no German secret was acknowledged publicly unless that secret
fell into the hands of more than one of the four occupying
powers, (USA, Soviet Union, Great Britain, France). He says:
"In fact, of the numerous revolutionary "new weapons" that
the Germans developed in that period, we know only thosefortunately, they comprise the majority-that fell into the
hands of all, or at least more than one, of the four
occupying powers"(1).
These governments seem to keep secrets for the sake of keeping
secrets. In any event, they operate on a "need to know" basis in
dispensing these secrets. We simply have no need to know in
their eyes.
The differences between the media and the government itself are
becoming more and more blurred. Politicians rely of instant
polls, conducted the night before by the media, to plot today's
public policy. The results of these polls are whatever the media
says they are. In the meantime, the media itself is doing
everything it can through "news", through entertainment and
through movies to influence the results of those polls. The
media and the government are so closely intertwined that for all
practical purposes they can be considered as one. The C.I.A.
spends a large portion of its budget in an effort to frame public
discussion on issues it deems sensitive. The point here is that
"truth" is not the goal of the government and in accomplishing
their ends they use the methods of the mass media if they are not
in partnership with the mass media itself.
For almost sixty years this government/media has been telling us
through their propaganda machine, "Hollywood", that all t