Psywar campaign against NPA instigated by CIA
The Special Affairs Group of the AFP under the baton of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is currently focused on an aggressive psywar and smear campaign against the NPA. The smear campaign is centered on conjuring up the specter of the counter-intelligence operations hysteria within the revolutionary movement in the last half of the 1980s, even if its ringleaders, who include the masterminds of "Operation Missing Link" (OPML) in Southern Tagalog and "Kampanyang Ahos" (Kahos) in Mindanao, are now being coddled by the government. Their principal aides in the psywar campaign are the very ringleaders of the anti-infiltration hysteria who have refused to rectify themselves and have instead turned traitor to the revolution, their paid hacks in the mass media and US-funded NGOs.
The enemy aims to destroy the integrity of the Party and NPA to lay the ground for US plans to wage direct aggression against the revolutionary movement in the Philippines. They would like to portray the NPA as a terrorist group that deserves to be targeted by their "war against terrorism".
The enemy campaign involves the creation of fictitious accounts and the distortion of facts. They transfer the skeletal remains of unidentified persons and "exhume" them from their new burial grounds before the mass media. The masterminds of the anti-infiltration hysteria have already been expelled, but the enemy continues to fuel lies that such practices continue within the revolutionary movement. Even recent cases where the AFP and PNP summarily execute ("salvages") and bury their victims are blamed on the revolutionary movement.
In the last week of March, the Southern Luzon Command of the AFP supposedly discovered 58 skeletal remains and six cadavers buried side by side in Candelaria, Quezon. [The six freshly buried bodies are likely those of victims of recent AFP "salvaging".] The skeletal remains were even blessed in a ceremony and provided "decent burials". To complete the drama, the AFP invited a number of surrenderees and traitors to the revolutionary movement and erected a "Monument to Victims of the NPA" - a colossal irony in the face of the AFP and PNP's disrespect for, and desecration of, the remains of their salvage victims.
Philippine Army spokesman Lt. Col. Jose Mabanta, has woven the fantastic tale that in the past five years, they were able to exhume more than 200 skeletal remains allegedly belonging to victims of NPA assassinations in the 1980s. This is supposed to be exclusive of 4,000 NPA members executed in the past decade. The disappearance since February of six activists from Central Luzon believed to have been abducted by the military is being maliciously blamed on the revolutionary movement by the AFP. Also part of the CIA's psywar campaign is the publication of the book To Suffer Thy Comrades in the last quarter of 2001 containing distorted accounts on OPML. Ricardo Reyes and Nathan Quimpo, principal ringleaders of Kahos in Mindanao who refused to rectify and eventually turned traitor to the movement, and who are now being coddled by the enemy, served as advisers in the writing of the book. Also involved in the project is Joel Rocamora, a CIA agent.
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