OPERATION MOCKINGBIRD
- ParrisVstefanow
- Mar 18
- 30 min read
Late 40s Operation MOCKINGBIRD; The CIA begins recruiting American news organizations and journalists to become spies and disseminators of propaganda.
The effort is headed by Frank Wisner, Allan Dulles, Richard Helms and Philip Graham.
Graham is publisher of The Washington Post, which becomes a major CIA player.
Eventually, the CIA's media assets will include:
- ABC
- NBC
- CBS
- Time
- Newsweek
- Associated Press
- United Press International
- Reuters
- Hearst Newspapers
- Scripps-Howard
- Copley News Service
- and more
By the CIA's own admission, at least 25 organizations and 400 journalists will become CIA assets.
The CIA's secret activities, covert missions, and connections of control are all done under the pretense and protection of national security with no accountability whatsoever, at least in their minds.
Considering the public is held accountable for everything we think, say, and do there is something seriously wrong with this picture.
The CIA is the President's secret army, who have been and continue to be conveniently above the law with unlimited power and authority, to conduct a reign of terror around the globe.
The "old boy network" of socializing, talking shop, and tapping each other for favors outside the halls of government made it inevitable that the CIA and Corporate America would become allies, thus the systematic infiltration and takeover of the media.
Under the guise of 'American' objectives and lack of congressional oversight, the CIA accomplish their exploits by using every trick in the book (and they know quite a few) that they actually teach in the notorious "School of the Americas", nicknamed,
the "School of Dictators" and "School of Assassins" by critics.
The Association for Responsible Dissent estimates that 6 million people had died by 1987 as a result of CIA covert operations, called an "American Holocaust" by former State Department official William Blum.
In 1948, the CIA recreated its covert action wing called the Office of Policy Coordination with Wall Street lawyer Frank Wisner as its first director.
Another early elitist who served as Director of the CIA from 1953 to 1961 was Allen Dulles, a senior partner at the Wall Street firm of Sullivan and Cromwell, which represented the Rockefeller empire and other trusts, corporations, and cartels.
Starting in the early days of the Cold War (late 40's), the CIA began a secret project called Operation Mockingbird, with the intent of buying influence behind the scenes at major media outlets and putting reporters on the CIA payroll, which has proven to be a stunning ongoing success.
The CIA effort to recruit American news organizations and journalists to become spies and disseminators of propaganda, was headed up by, Frank Wisner, Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, and Philip Graham (publisher of The Washington Post).
Wisner had taken Graham under his wing to direct the program code-named Operation Mockingbird and both have presumably committed suicide.
Media assets will eventually include:
- ABC
- NBC
- CBS
- Time
- Newsweek
- Associated Press
- United Press
- International (UPI)
- Reuters
- Hearst Newspapers
- Scripps-Howard
- Copley News Service, etc
........ and 400 journalists, who have secretly carried out assignments according to documents on file at CIA headquarters, from intelligence-gathering to serving as go-betweens.
The CIA had infiltrated the nation's businesses, media, and universities with tens of thousands of on-call operatives by the 1950's.
CIA Director Dulles had staffed the CIA almost exclusively with Ivy League graduates, especially from Yale with figures like George Herbert Walker Bush from the "Skull and Crossbones" Society.
Many Americans still insist or persist in believing that we have a free press, while getting most of their news from state-controlled television, under the misconception that reporters are meant to serve the public.
Reporters are paid employees and serve the media owners, who usually cower when challenged by advertisers or major government figures.
Robert Parry reported the first breaking stories about Iran-Contra for Associated Press that were largely ignored by the press and congress, then moving to Newsweek he witnessed a retraction of a true story for political reasons.
In 'Fooling America - A Talk by Robert Parry' he said;
....... "The people who succeeded and did well were those who didn't stand up, who didn't write the big stories, who looked the other way when history was happening in front of them, and went along either consciously or just by cowardice with the deception of the American people."
Major networks are primarily controlled by giant corporations that are obligated by law, to put the profits of their investors ahead of all other considerations which are often in conflict with the practice of responsible journalism.
There were around 50 corporations a couple of decades ago, which was considered monopolistic by many and yet today, these companies have become larger and fewer in number as the biggest ones absorb their rivals.
This concentration of ownership and power reduces the diversity of media voices, as news falls into the hands of large conglomerates with holdings in many industries that interferes in newsgathering, because of conflicts of interest.
Mockingbird was an immense financial undertaking with funds flowing from the CIA largely through the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) founded by Tom Braden with Pat Buchanan of CNN's Crossfire.
Media corporations share members of the board of directors with a variety of other large corporations including banks, investment companies, oil companies, health care, pharmaceutical, and technology companies.
Until the 1980's, media systems were generally domestically owned, regulated, and national in scope.
However, pressure from the IMF, World Bank, and US government to deregulate and privatize, the media, communication, and new technology resulted in a global commercial media system dominated by a small number of super-powerful transnational media corporations (mostly US based), working to advance the cause of global markets and the CIA agenda.
The first tier of the nine giant firms that dominate the world were:
- Time Warner/AOL,
- Disney/ABC,
- Bertelsmann
- Viacom/CBS
- Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation/Fox
- General Electric/NBC
- Sony
- Universal/Seagram
Tele-Communications
Inc. or TCI and AT&T
This is just the head of the octopus which has its second and third tier tentacles working together in unison or feigned division.
