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"Deceit fills hearts that are plotting evil." -
Proverbs 12:20
"Self-deception is a particularly
destructive characteristic of Western culture." -
Friedrich Nietzsche
"The major news
media have failed the American public for years and are still doing so." -
Darrell Williams
"The psychology of deception is not a
mature field, and the neural mechanisms that underlie the ability to
intentionally suppress, distort, or fabricate information are not yet well
understood.
Consequently, if the
investment is correct in
stating that confidence in a given
technique will require a solid theoretical base,
then a significant research investment into the underlying neuropsychological
mechanisms of deception must be made before any practical system for detecting
deception can be developed and employed." - Intelligence Science Board Study
on Educing Information
Successful deception requires
a cooperative audience.
The
most insidious part of any deception is not its outrageous claims but
its appeal to the needs of the
audience.
The art of
deception lies in understanding how
subtle touches and
preconceptions can
be twisted in the minds of the
audience.
The key is finding
left brain
logicians with shared expectations and
preconceptions.
These left brain
logicians are then hired to staff think tanks.
Audiences with shared
expectations and
preconceptions will make
allowances, will reach the 'right' conclusion and will unwittingly participate
in the deception.
This is the case with all celebrity figures which
include news anchors, talk show hosts,
movie stars, well known
authors, corporate CEOs and
popular politicians
all of which have an economic
interest in furthering the status quo.
As deception requires the
complicity of the victim, a little disorientation helps.
Indian street
fakirs, sleight of hand artists, have a simple
game: Indian street fakirs get their audiences to laugh, then
tap into another emotion, fear.
Once frightened their marks are ripe to
be sold whatever is promised to
soothe their fear.
The need for emotional comfort will often
overrule reason.
The fakir's amulets and rings are guaranteed to assure
an emotionally 'happy' ending.
Deception is extremely useful in the
halls of commerce and politics.
Marketers, politicians and pundits
play on fear then deliver the
false embrace of product
protection.

Historically, the application of psychological
operations has proven to be essential in the successful waging of war.
Use of psychological operations as a force multiplier is easily
recognized by warriors, politicians, psychopaths, chief operating officers and
chief financial officers.
Alexander
III of Macedonia conquered most of the known world but spread himself thin.
To retreat and regroup forces with the armies he had left behind
Alexander III of Macedonia
instructed his armor smiths to make several oversized armor breastplates and
helmets that would fit "giants", men 7 to 8 feet tall. During the night his
forces withdrew leaving behind the oversized armor.
The deception sowed
enough doubt and fear that the
opposing force elected not to pursue.
Sun Tsu strongly advocated
the use of psychological warfare as a force
multiplier.
Sun Tsu wrote that:
"To capture the enemy's
entire army is better than to destroy it; to take intact a regiment, a company,
or a squad is better than to destroy them. For to win one hundred victories in
one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without
fighting is the supreme excellence. Thus, what is of supreme importance in war
is to attack the enemy's strategy. Next best is to disrupt his alliances by
diplomacy. The next best is to attack his army. And the worst policy is to
attack cities."
Sun Tzu understood that given the opportunity,
an adversary will surrender to
a superior commander prior to conflict.
The
image of total, barbaric
domination Genghis Khan
used was greatly enhanced by use of deception, operational security, and
targeting his adversaries' decision-making process.
"Agents
of influence" were sent in advance of his armies to do face-to-face
psychological warfare sowing fear by
telling of the brutality.
A network of "arrow riders" created the
illusion of invincible numbers by facilitating rapid troop maneuvers while
targeting enemy messengers to prevent enemy commanders from communicating.
Adolf Hitler rose to power
by exploiting the dissatisfaction of supporters of the traditional left and
right wing parties, by dwelling on the failure of these parties to solve the
problems created by the conditions imposed on Germany under the
Treaty of Versailles.
Adolf Hitler then presented
national socialism as the one movement
capable of uniting conservative nationalists with international socialists, the
professional classes with the working classes in the service of the nation.
The speeches he delivered urged
national pride and unity and placed
the blame for all of Germany's problems on 'others'.
The oratory
techniques of Adolf Hitler and use of propaganda gave him a truly hypnotic grip
over the German masses.
Joseph Goebbels, minister of
propaganda, practiced the techniques of psychological operations both to unite
Germany and to intimidate their enemies.
The most well known innovative
use of psychological warfare must be
attributed to a radio broadcast by the
British Broadcasting Corporation, the BBC.
