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1. George H. W. Bush to the CIA as early as 1953. Russ Baker, Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, America’s Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years, New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2009, 7-12.
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Note: In my uncle Tom Braden related to me as the Director of Foreign
Intelligence of Central Intelligence Agency on personal communication
the validity of the general content of this article.
With the murder of 10 doctors trying to tell truth about new
effective cancer treatment adverse to the cash cow of the AMA and
payback on back side of the unfunded entitlements, the movie NARCOS was produced by NETFLIX as a dystopian film about the application of Plato O Plomo by Pablo Escobar, my silver or my lead as it co-opted now by US, Inc.
Tom
Braden later became the funding operative for the Central Intelligence
Agency to be a founding member of the Bilderberg Group at Ditchley
Castle for a front organization for the CIA and operational policy for
public consumption for the Central Committee of 300 who needed a buffer
to remain anonymous. In 1954 they had first meeting in Bilderberg Hotel
and false flag named it the Bilderberg Group with no mention at all of
Ditchley Castle their home office and bought by the Will Foundation
owner of the American Tobacco Co 90% control of tobacco production.
The
Agenda was demographic management as the entitlements after the WWII
would consume all the earned income of the all individuals and
corporation in 60 years. The discovery of Polonium 210 Hanford Site IG
Farben Zyklon B was on the top of the agenda.
The Central Committee that now owns or controls 2/3 of capital assets of world, are the family member progeny of the British East India Company Board of Directors that made their fortune based on false flag operations to disguise their true name, e.g. JEB in current election cycle.
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CC Directors BEIC were the first opium dealers from 1640 of 10s
thousands tons from the Golden Triangle and India traded for gold silk
spices in China and transported to Africa to pick up slaves to be sold
in the US Colonies to build the country on backs of slaves they did for
the transcontinental railroad by Vanderbilt. They de facto began the
“plato o plomo” program with murder of dissidents routine and set up the
first false flag “leader” the president of Bengal the
sycophant of the Directors replicated by our current “president” from
the favorite son of the locals. He was appointed by the CC and “elected”
by the people to take the buffer position of taking the heat of
responsibility and with CC taking the split of authority.
The CC Standing Operating of Procedure
SOP has not changed measurably in 500 years.
Watson
and Crick and later Fletcher took up residence in Ditchley Castle out
of grad school and began the largest medical research project I the
world, DNA Recombinant technology based on Genome Research. http://www.bing.com/videos/
Cogent data up close and personal the dystopic NETFLIX film NARCOS and contemporaneous relevance to the 2016 election, and reversal of rolls of the two NARCOS and GOVERNMENT is reflective of a crude and unsophisticated method of Pablo Escobar who as a SOP protocol stated “PLATO O PLOMO” by
that he meant my silver or my lead. In a small microcosm of Columbia in
that genre of time, it is simplistic enough to see the operative
assumptions so we can cut through the complexity of the application of
that principle in the US , Inc currently having the Escobar maxim now
the US, Inc. operative SOP.
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knowledge in NARCOS is the dynamic of the government and Central
Intelligence Agency today with the roles reversed, The position of the
government is that of the people now, and position of Pablo Escobar is
reflective of the practice , policy , and custom of US, Inc and the
Congress/Presidency now.
The
presidents of Columbia are assassinated for the similar reasons as JFK
which I witnessed as a Dallas Doctor PMH ER TRAUMA 1 and the death in
context of Columbia was for essentially the same reasons.
Defiance of the underlying maxim:
“PLATO O PLOMO”
My Silver or my Lead
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OR
SHOCK AND AWE
Billboard in El Paso Texas
An example of the current application is the principle of John Kerry in Iran Nuclear negotiations under Executive Order not
Treaty.
Treaty.
NEVER SAY NO WITHOUT
SAYING MAYBE FIRST
Arden Gifford, MD
Addiction Psychiatry
Houston, Texas ]
Since the end of World War Two the Central Intelligence Agency has been a major force in US and foreign news media, exerting considerable influence over what the public sees, hears and reads on a regular basis. CIA publicists
and journalists alike will assert they have few, if any, relationships,
yet the seldom acknowledged history of their intimate collaboration
indicates a far different story–indeed, one that media historians are
reluctant to examine.
When
seriously practiced, the journalistic profession involves gathering
information concerning individuals, locales, events, and issues. In
theory such information informs people about their world, thereby
strengthening “democracy.” This is exactly why reason news organizations
and individual journalists are tapped as assets by intelligence
agencies and, as German the experiences of journalist Udo Ulfkotte
(entry 47 below) suggest, this practice is at least as widespread today
as it was at the height of the Cold War.
Consider the cover ups of election fraud in 2000 and 2004, the events of September 11, 2001, the invasions Afghanistan and Iraq, the destabilization of Syria, and the creation of “ISIS.” These are among the most significant events in recent world history, and yet they are also those much of the American public is wholly ignorant of.
