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Reagan Documents Shed Light on U.S. \u2018Meddling\u2019\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Special Report:<\/strong> \u201cSecret\u201d documents from the Reagan administration show how the U.S. embedded \u201cpolitical action,\u201d i.e., the manipulation of foreign governments, in ostensibly well-meaning organizations, reports Robert Parry.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSecret\u201d documents, recently declassified by the Reagan presidential library, reveal senior White House officials reengaging a former CIA \u201cproprietary,\u201d The Asia Foundation, in \u201cpolitical action,\u201d an intelligence term of art for influencing the actions of foreign governments.<\/p>\n

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Partially obscured by President Reagan, Walter Raymond Jr. was the CIA propaganda and disinformation specialist who oversaw \u201cpolitical action\u201d and \u201cpsychological operations\u201d projects at the National Security Council in the 1980s. Raymond is seated next to National Security Adviser John Poindexter. (Photo credit: Reagan presidential library)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The documents from 1982 came at a turning-point moment when the Reagan administration was revamping how the U.S. government endeavored to manipulate the internal affairs of governments around the world in the wake of scandals in the 1960s and 1970s involving the Central Intelligence Agency\u2019s global covert operations.<\/p>\n

Instead of continuing to rely heavily on the CIA, President Reagan and his national security team began offloading many of those \u201cpolitical action\u201d responsibilities to \u201cnon-governmental organizations\u201d (NGOs) that operated in a more overt fashion and received funding from other U.S. government agencies.<\/p>\n

But secrecy was still required for the involvement of these NGOs in the U.S. government\u2019s strategies to bend the political will of targeted countries. If the \u201cpolitical action\u201d of these NGOs were known, many countries would object to their presence; thus, the \u201csecret\u201d classification of the 1982 White House memos that I recently obtained via a \u201cmandatory declassification review\u201d from the archivists at the Reagan presidential library in Simi Valley, California.<\/p>\n

In intelligence circles, \u201cpolitical action\u201d refers to a wide range of activities to influence the policies and behaviors of foreign nations, from slanting their media coverage, to organizing and training opposition activists, even to setting the stage for \u201cregime change.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Reagan Documents Shed Light on U.S. \u2018Meddling\u2019\u00a0 Special Report: \u201cSecret\u201d documents from the Reagan administration show how the U.S. embedded \u201cpolitical action,\u201d i.e., the manipulation of foreign governments, in ostensibly well-meaning organizations, reports Robert Parry. \u201cSecret\u201d documents, recently declassified by the Reagan presidential library, reveal senior White House officials reengaging a former CIA \u201cproprietary,\u201d The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[135,6963,2477,655,7203,827],"class_list":["post-25611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-cia","tag-consortium-news","tag-ngo","tag-propaganda","tag-robert-parry","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25611"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25613,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25611\/revisions\/25613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}