1975 Video: CIA Admits to Congress the Agency Uses Mainstream Media to Distribute DisinfoMelissa Melton Despite Casey being under investigation by Congress for being involved in a major disinformation plot involving the overthrow of Libyas Qaddafi in 1981, and despite Casey arguing on the record that the CIA should have a legal right to spread disinformation via the mainstream news that same year, this quote continues to be argued by people who werent there and apparently cannot believe a CIA Director would ever say such a thing. But spreading disinfo is precisely what the CIA would and did do. This 1975 clip of testimony given during aHouse Intelligence Committee hearing has the agency admitting on record that the CIA creates and uses disinformation against the American people. Question: Do you have any people being paid by the CIA who are contributing to a major circulation American journal? Answer: We do have people who submit pieces to American journals. Question: Do you have any people paid by the CIA who are working for television networks? Answer: This I think gets into the kind of uh, getting into the details Mr. Chairman that Id like to get into in executive session. (later) Question: Do you have any people being paid by the CIA who are contributing to the national news services AP and UPI? Answer: Well again, I think were getting into the kind of detail Mr. Chairman that Id prefer to handle at executive session. I thought that it was a matter of real concern that planted stories intended to serve a national purpose abroad came home and were circulated here and believed here because this would mean that the CIA could manipulate the news in the United States by channeling it through some foreign country, Democratic Idaho Senator Frank Church said at a press conference surrounding the hearing. Church chaired the Church Committee, a precursor to the Senate Intelligence Committee, which was responsible for investigating illegal intelligence gathering by the NSA, CIA and FBI. This exact tactic planting disinformation in foreign media outlets so the disinfo would knowingly surface in the United States as a way of circumventing the rules on domestic operations was specifically argued for as being legal simply because it did not originate on U.S. soil by none other than CIA Director William Casey in 1981. Again, please keep this in mind when you watch the mainstream news in this country Melissa Melton is a co-founder of TruthstreamMedia.com, where this first appeared. She is an experienced researcher, graphic artist and investigative journalist with a passion for liberty and a dedication to truth. Her aim is to expose the New World Order for what it is a prison for the human soul from which we must break free. 