connection [the assassins were all French-speaking***], then more concocted stories about Mafia-Union Corse connections and the Corsican Brotherhood [interchangeable with the Union Corse], et cetera. In 1977, the year of the accidental FOIA request releases, one by the NY Times discovered the CIA strategy to flood the airwaves, beginning back in 1964 with the release of the Warren Commission Report, with the terms // conspiracy theory \\ and // conspiracy theorists \\ in an attempt to discredit all truth seekers! Not a day goes by but that I hear either NPR stooges - - or my fellow citizens - - mention multiple times such terms! ***The assassins were Lucien Conein - - CIA, Jean Rene Souetre - - French Army deserter and OAS member, Lazlo - - French Foreign Legion deserter and OAS member, and Mozes Maschkivitzan - - Belgian criminal and CIA contract killer.