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late 40s CIA begins recruiting American news
organizations and journalists to become spies and
disseminators of
propaganda.
The effort is headed by
Frank Wisner,
Allen Welsh Dulles,
Richard Helms and Philip
Graham.
Graham is publisher of the
Washington Post, a major CIA player.
Eventually, the CIA's
media assets will include elements within ABC, NBC, CBS, Time, Newsweek,
Associated
Press, United Press International, Reuters, Hearst Newspapers,
Scripps-Howard, Copley News Service and more.
By the
CIA's own admission, at least 25 organizations and 400 journalists will become
CIA assets.
1949 CIA creates
its first major propaganda outlet, Radio Free Europe.
Over the
next several decades, its broadcasts are so blatantly false that it is
considered illegal to publish transcripts of them in the US.
That changes on July 2, 2012 when it becomes legal for
federal government agencies to engage in propaganda.
early 1950's Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty
are organized by the Central Intelligence Agency as outlets of
propaganda.
The intent of
Radio Free Europe is to broadcast into the
Soviet Union and
Eastern Europe to
"keep hope alive among friends";
"confuse, divide and
undermine enemies"; and "encourage uprisings
against government."
Bing Crosby, Henry Fonda,
Ronald Reagan, Rock
Hudson, and Barbara Stanwyck all made propaganda films or radio
broadcasts.
1953
Cold war disinformation arm of the CIA is centered in the "Mighty
Wurlitzer" propaganda offices of Wall Street veteran Frank Wisner.
This is an enormous operation, with thousands of employees adept at
planting press and radio stories, engaging with labor unions, applying economic
pressure, offering direct monetary payments and waging political and cultural
warfare.
Wisner captured former OSS filmmaker John Ford and studio
bosses Cecil B. DeMille (Paramount Pictures) and Darryl Zanuck (Twentieth
Century-Fox).
Hughes, the boss of RKO Pictures, jumped on the transport
plane "exacerbated by his desire to have Hughes Aircraft profit from the Korean
and any future anti-Soviet wars".
A main concern of the CIA was the
portrayal of race-relations in Hollywood movies.
It was argued that the
left was using this issue to undermine the idea that America was a democracy
based on equal rights.
Letters from
Charles Douglas
Jackson sent to the producers of films called for scenes showing African
Americans mixing on equal terms with whites.
J. Edgar Hoover, jealous
of growing CIA power, gave McCarthy details of an affair that Frank Wisner had
with Princess Caradja in Romania.
Joseph McCarthy began accusing senior
members of the CIA as security risks.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation
added to the smear by announcing it was unwilling to give Meyer "security
clearance", yet refused to explain what evidence they had.
Drew Pearson,
Joe Alsop, Jack Anderson, Walter Lippmann and Ed Murrow all went into attack
mode and McCarthy was permanently damaged by the press coverage orchestrated by
Wisner.
Roy Marcus Cohn, a DoJ
prosecutor at the espionage trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, was Senator
Joseph McCarthy's chief counsel in investigations of suspected communists, a
top political fixer, and Donald Trump's mentor and personal
lawyer.
After leaving McCarthy, Cohn had a 30-year career as an attorney
in New York City.
His clients included Donald Trump; New York Yankees
baseball club and New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner; Aristotle
Onassis; Mafia figures Tony Salerno, Carmine Galante, and John Gotti; Studio 54
owners Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager; the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New
York, and Texas financier and philanthropist Shearn Moody, Jr.
Secret life of J Edgar Hoover
Modern art was CIA 'weapon'
April
1967 "CIA send an official memorandum dispatch to agency chiefs and
stations.
This memo described a strategy for discrediting critics of
the Warren Report, the official account for the assassination of
President Kennedy released in 1964.
At the time of the memo, polls
showed that 46% of Americans did not think that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone,
in contradiction to the official finding.
To counter such criticisms,
the memo proposed labeling critics as "conspiracy theorists" and proposed that
the CIA's "propaganda assets" in media begin to use the slur and other, related
techniques to marginalize critics.
The memo instructed media assets to
discredit those questioning government reports by saying the critics should be
depicted as "wedded to theories adopted before the evidence was in, hasty or
inaccurate in their research, or infatuated with their own theories."
The approach laid out by the memo was adopted by many in the American
media." - Kevin Ryan
March 1967 Ramparts
publishes NSA and the CIA by Sol Stern.
NSA and the CIA
reports CIA funding of the National Student Association; exposed the whole
system of anti-Communist front organizations in Europe, Asia, and South America
while naming Cord Meyer as a key figure in this campaign.
This article
notes the funding of the literary journal Encounter, Stephen Spender and
Irving Kristol.
The Ramparts Affair
1976
Select Committee to Study Governmental
Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities:
"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."
Frank Church argued
that the cost of misinforming the world cost American taxpayers an estimated
$265 million a year.
1977
New York Times investigative
series states the Central Intelligence Agency owned or subsidized more than 50
newspapers, news
services, radio
stations, periodicals and other communications facilities.
Paid
agents infiltrated a dozen foreign news organizations, and at least 22 American
news organizations employ agents as
journalists.
Nearly a
dozen US publishing houses print more than 1,000 books produced or subsidized
by the CIA.
Copely News Service worked closely with the intelligence
services - in fact, 23 employees were full-time employees of the
Agency.
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