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	Operation Mockingbird
		Mockingbird was very active during the overthrow of Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala.
		Mockingbird was an immense financial undertaking with funds flowing from the CIA largely through the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) founded by Tom Braden with Pat Buchanon of CNN's Crossfire.
		Operation Mockingbird continued to flourish with CIA agents boasting at having “important assets” inside every major news outlet in the country.” The list included such luminaries of the US media as Henry Luce, publisher of Time Magazine, Arthur Hays Sulzberger, of the New York Times and C.D. Jackson of Fortune Magazine, according to Constantine.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /JFKmockingbird.htm (13173 words)

	Operation Mockingbird - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Operation Mockingbird is a Central Intelligence Agency operation to influence domestic and foreign media, whose activities were made public during the Church Committee investigation in 1975 (published 1976).
		Mockingbird was very active during the overthrow of Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala during Operation PBSUCCESS.
		Further details of Operation Mockingbird were revealed as a result of the Frank Church investigations (Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities) in 1975.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/MOCKINGBIRD (2486 words)

	Talk:Operation Mockingbird - SourceWatch
		For example it is claimed that Philip Graham was central to the operation and much is made of his role as an innteligence officer in WWII.
		Yes, there are plenty of websites referring to Operation Mockingbird but none go back to credible primary sources; instead, they either refer to each other or make sweeping unreferenced claims that don't deserve to be repeated here.
		"The difference between the days of Operation Mockingbird and the present situation is that, instead of actually placing network executives, publishers, editors, reporters and pundits on the CIA payroll, their contemporary counterparts are now members of the Right Wing Think Tanks*.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Talk:Operation_Mockingbird (1903 words)

	Democratic Underground Forums - "CIA Operation Mockingbird"
		It was not until 1982 that the Agency openly admitted that reporters on the CIA payroll have acted as case officers to agents in the field.
		Operation Octopus, according to federal files, was in full swing by 1948, a surveillance program that turned any television set with tubes into a broadcast transmitter.
		Operation Mockingbird was instigated the CIA's Frank Wisner, Allan Dulles and Richard Helms.
	www.democraticunderground.com /duforum/DCForumID12/295.html (2486 words)

	Deep Throat was part of Operation Mockingbird. ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Operation Mockingbird was also used to ensure the right sort of coverage in the American media.
		However, despite the help given by Philip Graham and other members of Operation Mockingbird, by the summer of 1960 it was clear that LBJ was not going to get the nomination.
		JFK would be given the full support of Operation Mockingbird as long as he took LBJ as his running-mate.
	www.apfn.net /messageboard/06-07-05/discussion.cgi.55.html (2311 words)

	Operation Mockingbird \| The Agonist
		Operation Mockingbird is a Central Intelligence Agency operation to influence domestic and foreign media, whose activities were made public during the Church Committee investigation in 1975 (published 1976).
		According to Carl Bernstein, over 400 reporters and editors were working for the CIA as part of Operation Mockingbird.
		Further details of Operation Mockingbird were revealed as a result of the Frank Church investigations (Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities) in 1975.
	agonist.org /chickadee/20070413/operation_mockingbird (1198 words)

	Operation Mockingbird: CIA Media Manipulation
		Under the guise of 'American' objectives and lack of congressional oversight, the CIA accomplish their exploits by using every trick in the book (and they know quite a few) that they actually teach in the notorious "School of the Americas", nicknamed the "School of Dictators" and "School of Assassins" by critics.
		Another early elitist who served as Director of the CIA from 1953 to 1961 was Allen Dulles, a senior partner at the Wall Street firm of Sullivan and Cromwell, which represented the Rockefeller empire and other trusts, corporations, and cartels.
		One of the first tenets for the control of a population is to control all sources of information the population receives and mostly because of the pervasive CIA and Operation Mockingbird, the mainstream American Press is a controlled multi-national corporate/government megaphone.
	www.prisonplanet.com /analysis_louise_01_03_03_mockingbird.html (1773 words)

