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How Reagan's Propaganda Succeeded Consortium News

These recently discovered documents buttress previously disclosed evidence that Reagan’s CIA Director William J. Casey played a key behind-the-scenes role in pushing this political action initiative, which recruited well-heeled private-sector conservatives to subsidize the secretive government operations.

The documents show that Casey used a senior CIA propaganda and disinformation specialist named Walter Raymond Jr., who was placed inside the National Security Council in 1982, to oversee the project and to circumvent legal prohibitions against the CIA engaging in propaganda that might influence U.S. public opinion or politics.

Though Raymond formally quit the CIA after going to the NSC, documents from Raymond’s personal NSC files reveal that he often passed on recommendations regarding the propaganda initiative after meetings at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, or after conversations with Casey himself.

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[Image: NYT / Baghdad: City of walls.]

Iraq and Afghanistan, sittin’ in a tree….

Baghdad: City of walls // Divided Cities // A Year in Iraq and Afghanistan // Pentagon Rethinks Old Doctrine on 2 Wars // The Economic Cost of War in Iraq and Afghanistan // 283 Bases, 170,000 Pieces of Equipment, 140,000 Troops, and an Army of Mercenaries: The Logistical Nightmare in Iraq // Withdrawal. // U.S. starts to leave key Iraq bases // Cost of war in Afghanistan soars to £2.5bn // Battle Over Bases


[Image: Afghanistan's Perilous Roads: Allies Struggle to Find Safer Supply Routes.]

Infrastructural Inhibitors/Enhancers

For War Supply Routes, U.S. Looks Even in Iran // US finds new Afghan supply route // Al Qaeda builds a 'Shadow Army' // // The Saharan Conundrum // Secret U.S. Unit Trains Commandos in Pakistan // An Anti-Iranian Enclave in Iraq Fights to Stay // Pinned Down, a Sprint to Escape Taliban Zone // In remote Afghan valley, a rare peace sprouts with insurgents // Iraq's quiet healthcare crisis


[Image: Iraq’s Widows, NYT.]

Refugee'd to Death

Iraq's Invisible Refugees and Widows // Afghan Civilian Deaths Rose 40 Percent in 2008 // Afghan women who turn to immolation // The Most Pervasive Combat Injury Among U.S. Soldiers is Invisible -- and the Pentagon Has Tried to Keep it That // Forgotten Warriors: Injured war zone contractors fight to get care // Life in the world’s largest refugee settlement // Nearly 20,000 Murders in Iraq Since War's Start

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