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In reply to the discussion: Key cocaine dealer in Poppy Bush's IranContra ops applauds choice of John Kerry for SoS [View all]OldDem2012
(3,526 posts)51. The MSM was corrupted long ago....Operation Mockingbird, 1948.....
Operation Mockingbird
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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."
This is well worth the time to read...details the subversion of the so-called Free Press. You'll recognize a lot of very visible names.
QUOTE:
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."
This is well worth the time to read...details the subversion of the so-called Free Press. You'll recognize a lot of very visible names.
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Key cocaine dealer in Poppy Bush's IranContra ops applauds choice of John Kerry for SoS [View all]
blm
Jan 2013
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Uncovering IranContra also opened doors to S&L coverups and use of BCCI to fund global terrorism
blm
Jan 2013
#2
if IranContra and BCCI had the focused attention from DC media as Lewinsky case, BushInc would have
blm
Jan 2013
#16
This is my gripe about Clinton and his closeness w/Poppy Bush. However, if you scrutinize
blm
Jan 2013
#27
You should know by now, JR, that I was just being DU civil in using the word 'gripe' here. ;)
blm
Jan 2013
#33
I also see Poppy Bush's covert ops here dumping tons of cheap coke in urban neighborhoods as a way
blm
Jan 2013
#4
Some who studied this time aren't so sure that Poppy Bush even bothered to let Reagan know what
blm
Jan 2013
#7
Ricky Ross was one of the biggest distributors of all that cheap IranContra cocaine
blm
Jan 2013
#13
People forget how complicit corpmedia has been in the DC power elite's targeting of Kerry
blm
Jan 2013
#22
kerry was made a pariah like webb? please. did he lose his job? was he blacklisted? did he
HiPointDem
Jan 2013
#23
how was he marginalized? he continued as a legislator, got committee appointments, became
HiPointDem
Jan 2013
#49
The press regularly dismisses him as an empty suit and rarely mentions his 5 year investigation
blm
Jan 2013
#54
Once you wrap your brain around the facts in IranContra/BCCI everything else that happens in the
blm
Jan 2013
#34
I believe freshwest is right, many people are unaware of the details involved, and US media
blm
Jan 2013
#61