In an era where information and communication technologies are
ubiquitous, prompting many to harbor the illusion of being
well-informed, one must ask why this condition persists.
Further,
why do prominent US journalists routinely fail to question other deep
events that shape America’s tragic history over the past half century,
such as the political assassinations of the 1960s, or the central role
played by the CIA major role in international drug trafficking?
Popular and academic commentators have suggested various reasons for the almost universal failure
of mainstream journalism in these areas, including newsroom sociology,
advertising pressure, monopoly ownership, news organizations’ heavy
reliance on “official” sources, and journalists’ simple quest for career
advancement. There is also, no doubt, the influence of professional
public relations maneuvers. Yet such a broad conspiracy of silence
suggests another province of deception examined far too
infrequently—specifically the CIA and similar intelligence agencies’
continued involvement in the news media to mold thought and opinion in
ways scarcely imagined by the lay public.
The
following historical and contemporary facts–by no means
exhaustive–provides a glimpse of how the power such entities possess to
influence if not determine popular memory and what respectable
institutions deem to be the historical record.
2. The CIA’s Operation MOCKINGBIRD is
a long-recognized keystone among researchers pointing to the Agency’s
clear interest in and relationship to major US news media. MOCKINGBIRD
grew out of the CIA’s forerunner, the Office for Strategic Services
(OSS, 1942-47), which during World War Two had established a network of
journalists and psychological warfare experts operating primarily in the
European theatre.
3. Many
of the relationships forged under OSS auspices were carried over into
the postwar era through a State Department-run organization called the
Office of Policy Coordination (OPC) overseen by OSS staffer Frank
Wisner.
4. The
OPC “became the fastest-growing unit within the nascent CIA,” historian
Lisa Pease observes, “rising in personnel from 302 in 1949 to 2,812 in
1952, along with 3,142 overseas contract personnel. In the same period,
the budget rose from $4.7 million to $82 million.” Lisa Pease, “The
Media and the Assassination,” in James DiEugenio and Lisa Pease, The Assassinations: Probe Magazine on JFK, MLK, RFK and Malcolm X, Port Townsend, WA, 2003, 300.
PORTER GOSS DCI COCAINE
5 TONS SHIPMENT FROM CIA TRANSPORT
2006
Both
aircraft, painted to resemble U.S. Government aircraft from the
Department of Homeland Security, were parked for several years at the
general aviation terminal at Clearwater St Petersburg International
Airport.
The
registration records reveal that the past 'owners' of "Cocaine One's"
identical twin are well-known 'front' companies of America's Central
Intelligence Agency.
5. Like
many career CIA officers, eventual CIA Director/Director of Central
Intelligence (DCI) Richard Helms was recruited out of the press corps by
his own supervisor at the United Press International’s Berlin Bureau to
join in the OSS’s fledgling “black propaganda” program. “‘[Y]ou’re a
natural,” Helms’ boss remarked. Richard Helms, A Look Over My Shoulder: A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency, New York: Random House, 2003, 30-31.
6. Wisner
tapped Marshall Plan funds to pay for his division’s early exploits,
money his branch referred to as “candy.” “We couldn’t spend it all,” CIA
agent Gilbert Greenway recalls. “I remember once meeting with Wisner
and the comptroller. My God, I said, how can we spend that?
7.
8. There were no limits, and nobody had to account for it. It was amazing.”
9.
10. Frances Stonor Saunders, The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters, New York: The New Press, 2000, 105.
11. When
the OPC was merged with the Office of Special Operations in 1948 to
create the CIA, OPC’s media assets were likewise absorbed.
12. Wisner maintained the top secret “Propaganda Assets Inventory,” better known as “Wisner’s Wurlitzer”—a virtual rolodex of over 800 news and information entities prepared to play WHATEVER TUNE WISNER CHOSE.
“The network included journalists, columnists, book publishers,
editors, entire organizations such as Radio Free Europe, and stringers
across multiple news organizations.” Pease, “The Media and the Assassination,” 300.
13. A few years after Wisner’s operation was up-and-running he “’owned’ respected members of the New York Times, Newsweek,
CBS, and other communication vehicles, plus stringers, four to six
hundred in all, according to a CIA analyst. Each one was a separate
‘operation,’” investigative journalist Deborah Davis notes, “requiring a
code name, a field supervisor, and a field office, at an annual cost of tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars—there has never been an accurate accounting.” Deborah Davis,Katharine the Great: Katharine Graham and the Washington Post, Second Edition, Bethesda MD: National Press Inc, 1987, 139.
14. Psychological
operations in the form of journalism were perceived as necessary to
influence and direct mass opinion, as well as elite perspectives. “[T]he
President of the United States, the Secretary of State, Congressmen and
even the Director of the CIA himself will read, believe, and be
impressed by a report from Cy Sulzberger, Arnaud de Borchgrave, or Stewart Alsop when they don’t even bother to read a CIA report on the same subject,” noted CIA agent Miles Copeland. Cited in Pease, “The Media and the Assassination,” 301.
