his document was obtained by WikiLeaks
from the United States Congressional Research Service. The CRS is a
Congressional “think tank” with a staff of around 700. Reports are
commissioned by members of Congress on topics relevant to current
political events. Despite CRS costs to the tax payer of over $100M a
year, its electronic archives are, as a matter of policy, not made
available to the public. Individual members of Congress will release
specific CRS reports if they believe it to assist them politically, but
CRS archives as a whole are firewalled from public access. This report
was obtained by WikiLeaks staff from CRS computers accessible only from Congressional offices.
A report from April 12, 2007, was “Prepared primarily for congressional staff members called upon to help prepare speeches for Members,” and “provides basic guidance on obtaining speech material, using it to prepare a speech draft, and presentation.”,
as we read in the abstract. However, it seems that it is more than
that. In the report we can find specific techniques aiming even to “change an audience’s impressions, opinions, or most ambitiously, their convictions.”
Other parts simulate propaganda brainwash, like the one below:
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