Of course we are all familiar with this right? Well this is a nice little nutshell post that covers the topic. Feel free to use it if you need to quickly get people up to speed on this issue.
The Senate hearings on this in 1996 confirm that this shit goes on. Terry Anderson I guess was thought by his captors to be CIA, excellent little lesson on how violence and secrecy based on INsecurity/defense actually makes us less secure. Imagine that! We have to be very careful or folks will call us nutcases for pointing out the obvious facts from the CIA's own documents and congressional records.
The Bush v. CIA battle that we are seeing now is because Bush and Cheney set up their own intelligence office, bypassing the real leaders. Chalabi distributed phony stories to the press. This was reported at the time by Knight Ridder, that some 25 fake stories were run. the Rendon a PR firm with strong CIA ties was employed by the Bush cabal to spin events and control the media. The
Nick Berg video is obvious fabrication by the president's covert henchman to both silence Berg, a witness in the Moussaoui case, and, swing public opinion after the CIA brought out the Abu Ghraib photos. I could be wrong, but, I'm not.
It's all so very childish. With all the resources we have we could build a peaceful stable Iraq and never fire a damnn shot. Notice too how the war in Aghanistan, itself a cover for the invasion of Central Asia is never questioned, only Iraq. The lies for war started in Afghanistan, that lie was 9-11. Moore the Democrat's poster boy for the savage multilateralism of phony anti-war candidates funded by well known spooks with Iran-Contra ties says so. So the battle lines are drawn in this campaign by Mr. Moore or more accurately the film's distributors, and the press giving it coverage.
Need to know: Is it so hard to fathom that in the Information Age the people that control that information may be able to control what others think? Am I talking bizarre brainwashing, no. Control the money that washes through the intellegentsia, place agents there and the administration agencies and NGO's, infiltrate the clergy i.e. World Vision, infiltrate the media especially foreign correspondents ... this was effective for years. We see that breaking down now with the Internet ... if people will only read. Sounds like a tall order right; However, the mandate these people have to "protect" us allows them unlimited access to any resource. Anywhere in the world at any time.
Operation Mockingbird:
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."
Op Mockinbird CIA Media Manipulation
Oh and its the "liberal" media too:
Kevin Klose President & CEO
http://www.npr.org/about/people/bios/kklose.html
Prior to joining NPR in December 1998, Klose served successively as director of U.S. International Broadcasting, overseeing the U.S. Government's global radio and television news services (1997-98); and president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), broadcasting to Central Europe and the former Soviet Union (1994-97). Klose first joined RFE/RL in 1992 as director of Radio Liberty, broadcasting to the former Soviet Union in its national languages.
He also helped devise and implement a strategy to coordinate all U.S.-funded international broadcasting (Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia, Radio/TV Marti, Worldnet Television) to save money, refocus the mission, and modernize operations in the post-Cold War era.
Ken Stern Executive Vice President
http://www.npr.org/about/people/bios/kstern.html
As executive vice president of NPR, Ken Stern oversees, directs, and coordinates the activities of NPR's senior management team. He joined NPR in 1999.
From 1996-1999, Stern worked with the U.S. International Broadcasting Bureau in Washington, DC, initially as senior advisor and consultant to the director before acting as director of affiliate relations, research and media training. In his positions, Stern had supervising responsibility for the IBB's offices of engineering, affiliate relations, research and media training, policy, business development, and external affairs. and
Prior to his tenure at the International Broadcasting Bureau, Stern ... was management and legal consultant for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Munich and Prague.
Taprock Peace Center
Here is a report from CIA's own documents:
Alsop is one of more than 400 American journalists who in the past 25 years have secretly carried out assignments for the Central Intelligence Agency according to documents on file at CIA headquarters. Some of these journalists' relationships with the Agency were tacit; some were explicit. There was cooperation, accommodation and overlap. Journalists provided a full range of clandestine services -- from simple intelligence-gathering to serving as go-betweens with spies in Communist countries. Reporters shared their notebooks with the CIA. Editors shared their staffs. Some of the journalists were Pulitzer Prize winners, distinguished reporters who considered themselves ambassadors without portfolio for their country. Most were less exalted: foreign correspondents who found that their association with the Agency helped their work; stringers and freelancers who were as interested in the derring-do of the spy business as in filing articles; and, the smallest category, full-time CIA employees masquerading as journalists abroad. In many instances, CIA documents show, journalists were engaged to perform tasks for the CIA with the consent of the managements of America's leading news organizations.
The history of the CIA's involvement with the American press continues to be shrouded by an official policy of obfuscation and deception for the following principal reasons:
The use of journalists has been among the most productive means of intelligence-gathering employed by the CIA. Although the agency has cut back sharply on the use of reporters since 1973 (primarily as a result of pressure from the media), some journalists are still posted abroad.
Further investigation into the matter, CIA officials say, would inevitably reveal a series of embarrassing relationships in the 1950's and 1960's with some of the most powerful organizations and individuals in American journalism.
Among the executives who lent their cooperation to the Agency were William Paley of the Columbia Broadcasting System, Henry Luce of Time Inc., Arthur Hays Sulzberger of the New York Times, Barry Bingham Sr. of the Louisville Courier-Journal, and James Copley of the Copley News Services. Other organizations which cooperated with the CIA include the American Broadcasting Company, the National Broadcasting Company, the Associated Press, United Press International, Reuters, Hearst Newspapers, Scripps-Howard, Newsweek magazine, the Mutual Broadcasting System, the Miami Herald and the old Saturday Evening Post and New York Herald-Tribune.
By far the most valuable of these associations, according to CIA officials, have been with the New York Times, CBS and Time Inc.
CIA and The Media
Here is the subject before congress in 96:
Now Anderson warns the Senate Intelligence Committee that other Americans could be at risk if Congress doesn't close a loophole permitting the Central Intelligence Agency's use of journalists.
"It's dangerous and unnecessary," Anderson said. "We need an absolute and public blanket ban on recruiting and use of journalists and clergy by any intelligence agencies, and also the use of journalistic cover."
But the CIA says it might need a journalist's help in extraordinary circumstances.
I can foresee the possibility of a terrorist group attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction in a crowded urban area, where both the president and the nation would look to the agency to use all possible means to detect and deter such an event," CIA Director John Deutch said.
Deutch opposes the House measure that would let the president, and not the CIA director, decide when to make an exception.
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July, 18th 1996 and Deutch already knows what's coming down the pike? Nice intelligence work Deutch. BTW he is now head of CitiBank. He was also under investigation for having CIA Macs at his house and surfing the Internet with sensitive info on the drives. CitiBank then merged with Banamex headed by a known drug trafficker who a newspaper reporter outed by actually photographing the drugs on his property, a property that Clinton stayed at on vacation in the Yucatan. Ramirez sued the paper and LOST. They had photos of boats moving tons of coke two three times a day ... that's who
CitiBank is: The world's largest
drug money laundering operation headed by ex CIA director Deutch.