15. By
the mid-to-late 1950s, Darrell Garwood points out, the Agency sought to
limit criticism directed against covert activity and bypass
congressional oversight or potential judicial interference by
“infiltrat[ing] the groves of
academia, the missionary corps, the editorial boards of influential
journal and book publishers, and any other quarters where public
attitudes could be effectively influenced.” Darrell Garwood,Under Cover: Thirty-Five Years of CIA Deception, New York: Grove Press, 1985, 250.
16. The CIA frequently intercedes in editorial decision-making.
For example, when the Agency proceeded to wage an overthrow of the
Arbenz regime in Guatemala in 1954, Allen and John Foster Dulles,
President Eisenhower’s Secretary of State and CIA Director respectively,
called upon New York Times publisher
Arthur Hays Sulzberger to reassign reporter Sydney Gruson from
Guatemala to Mexico City. Sulzberger thus placed Gruson in Mexico City
with the rationale that some repercussions from the revolution might be
felt in Mexico. Pease, “The Media and the Assassination,” 302.
17. Since
the early 1950s the CIA “has secretly bankrolled numerous foreign press
services, periodicals and newspapers—both English and foreign
language—which provided excellent cover for CIA operatives,” Carl Bernstein reported
in 1977. “One such publication was the Rome Daily American, forty
percent of which was owned by the CIA until the 1970s.” Carl Bernstein, “The CIA and the Media,” Rolling Stone, October 20, 1977.
18. The
CIA exercised informal liaisons with news media executives, in contrast
to its relationships with salaried reporters and stringers, “who were
much more subject to direction from the Agency” according to Bernstein. “A few executives—Arthur Hays Sulzberger of the New York Times among
them—signed secrecy agreements. But such formal understandings were
rare: relationships between Agency officials and media executives were
usually social—’The P and Q Street axis in Georgetown,’ said one source.
‘You don’t tell William Paley to sign a piece of paper saying he won’t
fink.’” Director of CBS William Paley’s personal “friendship with CIA
Director Dulles is now known to have been one of the most influential
and significant in the communications industry,” author Debora Davis
explains. “He provided cover for CIA agents, supplied out-takes of news
film, permitted the debriefing of reporters, and in many ways set the
standard for the cooperation between the CIA and major broadcast
companies which lasted until the mid-1970s.” Deborah Davis, Katharine the Great: Katharine Graham and the Washington Post, Second Edition, Bethesda MD: National Press Inc, 1987, 175.
19. “The Agency’s relationship with the Times was
by far its most valuable among newspapers, according to CIA officials,”
Bernstein points out in his key 1977 article. “From 1950 to 1966, about
ten CIA employees were provided Times cover
under arrangements approved by the newspaper’s late publisher, Arthur
Hays Sulzberger. The cover arrangements were part of a general Times policy—set
by Sulzberger—to provide assistance to the CIA whenever possible.” In
addition, Sulzberger was a close friend of CIA Director Allen Dulles.
“’At that level of contact it was the mighty talking to the mighty,’
said a high‑level CIA official who was present at some of the
discussions. ‘There was an agreement in principle that, yes indeed, we
would help each other. The question of cover came up on several
occasions. It was agreed that the actual arrangements would be handled
by subordinates…. The mighty didn’t want to know the specifics; they
wanted plausible deniability.’” Bernstein, “The CIA and the Media.”
20. CBS’s
Paley worked reciprocally with the CIA, allowing the Agency to utilize
network resources and personnel. “It was a form of assistance that a
number of wealthy persons are now generally known to have rendered the
CIA through their private interests,” veteran broadcast journalist
Daniel Schorr wrote in 1977. “It suggested to me, however, that a
relationship of confidence and trust had existed between him and the
agency.” Schorr points to “clues indicating that CBS had been
infiltrated.” For example, “A news editor remembered the CIA officer who
used to come to the radio control room in New York in the early
morning, and, with the permission of persons unknown, listened to CBS
correspondents around the world recording their ‘spots’ for the ‘World
News Roundup’ and discussing events with the editor on duty. Sam Jaffe
claimed that when he applied in 1955 for a job with CBS, a CIA officer
told him that he would be hired–which he subsequently was. He was told
that he would be sent to Moscow–which he subsequently was; he was
assigned in 1960 to cover the trial of U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers.
[Richard] Salant told me,” Schorr continues, “that when he first became
president of CBS News in 1961, a CIA case officer called saying he
wanted to continue the ‘long standing relationship known to Paley and
[CBS president Frank] Stanton, but Salant was told by Stanton there was
no obligation that he knew of” (276). Schorr, Daniel. Clearing the Air, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977, 277, 276.