This would include:
- The Washington Post/Newsweek
- The New York Times/Weekly Standard
- Tribune Co.
- US News
- Gannett/USA Today
- Dow Jones/Wall Street Journal
- Washington Times
- Knight-Ridder
- etc etc
There are two articles called "A Timeline of CIA Atrocities" and "The Origins of the Overclass" by Steve Kangas that are very informative although from a more liberal perspective.
Steve will not be writing anymore articles as he is no longer with us, having unfortunately met his untimely death that was 'apparently' from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
If you read about him on his web page that is still available, you will see that he did not seem like a person who was suffering from deep depression.
Journalists Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward broke the stories on Watergate (late 70's) in the Washington Post, having gained access to what the CIA was trying to keep from congress about its program of using journalists at home and abroad, in deliberate propaganda campaigns.
It was later revealed that Woodward was a Naval intelligence briefer to the White House and knew many insiders including General Alexander Haig.
A high-level source told Bernstein,
"One journalist is worth twenty agents."
CFR/Trilateralist Katharine Graham, in a 1988 speech given to senior CIA employees at Agency headquarters said,
"We live in a dirty and dangerous world.
There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't.
I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows."
Maybe that's another reason why folks get the impression that a suspicious agenda lurks behind the headlines.
Ralph McGehee was a CIA agent for 25 years, mainly in South-East Asia where he witnessed bombing and napalming of villages, which caused him to examine closely what the CIA was really all about.
Ralph has been harassed by the CIA and FBI, involving bodily injury, and his CIABASE website was shut down back in Spring of 2000.
He concluded that the CIA is not now nor has it ever been a central intelligence agency but rather the covert action arm of the President's foreign policy advisors, of which disinformation is a large part of its responsibility and the American people are the primary target of its mind control and endless lies.
One of the primary reasons John F. Kennedy was assassinated had to do with the fact he dared to interfere in the framework of their power.
Kennedy was intent on exercising his ELECTED powers and not allowing them to be usurped by power-crazed individuals in the intelligence community;
....... threatening to,
"splinter the CIA in a thousand pieces and scatter it to the wind."
There were four things that filled the CIA with rage and sealed his fate.
JFK fired Allen Dulles, was in the process of founding a panel to investigate the CIA's numerous crimes, put a damper on the breadth and scope of the CIA, and limited their ability to act under National Security Memoranda.
There is such an overwhelming amount of information pertaining to the CIA that it is impossible to cover it all in one book, much less an article.
Personally, I have come to the conclusion that the media is not only influenced by the CIA but the media is actually a product of the CIA.
Many Americans think of their supposedly free press as a watchdog on government, mainly because the press itself shamelessly promotes that myth.
One of the first tenets for the control of a population is to control all sources of information the population receives and mostly because of the pervasive CIA and Operation Mockingbird;
....... the mainstream American Press is a controlled multi-national corporate/government megaphone.
They are up to their eyeballs in dirty deeds and there will never be an end to the corruption that prevails unless the CIA is abolished.
Otherwise, the CIA will just keep on using their tricks of:
- propaganda
- stuffed ballot boxes
- purchased elections
- extortion
- blackmail
- drug trafficking
- sexual intrigue
- kidnapping
- beating
- torture
- intimidation
- economic sabotage
- false-flags
- psy-ops
- false stories about opponents in the local media
- infiltration and disruption of opposing political parties
- demolition and evacuation procedures
- death squads
- and politically motivated assassinations
The CIA is the epitome of organized crime run amuck.
Who Controls the Media?
Soulless corporations do, of course.
Corporations with grinning, double-breasted executives, interlocking directorates, labor squabbles and flying capital.
- Dow
- General Electric
- Coca-Cola
- Disney
Newspapers should have mastheads that mirror the world:
The Westinghouse Evening Scimitar, The Atlantic-Richfield Intelligentser
It is beginning to dawn on a growing number of armchair ombudsmen that the public print reports news from a parallel universe - one that has never heard of politically-motivated assassinations, CIA-Mafia banking thefts, mind control, death squads or even federal agencies with secret budgets fattened by cocaine sales - a place overrun by lone gunmen, where the CIA and Mafia are usually on their best behavior.
In this idyllic land, the most serious infraction an official can commit - is a the employment of a domestic servant with (shudder) no residency status.
This unlikely land of enchantment is the creation of MOCKINGBIRD.
It was conceived in the late 1940s, the most frigid period of the cold war, when the CIA began a systematic infiltration of the corporate media, a process that often included direct takeover of major news outlets.
In this period, the American intelligence services competed with communist activists abroad to influence European labor unions.
With or without the cooperation of local governments, Frank Wisner, an undercover State Department official assigned to the Foreign Service, rounded up students abroad to enter the cold war underground of covert operations on behalf of his Office of Policy Coordination.
Philip Graham, a graduate of the Army Intelligence School in Harrisburg, PA, then publisher of the Washington Post was taken under Wisner's wing to direct the program code-named Operation MOCKINGBIRD.
