Fourth Arm V

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Conclusion!

Disinformation!

"What enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge", - - Sun Tzu.

In a previous blog I have mentioned that, according to some authorities, during the period 1945-1955, it would have been better that the CIA had done nothing. This is something that Richard Helms, former director of the CIA, said during an interview.

I am quite sure of what Helms was intimating to in this interview.

The treachery of Philby in particular was not confined to fourth arm guerilla/partisan activities. Philby betrayed anything and everything he could get his hands on. This would of course include any espionage, sabotage, subversion, psychological warfare being conducted by western fourth arm agencies. And this betrayal began in earnest from 1945 onward, with the start of the Cold War. [Philby was spying for the Soviets prior to 1945, but when he became head of section five of MI6, the betrayal became even more profound].

The Soviet defector Suvorov has equated the intelligence services of a country to the eyes and ears of an organism, and the policy makers who rely upon the intelligence provided them as the brain of the same organism. And this is an excellent analogy. The policy makers require a sound input to make sound decisions. Decisions that carry great weight, especially in the international arena. If the input to the policy makers from the intelligence agencies is not sound, the policies will not be sound. Very simple.

In the case of the western powers fourth arm, we had agencies that not only failed in the "positive intervention" plans they devised, we had agencies that were providing erroneous and misleading intelligence [based upon primarily human sources] to their consumers, the policy makers.

This erroneous and misleading intelligence in large measure was based upon deceptive information being fed them by the Soviets?

Deceptive information that was accepted as being true and fact!

It should be appreciated that it is one thing for the intelligence agencies to be deaf and blind.

They can tell the policy makers "we just do not know". The policy makers can formulate their policies based upon what is not known!

It is a whole different and potentially disastrous situation for the intelligence agencies to present the policy makers with intelligence based upon deception deliberately fed them by hostile powers [Soviet Union], and present that intelligence AS BEING TRUE! The policy makers will then formulate policy based upon untruths, policies that can only go awry!!

This is undoubtedly what Helms is intimating to!

That the year 1955 is mentioned is also of significance. It was in that year that the first U-2 photo-reconnaissance flights began over the Soviet Union. After 1955, western intelligence agencies, primarily the U.S., no longer had to rely upon human intelligence that was so flawed and permeated with deliberate deception, deception that was believed and accepted as true!

As can be seen with the ongoing controversy over weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, intelligence agencies that are wrong can be a serious and very flawed liability for a nation.

End of Part V and the end of the Fourth Arm series.

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