21. National Enquirer publisher
Gene Pope Jr. worked briefly on the CIA’s Italy desk in the early 1950s
and maintained close ties with the Agency thereafter. Pope refrained
from publishing dozens of stories with “details of CIA kidnappings and murders, enough stuff for a year’s worth of headlines”
in order to “collect chits, IOUs,” Pope’s son writes. “He figured he’d
never know when he might need them, and those IOUs would come in handy
when he got to 20 million circulation. When that happened, he’d have the
voice to be almost his own branch of government and would need the
cover.” Paul David Pope, The Deeds of My Fathers: How My Grandfather and Father Built New York and Created the Tabloid World of Today, New York: Phillip Turner/Rowman & Littlefield, 2010, 309, 310.
22. One explosive story Pope’s National Enquirer‘s refrained from publishing in the late 1970s centered on excerpts from a long-sought after diary of President Kennedy’s lover, Mary Pinchot Meyer, who was murdered on October 12, 1964.
“The reporters who wrote the story were even able to place James Jesus
Angleton, the CIA’s head of counterintelligence operations, at the
scene.” Another potential story drew on “documents proving that [Howard]
Hughes and the CIA had been connected for years and that the CIA was
giving Hughes money to secretly fund, with campaign donations,
twenty-seven congressmen and senators who sat on sub-committees critical
to the agency. There are also fifty-three international companies named
and sourced as CIA fronts .. and even a list of reporters for
mainstream media organizations who were playing ball with the agency.” Pope, The Deeds of My Fathers, 309.
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23. Angleton,
who oversaw the Agency counterintelligence branch for 25 years, “ran a
completely independent group entirely separate cadre of
journalist‑operatives who performed sensitive and frequently dangerous
assignments; little is known about this group for the simple reason that
Angleton deliberately kept only the vaguest of files.” Bernstein, “The CIA and the Media.”
24. The
CIA conducted a “formal training program” during the 1950s for the sole
purpose of instructing its agents to function as newsmen. “Intelligence
officers were ‘taught to make noises like reporters,’ explained a high
CIA official, and were then placed in major news organizations with help
from management. These were the guys who went through the ranks and
were told ‘You’re going to he a journalist,’” the CIA official said.”
The Agency’s preference, however, was to engage journalists who were
already established in the industry. Bernstein, “The CIA and the Media.”
25. Newspaper
columnists and broadcast journalists with household names have been
known to maintain close ties with the Agency. “There are perhaps a dozen
well known columnists and broadcast commentators whose relationships
with the CIA go far beyond those normally maintained between reporters
and their sources,” Bernstein maintains. “They are referred to at the
Agency as ‘known assets’ and can be counted on to perform a variety of
undercover tasks; they are considered receptive to the Agency’s point of
view on various subjects.” Bernstein, “The CIA and the Media.”
26. Frank Wisner, Allen Dulles, and Washington Post publisher Phillip Graham were close associates, and the Post developed into one of the most influential news organs in the United States due to its ties with the CIA. The Post managers’
“individual relations with intelligence had in fact been the reason the
Post Company had grown as fast as it did after the war,” Davis (172)
observes. “[T]heir secrets were its corporate secrets, beginning with
MOCKINGBIRD. Phillip Graham’s commitment to intelligence had given his
friends Frank Wisner an interest in helping to make the Washington Post the dominant news vehicle in Washington, which they had done by assisting with its two most crucial acquisitions, the Times-Herald and WTOP radio and television stations.” Davis, Katharine the Great: Katharine Graham and theWashington Post, 172.
27. In
the wake of World War One the Woodrow Wilson administration placed
journalist and author Walter Lippmann in charge of recruiting agents for
the Inquiry, a first-of-its-kind ultra-secret civilian intelligence
organization whose role involved ascertaining information to prepare
Wilson for the peace negotiations, as well as identify foreign natural
resources for Wall Street speculators and oil companies. The activities
of this organization served as a prototype for the function eventually
performed by the CIA, namely “planning, collecting, digesting, and
editing the raw data,” notes historian Servando Gonzalez. “This roughly
corresponds to the CIA’s intelligence cycle: planning and direction,
collection, processing, production and analysis, and dissemination.” Most Inquiry members would later become members of the Council on Foreign Relations. Lippmann would go on to become the Washington Post’s best known columnists. Servando Gonzalez, Psychological Warfare and the New World Order: The Secret War Against the American People, Oakland, CA: Spooks Books, 2010, 50.
28. The two most prominent US newsweeklies, Time and Newswee
29. In
his autobiography former CIA officer E. Howard Hunt quotes Bernstein’s
“The CIA and the Media” article at length. “I know nothing to contradict
this report,” Hunt declares, suggesting the investigative journalist of
Watergate fame didn’t go far enough. “Bernstein further identified some
of the country’s top media executives as being valuable assets to the
agency … But the list of organizations that cooperated with the agency
was a veritable ‘Who’s Who’ of the media industry, including ABC, NBC,
the Associated Press, UPI, Reuters, Hearst Newspapers, Scripps-Howard, Newsweekmagazi
30. When the first major exposé of the CIA emerged in 1964 with the publication of The Invisible Government by journalists David Wise and Thomas B. Ross,
the CIA considered purchasing the entire printing to keep the book from
the public, yet in the end judged against it. “To an extent that is
only beginning to be perceived, this shadow government is shaping the
lives of 190,000,000 Americans” authors Wise and Ross write in the
book’s preamble. “Major decisions involving peace and war are taking
place out of public view. An informed citizen might come to suspect that
the foreign policy of the United States
often works publicly in one direction and secretly through the
Invisible Government in just the opposite direction.”Lisa Pease, “When the CIA’s Empire Struck Back,”Consortiumnews.com, February 6, 2014.
