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“You could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple hundred dollars a month.” - CIA operative discussing with Philip Graham, editor Washington Post, on the availability and prices of journalists willing to peddle CIA propaganda and cover stories. "Usted puede obtener un periodista más barato que una buena muchacha llamada, de un par de cientos de dólares al mes." - CIA operativo discutiendo con Philip Graham, editor del Washington Post, sobre la disponibilidad y precios de los periodistas dispuestos a peddle propaganda de la CIA y cubrir historias. “Katherine The Great,” by Deborah Davis (New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1991) "El Gran Katherine", por Deborah Davis (1991)

As terrible as it is to live in a nation where the press in known to be controlled by the government, at least one has the advantage of knowing the bias is present, and to adjust for it. Como terrible como lo es vivir en una nación donde la prensa en las que se sabe están controlados por el gobierno, por lo menos uno tiene la ventaja de conocer el sesgo está presente, y ajustar para ello. In the United States of America, we are taught from birth that our press is free from such government meddling. En los Estados Unidos de América, se nos ha enseñado desde el nacimiento que nuestra prensa es libre de la intromisión del gobierno tales. This is an insideous lie about the very nature of the news institution in this country. Este es un insideous mentira de la propia naturaleza de la institución de noticias en este país. One that allows the government to lie to us while denying the very fact of the lie itself. Una que permite al gobierno a la mentira mientras nos niega el hecho mismo de la mentira en sí.

The Alex Constantine Article El artículo Alex Constantine
Tales from the Crypt Cuentos de la Cripta

The Depraved Spies and Moguls of the CIA’s Operation MOCKINGBIRD El Depraved Moguls Spies y de la CIA de Operación MOCKINGBIRD

by Alex Constantine Por Alex Constantine

Who Controls the Media? ¿Quién Controles de los medios de comunicación?

Soulless corporations do, of course. Hacer las empresas sin alma, por supuesto. Corporations with grinning, Empresas con sonreír,
double-breasted executives, interlocking directorates, labor squabbles Doble pecho ejecutivos, la vinculación por consejeros, disputas laborales
and flying capital. Y de vuelo de capital. Dow. General Electric. General Electric. Coca-Cola. Disney.
Newspapers should have mastheads that mirror the world: The Los periódicos deben tener mastheads espejo que el mundo: El
Westinghouse Evening Scimitar, The Atlantic-Richfield Intelligentser . Westinghouse Scimitar tarde, en el Atlántico-Richfield Intelligentser.
It is beginning to dawn on a growing number of armchair ombudsmen that Se está empezando a amanecer en un número cada vez mayor de que los defensores del pueblo sillón
the public print reports news from a parallel universe - one that has El público imprimir informes de noticias de un universo paralelo - uno que se ha
never heard of politically-motivated assassinations, CIA-Mafia banking Nunca oído hablar de los asesinatos por motivos políticos, la CIA-Mafia bancario
thefts, mind control, death squads or even federal agencies with Robos, control mental, escuadrones de la muerte, o incluso con agencias federales
secret budgets fattened by cocaine sales - a place overrun by lone Secreto presupuestos engordados por las ventas de cocaína - un lugar invadido por solitario
gunmen, where the CIA and Mafia are usually on their best behavior. Pistoleros, que la CIA y la mafia son generalmente mejores en su comportamiento. In En
this idyllic land, the most serious infraction an official can commit Esta idílica tierra, la más grave infracción puede cometer un funcionario
__is a the employment of a domestic servant with (shudder) no __is Un el empleo de servicio doméstico con (se estremece) no
residency status. Residencia.

This unlikely land of enchantment is the creation of MOCKINGBIRD. Esta improbable encanto de la tierra es la creación de MOCKINGBIRD.

It was conceived in the late 1940s, the most frigid period of the cold Fue concebida a fines de 1940, el período más frígida del frío
war, when the CIA began a systematic infiltration of the corporate La guerra, cuando la CIA inició una sistemática infiltración de las empresas
media, a process that often included direct takeover of major news Medios de comunicación, un proceso que incluye a menudo toma directa de las principales noticias
outlets. Puntos de venta.

In this period, the American intelligence services competed with En este período, los servicios de inteligencia norteamericanos competían con
communist activists abroad to influence European labor unions. Comunista activistas en el extranjero para influir en los sindicatos de Europa. With or Con o
without the cooperation of local governments, Frank Wisner, an Sin la cooperación de los gobiernos locales, Frank Wisner, un
undercover State Department official assigned to the Foreign Service, Clandestinas del Departamento de Estado asignados a los oficiales del Servicio Exterior,
rounded up students abroad to enter the cold war underground of covert Redondeado estudiantes en el extranjero para entrar en el subterráneo de la guerra fría encubierta
operations on behalf of his Office of Policy Coordination. Operaciones en nombre de su Oficina de Coordinación de Políticas. Philip
Graham, __a graduate of the Army Intelligence School in Harrisburg, Graham, __a graduado de la Escuela de Inteligencia del Ejército en Harrisburg,
PA, then publisher of the Washington Post., was taken under Wisner’s PA, entonces editor del Washington Post., Se tomó en virtud de la Wisner
wing to direct the program code-named Operation MOCKINGBIRD. Ala para dirigir el programa código de la operación denominada MOCKINGBIRD.

“By the early 1950s,” writes formerVillage Voice reporter Deborah "A principios del decenio de 1950", escribe formerVillage Voz reportera Deborah
Davis in Katharine the Great, “Wisner ‘owned’ respected members of the Katharine Davis en la Gran ", Wisner 'propiedad' respetados miembros de la
New York Times, Newsweek, CBS and other communications vehicles, plus New York Times, Newsweek, CBS y otros vehículos de comunicación, más
stringers, four to six hundred in all, according to a former CIA Stringers, de cuatro a seis centenares en total, según un ex CIA
analyst.” The network was overseen by Allen Dulles, a templar for Analista. "La red fue supervisada por Allen Dulles, para templar
German and American corporations who wanted their points of view Las empresas alemanas y estadounidenses que querían sus puntos de vista
represented in the public print. Representados en el público la impresión. Early MOCKINGBIRD influenced 25 A principios MOCKINGBIRD influido 25
newspapers and wire agencies consenting to act as organs of CIA Periódicos y agencias de alambre consentimiento para actuar como órganos de la CIA
propaganda. Propaganda. Many of these were already run by men with reactionary Muchos de ellos ya estaban dirigidas por hombres con reaccionaria
views, among them William Paley (CBS), CD Jackson (Fortune), Henry Puntos de vista, entre ellos William Paley (CBS), CD Jackson (Fortune), Henry
Luce (Time) and Arthur Hays Sulzberger (NY Times). Luce (el tiempo) y Arthur Sulzberger Hays (NY Times).

Activists curious about the workings of MOCKINGBIRD have since been Activistas curiosidad sobre el funcionamiento de MOCKINGBIRD Desde entonces se han
appalled to f__ind in FOIA documents that agents boasting in CIA F__ind consternado a la FOIA en los documentos que los agentes de la CIA en el alarde
office memos of their pride in having placed “important assets” inside Memos de la oficina de su orgullo de haber colocado "importantes activos" dentro de
every major news publication in the country. Cada uno de los principales publicación de noticias en el país. It was not until 1982 No fue hasta 1982
that the Agency openly admitted that reporters on the CIA payroll have Que la Agencia admitido abiertamente que los reporteros sobre la nómina de la CIA han
acted as case officers to agents in the field. Actúan como oficiales de caso a los agentes sobre el terreno.

“World War III has begun,” Henry’s Luce’s Life declared in March, "La Tercera Guerra Mundial ha comenzado", Henry Luce's Life declarado en marzo,
1947. “It is in the opening skirmish stage already.” The issue "Es en la etapa de apertura ya escaramuza." La cuestión
featured an excerpt of a book by James Burnham, who called for the Aparece un extracto de un libro de James Burnham, que llamó a la
creation of an “American Empire,” “world-dominating in political Creación de un "imperio americano", "mundo dominante en la vida política
power, set up at least in part through coercion (probably including Poder, establecer por lo menos en parte a través de la coerción (incluyendo, probablemente,
war, but certainly the threat of war) and in which one group of people Guerra, pero, sin duda, la amenaza de la guerra) y en el que un grupo de personas
… would hold more than its equal share of power.” … Celebraría más de su cuota equitativa del poder. "

George Seldes, the famed anti-fascist media critic, drew down on Luce George Seldes, el famoso anti-fascista crítico de los medios de comunicación, obtuvo en Luce
in 1947, explaining tha__t “although avoiding typical Hitlerian En 1947, explicando tha__t "aunque evitando típico Hitlerian
phrases, the same doctrine of a superior people taking over the world Frases, la misma doctrina de un superior, las personas que toman el mundo
and ruling it, began to appear in the press, whereas the organs of Y fallo, comenzaron a aparecer en la prensa, mientras que los órganos de
Wall Street were much more honest in favoring a doctrine inevitably Wall Street eran mucho más honestos en favor de una doctrina, inevitablemente,
leading to war if it brought greater commercial markets under the Conduce a la guerra si aportado mayor mercados comerciales en el marco del
American flag.” Bandera americana ".

On the domestic front, an abiding relationship was struck between the En el plano interno, una relación respetuosa entre el
CIA and William Paley, a wartime colonel and the founder of CBS. CIA y William Paley, un coronel de la época de la guerra y el fundador de la CBS. A
firm believer in “all forms of propaganda” to foster loyalty to the Firme creyente en "todas las formas de propaganda" para fomentar la lealtad a la
Pentagon, Paley hired CIA agents to work undercover at the behest of Pentágono, Paley contratado agentes de la CIA a trabajar encubierto a instancias de
his close friend, the busy grey eminence of the nation’s media, Allen Su amigo íntimo, la eminencia gris ocupado de la nación de los medios de comunicación, Allen
Dulles. Paley’s designated go-between in his dealings with the CIA was Paley designado go-entre en sus contactos con la CIA fue
Sig Mickelson, president of CBS News from 1954 to 1961. Sig Mickelson, presidente de CBS News de 1954 a 1961.

The CIA’s assimilation of old guard fascists was overseen by the La CIA asimilación de la vieja guardia fascistas fue supervisado por la
Operations Coordination Board, directed by CD Jackson, formerly an Junta de Coordinación de Operaciones, dirigido por CD Jackson, anteriormente una
executive of Time magazine and Eisenhower’s Special Assistant for Cold Ejecutivo de la revista Time y de Eisenhower Asistente Especial para el frío
War Strategy. Estrategia de la guerra. In 1954 he was succeeded by Nelson Rockefeller, who quit En 1954 fue sucedido por Nelson Rockefeller, que desean dejar de fumar
a year later, disgusted at the administration’s political infighting. Un año después, disgustado en la administración de las luchas políticas.
Vice President Nixon succeeded Rockefeller as the key cold war Vice Presidente Nixon logró Rockefeller como la clave de la guerra fría
strategist. Estratega.

“Nixon,” writes John Loftus, a former attorney for the Justice "Nixon", escribe John Loftus, un ex abogado de la Justicia
Department’s Office of Special Investigations, took “a small boy’s Departamento de la Oficina de Investigaciones Especiales, tuvo "un pequeño niño
delight in the arcane tools of the intelligence craft - the hidden Delicia en el arcano herramientas de inteligencia de la nave - el oculto
microphones, the ‘black’ propaganda.” Nixon especially enjoyed his Micrófonos, el "negro" propaganda ". Nixon especialmente disfrutado de su
visit to a Virginia training camp to observe Nazis in the “special Virginia visita a un campo de entrenamiento para observar nazis en la "especial
forces” drilling at covert operations. Fuerzas "a las operaciones de perforación.

One of the fugitives recruited by the American intelligence Uno de los fugitivos contratados por la inteligencia americana
underground was heroin smuggler Hubert von Blücher, the son of A Subterráneo fue traficante de heroína Hubert von Blücher, el hijo de un
German ambassador. Embajador alemán. Hubert often bragged that that he was trained by Hubert menudo se jactó de que de que fue entrenado por
the Abwehr, the German military intelligence division, while still a La Abwehr, la división de inteligencia militar alemana, en tanto que sigue siendo un
civilian in his twenties. Civil en sus años veinte. He served in a recon unit of the German Army Sirvió en una unidad de reconstrucción del ejército alemán
until forced out for medical reasons in 1944, according to his wartime Hasta forzados a salir por razones médicas en 1944, según su tiempo de guerra
records. Registros. He worked briefly as an assistant director for Berlin-Film on Trabajó brevemente como asistente de director de Cine de Berlín -
a movie entitled One Day …, and finished out the war flying with the Una película titulada Un día…, y terminó la guerra con la que volaba
Luftwaffe, but not to engage the enemy - his mission was the smuggling Luftwaffe, pero no de enfrentarse al enemigo - su misión era el contrabando
of Nazi loot out of the country. Botín de los nazis fuera del país. His exploits were, in part, the Sus hazañas son, en parte, la
subject of Sayer and Botting’s Nazi Gold, an account of the knockover Tema de Sayer y Botting del Oro nazi, una cuenta de la knockover
of the Reichsbank at the end of the war. De la Reichsbank al final de la guerra.

