0:00Richard Greaser The idea of using media as a method of influence had long interested the intelligence agencies. With the CIA identifying movies specifically as powerful instruments of warfare in a 1943 memo titled, the motion picture as a weapon of psychological warfare. The stated objective of the formally

0:22Richard Greaser classified document is to, quote, exploit the potentialities of the motion picture

0:37Rod Palmer disposal of The United States. It can serve many diversified functions. Motion pictures are a potent force in attitude formation, and attitudes are the basis of action and morale. Motion pictures can stimulate or inhibit action. Motion pictures are important in all the major types of psychological warfare. Directly in general propaganda, indirectly,

0:59Rod Palmer in connection with certain aspects of subversive, economic, and diplomatic propaganda activities. Motion pictures can be employed on most of the major psychological fronts. They can be aimed at the people of countries allied to The United States, of the countries occupied by The United States or her allies, or countries neutral to The United States to inform and to create attitudes favorable to The United States and unfavorable to the enemy.

1:29Richard Greaser The memo also discusses the, quote, suppression of motion pictures of enemy origin judged to have potentially subversive influence, and makes note of the military national security strength of having an influential US motion picture industry. The products of which have achieved a worldwide popularity. Domestically, even the White House began to support movies, not just news outlets, like it was doing overseas through Voice of America broadcast, which drummed up support for its geopolitical

1:59Richard Greaser agenda.

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5:52Richard Greaser Folks, welcome back to the hero series. I apologize on this taking, so long. I've I've had a ton going on, and I'm recording this after the, the bracket drop for Maxi Madness 2026. And,

6:11Richard Greaser I just don't think I'm gonna be able to get this out for another week if I don't record right now, so I'm gonna wing it. I had another, I don't know, like, hour and a half recording, which I scrapped because I just didn't like it. I listened to it through a couple times, and, I felt like I needed something different. But, the clip at the beginning of the episode is from the Sean Ryan

6:38Richard Greaser YouTube channel. It's called, like, Ironclad or something like that. He is an interesting guy, ex, you know, government guy or military guy that is doing a series on psy ops, which in my opinion is kinda borderline psy ops, but it is also enlightening to hear the perspective. And, you know, one one of the things that people,

7:10Richard Greaser empower understand is the importance of forming public perception because it like, in that video, it's it it said people's opinions on the world around them and about themselves informs the way they behave and the way that they act.

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