“Reporters tend to lose their sense of skepticism, which you should particularly have dealing with CIA operational people — because their one real skill in terms of tradecraft is manipulating opinion.” It’s no secret that the CIA has a long and sordid history of controlling the news.
Great interview and wonderful collection of reference links. A few fine points largely omitted from history but solidly rooted in memory as a Washington creature from Watergate to Bush Sr.
Carl Bernstein's discovery of OpMockingbird was from Church/Pike Committee investigations and Pike's findings are still largely classified. Original reporting by Bernstein is still epic especially in conjunction w declassified archives for CIA Family Jewels.
1977 Rolling Stone ~ The CIA and The Media - Carl Bernstein
2007 - The CIA's Family Jewels Agency Violated Charter for 25 Years, Wiretapped Journalists and Dissidents ~ CIA Announces Declassification of 1970s "Skeletons" File, Archive Posts Justice Department Summary from 1975, With White House Memcons on Damage Control
Former CIA Analyst Mel Goodman on the Agency’s Media Manipulation
Great interview and wonderful collection of reference links. A few fine points largely omitted from history but solidly rooted in memory as a Washington creature from Watergate to Bush Sr.
Carl Bernstein's discovery of OpMockingbird was from Church/Pike Committee investigations and Pike's findings are still largely classified. Original reporting by Bernstein is still epic especially in conjunction w declassified archives for CIA Family Jewels.
1977 Rolling Stone ~ The CIA and The Media - Carl Bernstein
https://www.carlbernstein.com/the-cia-and-the-media-rolling-stone-10-20-1977
2007 - The CIA's Family Jewels Agency Violated Charter for 25 Years, Wiretapped Journalists and Dissidents ~ CIA Announces Declassification of 1970s "Skeletons" File, Archive Posts Justice Department Summary from 1975, With White House Memcons on Damage Control
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB222/
txs Rebecca, great post!
BTW: Glenn Greenwald is on the blacklist of Ukrainian Government...