Propaganda 101: Operation Mockingbird Continues

“Don’t you just love when professionals use “a lot of science to calculate”? Pretty special, must be important and way above my understanding. Well, they are discussing “science”. Once again, no source material, very vague language that is being used as a weapon.” – R Hall

Most Americans are under the influence of TV and radio sources for the daily dose of propaganda. Not understanding they are being lied to and made to believe a lie, it becomes a formidable task to get folks to see the light. They want to see, it’s just the lie is so big, so pervasive at this point it is hard for people to grasp the size of the depth and breadth the lie has reached.

Bob Schieffer, member CFR
Bob Schieffer, member CFR

For me, and you may disagree, propaganda is nothing more than a lie that has been presented as truth and is intended to influence how people live and think. As you read you will see that I use the words “lie” and “propaganda” interchangeably – they are the same thing for the purposes of this article and my life.

While researching another article I came across an article that came straight out of minds of the CIA and Operation Mockingbird. If you are unaware of Operation Mockingbird or question whether the mainstream media — think CNN, Fox, CBS, NBC, ABC and “newspapers” like The Tribune, LA Times, NY Times, Reuters and so many others — are manipulated by the CIA and Operation Mockingbird please explain this,

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). This scandal was known by its code name Operation MOCKINGBIRD. Former Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein cites a former CIA deputy director as saying, “It was widely known that Phil Graham was someone you could get help from” (*82). More recently the Post provided cover for CIA personality Joseph Fernandez by “refusing to print his name for over a year up until the day his indictment was announced …for crimes committed in his official capacity as CIA station chief in Costa Rica” (*83). [Source] Continue reading