	THE CIA CONTROLS THE MEDIA \| CIA SECRET PROJECT "OPERATION MOCKINGBIRD & CATO
		In contrast to newspaper publishing the operations of a defendant broadcater have been subject to elaborate governmental control extending to virtually all aspects of the broadcast industry.
		The CIA secret project 'Operation Mockingbird' media control and/or manipulation concerns all fifty (50) states and every United States citizen in violation of the First Amendment-Right to a Free Press.
		The act states that the FCC should assess the "character...of the applicant to operate the station," and ensure that the "public interest...would be served by the granting" of a license.
	www.freewebs.com /medialawsuit (12893 words)

	OPERATION MOCKINGBIRD
		Perhaps the most notorious was Operation Jennifer, an allegedly failed attempt to recover nuclear codes from a sunken Soviet submarine.
		And although members concluded that "from the CIA point of view this was the highest, most sensitive covert program of all," and "a much larger part of the operational system than had been indicated," this was hardly part of the official findings when they were made public.
		Many of the newspeople who operated with the CIA in the past were or are CFR members.
	www.apfn.org /apfn/cia-media.htm (16040 words)

	Friends of Liberty - Pipeline News disagrees w/ Fahey on Bob Novak/Operation MOCKINGBIRD
		Ted had a loose tongue, was going senile (not a jab at the dear man: he died of Alzheimer's) when I knew him, and he told me quite a lot of things; was still 85% "there" when I knew him, but people could tell he was experiencing the symptoms of onset-Alzheimer's.
		Well I was referring only to Buckley and the OSS, the mockingbird stuff is where the conspiracy buff skeptic kicks in.
		I admire Rove for his ability and I am very disappointed in the missteps that the Bush admin has made since November, Tancredo is one of the few members of the House who is worth his salary, Ron Paul and the libertarians have it wrong on many important issues including the war on terror imho.
	sianews.com /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2553 (938 words)

	UK Gay News - Operation ‘Mockingbird’: County Rallies to Aid Dying Lesbian
		Operation ‘Mockingbird’: County Rallies to Aid Dying Lesbian
		Today, people across the world are standing with Laurel Hester, a dying lesbian New Jersey police officer, by sending copies of the classic book To Kill a Mockingbird to the officials in Ocean County, who are refusing to grant pension benefits to Hester and her partner Stacie Andree.
		According to Jensen, sending copies of the book seemed the perfect way to express disapproval over the actions of Ocean County’s “freeholders,” the Republican officials, who have so far refused to grant Hester, and all lesbian and gay couples, domestic partnership benefits.
	www.ukgaynews.org.uk /Archive/2006jan/0901.htm (1176 words)

	CIA Disinformation in Action, Operation Mockingbird and the Washington Post
		Nestled within the over 100 footnotes and the not quite as many individual examples of supression and distrotions of truth, and even fabrications of 'truth', is a root-most clue to the real problem - a problem which reader should take care not to miss grasping...
		The significance is amplified when it is understood that Mockingbird was not simply the sell out of a newspaper.
		In its COINTELPRO operation, the FBI used disinformation, forgery, surveillance, false arrests, and violence to illegally harass U.S.citizens in the 60's (*16).
	educate-yourself.org /cn/ciadisinfoinaction28mar05.shtml (7516 words)

	Pipe Dreams: the CIA, Drugs, and the Media
		A careful review of covert operations in the Caribbean and South and Central America shows a forty-year connection between crime and covert operations that has repeatedly blown back on the United States....
		Lynch concedes that after the CIA cut off support, many of these exiles, trained in covert operations and smuggling, turned to narcotics trafficking.[4] Given that the CIA had worked with Trafficante to assassinate Castro in 1961,[5] the agency lacked sufficient ethical intelligence to worry that these Trafficante-associated exiles might pose a criminal problem.
		Within several years, however, the contra war developed into a major CIA operation involving Cuban exiles from Miami; former Nicaraguan guardsmen who fled during the 1979 revolution and regrouped in Honduras; and assorted CIA adventurers with drug- and arms-trafficking connections.
	www.namebase.org /news16.html (5273 words)

