Media / The regime's secret weapons. Chronicle by Pablo Seguel

By Pablo Seguel «Although self-taught, Alvaro Puga considered himself an expert in propaganda and communications. Also in subliminal campaigns and psychological operations, a weapon that emerged during the Cold War, systematized by French counter-subversive warfare doctrine, and exported to the world by United States Special Warfare schools. Low-altitude plane flights to intimidate the populations of Santiago, staged attacks attributed to left-wing groups, infiltrators, and fake news. That is what the psychological action plan proposed to discredit one of the mass demonstrations against the dictatorship is about.».

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