It is a false belief that the CIA 'infiltrated' unwitting media institutions. The recruitment of journalists was frequently done with complicity from top management and ownership. Former CIA Director William Colby claimed during the Church Committee investigative hearings, "Let's go to the managements. They were witting." Among the organizations that would lend their help to the propaganda efforts was the New York Times, Newsweek, Associated Press, and the Miami Herald. Providing cover to CIA agents was a part of the New York Times policy, set by their late publisher, Arthur Hays Salzberger.
"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."5 Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities
Some investigative journalists have claimed that Operation Mockingbird did not end in 1976 as the CIA claims. For example, in 1998, researcher Steve Kangas claimed that conservative billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife, who ran 'Forum World Features,' a foreign news organization, was a CIA asset and used the organization to disseminate propaganda for circulation in the United States. Kangas ended up dead with a bullet hole in his head, in the office of Richard Scaife. It was ruled a suicide, although there were discrepancies in the police report and the autopsy.
While it is deplorable for citizens to be subjected to the deceit of state-owned media, at least they can be aware of the biases and filter information accordingly. We have been taught the lie from birth that the U.S. press is "free" from government meddling. [2]
In situations where the manipulation is completely covert, the American public is left unaware of the propaganda they have been ingesting for decades. [End of From Operation Mockingbird: The CIA and Propaganda July 2014, the entire article can be read in Appendix A]
Snopes and Wikipedia have determined that Pizzagate is Fake
CLAIM: The 'Podesta e-mails' revealed the existence of a secret society of pedophiles operating through a pizza place loosely connected to Clinton associate David Brock.
FALSE: Comet Ping Pong Pizzeria is Not the Home of a Child Abuse Ring Led by Hillary Clinton The popular fact checking website Snopes is a well-known resource for validating and debunking such stories in American popular culture. The Snopes website in 2010 attracted 7 to 8 million unique visitors in one month.The snopes.com web site is (and always has been) a completely independent, self-sufficient entity wholly owned by its operators and funded through advertising revenues. Fortunately for their readers, the website is now completely self-sufficient because, as of today, there are no advertisements that would interfere with someone wanting an unbiased fact checking of urban legends and rumors in American popular culture.
I went to the Wayback Machine to see what advertisements might have funded the site in the past; but when I entered snopes.com in the search box, the Wayback Machine was "Sorry" because Snopes uploaded a robot text file to their server to keep anyone from archiving the pages on their site. Sorry. This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine.
The site has been referenced by news media and other sites, including CNN, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, and Australia's ABC on its Media Watch program. Snopes' popular standing is such that some chain e-mail hoaxes claim to have been "checked out on 'Snopes.com'" in an attempt to discourage readers from seeking verification.
Wikipedia
Pizzagate is a debunked conspiracy theory that emerged during the 2016 United States presidential election cycle, alleging that John Podesta's emails, which were leaked by WikiLeaks, contain coded messages referring to human trafficking, and connecting a number of pizzerias in Washington, D.C. and members of the Democratic Party to a child-sex ring.
The theory has been discredited by a wide array of sources across the political spectrum, described as a "fictitious conspiracy theory" by the District of Columbia Police Department and determined to be false by multiple organizations including Snopes.com, The New York Times, and Fox News.Of note, Wikipedia, which Snopes.com regularly cites as a primary source on a great number of their pages, has also become accepted as another "paragon" of Truth. Wikipedia, as the name implies, is a true "Wiki" -- that is, it's an open source, interactive Web site (akin to a blog) -- with or without adult supervision, with unknown controls (if any) as to the source and quality of its content at any given moment. [End of Snopes and Wikipedia have determined that Pizzagate is Fake]
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