"By the early 1950s," writes former Village Voice reporter Deborah Davis in Katharine the Great, "Wisner 'owned' respected members of the New York Times, Newsweek, CBS and other communications vehicles, plus stringers, four to six hundred in all, according to a former CIA analyst."
The network was overseen by Allen Dulles, a templar for German and American corporations who wanted their points of view represented in the public print.
Early MOCKINGBIRD influenced 25 newspapers and wire agencies consenting to act as organs of CIA propaganda.
Many of these were already run by men with reactionary views, among them:
- William Paley (CBS)
- C.D. Jackson (Fortune)
- Henry Luce (Time)
- Arthur Hays Sulzberger (N.Y. Times)
Activists curious about the workings of MOCKINGBIRD have since been appalled to find in FOIA documents that agents boasting in CIA office memos of their pride in having placed "important assets" inside every major news publication in the country.
It was not until 1982 that the Agency openly admitted that reporters on the CIA payroll have acted as case officers to agents in the field.
"World War III has begun," Henry's Luce's Life declared in March, 1947. "It is in the opening skirmish stage already."
The issue featured an excerpt of a book by James Burnham, who called for the creation of an, "American Empire," "world-dominating in political power, set up at least in part through coercion
....... (probably including war, but certainly the threat of war) and in which one group of people ... would hold more than its equal share of power."
George Seldes, the famed anti-fascist media critic, drew down on Luce in 1947, explaining that:
"although avoiding typical Hitlerian phrases, the same doctrine of a superior people taking over the world and ruling it, began to appear in the press, whereas the organs of Wall Street were much more honest in favoring a doctrine inevitably leading to war if it brought greater commercial markets under the American flag."
On the domestic front, an abiding relationship was struck between the CIA and William Paley, a wartime colonel and the founder of CBS.
A firm believer in "all forms of propaganda" to foster loyalty to the Pentagon, Paley hired CIA agents to work undercover at the behest of his close friend, the busy grey eminence of the nation's media, Allen Dulles.
Paley's designated go-between in his dealings with the CIA was Sig Mickelson, president of CBS News from 1954 to 1961.
The CIA's assimilation of old guard fascists was overseen by the Operations Coordination Board, directed by C.D. Jackson, formerly an executive of Time magazine and Eisenhower's Special Assistant for Cold War Strategy.
In 1954 he was succeeded by Nelson Rockefeller, who quit a year later, disgusted at the administration's political infighting.
Vice President Nixon succeeded Rockefeller as the key cold war strategist.
"Nixon," writes John Loftus, a former attorney for the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations, took "a small boy's delight in the arcane tools of the intelligence craft - the hidden microphones, the 'black' propaganda."
Nixon especially enjoyed his visit to a Virginia training camp to observe Nazis in the "special forces" drilling at covert operations.
One of the fugitives recruited by the American intelligence underground was heroin smuggler Hubert von Bleucher, the son of A German ambassador. Hubert often bragged that that he was trained by the Abwehr, the German military intelligence division, while still a civilian in his twenties.
He served in a recon unit of the German Army until forced out for medical reasons in 1944, according to his wartime records.
He worked briefly as an assistant director for Berlin-Film on a movie entitled One Day;
....... and finished out the war flying with the Luftwaffe, but not to engage the enemy;
....... his mission was the smuggling of Nazi loot out of the country.
His exploits were, in part, the subject of Sayer and Botting's Nazi Gold, an account of the knockover of the Reichs-bank at the end of the war.
In 1948 he flew the coop to Argentina. Posing as a photographer named Huberto von Bleucher Corell, he immediately paid court to Eva Peron, presenting her with an invaluable Gobelin tapestry (a selection from the wealth of artifacts confiscated by the SS from Europe's Jews?).
Hubert then met with Martin Bormann at the Hotel Plaza to deliver German marks worth $80 million. The loot financed the birth of the National Socialist Party in Argentina, among other forms of Nazi revival.
In 1951, Hubert migrated northward and took a job at the Color Corporation of America in Hollywood. He eked out a living writing scripts for the booming movie industry. His voice can be heard on a film set in the Amazon, produced by Walt Disney.
Nine years later he returned to Buenos Aires, then Dusseldorf, West Germany, and established a firm that developed not movie scripts, but anti-chemical warfare agents for the government.
At the Industrie Club in Dusseldorf in 1982, von Bleucher boasted to journalists:
"I am chief shareholder of Pan American Airways. I am the best friend of Howard Hughes".
"The Beach Hotel in Las Vegas is 45 percent financed by me."
"I am thus the biggest financier ever to appear in the Arabian Nights tales dreamed up by these people over their second bottle of brandy."
Mmmm, Not really;
....... as two the biggest financiers to stumble from the drunken dreams of world-moving affluence were, in their time, Moses Annenberg, publisher of The Philadelphia Inquirer, and his son Walter , the CIA/mob-anchored publisher of the TV Guide.
Like most American high-rollers, Annenberg lived a double life. Moses, his father, was a scion of the Capone mob.
Both Moses and Walter were indicted in 1939 for tax evasions totaling many millions of dollars - the biggest case in the history of the Justice Department.
Moses pled guilty and agreed to pay the government $8 million and settle $9 million in assorted tax claims, penalties and interest debts. Moses received a three-year sentence.
He died in Lewisburg Penitentiary.
