The History of Terrorism
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Project ComCom (Communist Communications)
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1861-Today MIT
1938 The War of the Worlds (radio drama)
1947-1991 The Cold War
1947-Today CIA AKA "The Company" (Founded on 9-18-1947)
1958-1972 Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)
Anti-communism in the United States
Computer simulation
Counterinsurgency (COIN)
Ithiel de Sola Pool
Studies on News
Surveillance databases
The Simulmatics Corporation
United States government propaganda organizations
Children
"'Most of the things of a positive character that are happening in the Soviet Union today are explainable only in terms of the influence of the West, for which the most important single channel is radio, Pool said in a speech explaining the results of...
"At the same time Simulmatics contractors gathered data in Vietnam's sweltering jungles, Pool's company worked on another ARPA initiative called Project ComCom, shor for 'Communist Communications.'"
"But Pool was never satisfied with ComCom's performance."
"Run out of Pool's home base at MIT, ComCom was an ambitious attempt to build a computer simulation of the internal communications system of the Soviet Union."
"The objective was to study the effects that foreign news and radio broadcasts were having on Soviet society as well as to model and predict the kind of reaction a particular broadast-say, a presidential speech or a breaking new program-would have on...
"Unsurprisingly, Pool's models showed that covert CIA attempts to influence the Soviet Union by beaming radio propaganda were having a big effect, and that these efforts needed to be stepped up."