{"id":780,"date":"2008-01-11T09:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T15:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=780"},"modified":"2008-01-11T09:06:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-11T15:06:00","slug":"do-spies-tell-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/01\/do-spies-tell-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"Do spies tell lies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">D<\/span>o intelligence services spread lies? <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Sir Richard Dearlove<\/span>, the only time I ever spoke to him, said they don\u2019t set out to do so, but implied that lies may be the consequence of their operations.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Stephen Hadley<\/span>, Bush 43\u2019s National Security Advisor, begs to differ. This from January, 2005:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Steve] <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stephen_Hadley\">Hadley<\/a> went head-to-head with CIA director <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Porter_J._Goss\">Porter Goss<\/a> and some of his analysts and operatives. He wanted them to be engaged in propaganda operations to support the election. But the CIA\u2019s idea of information operations, he thought, was to spread lies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy spread lies?\u201d Hadley asked. \u201cSpread the truth. It\u2019s much more powerful. You don\u2019t get it. You need to find ways to get out the truth in a way it won\u2019t be instantly discredited because it\u2019s from us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From <span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0743295668\/interactiveda3401-21\">State of Denial<\/a><\/span>, Bob Woodward (p.376).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do intelligence services spread lies? Sir Richard Dearlove, the only time I ever spoke to him, said they don\u2019t set out to do so, but implied that lies may be the consequence of their operations. Stephen Hadley, Bush 43\u2019s National Security Advisor, begs to differ. This from January, 2005: [Steve] Hadley went head-to-head with CIA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}