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 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. 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!
http://www.prisonplanet.com/analysis_louise_01_03_03_mockingbird.html
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