The Deep State Begins to Takes Control.

By

       M. Richard Maxson

 This series of articles continues to examine what the shadow government and the deep state are and how they have gained so much control over the U.S. government and society in general.

      In 1949 the Intelligence Survey Group had produced the Dulles-Jackson-Correa Report, which found that the CIA had failed in its responsibilities in both the coordination and production of intelligence. The U.S. National Security Council accepted the conclusions and recommendations of the Dulles-Jackson-Correa Report. After another failure of the new agency, to predict the invasion of Korea, Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter was replaced and on October 7, 1950 President Truman announced that General Walter "Beetle" Smith would replace him as director. Truman decided that Smith was the man he needed for the CIA.

      As Smith became the head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and other intelligence agencies in the United States he made a series of decisions that changed the direction of the agency. Smith reorganized the CIA, redefined its structure and its mission, and he gave it a new sense of purpose. He made the CIA the arm of government primarily responsible for covert operations. As President Truman would lament a dozen years later “the original reason why I thought it

necessary to organize this Agency … and what I expected it to do.” It would be “charged with the collection of all intelligence reports from every available source, and to have those reports reach me as President without Department ‘treatment’ or interpretations.” He wrote “the most important thing was to guard against the chance of intelligence being used to influence or to lead the President into unwise decisions,” however that is not what had happened. Because of what he saw as the illegality and immorality of what the CIA was doing he stated, “I think it has become necessary to take another look at the purpose and operations of our Central Intelligence Agency.” Sadly, those concerns that Truman expressed — that he had inadvertently helped create a Frankenstein monster — are as valid today as they were 60 years ago, if not more so. It is that monster, known as “The Deep State,” that runs our government today.

      In 1950, General Smith recruited Allen Dulles, who had authored the critical report, to oversee the agency's covert operations as Deputy Director for Plans. The same year Dulles was promoted to Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, second in the intelligence hierarchy. Continuing the reorganization of the agency started under Smith, Dulles wasted no time in promoting the convergence of the Psychological Strategy Board with its Office of Special Operations to form the Directorate of Plans and plan he did.

      With the election of Dwight Eisenhower in 1952, General Smith shifted to the Department of State and Allen Dulles became the first civilian Director of Central Intelligence. It was here with the reorganization of the intelligence services done in the previous years that Dulles began to shape and implement the agency that would take control of America first through our news organizations and then, in 1954, through films. One of their first ventures that the propaganda mission the psywar staff carried out was the funding of the 1954 Hollywood production of George Orwell's "Animal Farm", which the producers were told that the film should portray Communist domination in an allegorical way. The control of America was just beginning.

 

      During these early years CIA Director Allen Dulles with the use of an operation known as “Mockingbird” oversaw a media network, which had major influence over 25 newspapers and wire agencies. Its usual modus operandi was to place reports, developed from CIA-provided intelligence, with cooperating or unwitting reporters. Those reports would be repeated or cited by the recipient reporters and would then, in turn, be cited throughout the media wire services. These networks were run by people with well-known liberal, but pro-American-big-business and anti-Soviet views, such as William S. Paley (CBS), Henry Luce (Time and Life), Arthur Hays Sulzberger (The New York Times), Alfred Friendly (managing editor of The Washington Post), and others. These organizations, sixty plus years later still spew out propaganda daily to America's citizens. With the advent of the internet that allows some truth to get through some people are waking up to this “fake news” while others continue on as controlled drones and in the 21^st century, this is what is tearing our country apart.

 

Next Week: Control of the Press, Control of the Truth