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CIA SECRET PROJECT OPERATION MOCKINGBIRD
THERE IS 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 THE GLOBAL
MARKETS AND THE CIA AGENDA.( CIA SECRET PROJECT CALLED "OPERATION
MOCKINGBIRD"),THE CIA CONTROLLED MEDIA AND/OR MEDIA MANIPULATION IN
VIOLATION OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT-RIGHT TO A FREE PRESS CONCERNING
ALL 50 STATES AND EVERY AMERICAN CITIZEN IN THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA AND/OR IN VIOLATION OF THE RICO ACT
CIA SECRET PROJECT OPERATION MOCKINGBIRD
THERE IS 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 THE GLOBAL
MARKETS AND THE CIA AGENDA.( CIA SECRET PROJECT CALLED "OPERATION
MOCKINGBIRD"),THE CIA CONTROLLED MEDIA AND/OR MEDIA MANIPULATION IN
VIOLATION OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT-RIGHT TO A FREE PRESS CONCERNING
ALL 50 STATES AND EVERY AMERICAN CITIZEN IN THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA AND/OR IN VIOLATION OF THE RICO ACT
Operation Mockingbird: CIA Media Manipulation
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 Buchanon 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 are
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,
etcetera. A good site to visit for more information is Fairness
and Accuracy in Reporting, a public interest media watchdog group,
at http://www.fair.org/index.html, http://www.fair.org/mediafiles/index.html and
http://www.fair.org/extra/9711/gmg.html. Media propaganda tactics include
blackouts, misdirections, expert opinions to echo the Establishment
line, smears, defining popular opinions, mass entertainment
distractions, and Hobson's Choice (the media presents the so-called
conservative and liberal positions).
"Who Controls the Media? The Subversion of the Free Press by the
CIA, The Depraved Spies and Moguls of the CIA's Operation
Mockingbird", "The CIA: America's Premier International Terrorist
Organization", and "Virtual Government: CIA Mind Control Operations
in America" by Alex Constantine are an excellent source of
information on this topic:
http://www.alexconstantine.50megs.com/the_cia_and.html and
http://www.alexconstantine.50megs.com. David Guyatt has written books and
many articles including one entitled "Subverting the Media" at
http://www.deepblacklies.co.uk/subverting_the_media.htm. Then 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. In his
memory, please take the time to read what he wrote at
http://www.korpios.org/resurgent/CIAtimeline.html,
http://www.korpios.org/resurgent/CIAtimeline.html, and
http://www.korpios.org/resurgent/index.html.
CNN aired "Valley of Death" in June of 1998 and Time magazine (both
owned by Time-Warner) ran a story about a secret mission called
Operation Tailwind and the activities of SOG, Studies and
Observations Group, a secret elite commando unit of the Army's
Special Forces that used lethal nerve gas (sarin), on a mission to
Laos designed to kill American defectors. Suddenly the network was
awash in denials and the story was hushed up, as usual.
Acknowledged use of this gas coming at a time when the U.S.
government was trying to get Saddam to comply with weapons
inspections, was an embarrassment to say the least. What
hypocrisy! Having actually used the weapons on our own troops,
then complaining and accusing Saddam of potential use of stored
similar weapons, of which some were manufactured in and supplied by
the U.S. The broadcast was prepared after exhaustive research and
rooted in considerable supportive data. To decide for yourself
what the truth is read Floyd Abrams' report on the CNN site at
http://www.cnn.com/US/9807/02/tailwind.findings/index.html.
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. "25 Ways to
Suppress Truth: Rules of Disinformation" and "8 Traits of the
Disinformationalist" at http://www.proparanoid.com/truth.htm, sums it up
very well.
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.
He has written about Vietnam's Phoenix Program
http://www.vwip.org/articles/m/McGeheeRalph_VietnamsPhoenixProgram.htm and
after a long battle with CIA censors, he published the book "Deadly
Deceits" in 1983. Ralph has been harassed by the CIA and FBI,
involving bodily injury, and his CIABASE website was shut down on
Spring of 2000. He copied some reports that can be found at
http://serendipity.magnet.ch/cia/ciabase_report_1.htm (and 2.htm),
http://serendipity.magnet.ch/cia/death_squads.htm, and
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA/Deadly_Deceits.html. 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 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 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 55.
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.....the media is 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 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!
CIA SECRET PROJECT OPERATION MOCKINGBIRD
THERE IS 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 THE GLOBAL
MARKETS AND THE CIA AGENDA.( CIA SECRET PROJECT CALLED "OPERATION
MOCKINGBIRD"),THE CIA CONTROLLED MEDIA AND/OR MEDIA MANIPULATION IN
VIOLATION OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT-RIGHT TO A FREE PRESS CONCERNING
ALL 50 STATES AND EVERY AMERICAN CITIZEN IN THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA AND/OR IN VIOLATION OF THE RICO ACT
The Media
Journalism is a perfect cover for CIA agents. People talk freely to
journalists, and few think suspiciously of a journalist
aggressively searching for information. Journalists also have
power, influence and clout. Not surprisingly, the CIA began a
mission in the late 1940s to recruit American journalists on a wide
scale, a mission it dubbed Operation MOCKINGBIRD. The agency wanted
these journalists not only to relay any sensitive information they
discovered, but also to write anti-communist, pro-capitalist
propaganda when needed.