Walter Annenbeg, the TV Guide magnate, was a lofty Republican.
On the campaign trail in April, 1988, George Bush flew into Los Angeles to woo Reagan's kitchen cabinet.
"This is the topping on the cake," Bush's regional campaign director told the Los Angeles Times.
The Bush team met at Annenberg's plush Rancho Mirage estate at Sunnylands, California.
It was at the Annenberg mansion that Nixon's cabinet was chosen, and the state's social and contributor registers built over a quarter-century of state political dominance by Ronald Reagan;
....... whose acting career was launched by Operation MOCKINGBIRD.
The commercialization of television, coinciding with Reagan's recruitment by the Crusade for Freedom;
....... a CIA front, presented the intelligence world with unprecedented potential for sowing propaganda and even prying in the age of Big Brother.
George Orwell glimpsed the possibilities when he installed omniscient video surveillance technology in 1948, a novel rechristened 1984 for the first edition published in the U.S. by Harcourt, Brace.
NOTE: Operation Octopus, according to federal files, was in full swing by 1948, a surveillance program that turned any television set with tubes into a broadcast transmitter.
Agents of Octopus could pick up audio and visual images with the equipment as far as 25 miles away.
Hale Boggs was investigating Operation Octopus at the time of his disappearance in the midst of the Watergate probe.
In 1952, at MCA, Actors' Guild president Ronald Reagan;
....... a screen idol recruited by MOCKINGBIRD's Crusade for Freedom to raise funds for the resettlement of Nazis [project paperclip] in the U.S.
....... according to Loftus;
....... signed a secret waiver of the conflict-of-interest rule with the mob-controlled studio;
....... in effect granting it a labor monopoly on early television programming.
In exchange, MCA made Reagan a part owner.
Furthermore, historian C. Vann Woodward, writing in the New York Times, in 1987, reported that;
....... Reagan had,
"fed the names of suspect people in his organization to the FBI secretly and regularly enough to be assigned 'an informer's code number, T-10.'
His FBI file indicates intense collaboration with producers to 'purge' the industry of subversives."
No one ever turned a suspicious eye on Walter Cronkite, a former intelligence officer and in the immediate postwar period UPI's Moscow correspondent.
Cronkite was lured to CBS by Operation MOCKINGBIRD's Phil Graham, according to Deborah Davis.
Another television conglomerate, Cap Cities, rose like a horror-film simian from CIA and Mafia heroin operations.
Among other organized-crime Republicans, Thomas Dewey and his neighbor Lowell Thomas threw in to launch the infamous Resorts International;
....... the corporate front for Lansky's branch of the federally-sponsored mob family and the corporate precursor to Cap Cities.
Another of the investors was James Crosby, a Cap Cities executive who donated $100,000 to Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign.
This was the year that Resorts bought into Atlantic City casino interests.
Police in New jersey attempted, with no success, to spike the issuance of a gambling license to the company, citing Mafia ties.
In 1954, this same circle of investors, all Catholics, founded the broadcasting company notorious for overt propagandizing and general spookiness.
The company's chief counsel was OSS veteran William Casey, who clung to his shares by concealing them in a blind trust even after he was appointed CIA director by Ronald Reagan in 1981.
"Black radio" was the phrase CIA critic David Wise coined in The Invisible Government to describe the agency's intertwining interests in the emergence of the transistor radio with the entrepreneurs and artists who took to the airwaves.
"Daily, East and West beam hundreds of propaganda broadcasts at each other in an unrelenting babble of competition for the minds of their listeners.
The low-price transistor has given the hidden war a new importance," enthused one foreign correspondent. A Hydra of private foundations sprang up to finance the propaganda push.
One of them, Operations and Policy Research, Inc. (OPR), received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the CIA through private foundations and trusts.
OPR research was the basis of a television series that aired in New York and Washington, D.C. in 1964, Of People and Politics, a "study" of the American political system in 21 weekly installments.
In Hollywood, the visual cortex of The Beast, the same CIA/Mafia combination that formed Cap Cities sank its claws into the film studios and labor unions. Johnny Rosselli was pulled out of the Army during the war by a criminal investigation of Chicago mobsters in the film industry.
Rosselli, a CIA asset probably assassinated by the CIA, played sidekick to Harry Cohn, the Columbia Pictures mogul who visited Italy's Benito Mussolini in 1933, and upon his return to Hollywood remodeled his office after the dictator's.
The only honest job Rosselli ever had was assistant purchasing agent (and a secret investor) at Eagle Lion productions, run by Bryan Foy, a former producer for 20th Century Fox.
Rosselli, Capone's representative on the West Coast, passed a small fortune in mafia investments to Cohn. Bugsy Seigel pooled gambling investments with Billy Wilkerson, publisher of the Hollywood Reporter.
In the 1950s, outlays for global propaganda climbed to a full third of the CIA's covert operations budget. Some 3, 000 salaried and contract CIA employees were eventually engaged in propaganda efforts.
The cost of disinforming the world cost American taxpayers an estimated $265 million a year by 1978, a budget larger than the combined expenditures of Reuters, UPI and the AP news syndicates.
In 1977, the Copely News Service admitted that it worked closely with the intelligence services - in fact, 23 employees were full-time employees of the Agency.
