The Comptroller General of the U.S. stoped COVERT propaganda actions under Reagan presidency by the DoS: --- Fritz, Keefer & Nyhan have written: "In 1983, Reagan created a so-called 'public diplomacy' program to build support for anti-Communists policies in Latin America that was shaped by the CIA... and coordinated by a former CIA propaganda specialist. The effort was concentrated in the Department of State (DoS) 's Latin American Office of Public Diplomacy. Employing six Army specialists in psychological warfare, it planted fictitious leaks allegedly from U.S. intelligence with the media and placed op-eds written by government staff under the names of outside experts and political figures. In 1987, the office was closed after the Comptroller General found that some of its actions constituted 'prohibited, COVERT propaganda activities' that used DoS funding for 'publicity or propaganda efforts' NOT AUTHORIZED BY CONGRESS.

Fritz, Keefer & Nyhan, ALL THE PRESIDENT'S SPIN. George W. Bush, the Media and the Truth, Touchstone, Simon & Schuster, NY, 2004. They took the antecedent from: Peterson, Scott, "In war, some facts less factual", Christian Science Monitor, September 6, 2002; Parry, Robert, FOOLING AMERICA, (New York: William Monroe and Company, Inc., 1992), 217; Letter from the Comptroller General of the U.S. to representatives Jack Brooks and Dante B. Powell, September 30, 1987, published on National Security Archive website, March 2, 2001.

Source author: Eric Suzán Reed esuzan@sre.gob.mx