In 1948 he flew the coop to Argentina. En 1948, voló a la Argentina la coop. Posing as a photographer named Haciéndose pasar por un fotógrafo llamado
Huberto von Bleucher Corell, he immediately paid court to Eva Peron, Huberto von Bleucher Corell, inmediatamente pagó corte a Eva Perón,
presenting her with an invaluable Gobelin tapestry (a selection from De la defensa de su inestimable con un tapiz gobelino (una selección de
the wealth of artifacts confiscated by the SS from Europe’s Jews?). La riqueza de los artefactos confiscados por las SS de los Judios de Europa?).
Hubert then met with Martin Bormann at the Hotel Plaza to deliver Hubert luego se reunió con Martin Bormann en el Hotel Plaza de entregar
German marks worth $80 million. Marcos alemanes por valor de 80 millones de dólares. The loot financed the birth of the El botín financiado el nacimiento de la
National Socialist Party in Argentina, among other forms of Nazi Partido Nacional Socialista en la Argentina, entre otras formas de nazi
revival. Reactivación.

In 1951, Hubert migrated northward and took a job at the Color En 1951, Hubert emigrado hacia el norte y tomó un trabajo en el color
Corporation of America in Hollywood. Corporación de América en Hollywood. He eked out a living writing Él eked la vida a la escritura
scripts for the booming movie industry. Guiones para la floreciente industria cinematográfica. His voice can be heard on a Su voz se puede escuchar en una
film set in the Amazon, produced by Walt Disney. Película establecido en el Amazonas, producido por Walt Disney. Nine years later he Nueve años más tarde
returned to Buenos Aires, then Düsseldorf, West Germany, and Regresó a Buenos Aires, Düsseldorf, Alemania Occidental, y
established a firm that developed not movie scripts, but anti-chemical Estableció una empresa que no desarrollados guión cinematográfico, pero anti-químicos
warfare agents for the government. Agentes de guerra para el gobierno. At the Industrie Club in Düsseldorf En la Industrie Club en Düsseldorf
in 1982, von Blücher boasted to journalists, “I am chief shareholder En 1982, von Blücher alardeado a los periodistas, "soy jefe de los accionistas
of Pan American Airways. De la Panamericana Airways. I am the best friend of Howard Hughes. Soy el mejor amigo de Howard Hughes. The El
Beach Hotel in Las Vegas is 45 percent financed by me. Beach Hotel en Las Vegas es de 45 por ciento financiado por mí. I am thus the Soy, por consiguiente, el
biggest financier ever to appear in the Arabian Nights tales dreamed Mayor financiador nunca a aparecer en la Arabian Nights cuentos soñado
up by these people over their second bottle of brandy.” Por estas personas durante su segunda botella de coñac. "

Not really. No realmente. Two the biggest financiers to stumble from the drunken Dos de los más grandes financistas tropiezo de los borrachos
dreams of world-moving affluence were, in their time, Moses Annenberg, Sueños de la riqueza en todo el mundo en movimiento fueron, en su tiempo, Moisés Annenberg,
publisher of The Philadelphia Inquirer, and his son Walter , the El editor del Philadelphia Inquirer, y su hijo Walter, el
CIA/mob-anchored publisher of the TV Guide. CIA / mob-anclado editor de la Guía de TV. Like most American Al igual que la mayoría de América
high-rollers, Annenberg lived a double life. De alto rodillos, Annenberg vivido una doble vida. Moses, his father, was a Moisés, su padre, era un
scion of the Capone mob. Capone vástago de la mafia. Both Moses and Walter were indicted in 1939 Ambos Moisés y Walter fueron acusados en 1939
for tax evasions totalling many millions of dollars - the biggest case Evasiones fiscales por un total de varios millones de dólares - el mayor caso
in the history of the Justice Department. En la historia del Departamento de Justicia. Moses pled guilty and agreed Moisés se declaró culpable y acordó
to pay the government $8 million and settle $9 million in assorted tax A pagar el gobierno de 8 millones de dólares y solucionar 9 millones de dólares en una variedad de impuestos
claims, penalties and interest debts. Reclamaciones, multas e intereses de deudas. Moses received a three-year Moisés recibió un período de tres años
sentence. Frase. He died in Lewisburg Penitentiary. Murió en Lewisburg Penitenciaria.

Walter Annenbeg, the TV Guide magnate, was a lofty Republican. Walter Annenbeg, el magnate de TV Guía, fue un noble republicano. On the Por
campaign trail in April, 1988, George Bush flew into Los Angeles to Campaña de pista en abril de 1988, George Bush voló en Los Ángeles a
woo Reagan’s kitchen cabinet. Woo, la cocina del gabinete de Reagan. “This is the topping on the cake,” "Este es el rellenado del pastel",
Bush’s regional campaign director told the Los Angeles Times. Regional de la campaña de Bush, dijo el director de Los Angeles Times. The Bush El Bush
team met at Annenberg’s plush Rancho Mirage estate at Sunnylands, Equipo se reunió en la Annenberg de felpa estado en Rancho Mirage Sunnylands,
California. It was at the Annenberg mansion that Nixon’s cabinet was Se Annenberg en la mansión que fue del gabinete de Nixon
chosen, and the state’s social and contributor registers built over a Elegido, y el estado social de los registros de contribuyentes y construido más de un
quarter-century of state political dominance by Ronald Reagan, whose Cuarto de siglo de dominio político del Estado por Ronald Reagan, cuya
acting career was launched by Operation MOCKINGBIRD. Actuando carrera fue lanzada por la Operación MOCKINGBIRD.

The commercialization of television, coinciding with Reagan’s La comercialización de la televisión, coincidiendo con Reagan
recruitment by the Crusade for Freedom, a CIA front, presented the La contratación por la Cruzada por la Libertad, un fantasma de la CIA, presentó el
intelligence world with unprecedented potential for sowing propaganda Inteligencia sin precedentes mundo con potencial para la siembra de propaganda
and even prying in the age of Big Brother. Prying e incluso en la era de Big Brother. George Orwell glimpsed the George Orwell vislumbrado la
possibilities when he installed omniscient video surveillance Posibilidades a la hora de instalarse el orador omnisciente de vigilancia por vídeo
technology in 1948, a novel rechristened 1984 for the first edition Tecnología en el 1948 1984 de la primera edición
published in the US by Harcourt, Brace. Publicado en los EE.UU. por Harcourt, Brace. Operation Octopus, according Operación Pulpo, de acuerdo
to federal files, was in full swing by 1948, a surveillance program A los archivos federales, fue en pleno apogeo de 1948, un programa de vigilancia
that turned any television set with tubes into a broadcast Que convirtió cualquier televisor con tubos en una emisión
transmitter. Transmisor. Agents of Octopus could pick up audio and visual images Agentes de Octopus podría captar en imágenes visuales y de audio
with the equipment as far as 25 miles away. Con el equipo en la medida de lo 25 millas de distancia.

Hale Boggs was investigating Operation Octopus at the time of his Hale Boggs fue la investigación de la Operación Pulpo en el momento de su
disappearance in the midst of the Watergate probe. Desaparición en medio de la sonda de Watergate.

In 1952, at MCA, Actors’ Guild president Ronald Reagan - a screen idol En 1952, en el MCA, de los actores Guild presidente Ronald Reagan - un ídolo de la pantalla
recruited by MOCKINGBIRD’s Crusade for Freedom to raise funds for the MOCKINGBIRD contratados por la Cruzada por la Libertad de recaudar fondos para la
resettlement of Nazis in the US, according to Loftus - signed a Reasentamiento de los nazis en los EE.UU., de acuerdo con Loftus - firmaron un
secret waiver of the conflict-of-interest rule with the mob-controlled Secreto de la renuncia de conflicto de intereses con el Estado mafia controlada
studio, in effect granting it a labor monopoly on early television Estudio, en efecto, la concesión de un monopolio de la mano de obra principios de la televisión
programming. Programación. In exchange, MCA made Reagan a part owner. A cambio, MCA Reagan hizo una parte propietario. Furthermore, Además,
historian C. Vann Woodward, writing in the New York Times, in 1987, Historiador C. Vann Woodward, escrito en el New York Times, en 1987,
reported that Reagan had “fed the names of suspect people in his Reagan había informado de que "alimenta la sospecha de nombres de las personas en su
organization to the FBI secretly and regularly enough to be assigned Organización para el FBI secretamente y regularidad suficiente como para ser asignado
‘an informer’s code number, T-10.’ His FBI file indicates intense "Un informante del número de código, T-10." Su archivo del FBI indica intensa
collaboration with producers to ‘purge’ the industry of subversives.” Colaboración con los productores para 'purgar' a la industria de subversivos ".

No one ever turned a suspicious eye on Walter Cronkite, a former Nadie nunca resultó un sospechoso ojo en Walter Cronkite, antiguo
intelligence officer and in the immediate postwar period UPI’s Moscow Oficial de inteligencia y en la inmediata posguerra UPI en Moscú
correspondent. Corresponsal. Cronkite was lured to CBS by Operation MOCKINGBIRD’s Cronkite fue atraídos a la CBS por la Operación MOCKINGBIRD
Phil Graham, according to Deborah Davis. Phil Graham, de acuerdo con Deborah Davis.

Another television conglomerate, Cap Cities, rose like a horror-film Otro conglomerado de televisión, Cap Cities, pasó como una película de horror -
simian from CIA and Mafia heroin operations. Simiesco de la CIA y la mafia de la heroína. Among other Entre otras
organized-crime Republicans, Thomas Dewey and his neighbor Lowell La delincuencia organizada-republicanos, Thomas Dewey y su vecino Lowell
Thomas threw in to launch the infamous Resorts International, the Thomas tiró en lanzar la infame Resorts International, la
corporate front for Lansky’s branch of the federally-sponsored mob Lansky frente de las empresas del ramo de la mafia patrocinadas por el gobierno federal
family and the corporate precursor to Cap Cities. La familia y la empresa precursora de Cap Cities. Another of the Otro de los
investors was James Crosby, a Cap Cities executive who donated Inversores fue James Crosby, un ejecutivo de Cap Ciudades que donaron
$100,000 to Nixon’s 1968 presidential campaign. 100.000 dólares a Nixon de la campaña presidencial de 1968. This was the year that Este fue el año en que
Resorts bought into Atlantic City casino interests. Resorts comprarse en Atlantic City casino intereses. Police in New La policía de Nueva
jersey attempted, with no success, to spike the issuance of a gambling Jersey intentado, sin éxito, a la espiga de la publicación de un juego
license to the company, citing Mafia ties. Licencia a la empresa, alegando vínculos de la mafia.

In 1954, this same circle of investors, all Catholics, founded the En 1954, este mismo círculo de los inversores, todos los católicos, fundó la
broadcasting company notorious for overt propagandizing and general Empresa de radiodifusión notorio por la propaganda abierta y general
spookiness. Spookiness. The company’s chief counsel was OSS veteran William Casey, La compañía fue el abogado jefe de OSS veterano William Casey,
who clung to his shares by concealing them in a blind trust even after Que se aferraban a sus acciones por ocultar en una confianza ciega, incluso después de
he was appointed CIA director by Ronald Reagan in 1981. Fue nombrado director de la CIA por Ronald Reagan en 1981.

“Black radio” was the phrase CIA critic David Wise coined in The "Negro de radio", fue la frase crítico de la CIA David Wise acuñado en la
Invisible Government to describe the agency’s intertwining interests Invisible Gobierno para describir la interconexión de los intereses del organismo
in the emergence of the transistor radio with the entrepreneurs who En el surgimiento de la radio de transistores con los empresarios que
took to the airwaves. Tomó a las ondas. “Daily, East and West beam hundreds of "Diariamente, el Este y el Oeste haz cientos de
propaganda broadcasts at each other in an unrelenting babble of Emisiones de propaganda en sí en una implacable de balbuceo
competition for the minds of their listeners. La competencia por las mentes de sus oyentes. The low-price transistor El bajo precio del transistor
has given the hidden war a new importance,” enthused one foreign Ha dado a la guerra oculta una nueva importancia ", un entusiasta extranjeros
correspondent. Corresponsal.