Most consumers of the corporate media were - and are - unaware of the effect that the salting of public opinion has on their own beliefs.
A network anchorman in time of national crisis is an instrument of psychological warfare in the MOCKINGBIRD media. He is a creature from the national security sector's chamber of horrors.
For this reason consumers of the corporate press have reason to examine their basic beliefs about government and life in the parallel universe of these United States.
Also in the 1950s to '70s, the CIA paid a number of well-known domestic and foreign journalists (from big-name media outlets like Time, The Washington Post, The New York Times, CBS and others) to publish CIA propaganda.
The CIA also reportedly funded at least one movie, the animated "Animal Farm," by George Orwell.
The Church Committee finally exposed the activities in 1975. In 1953, Joseph Alsop, then one of America's leading syndicated columnists, went to the Philippines to cover an election.
He did not go because he was asked to do so by his syndicate. He did not go because he was asked to do so by the newspapers that printed his column. He went at the request of the CIA.
Alsop is one of more than 400 American journalists who in the past 25 years have secretly carried out assignments for the Central Intelligence Agency according to documents on file at CIA headquarters. Some of these journalists' relationships with the Agency were tacit; some were explicit.
There was cooperation, accommodation and overlap.
Journalists provided a full range of clandestine services, from simple intelligence-gathering to serving as go-betweens with spies in Communist countries.
Reporters shared their notebooks with the CIA. Editors shared their staffs. Some of the journalists were Pulitzer Prize winners, distinguished reporters who considered themselves ambassadors without portfolio for their country.
Most were less exalted:
Foreign correspondents who found that their association with the Agency helped their work; stringers and freelancers who were as interested in the derring-do of the spy business as in filing articles; and, the smallest category, full-time CIA employees masquerading as journalists abroad.
In many instances, CIA documents show, journalists were engaged to perform tasks for the CIA with the consent of the managements of America's leading news organizations.
The history of the CIA's involvement with the American press continues to be shrouded by an official policy of obfuscation and deception for the following principal reasons:
The use of journalists has been among the most productive means of intelligence-gathering employed by the CIA.
Although the agency has cut back sharply on the use of reporters since 1973 (primarily as a result of pressure from the media), some journalists are still posted abroad.
Further investigation into the matter, CIA officials say, would inevitably reveal a series of embarrassing relationships in the 1950's and 1960's with some of the most powerful organizations and individuals in American journalism.
Among the executives who lent their cooperation to the Agency were:
- William Paley of the Columbia Broadcasting System
- Henry Luce of Time Inc.
- Arthur Hays Sulzberger of the New York Times
- Barry Bingham Sr. of the Louisville Courier-Journal
- James Copley of the Copley News Services
Other organizations which cooperated with the CIA include:
- The American Broadcasting Company
- The National Broadcasting Company
- The Associated Press
- United Press International
- Reuters
- Hearst Newspapers
- Scripps-Howard
- Newsweek magazine
- The Mutual Broadcasting System
- The Miami Herald
- The old Saturday Evening Post
- New York Herald-Tribune
By far the most valuable of these associations, according to CIA officials, have been with:
- The New York Times
- CBS
- Time Inc.
Appropriately, the CIA uses the term 'reporting' to describe much of what cooperating journalists did for the Agency.
"We would ask them, 'Will you do us a favor?'" said a senior CIA official.
"'We understand you're going to be in Yugoslavia. Have they paved all the streets?
Where did you see planes? Were there any signs of military presence? How many Soviets did you see? If you happen to meet a Soviet, get his name and spell it right? Can you set up a meeting for us? Or arrange a message?'"
Many CIA officials regarded these helpful journalists as operatives:
The journalists tended to see themselves as trusted friends of the Agency who performed occasional favors - usually without pay - in the national interest. Two of the Agency's most valuable relationships in the 1960's, according to CIA officials;
....... were with reporters who covered Latin America:
- Jerry O'Leary of the Washington Star
- and Hal Hendrix of Miami News
....... a Pulitzer Prize winner who became a high official of the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation. Hendrix was extremely helpful to the Agency in providing information about individuals in Miami's Cuban exile community.
A note about Hendrix:
He was the one who Seth Kantor, reporting on the JFK assassination, was told to call for 'background' on Oswald after Oswald's arrest. Hendrix, from Miami, had all the info on Oswald's pro-Castro leafleting activities in New Orleans, details about Oswald's defection to the Soviet Union, etc.
Only years later did Kantor realize the significance of a guy like Hendrix, CIA, having so much info on Oswald so soon after the assassination.
"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media."
- William Colby, former CIA Director, quoted by Dave Mcgowan, Derailing Democracy
"You could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple hundred dollars a month."
- CIA operative, discussing the availability and prices of journalists willing to peddle CIA propaganda and cover stories. Katherine the Great, by Deborah Davis
"There is quite an incredible spread of relationships. You don’t need to manipulate Time magazine, for example, because there are [Central Intelligence] Agency people at the management level."
- William B. Bader, former CIA intelligence officer, briefing members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, The CIA and the Media, by Carl Bernstein
"The Agency's relationship with [The New York] Times was by far its most valuable among newspapers, according to CIA officials. [It was] general Times policy ... to provide assistance to the CIA whenever possible."