When the German invasion of
England seemed imminent, a regular BBC radio
program, easily heard and often listened to by the Germans, began a series
of English language lessons for the invaders.
These broadcasts of
course were presented in flawless German.
The British announcer stated
the purpose of these broadcast like this:
"
..and so it will be
best if you learn a few useful phrases in English before visiting us. For your
first lesson, we take 'DIE KANAUEBERFAHRT'. The channel crossing." ... "Now,
just repeat after me: 'DAS
BOOT SINKT.' The boat is sinking. The boat is sinking" ... "DAS WASSER IST
KALT. The water is cold. SER KALT. Very cold" ... "Now I will give you a verb
that should be very useful. Again, please
repeat after me. ICH BRENNE.
i am burning. Du Brennst. You are burning. ER BRENNT. He is burning. WIR
BRENNEN. We burn. IHR BRENNT. You are burning. SIR BRENNEN. They are burning."
This crude propaganda proved extremly effective.
The phrases
about burning in the English Channel seemed to confirm the intensive rumors
already being spread by British agents on the continent that the British had
perfected an apparatus with which they were going to set fires in the Channel
and on the English beaches whenever Hitler launched his invasion.
Although not true, the rumors were so well planned and cleverly spread
that to this day many Germans still believe them.
Documents found after
the war confirmed that the German high command believed that the British had a
workable plan to set fire to the English Channel. Masters of propaganda were
beaten at their own trick!
Obviously they were not in
touch with their
subconscious.
This
propaganda worked on a subconscious level as
a fantasy seen as a
reality.
Perhaps the most ambitious and spectacular psychological
operations of modern times was the effort of the Allies to convince the German
high command that the upcoming Allied invasion of Europe would occur across
the beaches near the Pas de Calais.
Psychological operations of the
Allies created the fictitious "Army group Patton," which was poised to strike
across the English Channel at the Germans 15th Panzer Army defending the Pas de
Calais.
Even after the Allied invasion came at Normandy,
Adolf Hitler would not allow for the
deployment of the 15th Panzer Army from the Pas de Calais.
Adolf Hitler was convinced that the
Normandy invasion was only a prelude
to the real invasion.
The 15th Panzer Army waited in vain at the Pas de
Calais for nearly SEVEN WEEKS for Army group Patton, an
invasion that was never to
come. General of the army Omar Bradley later referred to this propaganda
operation as "the biggest hoax of the war".
The German army never fully
recovered from the reversals set in motion by their delay in releasing the 15th
Panzer army and Germany lost the war as a result.
Psychological
operations may be used to promote cooperation, unity and morale within
a target audience.
With the regime of Joseph
Vissarionovich Stalin reeling under the blows of the German blitz in 1941,
he sensed that the ideological
abstractions and communist platitudes, which the
communist party had driven into the
minds of its captive domestic
audience were in reality barren.
Ideological abstractions and communist
platitudes did not have the emotional and spiritual impact necessary to fortify
the Russian people for their
struggle against the armies of Adolf
Hitler.
Joseph
Vissarionovich Stalin systematically set about identifying his regime with
the ancient heritage and the accompanying archetypical symbolism of "Mother Russia".
The two Russian institutions with the deepest roots in the past, the
army and the church, were cultivated by propagandists.
The historic
accomplishments of Russian armies were glorified.
The church hierarchy
and class distinctions were returned to pre-revolution standards.
"PRAVDA," dropped its Marxist motto, "WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE," and
substituted the openly nationalistic
slogan, "DEATH TO THE GERMAN INVADER."
The ensuing struggle became
and is still officially known in Soviet history as "The Great Patriotic War".
Even Joseph Vissarionovich
Stalin, one of the most ruthless dictators of the 20th Century, realized
that his conventional military weapons alone, were not enough to meet the
challenge of the German armies.
Utilizing psychological operations to
augment conventional military forces played a major role in maintaining the
survival of the regime of Stalin.
By this time radio broadcasts had
become a major means of passing propaganda and deceiving
the target audience.
During WWII Japan used the notorious "Tokyo Rose" to broadcast
music, propaganda, and words of discouragement
to allied forces.
The Germans used Mildred Gillar, better remembered as
"Axis Sally".
In Vietnam
"Hanoi Hannah" broadcast a daily radio
program where she played music, coupled
with the propaganda and messages of discouragement to the
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