In the 1980s, Andrew Eiva, a Republican and anti-Communist activist, led the successful grassroots campaign to force the CIA to arm the Afghan mujahedin with Stinger missiles. He exposed the CIA’s disinformation and proved its policy was failing.

He won the war of facts. So, the bureaucratic resistance started a new war: a war of ad hominem.

In Chapter 10 of Normal Channels: Blocked or Compromised, I deconstruct the playbook of character assassination. The primary bomb was a confidential memo circulated in Washington, accusing Eiva of being a traitor.

This memo is a case study in how to destroy a messenger. It strategically blends “verifiable half-truths” (a “cloudy” army discharge) with “wild fabrications” (transporting “Soviet codebooks”) to create a “smoke screen” of suspicion.

The memo’s “kill shot”? A claim that British MI6 was monitoring Eiva as a “suspected contact man for the East German Intelligence Service.”

In the full chapter, I analyze this memo’s “three-phase” tactical blueprint—a blueprint of “unconscious orthodoxy” and “attacking the messenger” that I would see deployed again, years later, against me in Israel.

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