CIA Modern Mockingbird Media.

[Karl12]

Following on from the CIA's close involvement with the 2019 coronavirus epidemic 'simulation'... and their curious role in RNA vaccine production.. and the fact that they were caught spying on, monitoring and hacking U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee members..

Thought it might be worth revisiting the two older quotes below and examining the CIA's direct role in the direction of corporate mainstream media 'pseudo-narratives' and their use of 'non official cover' and the 'psychological building blocks of deception'.

• "We’ll Know Our Disinformation Program Is Complete When Everything the American Public Believes Is False.”

William Casey, CIA Director (1981-1987), Ronald Reagan Cabinet Meeting, Roosevelt Room, White House, February, 1981.

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And:

• “I was bribed by billionaires, I was bribed by the Americans to report…not exactly the truth.”

Udo Ulfkotte (RIP), former editor of one of Germany’s main daily publications, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

“Non-Official Cover” – Respected German Journalist Blows Whistle on How the CIA Controls the Media

What with all the 'perception management' and 'influence operations' (performed by 'behaviour change specialists') then sometimes it's hard to keep up but nice to know that, in the US at least, 'propaganda' is now perfectly legal to perform on domestic audiences.

Anyway for folks who haven't seen it then would say this is one of Corbett's most interesting episodes - there are also lots of factual links and documentation to rummage through and also a complimentary exploration of 'modern mockingbird media' here by Richard Dolan.

As always would be interested in folk's opinion on the posted content (unless you're a CoIntelPro web goon lol)

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By now, Corbett Reporteers know all about the CIA's infiltration of the news media, from Wisner's Wurlitzer and the CIA's global propaganda network to the Church Committee revelations and the CIA whistleblowers of the 1980s. We were told that the CIA stopped all that (which is a lie, of course). But do you know how the CIA is manipulating the media today? Join James on today's important edition of The Corbett Report podcast as he exposes the incredibly brazen trick behind The CIA and the News Media 2.0.

Related Links:

• Worldwide Propaganda Network Built by the C.I.A. / PDF


• How the CIA Plants News Stories in the Media


• Journalist Who Blew the Whistle on CIA Media Control Drops Dead at 56


• How the National Security State Manipulates the News Media


• The CIA and the Media: 50 Facts the World Needs to Know

[bts]

Hi there Karl12,

Excellent topic!
Thank you for posting the video I am off to watch it with another
cup of coffee. We have lived through one of the most interesting
decades where the CIA and intel agencies are concerned.

I believe it affected U.S. most prominently, although other nations
were involved as well. While we can't actually do anything to stop
this advancement into our freedoms, we can be fully aware.

Thanks again for another great topic.
And hello as well, its nice to see you here.
(didn't see an intro thread so here is my wave)

[Karl12]

Well hello BTS, very nice to see you and hope you enjoy that vid (with your coffee).

Couldn't agree more about people becoming 'aware' of these grifters and looks like a rather large majority of U.S. citizens now feel their corporate media is 'the least trustworthy in the world'.

Unthinkable a few decades ago but reckon if you did that poll in the UK people would feel exactly the same.




• US just finished dead last among 46 countries in media trust



YouTube have disabled the playback function but also thought Dolan did an excellent job here in exposing the 'shills and sock-puppets' posing as objective journalists:

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Even after all these years, Operation Mockingbird, the CIA program to infiltrate and control U.S. journalism, is still not well known. Officially, Mockingbird ended in the 1970s after it was exposed. In reality, control over our establishment media is deeper and more insidious than ever before.

It's becoming increasingly difficult to find online so here's Bernstein's 1977 Rolling Stone piece as mentioned in that vid.

Can't say we weren't warned lol.


• THE CIA AND THE MEDIA -How Americas Most Powerful News Media Worked Hand in Glove with the Central Intelligence Agency and Why the Church Committee Covered It Up

[Karl12]

Haven't got to the intelligence agency hijacking of corporate media section yet but this new two hour presentation from James Corbett is pretty fascinating stuff.

It actually explains a lot about where we find ourselves nowadays.



The Media Conspiracy

[GENERAL EYES]

All I have to contribute are Eastern and Western Mockingbird.

PROTIP: They're Arkansas and Texas Natives.

[Karl12]

All I have to contribute are Eastern and Western Mockingbird.

PROTIP: They're Arkansas and Texas Natives.

Well thanks for the pertinent info on mockingbirds mate and good to see you on the forum.

Don't know why the creator of the operation called it that but apparently in the early days of 'media hijacking' the director of the 'Office of Policy Coordination' was a bloke called Frank Wisner.

If you go through this presentation by Terry Hanson it points out that Frank Wisner's initial Op was jokingly referred to as 'Wisner's Wurlitzer'.

The reason being that Intel agencies (via the corporate media) could 'play any tune they wanted'.

[Maxmars]

I am always struck by the notion that initially, the military industrial complex successfully orchestrated their insertion into the government, and subsequently the media... and now we have corporations doing the same... good thing there on the same side  .

Frankly it all seems like a that old Steve Jackson game "Illuminati"  (which singularly boasts actually being raided by the Secret Service.)

The players and alignments do synch up.

[Karl12]

Considering someone 'amended' the Smith-Mundt Act back in 2013..




Yes, US Government Propaganda Use Against American Citizens Is Officially Legal Now




Did find this pretty rare interview with Senator Frank Church (of the Church Committee) to be pretty ironic lol.

(30 Jan 1976) Senator Frank Church speaking about his prosposal for a special Senate panel to control cladestine CIA activities.

[Karl12]

I am always struck by the notion that initially, the military industrial complex successfully orchestrated their insertion into the government, and subsequently the media... and now we have corporations doing the same... good thing there on the same side 

Never looked into the card game mate.but would certainly agree with your notion on the MIC media though.

Apparently the fourth estate has always been 'compromised' but I would say the year things went truly rotten was 1996.

Just like the Smith Mundt Act, lots of legal safeguards once put in place to protect the public have now been systematically dismantled (or just blatantly removed) and along with the elimination of the 'Fairness Act' and the 'perverse move' of giving media corporations 'free speech' rights then would say Clinton's 'Telecommunications Act' played a fundamental role as 'the rules of the airwaves were rewritten and all regulation thrown out'.

Bill Clinton was a Bilderberg member (along with Hillary) and apparently one of the first things he did in 1996 (other than selling secrets to China) was to pass the T.A.

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Passed in 1996 under President Bill Clinton, the Telecommunications Act has resulted in large-scale deregulation of the entire US media industry, removing many limitations on the number of different media outlets that can be owed by a single company

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