Operation Mockingbird......CIA the Gatekeeper of the media.
See Senate Report 94-755: The Church Committee was the United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities.
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.
CIA 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.
Operation Mockingbird Still At Play - New Report Shows Spy Agencies Still Control Media Content And Allowed To Disseminate Fake News Without Verification Or
Moynihan's marginalia:
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp81m00980r000600080073-8
The question why are you trusting the CIA?
Operation Mockingbird......CIA the Gatekeeper of the media.
See Senate Report 94-755: The Church Committee was the United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities.
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.
CIA 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.
Source links:
https://archive.org/details/finalreportofsel03unit/page/n3/mode/2up?view=theater
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird
https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/94755_I.
https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/94755_I
https://allnewspipeline.com/Operation_Mockingbird_Still_At_Play.php
Operation Mockingbird Still At Play - New Report Shows Spy Agencies Still Control Media Content And Allowed To Disseminate Fake News Without Verification Or
Confirmation.