A brief history of Operation Mockingbird

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This weblink was posted in comments to a Commondreams article by Amy Goodman ("The Broadcaster's Big PayDay", from this past Friday):

http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=5142[br />|CIA's involvement with domestic perception management]

It's pretty good, but stops about 25-30 years ago. Wonder what they've been doing since?

Beginning of article:

In 1948 Frank Wisner was appointed director of the Office of Special Projects. Soon afterwards it was renamed the Office of Policy Coordination (OPC). This became the espionage and counter-intelligence branch of the Central Intelligence Agency. Wisner was told to create an organization that concentrated on "propaganda, economic warfare; preventive direct action, including sabotage, anti-sabotage, demolition and evacuation measures; subversion against hostile states, including assistance to underground resistance groups, and support of indigenous anti-Communist elements in threatened countries of the free world."

Later that year Wisner established Mockingbird, a program to influence the domestic American media. Wisner recruited Philip Graham (Washington Post) to run the project within the industry. Graham himself recruited others who had worked for military intelligence during the war. This included James Truitt, Russell Wiggins, Phil Geyelin, John Hayes and Alan Barth. Others like Stewart Alsop, Joseph Alsop and James Reston, were recruited from within the Georgetown Set. According to Deborah Davis (Katharine the Great): "By the early 1950s, Wisner 'owned' respected members of the New York Times, Newsweek, CBS and other communications vehicles."

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1. here's the link to Amy's article

Published on Friday, January 11, 2008 by TruthDig.com
The Broadcasters’ Big Payday
by Amy Goodman

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/11/6322/