WASHINGTON: The Pentagon acknowledged in a newly declassified document released on Thursday that the US public is increasingly exposed to propaganda disseminated overseas in psychological operations.
But the document suggests that the Pentagon believes that US law that prohibits exposing the US public to propaganda does not apply to the unintended blowback from such operations.
“The increasing ability of people in most parts of the globe to access international information sources makes targeting particular audiences more difficult,” said the document. “Today the distinction between foreign and domestic audiences become more a question of USG (US government) intent rather than information dissemination practices,” it said. Called the “Information Operations Roadmap”, the document was approved by US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in October 2003.
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