A Hydra of private foundations sprang up to finance the propaganda Una Hidra de fundaciones privadas surgieron para financiar la propaganda
push. Empuje. One of them, Operations and Policy Research, Inc. (OPR), Uno de ellos, de Operaciones y de Investigación de Políticas, Inc (OPR),
received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the CIA through private Recibió cientos de miles de dólares de la CIA a través privado
foundations and trusts. Fundaciones y fideicomisos. OPR research was the basis of a television OPR investigación fue la base de un programa de televisión
series that aired in New York and Washington, DC in 1964, Of People Serie que salió al aire en Nueva York y Washington, DC en 1964, De Pueblo
and Politics, a “study” of the American political system in 21 weekly Y de Política, un "estudio" del sistema político de América en 21 semanales
installments. Plazos.

In Hollywood, the visual cortex of The Beast, the same CIA/Mafia En Hollywood, la corteza visual de La Bestia, la misma CIA y la Mafia
combination that formed Cap Cities sank its claws into the film Combinación que forman las ciudades de Cap hundió sus garras en la película
studios and labor unions. Estudios y sindicatos. Johnny Rosselli was pulled out of the Army Johnny Rosselli se retiró del Ejército
during the war by a criminal investigation of Chicago mobsters in the Durante la guerra por una investigación penal de mafias en el Chicago
film industry. Industria cinematográfica. Rosselli, a CIA asset probably assassinated by the CIA, Rosselli, de la CIA de activos probablemente asesinado por la CIA,
played sidekick to Harry Cohn, the Columbia Pictures mogul who visited Desempeñado sidekick a Harry Cohn, la Columbia Pictures magnate que visitaron
Italy’s Benito Mussolini in 1933, and upon his return to Hollywood Italia de Benito Mussolini en 1933, y a su regreso a Hollywood
remodeled his office after the dictator’s. Remodelado su oficina después de la del dictador. The only honest job El único trabajo honesto
Rosselli ever had was assistant purchasing agent (and a secret Rosselli ha tenido siempre fue asistente de agente de compras (y un secreto
investor) at Eagle Lion productions, run by Bryan Foy, a former Inversor) en Eagle Lion producciones, dirigida por Bryan Foy, un antiguo
producer for 20th Century Fox. Productor de la 20th Century Fox. Rosselli, Capone’s representative on Rosselli, el representante de Capone
the West Coast, passed a small fortune in mafia investments to Cohn. La costa oeste, pasó una pequeña fortuna en la mafia de las inversiones a Cohn.
Bugsy Seigel pooled gambling investments with Billy Wilkerson, Bugsy Seigel combinaron con los juegos de azar inversiones Billy Wilkerson,
publisher of the Hollywood Reporter. El editor de Hollywood Reporter.

In the 1950s, outlays for global propaganda climbed to a full third of En la década de 1950, los desembolsos destinados a la propaganda mundial subió a un tercio del pleno
the CIA’s covert operations budget. La CIA del presupuesto de las operaciones encubiertas. Some 3, 000 salaried and contract Unos 3, 000 asalariadas y contrato
CIA employees were eventually engaged in propaganda efforts. CIA fueron los empleados que participan en esfuerzos de propaganda. The cost El costo
of disinforming the world cost American taxpayers an estimated $265 Disinforming el mundo de los contribuyentes estadounidenses costo un estimado de $ 265
million a year by 1978, a budget larger than the combined expenditures Millones al año en 1978, un presupuesto más grande que los gastos combinados
of Reuters, UPI and the AP news syndicates. De la agencia Reuters, UPI y la AP noticias sindicadas.

In 1977, the Copely News Service admitted that it worked closely with En 1977, el Servicio de Noticias Copely admitió que trabajó en estrecha colaboración con
the intelligence services - in fact, 23 employees were full-time Los servicios de inteligencia - de hecho, eran 23 los empleados a tiempo completo
employees of the Agency. Empleados de la Agencia.

Most consumers of the corporate media were - and are - unaware of the La mayoría de los consumidores de los medios corporativos eran - y son - desconocen la
effect that the salting of public opinion has on their own beliefs. Sentido de que la salazón de la opinión pública tiene sobre sus propias creencias. A
network anchorman in time of national crisis is an instrument of Locutor de red en tiempo de crisis nacional es un instrumento de
psychological warfare in the MOCKINGBIRD media. Guerra psicológica en los medios de comunicación MOCKINGBIRD. He is a creature from Él es una criatura de
the national security sector’s chamber of horrors. La seguridad nacional del sector de la cámara de horrores. For this reason Por esta razón
consumers of the corporate press have reason to examine their basic Consumidores de las empresas de prensa tienen motivos para examinar sus básica
beliefs about government and life in the parallel universe of these Creencias sobre el gobierno y la vida en el universo paralelo de estos
United States. Estados Unidos.

How the Washington Post Censors the News ¿Cómo el Washington Post la censura de noticias
[Note the highlighted paragraph] [Nota de relieve el párrafo]

How the Washington Post Censors the News ¿Cómo el Washington Post la censura de noticias

A Letter to the Washington Post Una carta a The Washington Post
by Julian C. Holmes Por Julian C. Holmes
_________________________________________________________________

April 25, 1992 25 de abril de 1992
Richard Harwood, Ombudsman Richard Harwood, el defensor del pueblo
The Washington Post The Washington Post
1150 15th Street NW 1150 15o Street NW
Washington, DC 20071 Washington, DC 20071

Dear Mr. Harwood, Estimado señor Harwood,

Though the Washington Post does not over-extend itself in the pursuit A pesar de que el Washington Post no sobre-extenderse en la búsqueda
of hard news, just let drop the faintest rumor of a government Duro de noticias, sólo dejar que la caída más tenue rumor de un gobierno
“conspiracy”, and a klaxon horn goes off in the news room. "Conspiración", y un cuerno klaxon se apaga en la sala de redacción. Aroused Despertó
from apathy in the daily routine of reporting assignations and various De la apatía en la rutina diaria de la presentación de informes y diversas asignaciones
other political and social sports events, editors and reporters Política y social de otros eventos deportivos, editores y periodistas
scramble to the phones. Subirá a los teléfonos. The klaxon screams its warning: the greatest El klaxon sus gritos de alerta: el mayor
single threat to herd-journalism, corporate profits, and government Única amenaza a la manada-el periodismo, los beneficios empresariales, y el gobierno
stability — the dreaded “CONSPIRACY THEORY”!! Estabilidad - la temida "CONSPIRACY TEORÍA"!

It is not known whether anyone has actually been hassled or accosted No se sabe si alguien ha sido o se hassled
by any of these frightful spectres, but their presence is announced to Por cualquiera de estos temibles fantasmas, pero su presencia se anuncia a
Post readers with a salvo of warnings to avoid the tricky, sticky webs Post lectores con una salva de las advertencias para evitar el complicado, pegajoso webs
spun by the wacko “CONSPIRACY THEORISTS”. Hilar por la wacko "CONSPIRACY THEORISTS".

Recall how the Post saved us from the truth about Iran-Contra. Recuerdan cómo el Post nos salvó de la verdad sobre el Irán-Contra.

Professional conspiracy exorcist Mark Hosenball was hired to ridicule Profesional conspiración exorcista Mark Hosenball fue contratado para el ridículo
the idea that Oliver North and his CIA-associated gangsters had La idea de que Oliver North y la CIA-había asociado gangsters
conspired to do wrong (*1). Conspirado para hacer mal (* 1). And when, in their syndicated column, Jack Y cuando, en su columna, Jack
Anderson and Dale Van Atta discussed some of the conspirators, the Anderson y Dale Van Atta discutió algunos de los conspiradores, el
Post sprang to protect its readers, and the conspirators, by censoring Post surgió para proteger a sus lectores, y los conspiradores, por censurar
the Anderson column before printing it (*2). La columna de Anderson antes de imprimirla (* 2).

But for some time the lid had been coming off the Iran-Contra Pero de un tiempo había sido la tapa viene de la Irán-Contra
conspiracy. Conspiración. In 1986, the Christic Institute, an interfaith center for En 1986, el Christic Institute, un centro de interconfesional
law and public policy, had filed a lawsuit alleging a US La ley y el orden público, ha presentado una demanda judicial alegando una EE.UU.
arms-for-drugs trade that helped keep weapons flowing to the Armas a cambio de drogas que ayudaron a mantener el comercio de armas que fluye a la
CIA-Contra army in Nicaragua, and cocaine flowing to US markets CIA-Contra ejército en Nicaragua, y la cocaína que fluye a los mercados de EE.UU.
(*3). (* 3). In 1988 Leslie Cockburn published Out of Control, a seminal work En 1988 publicó Leslie Cockburn Fuera de control, un trabajo seminal
on our bizarre, illegal war against Nicaragua (*4). En nuestro extraño, la guerra ilegal contra Nicaragua (* 4). The Post El Post
contributed to this discovery process by disparaging the charges of Contribuido a este proceso de descubrimiento por despectivo de los cargos
conspiracy and by publishing false information about the Conspiración y de la publicación de información falsa acerca de la
drug-smuggling evidence presented to the House Subcommittee on Contrabando de drogas pruebas presentadas a la Subcomisión de la Cámara
Narcotics Abuse and Control. Abuso y Control de Narcóticos. When accused by Committee Chairman Cuando acusado por el presidente de la Comisión
Charles Rangel (D-NY). Charles Rangel (D-NY). of misleading reporting, the Post printed only De la engañosa presentación de informes, el Servicio de Correos sólo impreso
a partial correction and declined to print a letter of complaint from Corrección parcial y se negó a imprimir una carta de reclamación de
Rangel (*5). Rangel (* 5).

Sworn testimony before Senator John Kerry’s Subcommittee on Terrorism, Testimonio jurado ante el senador John Kerry del Subcomité sobre Terrorismo,
Narcotics, and International Operations confirmed US Government Estupefacientes, y Operaciones Internacionales confirmó Gobierno de los EE.UU.
complicity in the drug trade (*6). Complicidad en el tráfico de drogas (* 6). With its coverup of the arms/drug Con su coverup de las armas y de drogas
conspiracy evaporating, the ever-accommodating Post shifted gears and Conspiración evaporación, la siempre cabida Post desplazado y engranajes
retained Hosenball to exorcise from our minds a newly emerging threat Mantenerse Hosenball para exorcizar nuestras mentes de una nueva amenaza emergente
to domestic tranquility, the “October Surprise” conspiracy (*7). A la tranquilidad nacional, el "Octubre sorpresa" conspiración (* 7). But Pero
close on the heels of Hosenball and the Post came Barbara Honegger and Cerca de los talones de Hosenball y el Post y llegó Barbara Honegger
then Gary Sick who authored independently, two years apart, books with Gary Sick entonces que el autor de forma independiente, a los dos años de separación, con los libros
the same title, “October Surprise” (*8). El mismo título, "Octubre Surprise" (* 8). Honegger was a member of the Honegger fue miembro de la
Reagan/Bush campaign and transition teams in 1980. Reagan / Bush y la campaña de los equipos de transición en 1980. Gary Sick, Gary Sick,
professor of Middle East Politics at Columbia University, was on the Oriente Medio profesor de Política en la Universidad de Columbia, estaba en la
staff of the National Security Council under Presidents Ford, Carter, Personal del Consejo de Seguridad Nacional bajo los Presidentes Ford, Carter,
and Reagan. Y Reagan. In 1989 and 1991 respectively, Honegger and Sick published En 1989 1991, respectivamente, Honegger y publicado por enfermedad
their evidence of how the Republicans made a deal to supply arms to Sus pruebas de cómo los republicanos hizo un trato para el abastecimiento de armas a
Iran if Iran would delay release of the 52 United States hostages Irán Irán si se demora la liberación de los 52 rehenes Estados Unidos
until after the November 1980 election. Hasta después de las elecciones de noviembre de 1980. The purpose of this deal was El objetivo de este acuerdo era
to quash the possibility of a pre-election release(an October Anulará la posibilidad de una liberación, antes de las elecciones (en octubre
surprise). Sorpresa). which would have bolstered the reelection prospects for Que se han reforzado las perspectivas de reelección
President Carter. Presidente Carter.

