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Operation Mockingbird: CIA Media Manipulation
National Expositor ^ | Mary Louise

Posted on 12/05/2007 10:32:01 AM PST by Fennie

Starting in the early days of the Cold War, 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. The CIA had infiltrated the nation's businesses, media, and universities with tens of thousands of on-call operatives by the 1950's. 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...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: cia; coldwar; collusion; iraq; israel; lhudesingcuccu; libertarians; mockingbird; morethorazineplease; operationmockingbird; propaganda; ronpaul; shadowgovernment

1 posted on 12/05/2007 10:32:02 AM PST by Fennie
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To: Fennie

Mockingbird, or just cuckoo?


2 posted on 12/05/2007 10:33:10 AM PST by 3AngelaD (They screwed up their own countries so bad they had to leave, and now they're here screwing up ours)
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To: Fennie

Mockingbird worked- and explains the sorry state of our media


3 posted on 12/05/2007 10:37:24 AM PST by Lexington Green (Not one dime to Hollywood traitors)
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To: Fennie

4 posted on 12/05/2007 10:38:14 AM PST by Bryan24 (When in doubt, move to the right..........)
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To: 3AngelaD
This makes sense if the CIA is riddled with traitorous liberals as the book Sabotage claims.
5 posted on 12/05/2007 10:39:15 AM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: Petronski; Allegra; mnehrling; aculeus; Billthedrill; Constitution Day; Dog Gone; Larry Lucido; ...
You’ll never guess who these nutters are promoting. Not in a billion zillion years.

Give up?

Prepare to faint from astonishment.

6 posted on 12/05/2007 10:54:16 AM PST by dighton
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To: dighton

LOL, Maybe Paul is a tool of Project Mockingbird to keep the anti-Establishment types appeased by making them think they are represented and have a voice?


7 posted on 12/05/2007 10:55:23 AM PST by mnehring (..one candidate did not display any moderateness or liberalism...Fred Thompson - Rush Limbaugh)
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To: Fennie

There is collusion between the Democrat party and the media.

While it isn’t “state” run media, the Party does run the media.

And there are government employees who use their position withing government agencies to stifle the current administration’s own policies.


8 posted on 12/05/2007 11:02:44 AM PST by weegee (End the Bush-Bush-Bush-Clinton/Clinton-Clinton/Clinton-Bush-Bush-Clinton/Clinton Oligarchy 1980-2012)
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To: dighton

Well, knock me over with a feather. The, er, “National Expositor”? You’d figure a mainstream source like that would have...uh...already been infiltrated. It would explain a lot, wouldn’t it?


9 posted on 12/05/2007 11:09:30 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Fennie
Sam is lost in the fifties. There are whole lot of deep pockets other than our own government sources controlling our journalists. It ain’t your grandfathers media any longer.
10 posted on 12/05/2007 11:10:12 AM PST by Earthdweller (All reality is based on faith in something.)
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To: dighton

That guy has got to have the biggest moonbat following since Jim Jones.


11 posted on 12/05/2007 11:14:55 AM PST by Allegra (Greetings from a kinder, gentler Iraq. God bless US and Coalition Forces.)
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To: Earthdweller
Add.....interesting that the “good old boys&rdquonetwork; is mentioned as a controlling source when the media is overwhelmingly leaning left. Unless our good old boys are now named HSU, this piece is blatantly off the mark.
12 posted on 12/05/2007 11:15:37 AM PST by Earthdweller (All reality is based on faith in something.)
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To: Allegra

I can not, for the life of me, understand why moonbats can’t see how far left the media leans. It boggles the mind.


13 posted on 12/05/2007 11:19:15 AM PST by Earthdweller (All reality is based on faith in something.)
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To: \/\/ayne

Iraqi WMD Mystery Solved —

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21489


14 posted on 12/05/2007 11:26:25 AM PST by Fennie
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To: dighton

no surprise there! But made me laugh.


15 posted on 12/05/2007 12:50:18 PM PST by RDTF ("Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear". Mark Twain)
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To: Fennie

Is it because the media are secretly controlled by the President that they attack him at every turn?


16 posted on 12/06/2007 4:43:26 AM PST by Christopher Lincoln
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