31. Agency
infiltration of the news media shaped public perception of deep events
and undergirded the official explanations of such events. For example,
the
32.
33. Warren
Commission’s report on President John F. Kennedy’s assassination was
met with almost unanimous approval by US media outlets. “I have never
seen an official report greeted with such universal praise as that
accorded the Warren Commission’s findings when they were made public on
September 24, 1964,”
34.
35. recalls
investigative reporter Fred Cook. “All the major television networks
devoted special programs and analyses to the report; the next day the
newspapers ran long columns detailing its findings, accompanied by
special news analyses and editorials. The
verdict was unanimous. The report answered all questions, left no room
for doubt. Lee Harvey Oswald, alone and unaided, had assassinated the
president of the United States.” Fred J. Cook, Maverick: Fifty Years of Investigative Reporting, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1984, 276.
36. In late 1966 the New York Times began
an inquiry on the numerous questions surrounding President Kennedy’s
assassination that were not satisfactorily dealt with by the Warren
Commission. “It was never completed,” author Jerry Policoff observes,
“nor would the New YorkTimes ever again question the findings of the Warren Commission.” When the story was being developed the lead reporter at the Times‘ Houston bureau “said that he and others came up with ‘a lot of unanswered questions’ that the Times didn’t
bother to pursue. ‘I’d be off on a good lead and then somebody’d call
me off and send me out to California on another story or something. We
never really detached anyone for this. We weren’t really serious.’” Jerry Policoff, “The Media and the Murder of John Kennedy,” in Peter Dale Scott, Paul L. Hoch and Russell Stetler, eds., The Assassinations: Dallas and Beyond, New York: Vintage, 1976, 265.
37. When
New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison embarked on an investigation
of the JFK assassination in 1966 centering on Lee Harvey Oswald’s
presence in New Orleans in the months leading up to November, 22, 1963,
“he was cross-whipped with two hurricane blasts, one from Washington and
one from New York,” historian James DiEugenio explains. The first, of
course, was from the government, specifically the Central Intelligence
Agency, the FBI, and to a lesser extent, the White House. The blast from
New York was from the major mainstream media e.g. Time-Life and NBC.
Those two communication giants were instrumental in making Garrison into a lightening rod for ridicule and criticism.
This orchestrated campaign … was successful in diverting attention from
what Garrison was uncovering by creating controversy about the DA
himself.” DiEugenio, Preface, in William Davy, Let Justice Be Done: New Light on the Jim Garrison Investigation, Reston VA: Jordan Publishing, 1999.
38. The
CIA and other US intelligence agencies used the news media to sabotage
Garrison’s 1966-69 independent investigation of the Kennedy
assassination. Garrison presided over the only law enforcement agency
with subpoena power to seriously delve into the intricate details
surrounding JFK’s murder. One of Garrison’s key witnesses, Gordon Novel,
fled New Orleans to avoid testifying before the Grand Jury assembled by
Garrison. According to DiEugenio, CIA Director Allen “Dulles
and the Agency would begin to connect the fugitive from New Orleans
with over a dozen CIA friendly journalists who—in a blatant attempt to
destroy Garrison’s reputation—would proceed to write up the most
outrageous stories imaginable about the DA.” James DiEugenio,Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and The Garrison Case, Second Edition, New York: SkyHorse Publishing, 2012, 235.
39. CIA
officer Victor Marchetti recounted to author William Davy that in 1967
while attending staff meetings as an assistant to then-CIA Director
Richard Helms, “Helms expressed great concerns over [former OSS officer,
CIA operative and primary suspect in Jim Garrison’s investigation Clay]
Shaw’s predicament, asking his staff, ‘Are we giving them all the help
we can down there?’” William Davy, Let Justice Be Done: New Light on the Jim Garrison Investigation, Reston VA: Jordan Publishing, 1999.
40. The pejorative dimensions of the term “conspiracy theory” were introduced into the Western lexicon by CIA “media assets,” as evidenced in the design laid out by Document 1035-960 Concerning Criticism of the Warren Report, an Agency communiqué issued in early 1967 to Agency bureaus throughout the world at a time when attorney Mark Lane’s Rush to Judgment was atop bestseller lists and New Orleans DA Garrison’s investigation of the Kennedy assassination began to gain traction.
