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young," he said. "In the past twenty years I've had the same feeling about several people and each time I've had it, they died. Of

course, I could be wrong this time."

The young man, who was afraid of being drafted and sent to Vietnam, started to cry.

(James Park Sloan, Jerzy Kosinski: A Biography, Dutton, United States, 1996, p. 287)

Fourth character-revealing incident - how Kosinski exposed Yale students to the intellectual contributions

of the Neo Charles Mansonists.

As part of the class, the Yale undergraduates were required to write about their own deaths. To stimulate their thinking, Kosinski

brought in members of the Process Church of the Final Judgement - a group of Satanists who arrived dressed in gray. They

saw themselves as having some sort of tenuous link with Charles Manson's Helter-Skelter family. Proselytizing in Kosinski's Yale

classroom, they urged the students to "accept and embrace evil within themselves." This notion was uncomfortably close to

Kosinski's own claim to Krystyna Iwaszkiewicz that he could achieve revenge upon his enemies because of a pact with the Devil

[...]. The classroom episode took an unexpected turn when a young Jewish student went off with the Satanists, prompting an

exchange with the student's parents over the pedagogical appropriateness of this classroom activity.

(James Park Sloan, Jerzy Kosinski: A Biography, Dutton, United States, 1996, pp. 300-301)

Fifth character-revealing incident - how Kosinski entertained his dining partners.

One day, when the three couples had pla

accomplice in a prank. Kosinski would hide in his apartment on Seventy-ninth Street, and the others would look for him. They

came, looked, failed to find, and began to grow cross; Sadri was ready for di

finally unfolded himself from behind the cabinets in his darkroom.

(James Park Sloan, Jerzy Kosinski: A Biography, Dutton, United States, 1996, p. 262)

Sixth character-revealing incident - what Kosinski did to Marian Javits's dog - from which some might

conclude that Jerzy Kosinski was not only the kind of man that you would not leave alone with your

daughter, and not only the kind of man that you would not leave alone with your son - he was the kind of

man that you would not leave alone with your dog.

Marian Javits, in particular, was charmed by him, and she continued to be his friend even after his stories and eccentricities had

become familiar - this despite the fact that one of his eccentricities had to do with her dog. Lying in bed recovering from a leg

injury received while riding, she was startled when her dog ran furiously across the room, dripping urine. A moment later Kosinski

appeared at the door. Later a friend told her that Kosinski had been observed abusing the dog in a way that would engender such

behavior.

(James Park Sloan, Jerzy Kosinski: A Biography, Dutton, United States, 1996, p. 263)

HOME DISINFORMATION 60 MINUTES 866 hits since 9May98

T.R. Reid Washington Post 9May98 60 Minutes gullibility

The program featured dramatic footage of a drug "mule" said to be smuggling several

million dollars' worth of heroin to London for Colombia's Cali drug cartel. The Guardian

reported, though, that the "mule" actually carried no drugs, that his trip to London was

paid for by the documentary's producers, and that many of the report's dramatic

moments were faked.

The instance of 60 Minutes credulity documented in the T.R. Reid Washington Post

article below occasions the following reflections, some of which demonstrate the

relevance of the article to Ukrainain affairs:

Successful Criminals Do Not Make Public Confessions. The 60 Minutes drug

smuggling broadcast whose title I will assume was The Mule shows individuals who

cooperate in a documentary exposing their own highly lucrative criminal activities

which is an incongruity. Successful criminals do not make public disclosure of their





crimes because this hastens their getting caught. I have discussed this self-evident

principle at length in Impossibilities of a TV documentary - whose focus is an ABC

television Prime Time documentary titled Girls for Sale featuring this same incongruity

of successful criminals disclosing their crimes, in this case the crime of employing

Slavic girls as sex slaves in Israel. One may say, then, that television news

sometimes demonstrates almost childlike insensitivity to incongruity, which is the same

as saying that it demonstrates almost childlike credulity, and that one incongruity

that it appears particularly insensitive to is that of successful criminals making

public confession of their crimes.

Television News Overlooks Many Diverse Incongruities. The earlier 60 Minutes

broadcast The Ugly Face of Freedom is similar in that it was loaded with palpable

incongruities, though not the incongruity of criminals publicly confessing their

crimes. For example, while host Morley Safer is describing a pogrom which was supposed

to have taken place in Ukraine in July of 1941, the scene being shown is of bodies

lying on the ground in snow. Multiply this sort of incongruity a hundredfold - I do

not exaggerate - and you create the 60 Minutes broadcast The Ugly Face of Freedom.

The explanation may be different each time. In each case, some explanation of

such incongruities is called for, and in each case the explanation may be different.

In the case of the 60 Minutes story The Mule, the explanation seems to be that a

fraudulent story advanced the career of a documentary filmmaker. In the case of the

ABC TV Prime Time story Girls for Sale, my speculation is that the story was true and

that it advanced Israeli interests. And in the case of the 60 Minutes story The Ugly

Face of Freedom, it is evident that the story was false, my speculation being again

that it advanced Israeli interests.

North American News May be Particularly Susceptible to Corruption. We have

three reasons for suspecting this, two of them coming from Reid's Washington Post

article below: (i) Reid describes London journalism as "furiously competitive" where "a

dozen newspapers and four TV networks regularly investigate - and savage - one

another's reporting" and contrasts this with the United States where "newspapers and TV

networks generally don't go on the attack against the other guy's story." (ii) The

British government's Independent Commission requires TV news to demonstrate "a respect

for truth," whereas in the United States, the accuracy of news reporting is not subject

to any official review. (iii) We see Israel Shahak repeatedly offering the observation

that North American news shows a unique degree of submission to Jewish control, as for

example in the following statement:

The bulk of the organized US Jewish community is totalitarian,

chauvinistic and militaristic in its views. This fact remains

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apparent to some Israeli Jews. As long as organized US Jewry remained

united, its control over the media and its political power remained

unchallenged. (Israel Shahak, Open Secrets: Israeli Nuclear and

Foreign Policies, Pluto Press, London and Chicago, 1997, p. 139).

CBS News Does Not Investigate Itself. Although an admission from 60 Minutes seems

imminent that its story of The Mule was fraudulent, CBS did not discover this fraud,