March 20, 2011

• PsyOps Outline

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  PsyOps involves every commander from the top down - with intelligence and counterintelligence training.

  Standing Orders -> "Exploit the adversary’s psychological weaknesses to create confusion, fear, uncertainty, and thereby lowering the opposition’s morale and the will to fight. Encourage popular discontent with the opposition’s leadership and by combining persuasion with a credible threat, degrade an adversary’s ability to conduct or sustain military operations. Also confuse, disrupt and protract the adversary’s decision-making process, undermining command and control. All military commanders are responsible for it. Each service is to develop, employ, equip and train PSYOP as a mission essential task." ¹

   * Hogan's Heroes develops around a WWII German prisoner-of-war camp behind enemy lines, called Stalog 13. The camp is an underground distribution network, controlled by American and British Axis Command right under the noses of the Gastopol. (No escape has ever occurred in this stalog behind enemy lines). They fight a non-violent war with non-lethal weaponry - unless they find themselves 'backed against a wall with no choice but use force' situation. The series ran for ten (10) seasons until the war's end after three years confinement. The safety aspect of not bombing a POW camp was their ace in the hole. The series focused on documentation of fact such as the Dickin Animal Bravery awards, Hitler conspiracies, Nazi rocket programs, atomic research, etc. up to the end of the second world war. Most Excellent portrayal of survival. ²

  * This is one of the best examples of a military psychological operation (PsyOps) available to the public.

  Attributes of Prisoner of War (POW) PsyOps
  

  1. Establishes a 'no-fly zone'.

  2. PsyOps detrimental to the war's end.

  3. Re-enforces the Geneva Convention (WWI) outlined for prisoners of war.

  4. No successful escape policy enforced.

  5. Liason with the guard dogs, Sargeant of the Guard and camp secretary.

  6. Infiltrate, take-over and inform - using 'coach the enemy' techniques.

  7. Use of team - master of disguise artist, chef, radioman, sabateur, safe cracker, tank driver, etc.

  8. Underground network of access and escape tunnels.

  9. Hidden microphones in Commandant's office.

  10. Control of the incoming & outgoing calls.

  11. Radio contact with the underground, London & US Navy.

  12. Mission - return downed pilots, other prisoners of war and traitors of the Third Reich to safety.

  13. Establish a supply rations distribution network for the regional POW camps.

  Historical Note:

  The Nazi Gastopol and SS were used to established the methodologies of Interpol and the CIA after the war's end..

   Sources:

  1. PsyOp Operations AF Manual (JP 3-53)

  2. YouTube > Hogan's Heroes episode “Pizza Parlor”, Season two. (Desileu, Bing Crosby, Paramount, Viacom and CBS productions.)

  3. British Fantasy Pics

  Additional Readings:

  ♣  "Future War - Non-lethal Weapons of the Twenty-first Century" by Doc J. B. Alexander, 1999

   

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