Office of Strategic Influence organization
also: OSI, office of strategic intelligence
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“SAIC had been involved in the program to feed disinformation to foreign press on its behalf. You know, fake news.…”
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It seems clear that SAIC was at the forefront of psychological warfare operations during the onset of the war on terror. In addition to the corporation's relentless propaganda blitz that linked Saddam Hussein to weapons of mass destruction,…
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Its acronym is OSI, not to be confused with the Office of Special Investigations, OSI in the Air Force. This one's completely separate. This entity was set up within the Department of Defense in October of 2001 with a mandate to engage in p…
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Before the OSI was shuttered in November of 2002, about a year later, SAIC had been involved in the program to feed disinformation to foreign press on its behalf. You know, fake news. It is possible that SAIC's work for the OSI never ended …
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In 2003, the New York Times reported that SAIC had been awarded a $300,000 contract from the Pentagon to study how the Pentagon could design an effective strategic influencing campaign to affect the war on terror. This may have been a conti…
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by harassing them with pro-US fake media by calling it free and independent. Given SAIC's role in promoting the false weapons of mass destruction narrative in the lead up to the US invasion of Iraq and its work on behalf of OSI and the Iraq…
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E. Drexel Godfrey to review BNDD's intelligence procedures. Among other things, Godfrey recommended that the BNDD create regional intelligence units and an office of strategic intelligence. The regional offices were to be up and running wit…
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intelligence units with suspicion. The major strategic intelligence office that they all reported to was harder to implement. Given its arcane function as a tool to help managers formulate plans and strategies, the chief director, John Warn…
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Seeking a way to circumvent the CIA, they recommended the creation of a special operations or strategic operations staff that would function on its own outside the CIA. Those operations would rely on longer-range deep penetration clandestin…
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Kissinger presented a $120 million drug control proposal, of which $50 million was earmarked for this special operations. Three weeks later, Nixon declared his war on drugs, at which point Congress responded with funding of the Strategic In…
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on drug trafficking in Southeast Asia. He was assigned as a consultant on the Far East Asian desk of the BNDD's Strategic Intelligence Office. So he's the fox in the henhouse again. He is also the guy that gave the information to Nixon for …