This is a CIA document, sent to station chiefs around the world, inviting them not to discuss the assassination of President Kennedy, unless the foreign party initiates the discussion.
It gives good arguments for denying any conspiracy involvement of any party besides a marine named Lee Harvey Oswald.
SIMPLE CONSPIRACY
It takes place on the street or in court or in insurance in advertising or in industry. Two guys work on the subway and rob people of their wallet. A lawyer and a judge see a weak old lady, take her home and savings and dump her in an old age home. Two businessmen offer poor people real cheap insurance to pay them $100 a day if an accident causes amputation of a leg--an extremely unlikely event. Two guys see that a medication is useless for dementia, but arrange fake trials and make billions. Two executives see that their diesel car produces deadly particulate and fake some tests to get a green pass.
Conspiracy takes place in every business.
Conspiracy theory
The phrase conspiracy theory is nothing but a slogan, used by members of an organization, party, TV station, newpaper, journal, or local/national government, in any country, to signify that "us rational thoughtful honest decent folks, we would never lie to you. Those who accuse us of hiding information from you are lunatics, and whatever evidence they try to present is not to be trusted. It's best not to talk to them, they have all sorts of tricks to deceive you, good serious citizens that you are. Them's fascists, communists, un-American, or for sure they work for the Russians."
Using the phrase conspiracy theory requires a certain level of dishonesty or of infantile approach to authority. Children naturally believe in Santa. Why should we doubt makes no sense to doubt. "I've seen Santa myself, last year. Are you trying to tell me that my eyes were wrong, that I just imagine stuff, like staying in line to talk to Santa? Do you really believe that all these good decent serious people would make up an elaborate fiction, just to fool us kids? Why? Cui bono, Santa? The fact that one can, theoretically, buy a Santa costume, provides no proof that I did not visit with Santa. Moreover, as far as Santa's physical presence, I have overwhelming proof of existence. Physical evidence of what Santa left behind, and which I ate in front of numerous witnesses."
Conspiracy is the norm, not the exception, for humans. We conspire, since childhood, against our elders. We hunt, conspiring to ambush animals. Lawyers conspire against opponents or clients. Stores conspire, agreeing not to mark the price of the cheap onions, so that inexperienced buyers may buy the $3 imported onions instead of the $0. 79 onions.
The phrase conspiracy theory is a favourite slogan for Wikipedia editors, to be used when dealing with unpleasant events or situations, such as the current pandemic. In such a situation, it is customary to present the oddest and most confused stories appearing in African newspapers or Pakistani social media, and list them next to the writings of illustrious and successful scientists, such as Luc Montaigner, Thomas Borody, Paul Marik or Pierre Kory, jus to confuse the reader.
The phrase conspiracy theory used to be neutral, but it has become the slogan of choice, to answer questions that its best not to try answering; it is the handiest argument, with which to close discussion.
It appeared in a 1964 CIA document, instructing station chiefs around the world on proper management of queries on the assassination of President Kennedy.
Questions such as: How is It that the the rifle found at the Texas Book Depository, held aloft by police on November 22 and described in sworn affidavit as a Mauser 7.65, came to change caliber and brand name. It even got a Made in Italy inscription, overnight.
Headquarters at CIA was aware of the problem, and asked station chiefs, in last paragraph on page 1 of the document, to please not make the error of initiating discussion of a subject that was best to leave alone.
However, if discussion is already taking place, a list of arguments is presented, to be used with "friendly elite contacts (especially politicians and editors)" and should have been proposed for use to "propaganda assets". In such case "book reviews and feature articles are particularly appropriate for this purpose." (page 2)
A conspiracy theory is not the same as a conspiracy; instead, it refers to a hypothesized conspiracy with specific characteristics, such as an opposition to the mainstream consensus among those people (such as scientists or historians) who are qualified to evaluate its accuracy.[7][8]
In other words, Wikipedia tells us: "Conspiracy is what them bad guys think or do against us good guys. Them's bad, we's good
Mainstream consensus is what us good guys and our scientist and historians say. When we decide to change foreign policy, we'll notify you.
