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Details of Operation Mockingbird was revealed as a result of the Frank Church investigations (Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities) in 1975. I received a copy of this report this morning. It makes interesting reading. Here is one passage from the report that relates to Operation Mockingbird:
However, he leaked a story to members of Operation Mockingbird that attempted to cover-up the role that the CIA and DINA had played in the killings. Jeremiah O'Leary in the Washington Star (8th October, 1976) wrote: "The right-wing Chilean junta had nothing to gain and everything to lose by the assassination of a peaceful and popular socialist ...
Davis published these details in her book Katharine the Great (1979). She appears to have been the first one to use the term Operation Mockingbird. The book was heavily edited. This included the removal of information that Ben Bradlee was working for Operation Mockingbird in the early 1950s.
On 6/23/2023 at 6:41 PM, James DiEugenio said: Mockingbird is being run by the CIA's Public Affairs agency. Back in the nineties there was a partly declassified CIA document that said they have excellent connections with every major news agency. Then followed some examples, that part was classified.
BOB WOODWARD AND OPERATION MOCKINGBIRD. Operation Mockingbird was a secret Central Intelligence Agency campaign to influence domestic and foreign media than began in the 1950s. Its public exposure came with the publication in 1964 of Invisible Government by David Wise and Thomas Ross.
Operation Mockingbird is the name of a CIA project that may or may not have existed. It has been mentioned in several books and web sites, but its existence has not yet been determined. Some believe the operation is merely an urban legend or a conspiracy theory.
Walter Lippmann, like many journalists in Operation Mockingbird, originally worked for British intelligence. In the 1930s, with the support of Helen Rogers Reid, the owner of New York Herald Tribune, he worked very closely with British Security Coordination (BSC). Released BSC documents list Lipp...
Evidence for Operation Mockingbird first came from many different sources. Thomas Braden, head of the of the CIA's International Organizations Division (IOD), played an important role in Operation Mockingbird. In June, 1975, Braden gave an interview to the Granada Television program, World in Action: The Rise and Fall of the CIA.
Posted August 1, 2006. One of the most important figures in Operation Mockingbird was Victor Lasky. He joined the U.S. Army in 1942 and wrote for Stars & Stripes during the war. After the war Lasky joined The New York World-Telegram and assisted Frederick Woltman in writing a series of articles on communist infiltration of American institutions.
Posted November 16, 2011. Part 1. Thought it might be worth discussing the role of Henry Luce and Operation Mockingbird. When he was at Yale he was a member of the Skull and Bones. After graduating in 1920 Luce spent a year at Oxford University. During this period he contributed to the Chicago Daily News.