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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 10. August 2004 / Timeline August 10, 2004

9. August 2004, 11. August 2004

08/10/2004
Army 'psyops' at CNN News giant employed military 'psychological operations' personnel
By Geoff Metcalf
(c) 2000 WorldNetDaily.com
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=17437
CNN employed active duty U.S. Army psychological operations personnel last year, WorldNetDaily has confirmed through several sources at Fort Bragg and elsewhere.
Maj. Thomas Collins, U.S. Information Service has confirmed that "psyops" (psychological operations) personnel, soldiers and officers, have worked in the CNN headquarters in Atlanta. The lend/lease exercise was part of an Army program called "Training With Industry." According to Collins, the soldiers and officers, "... worked as regular employees of CNN. Conceivably, they would have worked on stories during the Kosovo war. They helped in the production of news."
The CNN military personnel were members of the Airmobile Fourth Psychological Operations Group, stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. One of the main tasks of this group of almost 1200 soldiers and officers is to spread 'selected information.' Critics say that means dissemination of propaganda.

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