Others published details of this alleged Reagan-Bush conspiracy. Otros publicado detalles de esta supuesta conspiración Reagan-Bush. In En
October 1988, Playboy Magazine ran an expose “An Election Held De octubre de 1988, dirigía una revista Playboy exponer "Un Lugar Elección
Hostage”; FRONTLINE did another in April 1991 (*9). Rehenes "; Frontline hizo otro en abril de 1991 (* 9). In June, 1991 a En junio, de 1991 a
conference of distinguished journalists, joined by 8 of the former Conferencias de destacados periodistas, unieron 8 de la ex
hostages, challenged the Congress to “make a full, impartial Rehenes, desafió al Congreso a "hacer una completa, imparcial
investigation” of the election/hostage allegations. Investigación "de la elección y denuncias rehenes. The Post reported El Post informó
the statement of the hostages, but not a word of the conference itself La declaración de los rehenes, pero no una palabra de la propia conferencia
which was held in the Dirksen Senate Office Building Auditorium (*10). Que se celebró en el Edificio Dirksen del Senado Oficina Auditorio (* 10).
On February 5, 1992 a gun-shy, uninspired House of Representatives El 5 de febrero, 1992-una pistola tímido, sin inspiración Cámara de Representantes
begrudgingly authorized an “October Surprise” investigation by a task Begrudgingly autorizó un "Octubre sorpresa" por una tarea de investigación
force of 13 congressmen headed by Lee Hamilton (D-IN). Fuerza, de 13 de congresistas encabezado por Lee Hamilton (D-IN). who had chaired Que había presidido
the House of Representatives Iran-Contra Committee. La Cámara de Representantes de la Comisión Irán-Contra. Hamilton has named Hamilton ha llamado
as chief team counsel Larry Barcella, a lawyer who represented BCCI Como jefe de equipo de los abogados de Larry Barcella, un abogado que representó a BCCI
when the Bank was indicted in 1988 (*11). Cuando el Banco fue acusado en 1988 (* 11).

Like the Washington Post, Hamilton had not shown interest in pursuing Al igual que el Washington Post, Hamilton no había mostrado interés en proseguir
the US arms-for-drugs operation (*12). Los EE.UU. de armas por drogas operación (* 12). He had accepted Oliver Él había aceptado Oliver
North’s lies,and as Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee he Norte de mentiras, y como Presidente del Comité de Inteligencia de la Cámara que
derailed House Resolution 485 which had asked President Reagan to Descarrilado Cámara Resolución 485 que había pedido al Presidente Reagan
answer questions about Contra support activities of government Contra responder preguntas acerca de las actividades de apoyo del gobierno
officials and others (*13). Funcionarios y otros (* 13). After CIA operative John Después de la CIA John operativo

Hull (from Hamilton’s home state). Hull (Hamilton de su Estado de origen). was charged in Costa Rica with Fue acusado en Costa Rica con
“international drug trafficking and hostile acts against the nation’s "Tráfico internacional de drogas y los actos hostiles contra la nación
security”, Hamilton and 18 fellow members of Congress tried to Seguridad ", de Hamilton y 18 compañeros miembros del Congreso trataron de
intimidate Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez into handling Intimidar Presidente de Costa Rica Oscar Arias Sánchez en la manipulación
Hull’s case “in a manner that will not complicate US-Costa Rican Hull el caso "de una manera que no complicar US-Costa Rica
relations” (*14). Relaciones "(* 14). The Post did not report the Hamilton letter or the El Post no informó de la carta de Hamilton o la
Costa Rican response that declared Hull’s case to be “in as good hands De Costa Rica declaró que la respuesta de Hull el caso de que se "en las mejores manos
as our 100 year old uninterrupted democracy can provide to all Como nuestros 100 años de antigüedad ininterrumpida democracia puede ofrecer a todos los
citizens” (*15). Ciudadanos "(* 15).

Though the Post does its best to guide our thinking away from conspiracy Aunque el Post hace su mejor para guiar nuestra manera de pensar fuera de la conspiración
theories, it is difficult to avoid the fact that so much wrongdoing involves Teorías, es difícil de evitar el hecho de que gran parte infractor implica
government or corporate conspiracies: Gobierno corporativo o conspiraciones:

In its COINTELPRO operation, the FBI used disinformation, forgery, En su operación COINTELPRO, el FBI utiliza la desinformación, la falsificación,
surveillance, false arrests, and violence to illegally harass Vigilancia, arrestos falsos, y de la violencia para hostigar ilegalmente
UScitizens in the 60’s (*16). UScitizens en los años 60 (* 16).

The CIA’s Operation MONGOOSE illegally sabotaged Cuba by “destroying CIA: Operación MONGOOSE ilegalmente Cuba saboteado por "destruir
crops, brutalizing citizens, destabilizing the society, and Cultivos, embrutecedor ciudadanos, desestabilizar la sociedad, y
conspiring with the Mafia to assassinate Fidel Castro and other Conspiración con la mafia para asesinar a Fidel Castro y otros
leaders” (*17). Dirigentes "(* 17).

“Standard Oil of New Jersey was found by the Antitrust Division of "Standard Oil de New Jersey fue encontrado por la División Antimonopolio del
the Department of Justice to be conspiring with IGFarben…of El Departamento de Justicia que se conspirar con IGFarben de…
Germany. Alemania. …By its cartel agreements with Standard Oil, the … En su cartel de los acuerdos con la Standar Oil, la
United States was effectively prevented from developing or Estados Unidos era, en la práctica impide el desarrollo o
producing [fo rWorld War-II] any substantial amount of Productores [de la guerra rWorld II] cualquier cantidad sustancial de
synthetic rubber,” said Senator Robert LaFollette of Wisconsin Caucho sintético ", dijo el senador Robert LaFollette de Wisconsin
(*18). (* 18).

US Government agencies knowingly withheld information about Gobierno de los EE.UU. con conocimiento de los organismos intencionadamente información acerca de
dosages of radiation “almost certain to produce thyroid Dosis de radiación "casi seguro para producir tiroides
abnormalities or cancer” that contaminated people residing near Anomalías o cáncer "contaminados personas que residen cerca de
the nuclear weapons factory at Hanford, Washington (*19). La fábrica de armas nucleares en Hanford, Washington (* 19).

Various branches of Government deliberately drag their feet in Diversas ramas del Gobierno deliberadamente arrastrar sus pies en
getting around to cleaning up the Nation’s dangerous nuclear Desplazamiento a la limpieza de la Nación nucleares peligrosos
weapons sites (*20). Armas sitios (* 20). State and local governments back the Los gobiernos estatales y locales la espalda
nuclear industry’s secret public relations strategy (*21). Industria nuclear secreta de estrategia de relaciones públicas (* 21).

“The National Cancer Institute, the American Cancer Society and some "El Instituto Nacional del Cáncer, la Sociedad Americana del Cáncer y algunas
twenty comprehensive cancer centers, have misled and confused Veinte completa de centros de cáncer, han engañado y confundido
the public and Congress by repeated claims that we are winning La opinión pública y el Congreso por las repetidas denuncias de que estamos ganando
the war against cancer. La guerra contra el cáncer. In fact, the cancer establishment has De hecho, el establecimiento tiene cáncer
continually minimized the evidence for increasing cancer rates Continuamente minimizado las pruebas para aumentar las tasas de cáncer
which it has largely attributed to smoking and dietary fat, Que se ha atribuido en gran medida al consumo de tabaco y la grasa de la dieta,
while discounting or ignoring the causal role of avoidable Mientras que el descuento o ignorar el papel causal de evitables
eposures to industrial carcinogens in the air, food, water, and Eposures industrial a los agentes carcinógenos en el aire, los alimentos, el agua, y
the workplace.” (*22). El lugar de trabajo. "(* 22).

The Bush Administration coverup of its pre-Gulf-War support of Iraq La Administración Bush coverup de su capacidad anterior a la Guerra del Golfo de apoyo de Iraq
“is yet another example of the President’s people conspiring to "Es otro ejemplo de la gente del Presidente de la conspiración para
keep both Congress and the American people in the dark” (*23). Mantener tanto el Congreso y el pueblo estadounidense en la oscuridad "(* 23).

If you think about it, conspiracy is a fundamental aspect of Si lo piensas, la conspiración es un aspecto fundamental de
doing business in this country. Hacer negocios en este país.

Take the systematic and cooperative censorship of the Persian Gulf Tome la censura sistemática y de cooperación del Golfo Pérsico
War by the Pentagon and much of the news media (*24). Guerra por el Pentágono y la mayor parte de los medios de comunicación (* 24).

Or the widespread plans of business and government groups to spend O la generalización de los planes de negocios y grupos del gobierno para gastar
$100 million in taxes to promote a distorted and truncated 100 millones de dólares en impuestos para promover una distorsionada y truncado
history of Columbus in America (*25). La historia de Colón en América (* 25). along the lines of the En la línea de las
Smithsonian Institution’s “fusion of the two worlds”, (*26). Smithsonian Institution's "fusión de los dos mundos", (* 26).
rather than examining more realistic aspects of the Spanish En vez de examinar los aspectos más realistas de los españoles
invasion, like “anger, cruelty, gold, terror, and death” (*27). Invasión, como "la ira, la crueldad, el oro, el terror y la muerte" (* 27).

Or circumstances surrounding the US Justice Department theft from O circunstancias de los EE.UU. Departamento de Justicia de robo
the INSLAW company of sophisticated, law-enforcement computer INSLAW de la empresa sofisticada, la aplicación de la ley de computadoras
software which “now point to a widespread conspiracy Software que "ahora apuntan a una conspiración generalizada
implicating lesser Government officials in the theft of Menor que implican a funcionarios del Gobierno en el robo de
INSLAW’s technology”, says former US Attorney General Elliot INSLAW la tecnología ", dice el ex Fiscal General de EE.UU. Elliot
Richardson (*28). Richardson (* 28).

Or Watergate. O Watergate.

Or the “largest bank fraud in world financial history” (*29), where O el "banco más grande fraude en la historia financiera mundial" (* 29), donde
the White House knew of the criminal activities at “the Bank of La Casa Blanca sabía de las actividades delictivas en el "Banco de la
Crooks and Criminals International” (BCCI) (*30), where US Ladrones y delincuentes internacionales "(BCCI) (* 30), donde EE.UU.
intelligence agencies did their secret banking (*31), and where Organismos de inteligencia hicieron su secreto bancario (* 31), y donde
bribery of prominent American public officials “was a way of El soborno de funcionarios públicos prominentes de América "es una forma de
doing business” (*32). Hacer negocios "(* 32).

Or the 1949 conviction of “GM [General Motors], Standard Oil of O la condena de 1949 "GM [General Motors], de la Standard Oil
California, Firestone, and E. Roy Fitzgerald, among others, for California, Firestone, y Roy E. Fitzgerald, entre otros, para
criminally conspiring to replace electric transportation with Penalmente conspirar para reemplazar el transporte eléctrico con
gas- and diesel-powered buses and to monopolize the sale of - Gas y diesel a los autobuses y monopolizar la venta de
buses and related products to transportation companies Autobuses y productos relacionados a empresas de transporte
throughout the country” [in, among others, the cities of New En todo el país "[en, entre otras, las ciudades de Nueva
York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, St. Louis, Oakland, Salt Lake York, Filadelfia, Baltimore, St Louis, Oakland, Salt Lake
City, and Los Angeles] (*33). City, y Los Angeles] (* 33).

Or the collusion in 1973 between Senator Abraham Ribicoff (D-CT). O la colusión en 1973 entre el senador Abraham Ribicoff (D-CT).
and the US Department of Transportation to overlook safety Los EE.UU. y el Departamento de Transporte de pasar por alto la seguridad
defects in the 1.2 million Corvair automobiles manufactured by Defectos de los 1,2 millones de automóviles fabricados por Corvair
General Motors in the early 60’s (*34). General Motors a principios de los años 60 (* 34).

Or the AH Robins Company, which manufactured the Dalkon Shield O el AH Robins Company, que fabricaba las Dalkon Shield
intrauterine contraceptive, and which ignored repeated warnings Anticonceptivos intrauterinos, y que hace caso omiso de las reiteradas advertencias
of the Shield’s hazards and which “stonewalled, deceived, De los peligros del Escudo y que "stonewalled, engañados,
covered up, and Encubierto, y

covered up the coverups…[thus inflicting] on women a Cubiertos hasta el coverups… [así infligir] en la mujer un
worldwide epidemic of pelvic infections.” (*35). Epidemia mundial de las infecciones pélvicas. "(* 35).

Or that cooperation between McDonnell Douglas Aircraft Company and O que la cooperación entre McDonnell Douglas Aircraft Company y
the FAA resulted in failure to enforce regulations regarding FAA dio lugar a la no aplicación de normas relativas a
the unsafe DC-10 cargo door which failed in flight killing all Inseguro el DC-10 de carga en la puerta que no todos los asesinatos de vuelo
364 passengers on Turkish Airlines Flight 981 on March 3, 1974 364 pasajeros de Turkish Airlines vuelo 981 el 3 de marzo, 1974
(*36). (* 36).

