"The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media" William Colby, Director of CIA 1973-1976

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[–]DffrntDrmmr 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Interesting copypasta

I wouldn't call it "copypasta," though.

Reading the quote, I thought: "That doesn't sound like something a former CIA Director would say (even if it were true). I bet if I googled that quote it's not accurate."

Sure enough, it's not.

The only report of this quote seems to be from this one author, who offers nothing to substantiate his claim.

As noted in Snopes (referring to a different quote): Why have these words been put in a deceased person's mouth? In a general sense, the reason is because dead people make great commentators on modern-day politics: They can’t be questioned about the legitimacy of their comments, interrogated about what they meant, or asked to elaborate about the subject at hand.

Thanks for the additional insight and checking your copy of the book.

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

But you did copy it from that forum. Who ever they were, they clearly had a bias.

People say stuff and admit stuff all the time.

I don't trust Quora for shit (like Snopes), but here's another similar statement.

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false" ~ CIA Director William Casey

https://www.quora.com/Did-CIA-Director-William-Casey-really-say-Well-know-our-disinformation-program-is-complete-when-everything-the-American-public-believes-is-false?

Now that quote was not meant for public consumption but if you can believe Greg Smith and Barbara Honegger (who's intelligence, but has a great theory about the Pentagon being full of explosives on 9/11 as well).

FYI: I used a camera to photograph the pages (which I will soon link), then I used Google Drive and Google Docs to OCR them. I have yet to actually go through the whole text and reformat it as it was on the page. Eventually this will all actually look good: https://infogalactic.com/info/Derailing_Democracy_Introduction It starts terrifically (haven't read all of it yet), so I figured, hey, maybe worth cleaning up and sharing.

Yes, unfortunately a lot of dead celebs get a lot of misattributions - especially Mark Twain and Emma Goldman - ie. "If there's no dancing at your revolution count me out" or "If voting were effective they'd make it illegal".