The instigators of MOCKINGBIRD were Frank Wisner, Allan Dulles,
Richard Helms and Philip Graham. Graham was the husband of
Katherine Graham, today’s publisher of the Washington Post. In
fact, it was the Post’s ties to the CIA that allowed it to grow so
quickly after the war, both in readership and influence. (8)
MOCKINGBIRD was extraordinarily successful. In no time, the agency
had recruited at least 25 media organizations to disseminate CIA
propaganda. At least 400 journalists would eventually join the CIA
payroll, according to the CIA’s testimony before a stunned Church
Committee in 1975. (The committee felt the true number was
considerably higher.) The names of those recruited reads like a
Who's Who of journalism:
Philip and Katharine Graham (Publishers, Washington Post)
William Paley (President, CBS)
Henry Luce (Publisher, Time and Life magazine)
Arthur Hays Sulzberger (Publisher, N.Y. Times)
Jerry O'Leary (Washington Star)
Hal Hendrix (Pulitzer Prize winner, Miami News)
Barry Bingham Sr., (Louisville Courier-Journal)
James Copley (Copley News Services)
Joseph Harrison (Editor, Christian Science Monitor)
C.D. Jackson (Fortune)
Walter Pincus (Reporter, Washington Post)
ABC
NBC
Associated Press
United Press International
Reuters
Hearst Newspapers
Scripps-Howard
Newsweek magazine
Mutual Broadcasting System
Miami Herald
Old Saturday Evening Post
New York Herald-Tribune
Perhaps no newspaper is more important to the CIA than the
Washington Post, one of the nation’s most right-wing dailies. Its
location in the nation’s capitol enables the paper to maintain
valuable personal contacts with leading intelligence, political and
business figures. Unlike other newspapers, the Post operates its
own bureaus around the world, rather than relying on AP wire
services. Owner Philip Graham was a military intelligence officer
in World War II, and later became close friends with CIA figures
like Frank Wisner, Allen Dulles, Desmond FitzGerald and Richard
Helms. He inherited the Post by marrying Katherine Graham, whose
father owned it.
After Philip’s suicide in 1963, Katharine Graham took over the
Post. Seduced by her husband’s world of government and espionage,
she expanded her newspaper’s relationship with the CIA. In a 1988
speech before CIA officials at Langley, Virginia, she stated:
We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things that
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.
This quote has since become a classic among CIA critics for its
belittlement of democracy and its admission that there is a
political agenda behind the Post’s headlines.
Ben Bradlee was the Post’s managing editor during most of the Cold
War. He worked in the U.S. Paris embassy from 1951 to 1953, where
he followed orders by the CIA station chief to place propaganda in
the European press. (9) Most Americans incorrectly believe that
Bradlee personifies the liberal slant of the Post, given his role
in publishing the Pentagon Papers and the Watergate investigations.
But neither of these two incidents are what they seem. The Post
merely published the Pentagon Papers after The New York Times
already had, because it wanted to appear competitive. As for
Watergate, we’ll examine the CIA’s reasons for wanting to bring
down Nixon in a moment. Someone once asked Bradlee: "Does it irk
you when The Washington Post is made out to be a bastion of slanted
liberal thinkers instead of champion journalists just because of
Watergate?" Bradlee responded: "Damn right it does!" (10)
It would be impossible to elaborate in this short space even the
most important examples of the CIA/media alliance. Sig Mickelson
was a CIA asset the entire time he was president of CBS News from
1954 to 1961. Later he went on to become president of Radio Free
Europe and Radio Liberty, two major outlets of CIA propaganda.
The CIA also secretly bought or created its own media companies. It
owned 40 percent of the Rome Daily American at a time when
communists were threatening to win the Italian elections. Worse,
the CIA has bought many domestic media companies. A prime example
is Capital Cities, created in 1954 by CIA businessman William Casey
(who would later become Reagan’s CIA director). Another founder was
Lowell Thomas, a close friend and business contact with CIA
Director Allen Dulles. Another founder was CIA businessman Thomas
Dewey. By 1985, Capital Cities had grown so powerful that it was
able to buy an entire TV network: ABC.
For those who believe in "separation of press and state," the very
idea that the CIA has secret propaganda outlets throughout the
media is appalling. The reason why America was so oblivious to CIA
crimes in the 40s and 50s was because the media willingly complied
with the agency. Even today, when the immorality of the CIA should
be an open-and-shut case, "debate" about the issue rages in the
media. Here is but one example:
In 1996, The San Jose Mercury News published an investigative
report suggesting that the CIA had sold crack in Los Angeles to
fund the Contra war in Central America. A month later, three of the
CIA’s most important media allies — The Washington Post, The New
York Times and The Los Angeles Times — immediately leveled their
guns at the Mercury report and blasted away in an attempt to
discredit it. Who wrote the Post article? Walter Pincus, longtime
CIA journalist. The dangers here are obvious.
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manofsteelbeams
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Posted: Tue Mar 22nd, 2005 02:39 am |
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blaze3482 wrote: crapola x 10^600.
Hello, village? Yeah, we found your idiot.
Last edited on Tue Mar 22nd, 2005 02:40 am by manofsteelbeams
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NiteHawk
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Posted: Tue Mar 22nd, 2005 03:23 am |
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manofsteelbeams wrote: blaze3482 wrote: crapola x 10^600.
Hello, village? Yeah, we found your idiot.
Contact Higlebeast immediately!!!! It takes a "villiage" to raise one ya know!
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TG
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Posted: Tue Mar 22nd, 2005 03:24 am |
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Well,
This one made that new thread in MMM:
http://www.perspectives.com/forums/view_topic.php?id=33836&forum_id=72&jump_to=553778
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