a letter from someone which needs DECONSTRUCTING

[mbuttons]

on 10/23/2001 6:08 PM, Michael Eisenstadt at michaele@ando.pair.com wrote:

> Bernays, the nephew of Sigmund Freud was an alter cacker who
> invented public relations to sell consumer goods such as
> soap and cigarettes. His heyday was in the teens and 1920s
> so he had nothing to do with CIA in Guatemala in the 1960s
> as he was retired by then. He was born in 1891.


I have no information about a Guatemala campaign, but Bernays was hardly
retired in the 1960's. He seemed aged, but alive and professionally active
when he spoke to Miami's public relations society in the mid-1980's.

In reflecting on WWI, Bernays wrote ...

"The most fantastic atrocity stories were believed. After the war there was
widespread disillusion with and reaction against propaganda. The American
people resented their own wartime gullibility.

"... Words may win your war and lose your peace. In public relations, as in
all other pursuits, actions speak louder than words."

m-a

-- Mary Ann Wilson
mbuttons@gate.net