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		Activists curious about the workings of MOCKINGBIRD have since been appalled to f__ind in FOIA documents that agents boasting in CIA office memos of their pride in having placed "important assets" inside every major news publication in the country.
		The CIA's Operation MONGOOSE illegally sabotaged Cuba by "destroying crops, brutalizing citizens, destabilizing the society, and conspiring with the Mafia to assassinate Fidel Castro and other leaders" (*17).
		...there seems to be little doubt that these gatekeepers preside over an operation in which an appalling amount of press agentry sneaks in the back door of American journalism and marches untouched out the front door as 'news'" (*95).
	www.psychicspy.com /ciamed.txt (9192 words)

	(DV) Fitrakis: Mark Hyman -- Stepford Spook and the New Operation Mockingbird
		Hyman is the Vice President for Corporate Relations for Sinclair Broadcasting, which owns and operates programs or provides sales services affiliated with the top six TV networks in the country: ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, UPN and Warner Brothers.
		During the heyday of the Cold War, the CIA allegedly instituted the notorious Operation Mockingbird to make sure the American mass media sang patriotic hymns in unison.
		Just like the coup in Florida in the 2000 election, the CIA’s time-tested tactics throughout the world are now being overly practiced on the U.S. population.
	www.dissidentvoice.org /Oct04/Fitrakis1012.htm (802 words)

	mockingbird
		Former State Department official William Blum correctly calls this an "American Holocaust." We should note that the CIA gets away with this because it is not accountable to democratic government.
		He was a key figure in Operation Paperclip, which brought Nazi scientists and spies to the U.S. Many were war criminals whose atrocities were excused in their service to the CIA.
		At a minimum, the Task Force recommended that a fresh look be taken at limits on the use of nonofficial 'covers' for hiding and protecting those involved in clandestine activities." Though the task force doesn't explicitly address the use of the press as cover, the implication is obvious.
	www.magickriver.net /mockingbird.htm (19135 words)

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		In writing of the CIA's Operation Mockingbird, Alex Constantine details the inception and implementation of intelligence infiltration into media.
		I’ve studied and interviewed enough to know that not only are intelligence operatives placed inside newsrooms; not only is the Federal Government generating fake newscasts with impunity; and, not only do I believe many of the newscasters (O’Reilly, Matthews, Hannity, etc.) are in on it; but, the scheme truly is obviously simple.
		Under the auspices of “fighting Communism,” (that supreme 20th Century banker’s scheme), globalist operatives created Mockingbird.
	philadelphians.50megs.com /op-mock.html (1313 words)

	QTMagazine.com - Operation Mockingbird: Supporters Rally to Aid of Dying Lesbian - - In the classic novel To Kill a ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Today, people across North America are standing with Laurel Hester, a dying New Jersey police officer, by sending copies of the classic book To Kill a Mockingbird to the officials in Ocean County, who are refusing to grant pension benefits to Hester and her partner.
		The protest is the brain-child of Michael Jensen, a writer of the political blog, The Big Gay Picture (www.biggaypicture.com).
		Hester had not spoken to the press about her life or her fight with the county until doing the interview with Jensen.
	www.qtmagazine.com /article.cfm?section=9&id=8096 (597 words)

	Washington Post's role in Operation Mockingbird (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The chief puppeteer of the Mockingbird network Allen Dulles, a corporazi working for both German and American corporations.
		Independent journalist Alex Constantine writes, "Early MOCKINGBIRD influenced 25 newspapers and wire agencies consenting to act as organs of CIA propaganda.
		A fairytale about how Bremer is well-respected and well-liked by the Iraqi leaders and how he is in complete control of the country.
	www.apfn.net /MESSAGEBOARD/11-22-05/discussion.cgi.39.html (1613 words)

