    Operation Just Cause?  this is another propaganda name, applied to
    the U.S. invasion of Panama to take out that country's leader, General
    Noreiga, the CIA's erstwhile partner in drug smuggling.  Apparently the
    General had made someone mad -- how else to account for the massive in-
    vasion of this tiny tourist country?  To wit:  "A superpower whipped the
    poop out of 10 percent of the police force of a Third World nation.  You
    are supposed to be able to do that.  It was done well, and I credit those
    who did it.  But it is important that we draw the right lessons from it"
    according to an anonymous US Marine. [7]

    Our Commander-in-Chief had another point of view:  "...the roll call of
    glory, the roster of great American campaigns -- Yorktown, Gettysburg,
    Normandy, and now Panama."
    --President George Bush, March 1990 [8]

    MILITARY PSYOPS AGAINST CIVILIANS

    In a phone call to the USAF Special Operations Command Public Affairs
    Office, I questioned the legitimacy of using these subliminal broadcasts
    against civilian populations. [9]

    [Judy Wall's article on Silent Sound for details.]

    I was told that it was all perfectly legal, having been approved by the
    U.S. Congress (!).  It may be okay by Congress, but I sincerely doubt that
    it would be approved by the recipient populations.

    That conversation also elicited more information concerning the Commando
    Solo units.  For instance, the Air National Guard
    of the individual states in the U.S. can also operate
    Commando Solo aircraft, should the Governor of a state
    request assistance.  That means the PsyOps mind-control
    technology can be directed against
    U.S. citizens.

    The Commando Solo aircraft have participated in the following missions--
    possibly more, as the early missions of Volant Solo 1 were not known to
    this spokesperson:

    - Operation Urgent Fury (Grenada, Oct-Nov 1983, Jan-Jun 1985)
    - Operation Just Cause (Panama, late December 1989)
    - Operation Desert Shield (Kuwait, Iraq, from August 1990)
    - Operation Desert Storm (Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Iraq, 1991)
    - Operation Uphold Democracy (Haiti, 1994-1995)
    - Operation Joint Guard (Part of a UN oepration in
      Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1995)
    - Operation Desert Thunder (part of a UN operation in Iraq)
    - Operation Desert Fox (Iraq, 2 to 3 days in December 1998)

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