Or the now-banned, cancer-producing pregnancy drug O las que acaban de ser prohibidas, que producen cáncer de embarazo de drogas
Diethylstilbestrol (DES). Dietilestilbestrol (DES). that was sold by manufacturers who Que se vende por los fabricantes que
ignored tests which showed DES to be carcinogenic; and who Hace caso omiso de las pruebas que demostraban DES a un carcinógeno, y que
acted “in concert with each other in the testing and marketing Actuado "de común acuerdo con los demás en las pruebas y la comercialización
of DES for miscarriage purposes” (*37). De DES para fines aborto involuntario "(* 37).

Or the conspiracies among bankers and speculators, with the O las conspiraciones entre los banqueros y especuladores, con la
cooperation of a corrupted Congress, to relieve depositors of La cooperación de un Congreso corrupto, para aliviar los depositantes de
their savings. Sus ahorros. This “arrogant disregard from the White House, Este "arrogante desprecio de la Casa Blanca,
Congress and corporate world for the interests and rights of Congreso mundo empresarial y de los intereses y derechos de los
the American people” will cost US tapayers many hundreds of El pueblo americano "EE.UU. va a costar muchos cientos de tapayers
billions of dollars (*38). Miles de millones de dólares (* 38).

Or the Westinghouse, Allis Chalmers,Federal Pacific, and General O la Westinghouse, Allis Chalmers, Federal Pacífico, y el General
Electric executives who met surreptitiously in hotel rooms to Electric ejecutivos que se reunieron clandestinamente en habitaciones de hotel a
fix prices and eliminate competition on heavy industrial Fijar los precios y eliminar la competencia en la industria pesada
equipment (*39). Equipo (* 39).

Or the convictions of Industrial Biotest Laboratories (IBT). O las convicciones de Industrial Biotest Laboratories (IBT).
officers for fabricating safety tests on prescription drugs Oficiales de pruebas de seguridad para la fabricación de medicamentos con receta
(*40). (* 40).

Or the conspiracy by the asbestos industry to suppress knowledge of O la conspiración de la industria de amianto para suprimir el conocimiento de
medical problemsrelating to asbestos (*41). Problemsrelating médica al amianto (* 41).

Or the 1928 Achnacarry Agreement through which oil companies “agreed 1928 o el Acuerdo de Achnacarry a través de la cual las empresas petroleras "de acuerdo
not to engage in any effective price competition” (*42). No se dedique a cualquier precio la competencia efectiva "(* 42).

Or the conspiracy among US Government agencies and the Congress to O la conspiración entre agencias de Gobierno de los EE.UU. y al Congreso a
cover up the nature of our decades-old war against the people Encubrir la naturaleza de nuestro decenios de la guerra contra el pueblo
of Nicaragua De Nicaragua

a covert war that continues in 1992 with the US Government Un intento encubierto de que la guerra continúa en 1992 con el Gobierno de los EE.UU.
applying pressure for the Nicaraguan police to reorganize into Ejercer presión para la policía nicaragüense para reorganizar en
a more repressive force (*43). Más fuerza represiva (* 43).

Or the conspiracy by the CIA and the US Government to interfere in O la conspiración de la CIA y el Gobierno de los EE.UU. de interferir en
the Chilean election process with military aid, covert actions, El proceso electoral chileno con la ayuda militar, las acciones encubiertas,
and an economic boycott which culminated in the overthrow of Y un boicot económico que culminó con el derrocamiento de
the legitimately elected government and the assassination of El gobierno legítimamente elegido y el asesinato de
President Salvador Allende in 1973 (*44). Presidente Salvador Allende en 1973 (* 44).

Or the conspiracy among US officials including Secretary of State O la conspiración entre EE.UU. funcionarios incluidos el Secretario de Estado
Henry Kissinger and CIA Director William Colby to finance Henry Kissinger y director de la CIA William Colby para financiar
terrorism in Angola for the purpose of disrupting Angola’s Terrorismo en Angola con el fin de perturbar de Angola
plans for peaceful elections in October 1975, and to lie about Planes de elecciones pacíficas, en octubre de 1975, y para mentir sobre
these actions to the Congress and the news media (*45). Estas acciones en el Congreso y los medios de comunicación (* 45). And CIA Y CIA
Director George Bush’s subsequent cover up of this Director George Bush posterior de la cubierta de este
US-sponsored terrorism (*46). US-terrorismo de (* 46).

Or President George Bush’s consorting with the Pentagon to invade O el Presidente George Bush consorting con el Pentágono para invadir
Panama in 1989 and thereby violate the Constitution of the Panamá, en 1989, y con ello violan la Constitución de la
United States, the UN Charter, the OAS Charter, and the Estados Unidos, la Carta de Naciones Unidas, la Carta de la OEA, y la
Panama Canal Treaties (*47). Tratados del Canal de Panamá (* 47).

Or the “gross antitrust violations” (*48) and the conspiracy of O la "defensa de violaciónes brutas" (* 48) y de la conspiración
American oil companies and the British and US governments to Las compañías de petróleo americanas y los británicos y los gobiernos de EE.UU.
strangle Iran economically after Iran nationalized the Irán estrangular económicamente Irán después de la nacionalización
British-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Company in 1951. De propiedad británica Anglo-Iranian Oil Company en 1951. And the Y el
subsequent overthrow by the CIA in 1953 of Iranian Prime Posterior derrocamiento por la CIA en 1953 del Primer iraní
Minister Muhammed Mossadegh (*49). Ministro Muhammad Mossadegh (* 49).

Or the CIA-planned assassination of Congo head-of-state Patrice O de la CIA planificado asesinato del Congo jefe del estado Patrice
Lumumba (*50). Lumumba (* 50).

Or the deliberate and wilful efforts of President George Bush, O la deliberada y premeditada esfuerzos del Presidente George Bush,
Senator Robert Dole, Senator George Mitchell, various US El senador Robert Dole, el senador George Mitchell, diversos EE.UU.
Government agencies, and members of both Houses of the Congress Los organismos gubernamentales, y miembros de ambas Cámaras del Congreso
to buy the 1990 Nicaraguan national elections for the Para comprar el 1990 las elecciones nacionales de Nicaragua para la
presidential candidate supported by President Bush (*51). Candidato presidencial apoyado por el Presidente Bush (* 51).

Or the collective approval by 64 US Senators of Robert Gates to O la aprobación colectiva por 64 senadores de EE.UU. Robert Gates a
head the CIA, in the face of “unmistakable evidence that Gates Jefe de la CIA, ante la "evidencia inconfundible de que Gates
lied about his role in the Iran-Contra scandal” (*52). Mentido acerca de su papel en el escándalo Irán-Contra "(* 52).

Or “How Reagan and the Pope Conspired to Assist Poland’s Solidarity O "¿Cómo Reagan y el Papa Conspired de Ayuda a Polonia de Solidaridad
Movement and Hasten the Demise of Communism” (*53). Movimiento y Hasten la Desaparición del comunismo "(* 53).

Or how the Reagan Administration connived with the Vatican to ban O la forma en que la Administración Reagan en connivencia con el Vaticano de prohibir
the use of USAID funds by any country “for the promotion of La utilización de fondos de la USAID por cualquier país "para la promoción de la
birth control or abortion” (*54). Control de la natalidad o el aborto "(* 54).

Or “the way the Vatican and Washington colluded to achieve common O "la forma en que el Vaticano y Washington coludido para lograr comunes
purpose in Central America” (*55). Efectos en Centroamérica "(* 55).

Or the collaboration of Guatemalan strong-man and mass murderer O la colaboración de guatemaltecos-el hombre fuerte y asesino de masas
Hector Gramajo with the US Army to design “programs to build Héctor Gramajo con el Ejército de los EE.UU. para elaborar "programas para construir
civilian-military cooperation” at the US Army School of the La cooperación civil-militar "en el Ejército de los EE.UU. Escuela de las
Americas (SOA) at Fort Benning, Georgia; five of the nine Américas (SOA) en Fort Benning, Georgia; cinco de los nueve
soldiers accused in the 1989 Jesuit massacre in El Salvador are Soldados acusados en la masacre de 1989 jesuitas en El Salvador son
graduates of SOA which trains Latin/American military personnel Graduados de la SOA que los trenes de América Latina personal militar
(*56). (* 56).

Or the conspiracy of the Comanche Peak Nuclear Plant administration O la conspiración de la Planta Nuclear Comanche Peak administración
to harass and cause bodily harm to whistleblower Linda Porter Para hostigar y provocar lesiones corporales a los denunciantes Linda Porter
who uncovered dangerous working conditions at the facility Descubrieron que las condiciones de trabajo peligrosas en la instalación
(*57). (* 57).

Or the conspiracy of President Richard Nxion and the Government of O la conspiración de Richard Nxion Presidente y el Gobierno de
South Vietnam to delay the Paris Peace Talks until after the Vietnam del Sur a la demora de París conversaciones de paz hasta después de la
1968 US presidential election (*58). EE.UU. elección presidencial de 1968 (* 58).

Or the pandemic coverups of police violence (*59). Coverups o la pandemia de la violencia policial (* 59).

Or the always safe-to-cite worldwide communist conspiracy (*60). O el siempre seguro a citar en todo el mundo la conspiración comunista (* 60).

Or maybe the socially responsible, secret consortium to publish The O quizá la responsabilidad social, el secreto de publicar El consorcio
Satanic Verses in paperback (*61). Versos Satánicos en rústica (* 61).

Conspiracies are obviously a way to get things done, and the Washington Post Conspiraciones son, obviamente, una manera de hacer las cosas, y el Washington Post
offers little comment unless conspiracy theorizing threatens to expose a Ofrece poco menos que comentar teorías de conspiración amenaza con exponer una
really important conspiracy that, let’s say, benefits big business or big Realmente importante conspiración que, digamos, los beneficios las grandes empresas o grandes
government. Gobierno.

Such a conspiracy would be like our benevolent CIA’s 1953 overthrow of Esa conspiración sería como nuestra benevolente CIA en 1953 de
the Iranian government to help out US oil companies; or like our
illegal war against Panama to tighten US control over Panama and the
Canal; or like monopoly control of broadcasting that facilitates
corporate censorship on issues of public importance (*62). When the
camouflage of such conspiracies is stripped away, public confidence in
the conspiring officials can erode — depending on how seriously the
citizenry perceives the conspiracy to have violated the public trust.
Erosion of public trust in the status quo is what the Post seems to
see as a real threat to its corporate security.

Currently, the Post has mounted vituperative, frenzied attacks on
Oliver Stone’s movie “JFK”, which reexamines the US Government’s
official (Warren Commission. finding that a single gunman, acting
alone, killed President John F. Kennedy. The movie also is the story
of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison’s unsuccessful
prosecution of Clay Shaw, the only person ever tried in connection
with the assassination. And the movie proposes that the Kennedy
assassination was the work of conspirators whose interests would not
be served by a president who, had he lived, might have disengaged us
from our war against Vietnam.

The Post ridicules a reexamination of the Kennedy assassination along
lines suggested by “JFK”. Senior Post journalists like Charles
Krauthammer, Ken Ringle, George Will, Phil McCombs, and Michael
Isikoff, have been called up to man the bulwarks against public
sentiment which has never supported the government’s
non-conspiratorial assassination thesis. In spite of the facts that
the Senate Intelligence Committee of 1975 and 1976 found that “both
the FBI and CIA had repeatedly lied to the Warren Commission” (*63)
and that the 1979 Report of the House Select Committee on
Assassinations found that President Kennedy was probably killed “as a
result of a conspiracy” (*64), a truly astounding number of Post
stories have been used as vehicles to discredit “JFK” as just another
conspiracy (*65).

Some of the more vicious attacks on the movie are by editor Stephen
Rosenfeld, and journalists Richard Cohen, George Will, and George
Lardner Jr (*66). They ridicule the idea that Kennedy could have had
second thoughts about escalating the Vietnam War and declaim that
there is no historical justification for this idea. Seasoned
journalist Peter Dale Scott, former Pentagon/CIA liaison chief L.
Fletcher Prouty, and investigators David Scheim and John Newman have
each authored defense of the “JFK” thesis that Kennedy was not
enthusiastic about staying in Vietnam (*67). But the Post team just
continues ranting against the possibility of a high-level
assassination conspiracy while offering little justification for its
arguments.