41. Time had
close relations with the CIA stemming from the friendship of the
magazine’s publisher Henry Luce and Eisenhower CIA chief Allen Dulles.
When former newsman Richard Helms was appointed DCI in 1966 he “began to
cultivate the press,” prompting journalists toward conclusions that
placed the Agency in a positive light. As TimeWashington
correspondent Hugh Sidney recollects, “‘[w]ith [John] McCone and
[Richard] Helms, we had a set-up when the magazine was doing something
on the CIA, we went to them and put it before them … We were never
misled.’ Similarly, when Newsweek decided in the fall of 1971 to do a
cover story on Richard Helms and ‘The New Espionage,’ the magazine,
according to a Newsweek staffer, went directly to the agency for much of
the information. And the article … generally reflected the line that
Helms was trying so hard to sell: that since the latter 1960s … the
focus of attention and prestige within CIA’ had switched from the
Clandestine Services to the analysis of intelligence, and that ‘the vast
majority of recruits are bound for’ the Intelligence Directorate.” Victor Marchetti and John D. Marks, The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974, 362-363.
42. In 1970 Jim Garrison wrote and published the semi-autobiographical A Heritage of Stone, a work that examines how the New Orleans DA “discovered
that the CIA operated within the borders of the United States, and how
it took the CIA six months to reply to the Warren Commission’s question
of whether Oswald and [Jack] Ruby had been with the Agency,” Garrison
biographer and Temple University humanities professor Joan Mellen
observes. “In response to A Heritage of Stone, the CIA rounded up its media assets” and the book was panned by reviewers writing for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, theChicago Sun Times, and Lifemagazine. “John Leonard’s New York Times review
went through a metamorphosis,” Mellen explains. “The original last
paragraph challenged the Warren Report: ‘Something stinks about this
whole affair,’ Leonard wrote. ‘Why
were Kennedy’s neck organs not examined at Bethesda for evidence of a
frontal shot? Why was his body whisked away to Washington before the
legally required Texas inquest? Why?’ This paragraph evaporated in later editions of the Times.
A third of a column gone, the review then ended: ‘Frankly I prefer to
believe that the Warren Commission did a poor job, rather than a
dishonest one. I like to think that Garrison invents monsters to explain
incompetence.’” Joan Mellen, A Farewell to Justice: Jim Garrison, JFK’s Assassination, and the Case That Should Have Changed History, Washington DC: Potomac Books, 2005, 323, 324.
43. CIA
Deputy Director for Plans Cord Meyer Jr. appealed to Harper & Row
president emeritus Cass Canfield Sr. over the book publisher’s pending
release of Alfred McCoy’sThe Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia,
based on the author’s fieldwork and Yale PhD dissertation wherein he
examined the CIA’s explicit role in the opium trade. “Claiming my book
was a threat to national security,” McCoy recalls, “the CIA official had asked Harper & Row to suppress it. To his credit, Mr. Canfield had refused. But he had agreed to review the manuscript prior to publication.” Alfred W. McCoy, The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade, Chicago Review Press, 2003, xx.
44. Publication of The Secret Team,
a book by US Air Force Colonel and Pentagon-CIA liaison L. Fletcher
Prouty recounting the author’s firsthand knowledge of CIA black
operations and espionage, was met with a wide scale censorship campaign
in 1972. “The campaign to kill the book was nationwide and world-wide,” Prouty notes. “It was removed from the Library of Congress
and from college libraries as letters I received attested all too
frequently … I was a writer whose book had been cancelled by a major
publisher [Prentice Hall] and a major paperback publisher [Ballantine
Books] under the persuasive hand of the CIA.” L. Fletcher Prouty, The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World, New York: SkyHorse Publishing, 2008, xii, xv.
45. During
the Pike Committee hearings in 1975 Congressman Otis Pike asked DCI
William Colby, “Do you have any people paid by the CIA who are working
for television networks?” Colby responded, “This, I think, gets into the
kind of details, Mr. Chairman, that I’d like to get into in executive
session.” Once the chamber was cleared Colby admitted that in 1975
specifically “the CIA was using ‘media cover’ for eleven agents, many
fewer than in the heyday of the cloak-and-pencil operations, but no
amount of questioning would persuade him to talk about the publishers
and network chieftains who had cooperated at the top.” Schorr, Clearing the Air, 275.
46. “There
is quite an incredible spread of relationships,” former CIA
intelligence officer William Bader informed a US Senate Intelligence
Committee investigating the CIA’s infiltration of the nation’s
journalistic outlets. “You don’t need to manipulate Time magazine, for example, because there are Agency people at the management level.” Bernstein, “The CIA and the Media.”