- The CIA and the Media, by Carl Bernstein
"Senator William Proxmire has pegged the number of employees of the federal intelligence community at 148,000, though Proxmire's number is itself a conservative one.
The "intelligence community" is officially defined as including only those organizations that are members of the U.S. Intelligence Board (USIB) ....... a dozen other agencies, charged with both foreign and domestic intelligence chores, are not encompassed by the term.
The number of intelligence workers employed by the federal government is not 148,000, but some undetermined multiple of that number."
- Jim Hougan, Spooks
"For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy-making arm of the government;
....... I never had any thought that when I set up the CIA that it would be injected into peacetime cloak and dagger operations."
- former President Harry Truman, 22 December 1963, one month after the JFK assassination, op-ed section of the Washington Post, early edition
Why This is Important Information; Many news organizations and people refuse to discuss the shadow government and the deep state ....... whether that's because they fear the negativity surrounding the subject or because they're owned and funded by these groups of people.
Amber Lyon is a three-time Emmy award winning journalist at CNN who went on record stating that mainstream media outlets are routinely paid by the U.S. government as well as by foreign governments to selectively report and manipulate information on specific events.
She has also admitted that the U.S. government has editorial control over mainstream media content. This isn't anything new; the CIA's Operation MOCKINGBIRD is the government program referring to its interest and relations with mainstream media.
MOCKINGBIRD stemmed from the CIA's forerunner, the Office for Strategic Services (OSS, 1942-47), which, during World War II, created a working relationship with journalists and psychological warfare experts operating primarily in the European theatre.
It's clear that the truth has been hidden from us for a long time, but it's crucial that we don't perceive this information as "scary," but rather as empowering. If we fear the shadow government and refuse to discuss them, then we're feeding into their perpetual control over the system.
However, if we shed light on this subject and explain to others how our political system actually works, then real, sustainable change can actually occur. Democracy only gives you the illusion of freedom and "human rights," because only without an overarching, elite-serving government could you truly have these things.
Operation Mockingbird on Steroids CGI Fake News in Real Time
Advancements in artificial intelligence and computer-generated imagery are creating new concerns about what the definition of "fake news" could become once mainstream media outlets get ahold of the latest technology ....... and the implications of such tech are ominous, to say the least, thanks to programs like Operation Mockingbird.
Although trust in the mainstream media has reached an all-time low, there is typically the general belief that - no matter how political pundits try to spin the soundbites - a video of President Trump talking, is in fact a video of Trump talking. However, as Business Insider noted, recently released demos showing the power of CGI technology are serving as,
"a sign of what is to come."
Researchers from the University of Washington released a below video titled "Synthesizing Obama - Learning Lip Sync from Audio," in which they used AI to create an ai-fake video of former President Obama speaking.
A similar study, titled "Face2Face - Real-time Face Capture and Reenactment of RGB Videos," was published in March 2016 following a collaboration between researchers from Germany's University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, the Max-Planck Institute for Informatics and Stanford University in California.
The researchers developed technology that,
"animates the facial expressions of the target video by a source actor and re-renders the manipulated output video in a photo-realistic fashion."
As a result, it gave them the ability to transfer the facial expressions on one individual onto the faces of figures such as Obama, Trump, and even Russian President Putin:
As the development of this technology continues, and its use becomes more mainstream, concerns grow over how it will make an impact, if and when it is used by the media.
The lack of trust in the mainstream media is not unwarranted - especially when the media's transgressions include things such as selling the American public the lies;
....... that weapons of mass destruction existed in Iraq before the Iraq War
that the Syrian government attacked its own people using chemical weapons. As you may have noticed, many of the lies the mainstream media relays to the public are based on narratives that seem to go hand-in-hand with the desired policy initiatives sought by the United States government;
....... and that link is most definitely not by coincidence.
As reported in October 2015, Operation Mockingbird, a CIA program that recruited journalists to gather information and to influence public opinion on behalf of the agency during the Cold War - is still alive and well in the U.S. While the program officially lasted for about 30 years, its influence was evident in 2011 when a State Department official "planted" several "questions and concerns" with CBS News for a 60 Minutes interview with WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange.
When the exchange was revealed to the public, CBS insisted that it asked the State Department for its input as a way to add "balance" to the program. While Operation Mockingbird may have started out as one of the CIA's many questionable programs, it received official approval from the U.S. government when it was legalized in September 2016.
The Department of Justice Office of Inspector General published a document titled, "A Review of the FBI's Impersonation of a Journalist in a Criminal Investigation,"
....... which showed the government's approval for FBI agents impersonating journalists when conducting undercover investigations. The fact is that no matter what the official title may be, the principles behind Operation Mockingbird are alive and well;
....... and the continuing advancement of artificial intelligence technology, raises new questions about how the manipulation of political figures will be used by the media to spread the government's agenda.
There are over five million individuals in the Deep State that have security clearances, bigger than the entire population of Norway. And most of its members are in power long before and long after any president.
The above reasons, combined with almost no real oversight, are why the true power in America rests within the extra-constitutional conglomeration we refer to as the Deep State.
Most of the individuals in the Deep State (around 90-95%) are good people whom I truly admire. However, as with all large organizations, rotten apples will arise and they will often form cliques. This is troubling for a number of reasons.
