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Monday, 06/21/2004 8:17:44 PM

Monday, June 21, 2004 8:17:44 PM

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Operation Mockingbird: CIA Media Manipulation

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 www.fair.org/index.html, www.fair.org/mediafiles/index.html and
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:
www.alexconstantine.50megs.com/the_cia_and.html and
www.alexconstantine.50megs.com. David Guyatt has written books and many articles including one
entitled "Subverting the Media" at
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 www.korpios.org/resurgent/CIAtimeline.html,
www.korpios.org/resurgent/CIAtimeline.html, and
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
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
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
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
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!

If you would like to send a message to Mary, contact
paul@propagandamatrix.com and it will be passed on.
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views expressed in this article may not necessarily be those of Alex
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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.







"All truth passes through three states," wrote Arthur Schopenhauer. "First it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
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