Bureau of Insurgent Records: some deep state history

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  • January 17, 2020 at 9:10 pm #110529
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    Some ‘deep state’ history 🙂

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    How a Young Army Officer Built America’s Empire of Paranoia From 85,000 Index Cards
    The amazing tale of Captain Ralph Van Deman, Commie hunter.
    Adam HochschildJanuary/February 2018 Issue

    Link:https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/01/how-a-young-army-officer-built-americas-empire-of-paranoia-with-torture-surveillance-and-85000-index-cards/

    “….When he took up a new post in Manila in February that year, the lanky 35-year-old polymath at last discovered his mĂ©tier, an endeavor that would remain an obsession for the rest of his life. The conflict in the Philippines, now largely forgotten, was a counterguerrilla war, and for that, the US military needed not battleships and fortresses, but intelligence information. In an old Spanish military building in a walled quarter of the city, Van Deman was placed in charge of the Bureau of Insurgent Records—a post that would turn him into the founding father of American surveillance. His assiduous spying in war and peace would span half a century and three continents, and presage a vengeful nastiness eerily familiar to us today: racial stereotyping, the smearing of political enemies with fact-free rumor, and charges that those who opposed US government policy were unpatriotic or treasonous. Van Deman’s career would culminate in helping a particularly unscrupulous future president on his path toward the White House.

    In Manila, the American occupation authorities were deeply alarmed that so many Filipinos wanted independence. Van Deman put the Army’s intelligence operation into high gear, ordering 450 officers throughout the archipelago to…see link..”

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