When you have an organization of five million, then corruption among 5%-10% amounts to hundreds of thousands of individuals capable of working against democracy and the Constitution to advance their power, wealth, and interests.
Furthermore, these individuals are entrusted with guarding our nations most advanced technologies and developing the most devious tactics of spy craft - so the civilian sector is often no match.
As a result, I must sadly state that it is no conspiracy that a treasonous cabal has formed in the Deep State. This criminal element is using covert violence with,
electromagnetic biological chemical agents to subjugate, neutralize, and slaughter countless good America citizens.
They are doing it for selfish, greedy, and even sadistic reasons.
Furthermore, they have the national bodies that dictate the responses and procedures of the medical and law enforcement communities under their thumb - so the victims have very little recourse.
Additionally, the corporate media fell under their control long ago with programs like Operation Mockingbird, and its modern successors. Therefore, the illegal use of classified weapons on the pillars of many American communities - and Democracy itself - is ignored out of fear or corruption.
Finally, ingenious disinformation and misinformation tactics are used to drown out the thousands of very credible whistleblowers reporting these atrocities ....... and to discredit the new media outlets trying to warn Americans of this very real purge. [ the same tactics are used by those fascist social media outlets such as:
- Youtube
- Tik-Tok
- etc etc etc]
It's almost a cliché to point out the flaws of human nature that allow power to corrupt and absolute power to corrupt absolutely, but it's true. It's why we have a Constitution, and it's why we have checks and balances. However, to preserve the strength of such safeguards we must ensure proper oversight and accountability - we must also stay informed and remain ever vigilant.
We can peacefully and legally bring an end to these treasonous abuses of power,
by petitioning our elected officials
by building stronger bonds in our communities by ignoring the mainstream media's almost exclusive focus on irrelevant or divisive topics and educating ourselves and others.
The CIA and the Corporate Media
The CIA's relationship to the US media is amply documented.
The New York Times continues to entertain a close relationship not only with US intelligence, but also with the Pentagon and more recently with the Department of Homeland Security.
"Operation Mocking Bird" was an initiative of the CIA's Office of Special Projects (OSP), established in the early 1950s. Its objective was to exert influence on both the US as well as the foreign media. From the 1950s, members of the US media were routinely enlisted by the CIA.
The inner workings of the CIA's relationship to the US media are described in Carl Bernstein's 1977 article in Rolling Stone entitled The CIA and the Media:
"More than 400 American journalists who [had] secretly carried out assignments for the Central Intelligence Agency, according to documents on file at CIA headquarters.
[1950-1977] Some of these journalists’ relationships with the Agency were tacit; some were explicit.Reporters shared their notebooks with the CIA.
Editors shared their staffs. Some of the journalists were Pulitzer Prize winners. Most were less exalted:
Foreign correspondents who found that their association with the Agency helped their work.
Among the executives who lent their cooperation to the Agency were:
- Williarn Paley of the Columbia Broadcasting System
- Henry Luce of Tirne Inc.
- Arthur Hays Sulzberger of the New York Times
- Barry Bingham Sr. of the LouisviIle Courier‑Journal
- and James Copley of the Copley News Service
Other organizations which cooperated with the CIA include:
- The American Broadcasting Company
- The National Broadcasting Company
- The Associated Press
- United Press International
- Reuters
- Hearst Newspapers
- Scripps‑Howard
- Newsweek magazine
- The Mutual Broadcasting System
- The Miami Herald
- and the old Saturday Evening Post and New York Herald‑Tribune
(The CIA and the Media by Carl Bernstein)
Bernstein suggests, in this regard, that,
"the CIA’s use of the American news media has been much more extensive than Agency officials have acknowledged publicly or in closed sessions with members of Congress"
(Ibid)
In recent years, the CIA's relationship to the media has become increasingly complex and sophisticated. We are dealing with a mammoth propaganda network involving a number of agencies of government.
Media disinformation has become institutionalized.
The lies and fabrications have become increasingly blatant when compared to the 1970s. The US media has become the mouthpiece of US foreign policy.
Disinformation is routinely "planted" by CIA operatives in the newsroom of major dailies, magazines and TV channels:
"A relatively few well-connected correspondents provide the scoops, that get the coverage in the relatively few mainstream news sources ....... where the parameters of debate are set and the "official reality" is consecrated for the bottom feeders in the news chain."
-(Chaim Kupferberg, The Propaganda Preparation of 9/11, Global Research, September 19, 2002).
Since 2001, the US media has assumed a new role in sustaining the "Global War on Terrorism" (GWOT) and camouflaging US sponsored war crimes.
In the wake of 9/11, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld created the Office of Strategic Influence (OSI), or "Office of Disinformation" as it was labeled by its critics:
"The Department of Defense said they needed to do this, and they were going to actually plant stories that were false in foreign countries;
....... as an effort to influence public opinion across the world.'"
(Interview with Steve Adubato, Fox News, 26 December 2002, see also Michel Chossudovsky, War Propaganda, Global Research, January 3, 2003)
Today's corporate media is an instrument of war propaganda, which begs the question:
Why would the NYT all of a sudden promote transparency and truth in media, by assisting WikiLeaks in "spreading the word" ....... and that people around the World would not pause for one moment and question the basis of this incongruous relationship. On the surface, nothing proves that WikiLeaks is a CIA covert operation.
