{"id":361086,"date":"2018-05-14T06:32:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T05:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/does-cnns-anderson-cooper-work-for-the-cia\/"},"modified":"2018-05-14T06:32:42","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T05:32:42","slug":"does-cnns-anderson-cooper-work-for-the-cia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/does-cnns-anderson-cooper-work-for-the-cia\/","title":{"rendered":"Does CNN\u2019s Anderson Cooper Work for the CIA?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Non-Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The CIA\u2019s connections to mainstream media are well documented. Take Operation Mockingbird, for example, a program developed by the agency to infiltrate mainstream media and\u00a0feed them stories that suit the narrative of the agency, for \u2018national security\u2019 purposes. It was actually birthed out of the Office for Strategic Services (OSS), which, during the second World War, established a network of journalists and psychological warfare experts. Back then, these were propaganda campaigns, or fake news campaigns in essence. One old example from the OSS can be looked at by examining the Career of Richard Helms. He eventually become the CIA\u2019s director, and was recruited by his own supervisor at the United Press International\u2019s Berlin Bureau to join the OSS\u2019s \u201cblack propaganda\u201d program.<\/p>\n<p>The list of connections is\u00a0extensive.\u00a0For example, a 1991\u00a0declassified document also\u00a0highlights this close relationship between mainstream media and the agency. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/library\/readingroom\/docs\/DOC_0005524009.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">document<\/a>\u00a0states that the CIA task force \u201cnow has relationships with reporters from every major wire service, newspaper, news weekly, and television network in the nation,\u201d and that \u201cthis has helped\u201d them \u201cturn some \u2018intelligence failure\u2019 stories into \u2018intelligence success\u2019 stories.\u201d It also explains how the agency has \u201cpersuaded reporters to postpone, change, hold, or even scrap stories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As James F. Tracy, a former professor of communications at Florida Atlantic University,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/the-cia-and-the-media-50-facts-the-world-needs-to-know\/5471956\">emphasizes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Since the end of World War Two the Central Intelligence Agency has been a major force in US and foreign news media, exerting considerable influence over what the public sees, hears and reads on a regular basis. CIA publicists and journalists alike will assert they have few,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/05\/no_author\/does-cnns-anderson-cooper-work-for-the-cia-it-shouldnt-be-taboo-to-talk-about-it\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CIA\u2019s connections to mainstream media are well documented. Take Operation Mockingbird, for example, a program developed by the agency to infiltrate mainstream media and\u00a0feed them stories that suit the narrative of the agency, for \u2018national security\u2019 purposes. It was actually birthed out of the Office for Strategic Services (OSS), which, during the second World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-361086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}