An example of particularly shabby scholarship and unacceptable
behavior is George Lardner Jr’s contribution to the Post’s campaign
against the movie. Lardner wrote three articles, two before the movie
was completed, and the third upon its release. In May, six months
before the movie came out, Lardner obtained a copy of the first draft
of the script and, contrary to accepted standards, revealed in the
Post the contents of this copyrighted movie (*68). Also in this
article, (*69). Lardner discredits Jim Garrison with hostile
statements from a former Garrison associate Pershing Gervais. Lardner
does not tell the reader that subsequent to the Clay Shaw trial, in a
US Government criminal action brought against Garrison, Government
witness Gervais, who helped set up Garrison for prosecution, admitted
under oath that in a May 1972 interview with a New Orleans television
reporter, he, Gervais, had said that the US Government’s case
against Garrison was a fraud (*70). The Post’s 1973 account of the
Garrison acquittal mentions this controversy, but when I recently
asked Lardner about this, he was not clear as to whether he remembered
it (*71).

Two weeks after his first “JFK” article, Lardner blustered his way
through a justification for his unauthorized possession of the early
draft ofthe movie (*72). He also defended his reference to Pershing
Gervais by lashing out at Garrison as a writer “of gothic fiction”.

When the movie was released in December, Lardner “reviewed” it (*73).
He again ridiculed the film’s thesis that following the Kennedy
assassination, President Johnson reversed Kennedy’s plans to
de-escalate the Vietnam War. Lardner cited a memorandum issued by
Johnson four days after Kennedy died. Lardner says this memorandum was
written before the assassination, and that it “was a continuation of
Kennedy’s policy”. In fact, the memorandum was drafted the day before
the assassination by McGeorge Bundy (Kennedy’s Assistant for National
Security Affairs) Kennedy was in Texas, and may never have seen it.
Following the assassination, it was rewritten; and the final version
provided for escalating the war against Vietnam (*74) — facts that
Lardner avoided.

The Post’s crusade against exposing conspiracies is blatantly dishonest:

The Warren Commission inquiry into the Kennedy Assassination was for
the most part conducted in secret. This fact is buried in the Post
(*75). Nor do current readers of this newspaper find meaningful
discussion of the Warren Commission’s secret doubts about both the FBI
and the CIA (*76). Or of a dispatch from CIA headquarters instructing
co-conspirators at field stations to counteract the “new wave of books
and articles criticizing the [Warren] Commission’s findings…[and]
conspiracy theories …[that] have frequently thrown suspicion on our
organization” and to “discuss the publicity problem with liaison and
friendly elite contacts, especially politicians and editors “and to
“employ propaganda assets to answer and refute the attacks of the
critics. …Book reviews and feature articles are particularly
appropriate for this purpose. …The aim of this dispatch is to
provide material for countering and discrediting the claims of the
conspiracy theorists…” (*77).

In 1979, Washington journalist Deborah Davis published Katharine The Great,
the story of Post publisher Katharine Graham and her newspaper’s close ties
with Washington’s powerful elite, a number of whom were with the CIA.

Particularly irksome to Post editor Benjamin Bradlee was a Davis claim
that Bradlee had “produced CIA material” (*78). Understandably
sensitive about this kind of publicity, Bradlee told Davis’ publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich ,”Miss Davis is lying …I never produced
CIA material …what I can do is to brand Miss Davis as a fool and to
put your company in that special little group of publishers who don’t
give a shit for the truth”. The Post bullied HBJ into recalling the
book; HBJ shredded 20,000 copies; Davis sued HBJ for breach of book; HBJ shredded 20000 copies; Davis sued HBJ for breach of
contract and damage to reputation; HBJ settled out of court; and Davis
published her book elsewhere with an appendix that demonstrated
Bradlee to have been deeply involved with producing cold-war/CIA
propaganda (*79). Bradlee still says the allegations about his
association with people in the CIA are false, but he has apparently
taken no action to contest the xetensive documentation presented by
Deborah Davis in the second and third editions of her book (*80).

And it’s not as if the Post were new to conspiracy work.

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). 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). 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) .

Of the meetings between Graham and his CIA acquaintances at which the
availability and prices of journalists were discussed, a former CIA
man recalls, “You could get a journalist cheaper than a good call
girl, for a couple hundred dollars a month” (*84). One may wish to
consider Philip Graham’s philosophy along with a more recent statement
from his wife Katharine Graham, current Chairman of the Board of the
Washington Post. In a lecture on terrorism and the news media, Mrs.
Graham said: “A second challenge facing the media is how to prevent
terrorists from using the media as a platform fortheir views. … The
point is that we generally know when we are being manipulated, and
we’ve learned better how and where to draw the line, though the
decisions are often difficult” (*85).

Today, the Post and its world of big business are apparently terrified
that our elite and our high-level public officials may be exposed as
conspirators behind Contra drug-smuggling, October Surprise, or the
assassination of President Kennedy. This fear is truly remarkable in
that, like most of us and like most institutions, the Post runs its
business as a conspiracy of like-minded entrepreneurs — a conspiracy
“to act or work together toward the same result or goal” (*86). But
where the Post really parts company from just plain people is when it
pretends that conspiracies associated with big business or government
are “coincidence”. Post reporter Lardner vents the frustration
inherent in having to maintain this dichotomy. He lashes out at Oliver
Stone and suggests that Stone may actually believe that the Post’s
opposition to Stone’s movie is a “conspiracy”. Lardner assures us that
Stone’s complaints are “groundless and paranoid and smack of
McCarthyism” (*87).

So how does the Post justify devoting so much energy to ridiculing those who
investigate conspiracies?

The Post has answers: people revert to conspiracy theories because
they need something “neat and tidy” (*88) that “plugs a gap no other
generally accepted theory fills’, (*89. and “coincidence …is always
the safest and most likely explanation for any conjunction of curious
circumstances …” (*90).

And what does this response mean? It means that “coincidence theory”
is what the Post espouses when it would prefer not to admit to a
conspiracy. In other words, some things just “happen”. And, besides,
conspiracy to do certain things would be a crime; “coincidence” is a
safer bet.

Post Ombudsman Richard Harwood, who, it is rumored, serves as
Executive Director of the Benevolent Protective Order of Coincidence
Theorists, (*91) recently issued a warning about presidential
candidates “who have begun to mutter about a press conspiracy”.
Ordinarily, Harwood would simply dismiss these charges as “symptoms of
the media paranoia that quadrennially engulfs members of the American
political class” (*92). But a fatal mistake was made by the mutterers;
they used the “C” word against the PRESS! And Harwood exploded his
off-the-cuff comment into an entire column — ending it with:”We are
the new journalists, immersed too long, perhaps, in the cleansing
waters of political conformity. But conspirators we ain’t”.

Distinguished investigative journalist Morton Mintz, a 29-year veteran
of the Washington Post, now chairs the Fund for Investigative
Journalism. In the December issue of The Progressive, Mintz wrote “A
Reporter Looks Back in Anger — Why the Media Cover Up Corporate
Crime”. Therein he discussed the difficulties in convincing editors to
accept important news stories. He illustrated the article with his own
experiences at the Post, where he says he was known as “the biggest
pain in the ass in the office” (*93).

Would Harwood argue that grief endured by journalists at the hands of editors
is a matter of random coincidence?

And that such policy as Mintz described is made independently by
editors without influence from fellow editors or from management?
Would Harwood have us believe that at the countless office “meetings”
in which news people are ever in attendance, there is no discussion of
which stories will run and which ones will find inadequate space? That
there is no advanced planning for stories or that there are no
cooperative efforts among the staff? Or that in the face of our
news-media “grayout” of presidential candidate Larry Agran, (*94) a
Post journalist would be free to give news space to candidate Agran
equal to that the Post lavishes on candidate Clinton? Let’s face it:
these possibilities are about as likely as Barbara Bush entertaining
guests at a soup kitchen.

Would Harwood have us believe that media critic and former Post
Ombudsman Ben Bagdikian is telling less than the truth in his account
of wire-service control over news: “The largely anonymous men who
control the syndicate and wire service copy desks and the central wire
photo machines determine at a single decision what millions will see
and hear. …there seems to be little doubt that these gatekeepers
preside over an operation in which an appalling amount of press
agentry sneaks in the back door of American journalism and marches
untouched out the front door as ‘news’” (*95).

When he sat on the US District Court of Appeals in Washington, Judge
Clarence Thomas violated US law when he failed to remove himself
from a case in which he then proceeded to reverse a $10 million
judgment against the Ralston Purina Company (*96). Ralston Purina, the
animal feed empire, is the family fortune of Thomas’ mentor, Senator
John Danforth. The Post limited its coverage of the Thomas malfeasance
to 56 words buried in the middle of a 1200-word article (*97). Would
Harwood have us believe that the almost complete blackout on this
matter by the major news media and the US Senate was a matter of
coincidence? Could a Post reporter have written a story about Ralston
Purina if she had wanted to? Can a brick swim?

Or take the fine report produced last September by Ralph Nader’s
Public Citizen. Titled All the Vice President’s Men, it documents “How
the Quayle Council on Competitiveness Secretly Undermines Health,
Safety, and Environmental Programs”. Three months later, Post
journalists David Broder and Bob Woodward published “The President’s
Understudy”, a seven-part series on Vice President Quayle. Although
this series does address Quayle’s role with the Competitiveness
Council, its handling of the Council’s disastrous impact on America is
inadequate. It is 40,000 words of mostly aimless chatter about Quayle It is 40000 words of mostly aimless chatter about Quayle
memorabilia: youth, family, college record, Christianity, political
aspirations, intellectual aspirations, wealthy friends, government
associates, golf, travels, wife Marilyn, and net worth — revealing
little about Quayle’s abilities, his understanding of society’s
problems, or his thoughts about justice and freedom, and never
mentioning the comprehensive Nader study of Quayle’s record in the
Bush Administration (*98).

Now, did Broder or did Woodward forget about the Nader study? Or did
both of them forget? Or did one, or the other, or both decide not to
mention it? Did these two celebrated, seasoned Post reporters ever
discuss together their jointly authored stories? Did they decide to
publish such a barren set of articles because it would enhance their
reputations? How did management feel about the use of precious news
space for such frivolity? Is it possible that so many pages were
dedicated to this twaddle without people “acting or working together
toward the same result or goal”? (*99) Do crocodiles fly?

On March 20, front-page headlines in the Wall Street Journal, the New
York Times, USA Today, and the Washington Post read respectively:

TSONGAS DROPPED OUT OF THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE CLEARING CLINTON’S PATH

TSONGAS ABANDONS CAMPAIGN LEAVING CLINTON CLEAR PATH TOWARD SHOWDOWN
WITH BUSH

TSONGAS CLEARS WAY FOR CLINTON

TSONGAS EXIT CLEARS WAY FOR CLINTON

This display of editorial independence should at least raise questions
of whether the news media collective mindset is really different from
that of any other cartel — like oil, diamond, energy, (*100) or
manufacturing cartels, a cartel being “a combination of independent
commercial enterprises designed to limit competition” (*101).

The Washington Post editorial page carries the heading:

AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER

Is it? Of course not. There probably is no such thing. Does the Post
“conspire” to keep its staff and its newspaper from wandering too far
from the safety of mediocrity? The Post would respond that the
question is absurd. In that I am not privy to the Post’s telephone
conversations, I can only speculate on how closely the media elite
must monitor the staff. But we all know how few micro-seconds it takes
a new reporter to learn what subjects are taboo and what are “safe”,
and that experienced reporters don’t have to ask.

What is more important, however, than speculating about how the Post
communicates within its own corporate structure and with other members
of the cartel, is to document and publicize what the Post does in
public, namely, how it shapes and censors the news.

Sincerely, Atentamente,

Julian C. Holmes

Copies to: Public-spirited citizens, both inside and outside the news
media, And - maybe a few others.

Notes to Letter of April 25, 1992:

1. Mark Hosenball, “The Ultimate Conspiracy”, Washington Post,
September 11, 1988, p.C1

2a. Julian Holmes, Letter to Washington Post Ombudsman Richard
Harwood, June 4,1991. Notes that the Post censored, from the
Anderson/Van Atta column, references to the Christic Institute and to
Robert Gates.

2b. Jack Anderson and Dale Van Atta, “Iran-Contra Figure Dodges
Extradition”, Washington Merry-Go-Round, United Feature Syndicate, May
26, 1991. This is the column submitted to the Post (see note 2a)..

2c. Jack Anderson and Dale Van Atta, “The Man Washington Doesn’t Want
to Extradite”, Washington Post, May 26, 1991. The column (see note
2b). as it appeared in the Post (see note 2a)..

3a. Case No. 86-1146-CIV-KING, Amended Complaint for RICO Conspiracy,
etc., United States District Court, Southern District of Florida, Tony
Avirgan and Martha Honey v. John Hull et al., October 3, 1986.

3b. Vince Bielski and Dennis Bernstein, “Reports: Contras Send Drugs
to US”, Cleveland Plain Dealer, November 16, 1986.

