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01/26/2006
Secret Pentagon "roadmap" calls for "boundaries" between
"information operations" abroad and at home but provides no actual
limits as long as US doesn't "target" Americans
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB177/
Washington D.C., January 26, 2006 - A secret Pentagon "roadmap" on
war propaganda, personally approved by Secretary of Defense Donald
Rumsfeld in October 2003, calls for "boundaries" between
information operations abroad and the news media at home, but
provides for no such limits and claims that as long as the American
public is not "targeted," any leakage of PSYOP to the American
public does not matter.
Obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by the National
Security Archive at George Washington University and posted on the
Web today, the 74-page "Information Operations Roadmap" admits that
"information intended for foreign audiences, including public
diplomacy and PSYOP, increasingly is consumed by our domestic
audience and vice-versa," but argues that "the distinction between
foreign and domestic audiences becomes more a question of USG [U.S.
government] intent rather than information dissemination
practices."
The Smith-Mundt Act of 1948, amended in 1972 and 1998, prohibits
the U.S. government from propagandizing the American public with
information and psychological operations directed at foreign
audiences; and several presidential directives, including Reagan's
NSD-77 in 1983, Clinton's PDD-68 in 1999, and Bush's NSPD-16 in
July 2002 (the latter two still classified), have set up specific
structures to carry out public diplomacy and information
operations. These and other documents relating to U.S. PSYOP
programs will be posted on the Archive Web site later today.
Several press accounts have referred to the 2003 Pentagon document,
but today's posting is the first time the text has been publicly
available. Sections of the document relating to computer network
attack (CNA) and "offensive cyber operations" remain classified
under black highlighting.
01/26/2006
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