	MOCKINGBIRD - The Subversion Of The Free Press By The CIA
		Activists curious about the workings of MOCKINGBIRD have since been appalled to f__ind in FOIA documents that agents boasting in CIA office memos of their pride in having placed "important assets" inside every major news publication in the country.
		It was not until 1982 that the Agency openly admitted that reporters on the CIA payroll have acted as case officers to agents in the field.
		Cronkite was lured to CBS by Operation MOCKINGBIRD's Phil Graham, according to Deborah Davis.
	www.whatreallyhappened.com /RANCHO/POLITICS/MOCK/mockingbird.html (8351 words)

	Operation Mockingbird - The Subversion Of America's Free Press By The CIA (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Operation Mockingbird - The Subversion Of America's Free Press By The CIA
		Tales from the Crypt The Depraved Spies and Moguls of the CIA's Operation MOCKINGBIRD
		Former Washington Post publisher Philip Graham "believing that the function of the press was more often than not to mobilize consent for the policies of the government, was one of the architects of what became a widespread practice:the use and manipulation of journalists by the CIA" (*81).
	www.rense.com /politics6/mockingbird.htm (9439 words)

	CIA "OPERATION MOCKINGBIRD' \| CIA SECRET PROJECT OPERATION MOCKINGBIRD IS VIOLATION OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT TO A ...
		Anything less renders any discussion meaningless and unworthy in their opinion, and anyone who disagrees is obviously stupid -- and they generally put it in exactly those terms.
		Twist or amplify any fact which could be taken to imply that the opponent operates out of a hidden personal agenda or other bias.
		They tend to operate in self-congratulatory and complementary packs or teams.
	www.freewebs.com /operationmockingbird (8059 words)

	Creepy Mockingbird Propaganda Tactics (Site not responding. Last check: )
		(Conspiracy Nation, 10/26/05) -- Operation Mockingbird was (is) a CIA operation which influenced (influences) mass media "news." It was discovered in 1975 by the Church Committee investigation.
		The Operation Mockingbird played a role in the toppling of the Nixon presidency in 1974, a "Silent Coup."
		At the time, Americans were hoodwinked into believing a "heroic press," and especially the Washington Post, had saved the nation.
	www.shout.net /~bigred/Mockingbird.html (535 words)

	ROCKFISH Seafood Grill Restaurant Locations: DFW Metroplex
		With a sleek finish and urban edge, this Rockfish is in the trendy Mockingbird Station retail development.
		FROM CENTRAL EXPRESSWAY: Take the Mockingbird Lane exit and turn east on Mockingbird.
		ROCKFISH will be on your left in Mockingbird Station.
	www.rockfishseafood.com /dfwmetroplex.htm (444 words)

	The Subversion Of America's Free Press By The CIA
		Subject: Operation Mockingbird - The Subversion Of America's Free Press By The CIA: Control of the Masses from Tit- to Tomb (Or- Why You Never Learned of the Codex Vitamin Issue in the Mainstream Media)
		IAHF List: People ask me all the time why they never see any reports in the mainstream media about the Codex vitamin issue or other health freedom issues unless they are articles attacking vitamins and alternative medicine.
		Most consumers of the corporate media were - and are -unaware of the effect that the salting of public opinion has on their own beliefs.
	www.iahf.com /usa/20000916a.html (9778 words)

	Who controls the Media? - Operation Mockingbird - Gold & Silver Forum
		General Discussion Any subject may be discussed here that does not fit into the other forums.
		In this idyllic land, the most serious infraction an official can commit--is a the employment of a domestic servant with (shudder) no residency status.This unlikely land of enchantment is the creation of Operation MOCKINGBIRD.
		Operation Mockingbird, created with the purpose of total control of the mass media, buying newspapers, magazines, tv channels and infiltrating Hollywood to influence and control public opinion.
	goldismoney.info /forums/showthread.php?t=9978 (2921 words)

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		CIA, The Depraved Spies and Moguls of the CIA's Operation
		Operation Tailwind and the activities of SOG, Studies and
		Mockingbird, the mainstream American Press is a controlled
	www.perspectives.com /forums/forum71/33874.html (2599 words)

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