However, given the corporate media's cohesive and structured relationship to US intelligence, not to mention the links of individual journalists to the military-national security establishment, the issue of a CIA sponsored PsyOp must necessarily be addressed.
The CIA and the Media: 50 Facts the World Needs to Know
Since the end of World War Two the Central Intelligence Agency has been a major force in US and foreign news media, exerting considerable influence over what the public sees, hears and reads on a regular basis.
CIA publicists and journalists alike will assert they have few, if any, relationships, yet the seldom acknowledged history of their intimate collaboration indicates a far different story - indeed, one that media historians are reluctant to examine.
When seriously practiced, the journalistic profession involves gathering information concerning individuals, locales, events, and issues.
In theory such information informs people about their world, thereby strengthening "democracy."
This is exactly the reason why news organizations and individual journalists are tapped as assets by intelligence agencies and, as the experiences of German journalist Udo Ulfkotte (entry 47 below) suggest, this practice is at least as widespread today as it was at the height of the Cold War. Consider the cover-ups of election fraud in 2000 and 2004, the events of September 11, 2001, the invasions Afghanistan and Iraq, the destabilization of Syria, and the creation of "ISIS."
These are among the most significant events in recent world history, and yet they are also those much of the American public is wholly ignorant of. In an era where information and communication technologies are ubiquitous, prompting many to harbor the illusion of being well-informed, one must ask why this condition persists.
Further, why do prominent US journalists routinely fail to question other deep events that shape America's tragic history over the past half century, such as the political assassinations of the 1960s, or the central role played by the CIA major role in international drug trafficking?
Popular and academic commentators have suggested various reasons for the almost universal failure of mainstream journalism in these areas, including:
- newsroom sociology
- advertising pressure
- monopoly ownership
....... news organizations' heavy reliance on "official" sources, and journalists' simple quest for career advancement. There is also, no doubt, the influence of professional public relations maneuvers.
Yet such a broad conspiracy of silence suggests another province of deception examined far too infrequently - specifically the CIA and similar intelligence agencies' continued involvement in the news media to mold thought and opinion in ways scarcely imagined by the lay public.
The following historical and contemporary facts, by no means exhaustive, provides a glimpse of how the power such entities possess to influence if not determine popular memory and what respectable institutions deem to be the historical record.
1- The CIA's Operation MOCKINGBIRD is a long-recognized keystone among researchers pointing to the Agency's clear interest in and relationship to major US news media.
MOCKINGBIRD grew out of the CIA's forerunner, the Office for Strategic Services (OSS, 1942-47), which during World War Two had established a network of journalists and psychological warfare experts operating primarily in the European theatre. The other 49 CIA incidents involving the cia compromising the Media with illuminati influences can be read in the link immediately below:
Media is mind control
I have a masters degree in Graphic Arts and Communication, which simply means:
I have been trained on how to persuade people with words and images. I know how publicity and media works. For many years had I known how infinitely corrupt the media are.
I saw every day how the mainstream media wasn't informing people, but how they were following an agenda of mind control and mass manipulation. Virtually nothing the media says, contains even a fraction of the truth. Everything they publish is a perversion of the truth, to play the minds of the masses.
THE MEDIA IS FAKE NEWS! ALL THEY DO IS LIE TO ALL OF YOU. THEY ALWAYS TWIST THE TRUTH AND THEY PLAY A GAME
The significance of this evades most who read this.
Why?
Since the birthing of television, mass media has been used by corrupt entities in the CIA, secret societies, the top bankers, criminal industries, Big Pharma, etc. to do only one thing:
Brainwash humanity, dull down the masses to become so stupid that the criminal super rich elite could literally do ANYTHING with them. The top Nazi experts in mind control and mass hypnosis had been transferred from German to the USA, to work for the government and media. Several official operations like Paperclip and Mockingbird had one single goal:
Gather the world's best experts to deploy a strategy of constant trendy "pop-culture" brainwashing of the masses ....... so they could be manipulated to serve the agenda of the powers that be. Do you think,
it's normal how the christian world, suddenly en masse turned their backs to the principles of truth, right and freedom, and collectively became atheists who detest good morals and who love perversion?
Is that a natural change?
Of course not.
It's what the mass media told them to do, by bombarding them with nothing but programs that tear down healthy morals and strip humanity from every and all common sense ....... making us addicted to lust, perversion, violence, corruption and all kinds of mockery, that we absorb in hollywood movies and tell-a-lie-vision aka TV or television. God had to be pushed out of our world, and that's what the media did.
Disconnect mankind from its source, purpose and destiny, telling them they are but a bunch of dressed up beasts who came about accidentally, and then use them for whatever you want.
What am I explaining here? For the past eighty years humanity has fallen prey to a relentless avalanche of deception that perverted our entire society with nothing but false information.
Mind control in full swing.
And then, all of a sudden, this wealthy man walks on the scene and he says:
Guys, the media is lying to you, all the time. They are nothing but fake news. They twist everything and never speak truth.' The single most powerful weapon of the wicked, suddenly started falling apart before the eyes of the entire world.
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