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Is there any evidence to suggest that the CIA invented the phrase “conspiracy theory” to discredit those who challenge their version of reality?
It’s very simple to answer.
You’re the CIA and there’s some people who don’t believe your lies and start to criticize you and reveal your true intentions.
What would you do?
Would you:
- Use the mass media to discredit them, and call them crazy or…
- Tell them they’re right?
They’re smart guys (the CIA)….
Also… I think the CIA would create their own fake conspiracy theories to create confusion and discredit the real ones, I mean, that would be useful right? If that works, maybe they are already doing it.
Yes, below is a quote from the 1967 CIA document that was produced as dissent was growing during the buildup to the Jim Garrison inquiry into the Assassination of John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States.
It is quite easy for a disinformation agent to spin a rich disinformation tale and then craft several different versions of the tale with new ‘facts’ to support the story in each one. These tales are usually a good mix of verifiable facts and cleverly designed lies, so that people who check the ‘facts’ tend to believe the lies that are mixed in.
“Conspiracy theory’ is a term that strikes fear and anxiety in the hearts of most every public figure, particularly journalists and academics. Since the 1960s the label has become a disciplinary device that has been overwhelmingly effective in defining certain events as off limits to inquiry or debate. Especially in the United States, raising legitimate questions about dubious official narratives destined to inform public opinion (and thereby public policy) is a major thought crime that must be cauterized from the public psyche at all costs… CIA Document 1035-960 played a definitive role in making the ‘conspiracy theory’ term a weapon to be wielded against almost any individual or group calling the government’s increasingly clandestine programs and activities into question.” – From CIA Document 1035-960
Is it true that the CIA created the term “conspiracy theorist” to disapprove people who question the system?
I recently read a book, Conspiracy Theories & The People that Believe Them. It is a compilation of essays by academics from a variety of fields. Most of the essays covered the topic from politics to psychology but one essay stood out as the most novel and objective approach I have ever seen.
The essay, A Nineteenth-Century Prehistory of a Twentieth-Century Concept by Andrew McKensie-McHarg was truly eye-opening. The author took advantage of 150 years of English language publications being digitized. He searched a century and a half database of British, American, Canadian, and Australian newspaper and magazine articles for the term conspiracy theory.
It turned out that from the first printing in the 1860s, well into the Twentieth-Century the term was used to note a criminal investigation that employed the scientific method. Think Sherlock Holmes and the Alienist, what we call today forensic science or a forensic investigation.
Aside
That meaning stayed the same until just after WWII when Karl R Popper wrote his short essay, The Conspiracy Theory of Society, which he expanded upon in his later book, The Open Society and Its Enemies.
Popper intended his idea of The Conspiracy Theory of Society to be used by social scientists when examining the cause of events in history and when considering the role of social institutes in society. Popper pointed out that even a successful conspiracy would produce both unwanted and unintended results.
Popper suggested that events in history were most likely caused by abstracts, like economics, war, and migration, not the machinations of an elite group of people. He also stated that the social scientist should not view social institutions as having agency; being motivated and acting like people. Social Institutions are not people.
Over the years, The Conspiracy Theory of Society has been shortened to just conspiracy theory and taken on its current meaning of a claim of a criminal conspiracy being based on false beliefs, without evidence, and therefore likely false.
Most college-educated folks, having been exposed to the social sciences (economics, political science, history, sociology, psychology, and law) use the above definition of conspiracy theory.
Back to Andrew McKensie-McHarg’s essay;
The author then did a search for the term conspiracy theories (the plural of conspiracy theory and used to denote conspiracy ideation) and the term conspiracy theorist (used to denote someone who ascribes to conspiracy ideation) and found that neither term was seen in print in the English language until the late 1960s.
He furthers that, unlike the term conspiracy theory, both the terms conspiracy theories (plural) and conspiracy theorist (person) were always derogatory and used in the pejorative. Both of those terms are relatively recent as is their meaning, and I would say their intent as well.
Conclusion
I don’t think there is a definitive answer to whether or not the CIA specifically coined the term as a weapon to be used against critics of the Warren Report’s conclusion that Oswald acted alone but it looks like it was indeed used for that purpose and has since retained its intent to dismiss, disparage, and discredit any legitimate discussion or consideration that counters official stories.
The term was not invented by the CIA. However, it was weaponized by the CIA.
In a memo called Countering Criticism of the Warren Repot, it is recommended to say that one’s “conspiracy talk” is deliberate communist propaganda talk.
The memo speaks of anyone who claims Oswald was not alone to be a conspiracy theorist.
There are two lines of irony. This memo speaks about employing “propaganda assets to refute” critics. In other words, the creators of the memo are conspiring.
Second, in the late 70’
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Yes they did. There needs to be a museum to keep this stuff in because there is an actual memo from the CIA to media instructing them to use the term to discredit the 80% of Americans that didn’t believe the resiculous warrant commission.
We ned a library to keep the REAL stuff in.
If I were president, on my first day, I’d remove all awards given to any member of the Warren commission.
The irony that planes took off from Alan Dulles Airport on 911 is baffling. A psychopath with an airport named after him. I’d also tear down the President Gerald Ford library .
I digress. THE CIA COINED THE TERM CONSPIRACY THEORY. In the future, they will just shoot someone that says something out of line,
The term goes back to the 1870’s but it was during the 60’s after the JFK assasination and the moon landing that the term began to be used in a negative way, primarily through the entertainment industry. It has been known that the CIA has direct ties to both the media and the entertainment industry and often uses them to propagate and promote world views that socially engineer opinion among the general population. It is for this reason, along with the fact that JFK was going to disband the CIA that many believe that the term was promoted in a negative way to quell growing suspicion. So to answer your question the term wasnt invented by the CIA but instead used by them in a project known as project mockingbird.
