How The CIA Controls The Media

[thegente]

www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-09/german-journalist-blows-whistle-how-cia-controls-media

 

German Journalist Blows Whistle On How The CIA Controls The Media

 10/09/2014 14:04 -0400
 

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Submitted by Michael Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,

“I was bribed by billionaires, I was bribed by the Americans to report…not exactly the truth.”

 

- Udo Ulfkotte, a former editor of one of Germany’s main daily publications, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Some readers will see this and immediately dismiss it as Russian propaganda since the interview appeared on RT. This would be a serious mistake.

Whether you want to admit it or not, CIA control of the media in the U.S. and abroad is not conspiracy theory, it is conspiracy fact.

Carl Bernstein, who is best known for his reporting on Watergate, penned a 25,000 word article in Rolling Stone after spending six months looking at the relationship of the CIA and the press during the Cold War years. Below is an excerpt, but you can read the entire thing here.

In 1953, Joseph Alsop, then one of America’s leading syndicated columnists, went to the Philippines to cover an election. He did not go because he was asked to do so by his syndicate. He did not go because he was asked to do so by the newspapers that printed his column. He went at the request of the CIA.

 

Alsop is one of more than 400 American journalists who in the past twenty?five years have secretly carried out assignments for the Central Intelligence Agency, according to documents on file at CIA headquarters.

Some of these journalists’ relationships with the Agency were tacit; some were explicit. There was cooperation, accommodation and overlap. Journalists provided a full range of clandestine services—from simple intelligence gathering to serving as go?betweens with spies in Communist countries.

 

Reporters shared their notebooks with the CIA. Editors shared their staffs. Some of the journalists were Pulitzer Prize winners, distinguished reporters who considered themselves ambassadors without?portfolio for their country.

Most were less exalted: foreign correspondents who found that their association with the Agency helped their work; stringers and freelancers who were as interested in the derring?do of the spy business as in filing articles; and, the smallest category, full?time CIA employees masquerading as journalists abroad.

 

In many instances, CIA documents show, journalists were engaged to perform tasks for the CIA with the consent of the managements of America’s leading news organizations.

Like any good intelligence agency, the CIA learned from its mistakes upon being exposed, and has since adjusted tactics. This is where the concept of “non-official cover” comes into play. The term was recently described by German journalist Udo Ulfkotte, in a blistering RT interview. Mr. Ulfkotte was previously a respected journalist for one of Germany’s main dailies, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), so he is no small fry.

“Non-official cover” occurs when a journalist is essentially working for the CIA, but it’s not in an official capacity. This allows both parties to reap the rewards of the partnership, while at the same time giving both sides plausible deniability. The CIA will find young journalists and mentor them. Suddenly doors will open up, rewards will be given, and before you know it, you owe your entire career to them. That’s essentially how it works. But don’t take it from me…

 

If this peaked your curiosity, read about Operation Mockingbird.

 

 

 

OPERATION MOCKINGBIRD

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird

 

 

CIA AND THE MEDIA by Carl Bernstein:

http://www.carlbernstein.com/magazine_cia_and_media.php

Edited October 9, 2014 by thegente

[Jim1cor13]

Thank you thegente. Well, it is true, not because I want it to be,

but because the agency has said it with their own mouths. Strange

thing is, most STILL believe everything they are being told. That

to me is willful blindness. We have been played, and we seem to

like it!

 

Here are a few quotes:

 

We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.-- William Casey, CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981 (it worked!)

 

 

"The CIA worked very closely with them and United States supported Saddam Hussein at every level - gave him arms, gave him money, gave him political backing, the military helped him; none of this is really fully understood by the American people." - Peter Camejo (of course it isn't, we were lied to!)

 

 

"The connections piled up quickly. Contra planes flew north to the U.S., loaded with cocaine, then returned laden with cash. All under the protective umbrella of the United States Government. My informants were perfectly placed: one worked with the Contra pilots at their base, while another moved easily among the Salvadoran military officials who protected the resupply operation. They fed me the names of Contra pilots. Again and again, those names showed up in the DEA database as documented drug traffickers. When I pursued the case, my superiors quietly and firmly advised me to move on to other investigations." - Former DEA Agent Celerino Castillo, Powder Burns, 1992

 

 

"We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things the general public does not need to know, and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows." - Katherine Graham  (legitimate steps???)  

Edited October 9, 2014 by Jim1cor13

[Rayzur]

Interesting, the video version of this was brought to my attention just the other day..

 

 

Edited October 9, 2014 by Rayzur

[Jim1cor13]

Here is more CIA info:

 

http://www.whale.to/b/cia.html

 

Sounds like a nice group, no?

 

 

 

 

"teach them to hate"...it worked again!

Edited October 9, 2014 by Jim1cor13

[thegente]

Thanks Jim and Rayzur...yes, I know I am still dumbfounded people actually still believe the crap that is pumped out daily by our gov and MSM...lack of critical thinking and ingnorance are HUGE part of the problem.

[Jim1cor13]

 

lack of critical thinking and ingnorance are HUGE part of the problem.

 

Good points made thegente.

 

In my observation, there is a reason so many refuse to admit being lied

to and manipulated by the propaganda. It is PRIDE, due to realizing that

*if* they admit we were lied to, they must re-evaluate everything they think

they knew. One cannot often bring themselves to this point, because then

one would have to admit they were mislead and their beliefs were based upon

lies.

 

Most have no interest in doing this, so they agree with the 'official'

narrative when IT agrees with their own beliefs or attitudes. Some things

never change I guess. It is always easier to go along with the flow of

ignorance than to stand against it, hence, we see the growing call for

endless wars against a 'boogeyman' that was created to scare and motivate

support.

 

Thanks again thegente.

[thegente]

Jim, you broke it down perfectly...PRIDE...and ARROGANCE. Most people are deathly afraid of the unknown and most Americans by and large, have never set foot abroad, or out of their state for that matter, and I think if they did, we would have lot more folks with a better grasp on reality and how the world works.

[umbertino]

Grazie for sharing, People... I do appreciate it.

[skeetdog]

Thanks Rayzur....Did all that reading and scrolled down and you had it in a nut shell on video....Gotta keep a good eye on you...