47. In 1985 film historian and professor Joseph McBride came across a November 29, 1963 memorandum from J. Edgar Hoover, titled, “Assassination of President John F. Kennedy,” wherein the FBI director stated that his agency provided two individuals with briefings, one of whom was “Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency.” ”
When McBride queried the CIA with the memo a “PR man was tersely formal
and opaque: ‘I can neither confirm nor deny.’ It was the standard
response the agency gave when it dealt with its sources and methods,”
journalist Russ Baker notes. When McBride published a story in The
Nation, “The Man Who Wasn’t There, ‘George Bush,’ C.I.A. Operative,” the
CIA came forward with a statement that the George Bush referenced in
the FBI record “apparently” referenced a George William Bush,
who filled a perfunctory night shift position at CIA headquarters that
“would have been the appropriate place to receive such a report.”
McBride tracked down George William Bush to confirm he was only employed
briefly as a “probationary civil servant” who had “never received
interagency briefings.” Shortly thereafter The Nation ran
a second story by McBride wherein “the author provided evidence that
the Central Intelligence Agency had foisted a lie on the American people
… As with McBride’s previous story, this disclosure was greeted with
the equivalent of a collective media yawn.” Since the episode
researchers have found documents linking George H. W. Bush to the CIA as early as 1953. Russ Baker, Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, America’s Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years, New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2009, 7-12.
48. Operation
Gladio, the well-documented collaboration between Western spy agencies,
including the CIA, and NATO involving coordinated terrorist shootings
and bombings of civilian targets throughout Europe from the late 1960s through the 1980s, has been effectively expunged from major mainstream
news outlets. A LexisNexis Academic search conducted in 2012 for
“Operation Gladio” retrieved 31 articles in English language news
media—most appearing in British newspapers. Only four articles
discussing Gladio ever appeared in US publications—three in theNew York Times and one brief mention in the Tampa Bay Times. With the exception of a 2009 BBC documentary,
no network or cable news broadcast has ever referenced the
state-sponsored terror operation. Almost all of the articles referencing
Gladio appeared in 1990 when Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti
publicly admitted Italy’s participation in the process. The New York Times downplayed
any US involvement, misleadingly designating Gladio “an Italian
creation” in a story buried on page A16. In reality, former CIA director
William Colby revealed in his memoirs that covert paramilitaries were a
significant agency undertaking set up after World War II, including
“the smallest possible coterie of the most reliable people, in
Washington [and] NATO.” James F. Tracy, “False Flag Terror and Conspiracies of Silence,”Global Research, August 10, 2012.
49. Days
before the April 19, 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal
Building in Oklahoma City DCI William Colby confided to his friend,
Nebraska State Senator John DeCamp his personal concerns over the
Militia and Patriot movement within the United States, then surging in
popularity due to the use of the alternative media of that era–books,
periodicals, cassette tapes, and radio broadcasts. “I watched as the
Anti-War movement rendered it impossible for this country to conduct or
win the Vietnam War,” Colby remarked. “I tell you, dear friend, that the
Militia and Patriot movement in which, as an attorney, you have become
one of the centerpieces, is far more significant and far more dangerous
for American than the Anti-War movement ever was, if it is not
intelligently dealt with. And I really mean this.” David Hoffman, The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror, Venice CA: Feral House, 1998, 367.
50. Shortly after the appearance of journalist Gary Webb’s “Dark Alliance” series in theSan Jose Mercury News chronicling the Agency’s involvement in drug trafficking, the CIA’s public affairs
division embarked on a campaign to counter what it termed “a genuine
public relations crisis for the Agency.” Webb was merely reporting to a
large audience what had already been well documented by scholars such as
Alfred McCoy and Peter Dale Scott, and the 1989 Kerry Committee Report on Iran-Contra—that the CIA had long been involved in the illegal transnational drug trade.
Such findings were upheld in 1999 in a study by the CIA inspector
general. Nevertheless, beginning shortly after Webb’s series ran, “CIA
media spokesmen would remind reporters seeking comment that this series
represented no real news,” a CIA internal organ noted, “in that similar
charges were made in the 1980s and were investigated by the Congress and
were found to be without substance. Reporters were encouraged to read
the “Dark Alliance’ series closely and with a critical eye to what allegations could actually be backed with evidence.” http://www.foia.
51. On
December 10, 2004 investigative journalist Gary Webb died of two .38
caliber gunshot wounds to the head. The coroner ruled the death a
suicide.
“Gary Webb was MURDERED,” concluded FBI senior special agent Ted
Gunderson in 2005. “He (Webb) resisted the first shot [to the head that
exited via jaw] so he was shot again with the second shot going into the
head [brain].” Gunderson regards the theory that Webb could have
managed to shoot himself twice as “impossible!” Charlene Fassa, “Gary Webb: More Pieces in the Suicided Puzzle,” Rense.com, December 11, 2005.
52. The
most revered journalists who receive “exclusive” information and access
to the corridors of power are typically the most subservient to
officialdom and often have intelligence ties. Those granted such access
understand that they must likewise uphold government-sanctioned
narratives. For example, the New Times’ Tom Wicker reported on November 22, 1963 that President John F. Kennedy “was hit by a bullet in the throat, just below the Adam’s
apple.” Yet his account went to press before the official story of a
single assassin shooting from the rear became established. York Wicker was chastised through “lost access, complaints to editors and publishers, social penalties, leaks to competitors, a variety of responses no one wants.” Barrie Zwicker,Towers of Deception: The Media Coverup of 9/11, Gabrioloa Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 2006, 169-170.