3c. Neal Matthews, “I Ran Drugs for Uncle Sam” (based on interviews
with Robert Plumlee, contra resupply pilot)., San Diego Reader, April
5, 1990.

4. Leslie Cockburn, Out of Control. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press,
1987.

5a. Peter Dale Scott and Jonathan Marshall, Cocaine Politics,
University ofCalifornia Press, 1991, p.179-181.

5b. David S. Hilzenrath, “Hill Panel Finds No Evidence Linking Contras
to Drug Smuggling”, Washington Post, July 22, 1987, p.A07.

5c. Partial correction to the Washington Post of July 22, Washington
Post, July 24,1987, p.A3.

5d. The Washington Post declined to publish SubCommittee Chairman
Rangel’s Letter- to-the-Editor of July 22, 1987. It was printed in the
Congressional Record on August 6, 1987, p.E3296-7.

6a. Michael Kranish, “Kerry Says US Turned Blind Eye to Contra-Drug
Trail”, Boston Globe, April 10, 1988.

6b. Mary McGrory, “The Contra-Drug Stink”, Washington Post, April 10,
1988, p.B1. 6c. Robert Parry with Rod Nordland, “Guns for Drugs?
Senate Probers Trace an Old Contra Connection to George Bush’s
Office”, Newsweek, May 23, 1988, p.22.

6d. Dennis Bernstein, “Iran-Contra — The Coverup Continues”, The
Progressive, November 1988, p.24.

6e. “Drugs, Law Enforcement and Foreign Policy”, A Report Prepared by
the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations
of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, December
1988.

7a. Mark Hosenball, “If It’s October … Then It’s Time for an Iranian
Conspiracy Theory”, Washington Post, October 9, 1988, p.D1.

7b. Mark Hosenball, “October Surprise! Redux! The Latest Version of
the 1980 ‘Hostage- Deal’ Story Is Still Full of Holes”, Washington
Post, April 21, 1991,p.B2.

8a. Barbara Honegger, October Surprise, New York: Tudor, 1989.

8b. Gary Sick, October Surprise, New York: Times Books, Random House,
1991.

9a. Abbie Hoffman and Jonathan Silvers, “An Election Held Hostage”,
Playboy, October 1988, p.73.

9b. Robert Parry and Robert Ross, “The Election Held Hostage”,
FRONTLINE, WGBH-TV,April 16, 1991.

10a. Reuter, “Ex-Hostages Seek Probe By Congress”, Washington Post,
June 14,1991,p.A4.

10b. “An Election Held Hostage?”, Conference, Dirksen Senate Office
Building Auditorium, Washington DC, June 13, 1991; Sponsored by The
Fund For New Priorities in America, 171 Madison Avenue, New York, NY,
10016.

11a. David Brown and Guy Gugliotta, “House Approves Inquiry Into
‘OctoberSurprise’”, Washington Post, February 6, 1992, p.A11.

11b. Jack Colhoun, “Lawmakers Lose Nerve on October Surprise”, The
Guardian, December 11, 1991, p.7.

11c. Jack Colhoun, “October Surprise Probe Taps BCCI Lawyer”, The
Guardian, February 26, 1992, p.3.

12. See note 5a, p.180-1.

13a. See note 4, p.229, 240-1.

13b. Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the
Iran-Contra Affair, Senate Report No. 100-216, House Report No.
100-433, November 1987, p.139-141.

14a. Letter to His Excellency Oscar Arias Sanchez, President of the
Republic of Costa Rica; from Members of the US Congress David
Dreier, Lee Hamilton, Dave McCurdy, Dan Burton, Mary Rose Oakar, Jim
Bunning, Frank McCloskey, Cass Ballenger, Peter Kostmayer, Jim Bates,
Douglas Bosco, James Inhofe, Thomas Foglietta, Rod Chandler, Ike
Skelton, Howard Wolpe, Gary Ackerman, Robert Lagomarsino, and Bob
McEwen; January 26, 1989.

14b. Peter Brennan, “Costa Rica Considers Seeking Contra Backer in
US — Indiana Native Wanted on Murder Charge in 1984 Bomb Attack in
Nicaragua”, WashingtonPost, February 1, 1990.

14c. “Costa Rica Seeks Extradition of Indiana Farmer”, Scripps-Howard
News Service,April 25, 1991.

15. Press Release from the Costa Rican Embassy, Washington DC, On the
Case of the Imprisonment of Costa Rican Citizen John Hull”, February
6, 1989.

16. Brian Glick, War at Home, Boston: South End Press, 1989.

17. John Stockwell, The Praetorian Guard– The US Role in the New
World Order, Boston: South End Press, 1991, p.121.

18. Hearings Before the Committee on Patents, United States Senate,
77th Cong., 2nd Session (1942)., part I, as cited in Joseph Borkin,
The Crime and Punishment of IG Farben, New York: The Free Press,
Macmillan, 1978, p.93.

19. R. Jeffrey Smith, “Study of A-Plant Neighbors’ Health Urged”,
Washington Post, July 13, 1990, p.A6.

20. Tom Horton, “A Cost Higher Than the Peace Dividend — Price Tag
Mounts to Clean Up Nuclear Weapons Sites”, Baltimore Sun, February 23,
1992, p.1K.

21. “The Nuclear Industry’s Secret PR Strategy”, EXTRA!, March 1992,
p.15.

22a. Samuel S. Epstein, MD et al, Losing the War Against Cancer: Need
for PublicPolicy Reform”, Congressional Record, April 2, 1992,
p.E947-9.

22b. Samuel S. Epstein, “The Cancer Establishment”, Washington Post,
March 10, 1992.

23a. Hon. Henry B. Gonzalez, “Efforts to Thwart Investigation of the
BNL Scandal”, Congressional Record, March 30, 1992, p.H2005-2014.

23b. Hon. David E. Skaggs (CO)., White House Spin Control on Pre-War
Iraq Policy”, Congressional Record, April 2, 1992, p.H2285.

23c. Nicholas Rostow, Special Assistant to the President and Legal
Adviser, Memorandum to Jeanne S. Archibald et al, “Meeting on
congressional requests for information and documents”, April 8, 1991;
Congressional Record, April 2, 1992,p.H2285.

24a. Michio Kaku, “Operation Desert Lie: Pentagon Confesses”, The

Guardian, March11, 1992, p.4.

24b. J. Max Robins, “NBC’s Unaired Iraq Tapes Not a Black and White
Case”, Variety Magazine, March 4, 1991, p.25.

25. Emory R. Searcy Jr., Clergy and Laity Concerned, Spring 1991
Letter to”Friends”, p.1.

26. Jean Dimeo, “Selling Hispanics on Columbus — Luis Vasquez-Ajmac
Is Hired to Promote Smithsonian Project”, Washington Post, November
18, 1991, p.Bus.8.

27. Hans Koning, “Teach the Truth About Columbus”, Washington Post,
September 3,1991, p.A19.

28a. James Kilpatrick, “Software-Piracy Case Emitting Big Stench”, St.
Louis Post/Dispatch, March 18, 1991, p.3B. Elliot L. Richardson, “A
High-Tech Watergate”, New York Times, October 21,1991.

29. “BCCI — NBC Sunday Today”, February 23, 1992, p.12; transcript
prepared by Burrelle’s Information Services. The quote is from New
York District Attorney Robert Morgenthau who is running his own
independent investigation of BCCI.

30. Norman Bailey, former Reagan White House intelligence analyst;
from an interview with Mark Rosenthal of NBC News. See note 29, p.5.

31. Jack Colhoun, “BCCI Skeletons Haunting Bush’s Closet”, The
Guardian, September 18, 1991, p.9.

32. Robert Morgenthau. See note 29, p.10.

33. Russell Mokhiber, Corporate Crime and Violence, San Francisco:
Sierra ClubBooks, 1989 paperback edition, p.227.

34. See note 33, p.136-7.

35. Morton Mintz, At Any Cost: Corporate Greed, Women, and the Dalkon
Shield, NewYork: Pantheon, 1985. As cited in Mokhiber, see note 33,
p.157.

36. See note 33, p.164-171.

37. See note 33, p.172-180.

38. Michael Waldman, Who Robbed America?, New York: Random House,
1990. The quote is from Ralph Nader’s Introduction, p.iii.

39. See note 33, p.217.

40. See note 33, p.235.

41. See note 33, p.277-288.

42. See note 33, p.323.

43. Katherine Hoyt Gonzalez, Nicaragua Network Education Fund
Newsletter, March1992, p.1.

44. William Blum, The CIA — A Forgotten History, London: Zed Books
Ltd., 1986,p.232-243.

45a. John Stockwell, In Search of Enemies, New York: Norton, 1978.

45b. See note 44, p.284-291.

46. See note 17, p.18.

47a. Letter to President George Bush from The Ad Hoc Committee for
Panama (James Abourezk et al)., January 10, 1990; published in The
Nation, February 5, 1990, p.163.

47b. Philip E. Wheaton, Panama, Trenton NJ: Red Sea Press, 1992,
p.145-7.

48a. Morton Mintz and Jerry S. Cohen, Power, Inc., New York: Bantam
Books, 1977,p.521.

48b. “The International Oil Cartel”, Federal Trade Commission,
December 2, 1949. Cited in 48a, p.521.

49a. See note 44, p.67-76.

49b. See note 48a, p.530-1.

50. Ralph W. McGehee, Deadly Deceits, New York: Sheridan Square
Publications, 1983,p.60.

51. HR-3385, “An Act to Provide Assistance for Free and Fair Elections
in Nicaragua”. Passed the US House of Representatives on October 4,
1989 by avote of 263 to 136, and the Senate on October 17 by a vote of
64 to 35.

52. Jack Colhoun, “Gates Oozing Trail of Lies, Gets Top CIA Post”, The
Guardian,November 20, 1991, p.6.

53. Carl Bernstein, Time, February 24, 1992, Cover Story p.28-35.

54. “The US and the Vatican on Birth Control”, Time, February 24,
1992, p.35.

55. “Time’s Missing Link: Poland to Latin America”, National Catholic
Reporter,February 28, 1992, p.24.

56a. Jim Lynn, “School of Americas Commander Hopes to Expand Mission”,
Benning Patriot, February 21, 1992, p.12.

56b. Vicky Imerman, “US Army School of the Americas Plans
Expansion”, News Release from SOA Watch, PO Bo 3330, Columbus,
Georgia 31903.

57. 60 MINUTES, CBS, March 8, 1992.

58. Jack Colhoun, “Tricky Dick’s Quick Election Fix”, The Guardian,
January 29,1992, p.18.

59a. Sean P. Murphy, “Several Probes May Have Ignored Evidence Against
Police”, Boston Globe, July 28, 1991, p.1.

59b. Christopher B. Daly, “Pattern of Police Abuses Reported in Boston
Case”, Washington Post, July 12, 1991, p.A3.

59c. Associated Press, “Dayton Police Probing Erasure of Arrest
Video”, WashingtonPost, May 26, 1991, p.A20.

59d. Gabriel Escobar, “Deaf Man’s Death In Police Scuffle Called
Homicide”, Washington Post, May 18, 1991, p.B1.

59e. Jay Mathews, “LA Police Laughed at Beating”, Washington Post,
March 19, 1991, p.A1.

59f. David Maraniss, “One Cop’s View of Police Violence”, Washington
Post, April 12,1991, p.A1.

59g. From News Services, “Police Abuse Detailed”, Washington Post,
February 8, 1992,p.A8.

60. Michael Dobbs, “Panhandling the Kremlin: How Gus Hall Got
Millions”, Washington Post, March 1, 1992, p.A1.

61. David Streitfeld, “Secret Consortium To Publish Rushdie In
Paperback”, Washington Post, March 14, 1992, p.D1.

62a. See notes 48 and 49.

62b. See note 47b, p.63-76.

62c. “Fairness In Broadcasting Act of 1987″, US Senate Bill S742.

62d. “Now Let That ‘Fairness’ Bill Die”, Editorial, Washington Post,

June 24, 1987. The Post opposed the Fairness in Broadcasting Act.

63. David E. Scheim, Contract on America — The Mafia Murder of
President John F.Kennedy, New York: Shapolsky Publishers, 1988,
p.viii.

64. See note 63, p.28.

65a. Chuck Conconi, “Out and About”, Washington Post, February 26,
1991, p.B3.

65b. George Lardner Jr., “On the Set: Dallas in Wonderland”,
Washington Post, May19, 1991, p.D1.

65c. George Lardner, “…Or Just a Sloppy Mess”, Washington Post, June
2, 1991,p.D3.

65d. Charles Krauthammer, “A Rash of Conspiracy Theories — When Do We
Dig Up BillCasey?”, Washington Post, July 5, 1991, p.A19.

