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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
u
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,