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RIP Elizabeth McIntosh

#1 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Mon Jul 27, 2015 7:42 pm

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituar ... tuary.html


Elizabeth McIntosh, who has died aged 100, was a “black propaganda” specialist for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the wartime forerunner of the American CIA; her duty was to spread misinformation among the enemy in India and China through rumours, news reports and radio broadcasts.
Suitguy is not bitter.

feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive

The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.

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