65e. Eric Brace, “Personalities”, Washington Post, October 31, 1991,
p.C3.

65f. Associated Press, “‘JFK’ Director Condemned — Warren Commission
Attorney Calls Stone Film ‘A Big Lie’”, Washington Post, December 16,
1991, p.D14.

65g. Gerald R. Ford and David W. Belin, “Kennedy Assassination: How
About the Truth?”, Washington Post, December 17, 1991, p.A21.

65h. Rita Kemply, “‘JFK’: History Through A Prism”, Washington Post,
December 20,1991, p.D1.

65i. George Lardner Jr., “The Way it Wasn’t — In ‘JFK’, Stone
Assassinates the Truth”, Washington Post, December 20, 1991, p.D2.

65j. Desson Howe, “Dallas Mystery: Who Shot JFK?”, Washington Post,
December 20,1991, p.55.

65k. Phil McCombs, “Oliver Stone, Returning the Fire — In Defending
His ‘JFK’ Conspiracy Film, the Director Reveals His Rage and
Reasoning”, Washington Post, December 21, 1991, p.F1.

65l. George F. Will, “‘JFK’: Paranoid History”, Washington Post,
December 26, 1991,p.A23.

65m. “On Screen”, ‘JFK’ movie review, Washington Post, Weekend,
December 27, 1991.

65n. Stephen S. Rosenfeld, “Shadow Play”, Washington Post, December
27, 1991, p.A21.

65o. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, “The Paranoid Style”, Washington Post,
December 29,1991, p.C7.

65p. Michael Isikoff, “Heeeere’s Conspiracy! — Why Did Oliver
Stone Omit (Or Suppress!). the Role of Johnny Carson?”, Washington
Post, December 29, 1991,p.C2.

65q. Robert O’Harrow Jr., “Conspiracy Theory Wins Converts –
Moviegoers Say ‘JFK’ Nourishes Doubts That Oswald Acted Alone”,
Washington Post, January 2, 1992, p.B1.

65r. Michael R. Beschloss, “Assassination and Obsession”, Washington
Post, January 5, 1992, p.C1.

65s. Charles Krauthammer, “‘JFK’: A Lie, But Harmless”, Washington
Post, January 10,1992, p.A19.

65t. Art Buchwald, “Bugged: The Flu Conspiracy”, Washington Post,
January 14, 1992,p.E1.

65u. Ken Ringle, “The Fallacy of Conspiracy Theories — Good on Film,
But the Motivation Is All Wrong”, Washington Post, January 19, 1992,
p.G1.

65v. Charles Paul Freund, “If History Is a Lie — America’s Resort to
Conspiracy Thinking”, Washington Post, January 19, 1992, p.C1.

65w. Richard Cohen, “Oliver’s Twist”, Washington Post Magazine,
January 19, 1992, p.5.

65. Michael Isikoff, “Seeking JFK’s Missing Brain”, Washington Post,
January 21,1992, p.A17.

65y. Don Oldenburg, “The Plots Thicken — Conspiracy Theorists Are
Everywhere”, Washington Post, January 28, 1992, p.E5.

65z. Joel Achenbach, “JFK Conspiracy: Myth vs. the Facts”, Washington
Post, February 28, 1992, p.C5.

65A. List of books on the best-seller list: On the Trail of the
Assassins is characterized as “conspiracy plot theories”, Washington
Post, March 8, 1992,Bookworld, p.12

66. See notes 65n, 65w, 65l, 65b, 65c, and 65i.

67a. Peter Dale Scott, “Vietnamization and the Drama of the Pentagon
Papers”. Published in The Senator Gravel Edition of The Pentagon
Papers, Volume V,p.211-247.

67b. Peter Dale Scott, The War Conspiracy — The Secret Road to the
Second Indochina War, Indianapolis/New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1972, p.
215-224.

67c. L. Fletcher Prouty, The Secret Team, Copyright 1973. New Nueva
printing, Costa Mesa CA: Institute for Historical Review, 1990,
p.402-416.

67d. See note 63, p.58, 183, 187, 194, 273-4.

67e. John M. Newman, JFK and Vietnam, New York: Warner Books, 1992.

67f. Peter Dale Scott, Letter to the Editor, The Nation, March 9,
1992, p.290.

68a. See note 65b.

68b. Oliver Stone, “The Post, George Lardner, and My Version of the
JFK Assassination”, Washington Post, June 2, 1991, p.D3.

69. See note 65b.

70. Jim Garrison, On the Trail of The Assassins, New York: Warner
Books, 1988, 315/318.

71. Associated Press, “Garrison, 2 Others, Found Not Guilty Of Bribery
Charge”, Washington Post, September 28, 1973, p.A3.

72. See note 65c.

73. See note 65i.

74. See note 67e, p.438-450.

75. John G. Leyden, “Historians, Buffs, and Crackpots”, Washington
Post, Bookworld, January 26, 1992, p.8.

76a. Tad Szulc, “New Doubts, Fears in JFK Assassination Probe”,
Washington Star,September 19, 1975, p.A1.

76b. Tad Szulc, “Warren Commission’s Self-Doubts Grew Day by Day –
‘This Bullet Business Leaves Me Confused’”, Washington Star, September

20, 1975, p.A1.

76c. Tad Szulc, “Urgent and Secret Meeting of the Warren Commission –
Dulles Proposed that the Minutes be Destroyed”, Washington Star,
September 21, 1975,p.A1.

77. “Cable Sought to Discredit Critics of Warren Report”, New York
Times, December 26, 1977, p.A37.

78. Deborah Davis, Katharine The Great, New York: Harcourt Brace
Jovanovich, 1979,p.141-2.

79a. Eve Pell, “Private Censorship — Killing ‘Katharine The Great’”,
The Nation, November 12, 1983.

79b. Deborah Davis, Katharine The Great, Bethesda MD: National Press,
1987. Davis says, “…corporate documents that became available during
my subsequent lawsuit against him [Harcourt Brace Jovanovich chairman,
William Jovanovich] showed that 20,000 copies [of Katharine the Great] William Jovanovich] showed that 20000 copies [of Katharine the Great]
had been “processed and converted into waste paper”".

79c. Daniel Brandt, “All the Publisher’s Men — A Suppressed Book
About Washington Post Publisher Katharine Graham Is On Sale Again”
National Reporter, Fall 1987, p.60.

79d. Deborah Davis, Katharine The Great, New York: Sheridan Square
Press, 1991. “…publishers who don’t give a shit”, p.iv-v; bullying
HBJ into recalling the book, p.iv-vi; lawsuit and settlement, p..

80. Benjamin C. Bradlee, Letter to Deborah Davis, April 1, 1987. See
note 79d, p.304.

81. See note 79d, p.119-132.

82. Carl Bernstein, “The CIA and the Media — How America’s Most
Powerful News Media Worked Hand in Glove with the Central Intelligence
Agency and Why the Church Committee Covered It Up”, Rolling Stone,
October 20, 1977, p.63.

83a. Daniel Brandt, Letter to Richard L. Harwood of The Washington
Post, September 15, 1988. The letter asks for the Post’s rationale for
its policy of protecting government covert actions, and whether this
policy is still in effect.

83b. Daniel Brandt, “Little Magazines May Come and Go”, The National
Reporter, Fall 1988, p.4. Notes the Post’s protection of the identity
of CIA agent Joseph F.Fernandez. Brandt says, “America needs to
confront its own recent history as well as protect the interests of
its citizens, and both can be accomplished by outlawing peacetime
covert activity. This would contribute more to thesecurity of
Americans than all the counterterrorist proposals and elite strike
forces that ever found their way onto Pentagon wish-lists.”

83c. Richard L. Harwood, Letter to Daniel Brandt, September 28, 1988.
Harwood’s two- sentence letter reads, “We have a long-standing policy
of not naming covert agents of the CIA, except in unusual
circumstances. We applied that policy to Fernandez.”

84. See note 79d, p.131.

85. Katharine Graham, “Safeguarding Our Freedoms As We Cover Terrorist
Acts”, Washington Post, April 20, 1986, p.C1.

86. “conspire”, ß4ßRandom House Dictionary of the English Language,
Second Edition Unabridged, 1987.

87. Howard Kurtz, “Media Notes”, Washington Post, June 18, 1991, p.D1.

88. See note 65y.

89. See note 65n.

90. See note 65d.

91. William Casey, Private Communications with JCH, March 1992.

Richard Harwood, “What Conspiracy?”, Washington Post, March 1, 1992,
p.C6.

93. p. 29-32.

94a. Washington Post Electronic Data Base, Dialog Information Services
Inc., April 25, 1992. In 1991 and 1992, the name Bill Clinton appeared
in 878 Washington Post stories, columns, letters, or editorials;
“Jerry” Brown in 485, Pat Buchanan in 303, and Larry Agran in 28. In En
those 28, Agran’s name appeared 76 times, Clinton’s 151, and Brown
105. In only 1 of those 28 did Agran’s name appear in a headline.

94b. Colman McCarthy, “What’s ‘Minor’ About This Candidate?”,
Washington Post, February 1, 1992. Washington Post columnist McCarthy
tells how television and party officials have kept presidential
candidate Larry Agran out of sight. The Post’s own daily news-blackout
of Agran is not discussed.

94c. Scot Lehigh, “Larry Agran: ‘Winner’ in Debate With Little Chance
For the Big Prize”, Boston Globe, February 25, 1992.

94d. Joshua Meyrowitz, “The Press Rejects a Candidate”, Columbia
Journalism Review,March/April, 1992.

95. Ben H. Bagdikian, The Effete Conspiracy And Other Crimes By The
Press, NewYork: Harper and Row, 1972, p.36-7.

96a. 28 USC Section 455. “Any justice, judge, or magistrate of the
United States shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his
impartiality might reasonably be questioned.” [emphasis added]

96b. Alpo Petfoods, Inc. v. Ralston Purina Co., 913 F2d 958 (CA DC
1990)..

96c. Monroe Freedman, “Thomas’ Ethics and the Court — Nominee ‘Unfit
to Sit’ For Failing to Recuse In Ralston Purina Case”, Legal Times,
August 26, 1991.

96d. Paul D. Wilcher, “Opposition to the Confirmation of Judge
Clarence Thomas to become a Justice on the US Supreme Court on the
grounds of his JUDICIAL MISCONDUCT”, Letter to US Senator Joseph R.
Biden, October 15, 1991.

97. Al Kamen and Michael Isikoff, “‘A Distressing Turn’, Activists

Decry What Process Has Become”, Washington Post, October 12, 1991,
p.A1.

98. January 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 1992, p.A1 each day.

99. See note 86.

100. Thomas W. Lippman, “Energy Lobby Fights Unseen ‘Killers’”,
Washington Post,April 1, 1992, p.A21. This article explains that
“representatives of the US Chamber of Commerce, the National
Association of Manufacturers and the coal, oil, natural gas, offshore
drilling and nuclear power industries, whose interests often conflict,
pledged to work together to oppose amendments limiting offshore oil
drilling, nuclear power and carbon dioxide emissions soon to be
offered by key House members”.

101. “cartel”, Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary, 1977.

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NOTES
A good source on the Washington Post and Katharine Graham’s attempt to suppress the Davis book,”Katherine The Great,”, which was largely successful, is Carol Felsenthal’s, “Power and Privilege at the Post, the Katharine Graham Story.” A good source on the Washington Post and Katharine Graham’s attempt to suppress the Davis book,”Katherine The Great,”, which was largely successful, is Carol Felsenthal’s, “Power and Privilege at the Post, the Katharine Graham Story. ”

For more information on Johnny Rosselli and Moses and Walter Annenberg, an excellent source is “All American Mafioso, the Johnny Rosselli Story,” by Ed Becker and Charles Rappelye.

An additional good short reference is “The CIA’s Greatest Hits” by Mark Zepezauer. There you will find the reference to Carl Bernstein’s classic “The CIA and the Media” which appeared in Rolling Stone on Oct. 20, 1977.

Still another recent example of the CIA’s control of the media is the spiking of Sally Denton’s & Roger Morris’ story,”THE CRIMES OF MENA” by Washington Post managing editor Bob Kaiser even though the story had been legally vetted and cleared for publication. Still another recent example of the CIA’s control of the media is the spiking of Sally Denton’s & Roger Morris’ story,”THE CRIMES OF MENA” by Washington Post managing editor Bob Kaiser even though the story had been legally vetted and cleared for publication. Indeed the story, which details the CIA’s involvement in drug trafficing, was already typeset and ready to go when it was killed withouty explanation.

An example of media lies can be found in this example of a faked newspaper photograph.