The idea of using media as a method of influence had long interested the intelligence agencies,
with the CIA identifying movies specifically as powerful instruments of warfare in a 1943 memo
titled The Motion Picture as a Weapon of Psychological Warfare. The stated objective
of the formerly classified document is to, quote, exploit the potentialities of the motion picture
is a weapon of psychological warfare for the United States.
Here's an excerpt from the memo.
The motion picture is one of the most powerful propaganda weapons
at the disposal of the United States.
It can serve many diversified functions.
Motion pictures are a potent force in attitude formation,
and attitudes are the basis of action and morale.
Motion pictures can stimulate or inhibit action.
Motion pictures are important in all the major types of psychological warfare.
directly in general propaganda,
indirectly, in connection with certain aspects
of subversive, economic, and diplomatic propaganda activities.
Motion pictures can be employed
on most of the major psychological fronts.
They can be aimed at the people of countries
allied to the United States,
of the countries occupied by the United States
or her allies,
or countries neutral to the United States,
to inform and to create attitudes
favorable to the United States
and unfavorable to the enemy.
The memo also discusses the quote,
Suppression of motion pictures of enemy origin judged to have potentially subversive influence.
It makes note of the military national security strength of having an influential U.S. motion picture industry,
the products of which have achieved a worldwide popularity.
Domestically, even the White House began to support movies,
not just news outlets like it was doing overseas through Voice of America broadcasts which drummed up support for its geopolitical agenda
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going on and i'm recording this after the uh the bracket drop for maxi madness 2026
and uh i just don't think i'm going to be able to get this out for another week if i don't record
right now so i'm gonna wing it i had another i don't know like hour and a half recording
which i just grabbed because i just didn't like it i listened to it through a couple times and uh
i felt like i needed something different but um the clip at the beginning of the episode
is from the sean ryan uh youtube channel it's called like ironclad or something like that he's
an interesting guy,
government guy or military guy
that is doing a series on
PSYOPs, which
in my opinion is kind
of borderline PSYOP, but it is
also
enlightening
to hear the perspective.
One of the things that
people
empower understand is the importance of forming public perception because like in that video it
said people's opinions on the world around them and about themselves informs the way they behave
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