CIA Funding and Manipulation of the U.S. News
Media: Operation Mockingbird was a secret Central Intelligence Agency
campaign to influence domestic and foreign media beginning in the 1950s.
According to the Congress report published in 1976:
“The
CIA currently maintains a network of several hundred foreign
individuals around the world who provide intelligence for the CIA and at
times attempt to influence opinion through the use of covert
propaganda. These individuals provide the CIA with direct access to a
large number of newspapers and periodicals, scores of press services and
news agencies, radio and television stations, commercial book
publishers, and other foreign media outlets.”
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