by PeterofLoneTree » Tue Jun 28, 2005 6:11 pm
"...Generoso Pope, Jr. -- the son of a mob-connected businessman who published Il Progresso Italiano-Americano, New York's leading Italian-language paper. The older Pope was Mussolini's primary American supporter. The younger Pope developed strong links to both the mafia and the CIA. <br><br>"Which means that anyone who can read about the Pope family and their works without forming a conspiracy theory must possess formidable willpower.<br><br>"After being graduated from MIT at the age of 19, the brilliant young Generoso Pope joined the CIA circa 1950, operating (by his own later admission) as a specialist in psychological warfare. This period marked the beginning of the CIA's efforts to alter the perception and behavior of groups and individuals -- Projects Artichoke, Bluebird, MKULTRA and so forth. <br><br>"This was also the period when the CIA funded much American sociological research, as documented in Christopher Simpson's invaluable study, Science of Coercion: Communication Research and Psychological Warfare 1945-1960. The Company's goal was to develop ways to alter the political and social beliefs of large populations.<br><br>"Nobody knows just how long Pope worked for CIA, or why he left -- or if he left. But a few years later, in a scene that might have been co-directed by Orson Welles and Francis Ford Coppola, Pope decided that it would be fun to run a newspaper. So he hit up his godfather for some start-up capital (estimated at $250,000 -- quite a tidy sum in those days), and purchased a nearly-defunct rag called the New York Enquirer, which had begun life as a pro-Nazi tentacle of the Hearst empire".<br><br>The entire article can be accessed at:<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2005/06/perception-management.html">cannonfire.blogspot.com/2...ement.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br> <p></p><i></i>