The mainstream consensus remains mainstream consensus even when most people in the country do not believe it any more.
THE WUHAN EXAMPLE
The lab-leak theory had been floated by President Trump and others in his circle in April last year. It was widely dismissed at the time as an unfounded conspiracy theory with racist undertones. A statement in support of China, signed by prominent scientists, had been published in the Lancet in March 2020, and had cautioned against unfounded speculations about the origins of the virus.
Lab leak chatter was racist anti-science, dismissed and censored out. Suddenly, in May 2021, a decision was taken and articles on the Wuhan leak were acceptable and soon were prevalent
Research suggests, on a psychological level, conspiracist ideation—belief in conspiracy theories—can be harmful or pathological,[12][13] and is highly correlated with psychological projection, as well as with paranoia, which is predicted by the degree of a person's Machiavellianism.[83] The propensity to believe in conspiracy theories is strongly associated with the mental health disorder of schizotypy.[84][85][86][87][88]
Ad hominem, insult and gaslighting are favorite choices for Wikieditors.
So I say FDA and CDC faked the happy statistics about Bell's palsy being found at normal level after vaccine. We say the palsy appears at rates 20 times higher than normal.
Their answer: "You've got schizotypy, boy."
I say they lied about HCQ in March 2020. "Schizotypy."
I say they created fake HCQ studies in April-May 2020. "Schizotypy."
I say they lied even about the absolute importance of vitamin D. "Schizotypy, take him away."
Conspiracy theories once limited to fringe audiences have become commonplace in mass media, emerging as a cultural phenomenon of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.[31][32][33][34]
There is no better example of conspiracy than the massive attack of the media against hydroxychloroquine in March 2020, when Trump mentioned it. No one told America that HCQ was the medication used in China to beat covid. They said it was crazy Trump's absurd dangerous medicine; that falsification campaign is ongoing, a year later, on Wikipedia.
Is there a better example of conspiracy? It was a malevolent murderous operation, operating at all levels. It's obvious that it extended to the White House, since no one told the President that Dr. Fauci was organising fake HCQ trials, to fool his boss and the country.
Exposure to conspiracy theories in news media and popular entertainment increases receptiveness to conspiratorial ideas, and has also increased the social acceptability of fringe beliefs.[17][89]
What's understood, here, is that "we need protection from receptiveness to conspiratorial ideas." Any exposure to conspiracy theories weakens us, weakens the nation, as people begin to doubt the wisdom of Dear Leader and his publicists.
Fringe data not mentioned on The New York Times cannot be allowed to achieve social acceptability. The Times occasionally allows momentary dissent, on page 26 perhaps, but it will be cancelled by continued repetition of the official reality.
The Debunking Community is tasked with controlling the social acceptability of fringe data.
We saw it in action in the winter 2020,-21. The debunkers were ordered to control the first reports of Bell's palsy from vaccination, on YouTube and Facebook, by declaring the YouTube videos fake. The videos were then canceled. https://www.covidr.org/en/93-the-v-cult-and-the-methods-of-state-scientology
FDA and CDC conspired to deny the 20-fold excess of cases of Bell's palsy above normal background, by switching data from monthly file to yearly file.
The media conspired to ignore the obvious evidence of deception by CDC and FDA in reporting Bell's palsy cases in the 2020 trial. They ignored even a letter in the British Medical Journal and the first medical press study, which, on February 21, presented in clear manner all the evidence needed to prove the excess of Bell's palsy. https://www.covidr.org/en/85-three-cards-monte-to-hide-unpleasant-data-at-fda https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7897359/
The media then rejected the only statistics permitted, i.e., what was appearing at VAERS, without demanding an executive order that doctors report to VAERS.
The mass media and the medical/political establishment do not want to be informed, they prefer not to know the damage caused by vaccination.