Operation Mockingbird
- 1969 Frank Wisner/ CIA Director – Head of the Directorates of plans. Was given a task to start an organization responsible for the manipulation of media and direct action in America.
- This operation would be known as Mockingbird.
- Mockingbird – Objective: Stop the Communists / Story: Communists are bad
- The CIA would hire top Journalists working for big publications.
- The CIA would bankroll many films in Hollywood
- The CIA was able to implement a mass media manipulation system, allowing them to control a good portion of public perception. They had the ability to release media that fit their narrative, while censoring those they did not like, as long as it was under a company under their control.
- CBS, Time magazine, New York Times, New York Herald, New York Post, The Washington Post
- Another aspect of Mockingbird was the hunt for communist sympathizers, in the press, and in the film industry.
- The CIA would place undercover agents in major studios where they monitored left-wing screenwriters and directors.
- Investigations would be carried out, looking for just a sniff of leftist ideas.
- 1975 Senator Frank Church set up a committee (The Church Committee)
- CIA Director William Colby would be called in for a hearing.
- The Church committee would go on to release various reports exposing the CIA leading to public outrage.
- The next year 1976 George H. W. Bush publicly ended the CIA’s relations with the U.S. Media.
- “The CIA will not enter into any paid or contractual relationships with any full-time or part-time news correspondent accredited by any United States news service, newspaper, periodical, radio or television network or station” – G. H. W. Bush
- If this was going on in the 70s imagine how they are influencing the media today.
- Official documents that have been obtained through the freedom of information act and were published in 2017 detailed the dealings between filmmakers and intelligence officials at Langley the CIA headquarters.
- The best-known work of this collaboration is: Zero Dark 30, Argo, Sum of all Fears, Charlie Wilsons War, TV shows such as Homeland, Alias, 24, The Agency
- The DOD is a much more powerful player in that they have all the toys that you see in movies and shows and the people to operate them.
- They will often shut down scripts if the military is shown in a bad light.
- The pentagon has changed scripts such as in Ang Lee’s version of The Hulk a reference to a US operation that poisoned Vietnamese farmland was removed, In James Bond Tomorrow Never Dies a suggestion that the US did not win the war was cut out of the script, In Iron Man, a reference to soldier suicides was cut out, these are just a few examples of the pentagon’s insistence of script changes.
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Have you ever wondered why movies and tv shows depicted government agencies in a more favorable light and most of the time come out as the heroes? What if I told you that is not just good storytelling from a Hollywood screenwriter but had outside influence from the CIA to create propaganda for the American public and the global stage? Well on today’s episode we will get to the bottom of Operation Mockingbird which has done and is still to this day working its propaganda on the public.
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