Operation Mockingbird, the CIA, and America's History of Fake News
“This isn’t Operation Mockingbird. It’s so much worse. Operation Mockingbird was the CIA doing something to the media. What we are seeing now is the CIA openly acting as the media. Any separation between the CIA and the news media, indeed even any pretense of separation, has been dropped.” ~ Caitlin Johnstone
In 1948, Frank Wisner, director of the espionage and counter-intelligence branch of the CIA known as The Office of Policy Coordination, was told to create an organization that concentrated on propaganda, among other things. Operation Mockingbird was born, and “By the early 1950s, Wisner 'owned' respected members of the New York Times, Newsweek, CBS, and other communications vehicles." Of the 400+ journalists who participated in the propaganda campaign, the most prolific was Joseph Alsop who wrote for over 300 different newspapers. Many of the pieces were commissioned by Wisner himself and often contained classified and/or fabricated information.
Publications and news broadcasts, bought and paid for by the CIA, became propaganda mills that ultimately influenced foreign and domestic policy, manipulated the outcome of elections, inspired Hollywood films, and brainwashed untold millions of people around the world.
Carl Bernstein broke the story for Rolling Stone magazine in 1977 with a cover article titled THE CIA AND THE MEDIA: How America's Most Powerful News Media Worked Hand in Glove with the Central Intelligence Agency and Why the Church Committee Covered It Up.
Of course, the CIA and mainstream media say their collaboration and consequent disinformation drive ended decades ago, but is that true? Has there been any evidence of scripted mockingbird programming in recent years?
Incidentally, do you think they’re called television “programs” by accident?
Researching corruption within the American government is a seemingly bottomless rabbit hole. Bloggers (this site is scheduled to be shut down forever on 3/1/2022) and independent journalists from around the world have risked their lives and livelihoods to expose corrupt government officials, some going on record to say they are not suicidal just in case anything untoward happens to them (e.g. Project Veritas’ James O’Keefe at 13:38 in the video below).
See Project Veritas’ bombshell video in its entirety here.
In fact, the CIA’s misdeeds are so prolific that they were compelled to release a 700+-page report (The CIA's Family Jewels) in 2007, fifteen years after The National Security Archive filed a FOIA request for the documents. The report catalogs "25 years of the CIA’s illegal wiretapping, domestic surveillance, assassination plots, and human experimentation.”
We’re inundated with propaganda 24/7: commercials, news broadcasts, television programs, films, public education, talk radio, social media, and the list goes on and on. This fact became abundantly clear when the first reports of a “novel coronavirus” hit the MSM in December of 2019. Suddenly, there was no such thing as free speech. Outspoken dissenters lost their jobs. Medical professionals who questioned the official narrative lost their licenses. People were suspended, banned, and silenced on social media platforms for pointing out inconsistencies. This created an echo chamber designed to make us think and behave a certain way, but it wasn’t the first time. We’ve been brainwashed for decades, and it’s time to deprogram.
Cancel your cable subscription. Close your social media accounts. Stop patronizing the very companies and businesses who are trying to strip you of your liberties. Speak up. Don’t affirm lies. Educate yourself. Do your own research. Read relevant books. Seek out alternative news sources. Think for yourself. Interact with like-minded people. Support each other. Share what you know with others. Run for office. Volunteer to be a poll worker. Attend your state’s legislative sessions. Email your representatives. Learn how to grow your own food. Get your spiritual life in order. Be ethical and forthright in everything you do. Pray.
Do something.
“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” ~ William J. Casey, Director of Central Intelligence (1981)