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Hints of its origin are tucked into frames as they flash by: PSYWAR.

This is plausible, even probable, because Lansdale was using every psywar technique in his repertoire to encourage emigration to the South and many of them were even more fanciful and lurid than the chopstick torture.

Part of the noise is psywar to put terrorist wannabes on notice, part is Washington's habitual CYA--cover your you-know-what.

Says one of JUSPAO'S "psywar" adepts: "We're the world's worst litterbugs."

Begged, borrowed and sometimes stolen outright from the Communists, the psywar ploys cut in many directions.