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CIA Operation Mockingbird – How the CIA Controls the Media – COLLECTION / DOCUMENTS
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“If in the first act you introduce a gun , by the third act you have to use it” – Anton Chekov

Operation Mockingbird: CIA Media Manipulation

By Mary Louise

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

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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 t***snational 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.

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