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In addition, this is very interesting article on WikiLeaks, and why it
matters:
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<a
href="http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/03/27/wikileaks/index.html">http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/03/27/wikileaks/index.html</a><br>
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Best,<br>
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Erik<br>
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On 3/30/10 12:31 PM, Geert Lovink wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:70D5C3BE-6F27-499E-8469-0A34BC2BB48A@xs4all.nl"
type="cite">(unfortunately we did not pay attention to wikileaks
during the last weekend in amsterdam. we discussed it and might do
something with it for the third planned event in taipei, in january
2011. /geert)
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WikiLeaks 26. Mar. 2010:
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CIA report into shoring up Afghan war support in Western Europe, 11
March, 2010
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://file.wikileaks.org/file/cia-afghanistan.pdf">http://file.wikileaks.org/file/cia-afghanistan.pdf</a>
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This classified CIA analysis from March, outlines possible
PR-strategies to shore up public
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support in Germany and France for a continued war in Afghanistan. After
the dutch
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government fell on the issue of dutch troops in Afghanistan last month,
the CIA became
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worried that similar events could happen in the countries that post the
third and fourth largest
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troop contingents to the ISAF-mission. The proposed PR strategies focus
on pressure points
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that have been identified within these countries. For France it is the
sympathy of the public for
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Afghan refugees and women. For Germany it is the fear of the
consequences of defeat
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(drugs, more refugees, terrorism) as well as for Germany's standing in
the NATO. The memo
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is an recipe for the targeted manipulation of public opinion in two
NATO ally countries, written
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by the CIA. It is classified as Confidential / No Foreign Nationals.
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