53. The
CIA actively promotes a desirable public image of its history and
function by advising the production of Hollywood vehicles, such as Argo and Zero Dark Thirty.
The Agency retains “entertainment industry liaison officers” on its
staff that “plant positive images about itself (in other words,
propaganda) through our most popular forms of entertainment,” Tom Hayden
explains in the LA Review of Books. “So natural has the
CIA–entertainment connection become that few question its legal or moral
ramifications. This is a government agency like no other; the truth of its operations is not subject to public examination.
When the CIA’s hidden persuaders influence a Hollywood movie, it is
using a popular medium to spin as favorable an image of itself as
possible, or at least, prevent an unfavorable one from taking hold.” Tom Hayden, “Review of The CIA in Hollywood: How the Agency Shapes Film and Television by Tricia Jenkins,” LA Review of Books, February 24, 2013,
54. Former CIA case officer Robert David Steele states that CIA manipulation of news media is “worse” in the 2010s than in the late 1970s when
Bernstein wrote “The CIA and the Media.” “The sad thing is that the CIA
is very able to manipulate [the media] and it has financial
arrangements with media, with Congress, with all others. But the other
half of that coin is that the media is lazy.” James Tracy interview with Robert David Steele, August 2, 2014,
55. A
well-known fact is that broadcast journalist Anderson Cooper interned
for the CIA while attending Yale as an undergraduate in the late 1980s.
According to Wikipedia Cooper’s
great uncle, William Henry Vanderbilt III, was an Executive Officer of
the Special Operations Branch of the OSS under the spy organization’s
founder William “Wild Bill” Donovan.
While Wikipedia is an often dubious source, Vanderbilt’s OSS
involvement would be in keeping with the OSS/CIA reputation of taking on
highly affluent personnel for overseas derring-do. William Henry Vanderbilt III, Wikipedia.
56. Veteran German journalist Udo Ulfkotte, author of the 2014 bookGekaufte Journalisten (Bought Journalists)
revealed how under the threat of job termination he was routinely
compelled to publish articles written by intelligence agents using his
byline. “I
ended up publishing articles under my own name written by agents of the
CIA and other intelligence services, especially the German secret
service,” Ulfkotte explained in a recent interview with Russia Today. “German Journo: European Media Writing Pro-US Stories Under CIA Pressure,” RT, October 18, 2014.
57. In
1999 the CIA established In-Q-Tel, a venture capital firm seeking to
“identify and invest in companies developing cutting-edge information
technologies that serve United States national security interests.” The
firm has exercised financial relationships with internet platforms
Americans use on a routine basis, including Google and Facebook. “If you
want to keep up with Silicon Valley, you need to become part of Silicon
Valley,” says Jim Rickards, an adviser to the U.S. intelligence
community familiar with In-Q-Tel’s activities. “The best way to do that is have a budget because when you have a checkbook, everyone comes to you.” At one point IQT “catered largely to the needs of the CIA.” Today, however, “the firm supports many of the 17
agencies within the U.S. intelligence community, including the National
Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), the Defense Intelligence Agency
(DIA) and the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology
Directorate.” Matt Egan, “In-Q-Tel: A Glimpse Inside the CIA’s Venture Capital Arm,” FoxBusiness.com, June 14, 2013.
58. At
a 2012 conference held by In-Q-Tel CIA Director David Patraeus declared
that the rapidly-developing “internet of things” and “smart
home” will provide the CIA with the ability to spy on any US citizen
should they become a “person of interest’ to the spy community,” Wired
magazine reports. “‘Transformational’ is an overused word, but I do
believe it properly applies to these technologies,’ Patraeus enthused,
‘particularly to their effect on clandestine tradecraft’ …
‘Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely
controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency identification,
sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters — all
connected to the next-generation internet using abundant, low-cost, and
high-power computing,” Patraeus said,
“the latter now going to cloud computing, in many areas greater and
greater supercomputing, and, ultimately, heading to quantum computing.” Spencer Ackerman, “CIA Chief: We’ll Spy on You Through Your Dishwasher,” Wired, March 15, 2012.
59. In the summer of 2014 a $600 million computing cloud developed by Amazon Web Services
for the CIA began servicing all 17 federal agencies comprising the
intelligence community. “If the technology plays out as officials
envision,” The Atlantic reports,
“it will usher in a new era of cooperation and coordination, allowing
agencies to share information and services much more easily and avoid
the kind of intelligence gaps that preceded the Sept. 11, 2001,
terrorist attacks.” “The Details About the CIA’s Deal With Amazon,” The Atlantic, July 17, 2014.
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