"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false" is a quote attributted to Ex CIA Director Willam Casey. Casey, a lawyer turned agent, passed the bar and during World War II worked for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS)—the predecessor to the CIA—where he became head of its Secret Intelligence Branch in Europe. He worked in governement for many years and was selected as Ronald Reagans Campaign Manager for his successful bid for the presidency of the United States. He was placed in the position of the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency where Casey would fly secretly to Rome undercover to the Vatican to report on the cold war. This is all "Order of the Dragon/Order of the Golden Fleece" content that we can discuss at a later date.
With all the disinformation going around in the media one has to wonder if this wasn't the end game of the CIA. So my question was : Did CIA Director William Casey really say it?
Barbara Honegger, studied at Stanford University Answered this on Nov 25 2014 on the site Quora. These are her words:
"I am the source for this quote, which was indeed said by CIA Director William Casey at an early February 1981 meeting of the newly elected President Reagan with his new cabinet secretaries to report to him on what they had learned about their agencies in the first couple of weeks of the administration.
The meeting was in the Roosevelt Room in the West Wing of the White House, not far from the Cabinet Room. I was present at the meeting as Assistant to the chief domestic policy adviser to the President. Casey first told Reagan that he had been astonished to discover that over 80 percent of the 'intelligence' that the analysis side of the CIA produced was based on open public sources like newspapers and magazines.
As he did to all the other secretaries of their departments and agencies, Reagan asked what he saw as his goal as director for the CIA, to which he replied with this quote, which I recorded in my notes of the meeting as he said it. Shortly thereafter I told Senior White House correspondent Sarah McClendon, who was a close friend and colleague, who in turn made it public. Barbara Honegger bshonegg@gmail.com"
So we enter today where a majority of the information you are seeing or reading has an inherent bias to said information. Where internet famous, or trying to be famous, talking heads can put out outright false information, doctoring images, words and more, and be taken seriously without real scritinization. Where outright lies are treasured more than uncommon truths. This is todays world and what a sad world it has become.