To: MSI who wrote (275817 ) 7/15/2002 11:54:57 PM From: MSI Respond to Republican Sacred Honor, (cont.)victorian.fortunecity.com Bill Casey met with five top advertising executives to decide how to "sell" the public on those policies. As a former member of the CIA's forerunner, the Office of Special Services, Casey had run disinformation programs aimed at foreign countries in the past , but never ones aimed at the American people – until now.convince the American people they were in constant danger from threats outside our borders. (They did not bother to mention the threat from within was caused by Reagan's sale of arms to terrorists.) Bob Parry writes that J. Michael Kelly, deputy assistant secretary for the air force for force support, gave a 1983 address to a National Defense University forum. Kelly told the conference, "The most critical special operations mission we have...today is to persuade the American people that the communists are out to get us." Oliver North attended Kelly's conference, where Kelly also said, "If we win the war of ideas, we will win everywhere else." (Parry, "Fooling America," 1992.)The Reagan Administration agreed that the American people needed to be convinced "the communists are out to get us." Though Nicaragua is a small country with an agricultural economy, the Reagan team tried to portray Nicaragua's leftist Sandinista government as a serious theat to U. S. interests in the region. Bob Parry points out that while the Sandinistas had their faults, they were more moderate than Castro and had gained international credibility. "
