Operation Mockingbird
The Operation Mockingbird was a secret project of the State Department of the United States to influence media in the countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development .
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After investigations, which took place mainly in 1975 and 1976, it emerged that the CIA, under the name Operation Mockingbird, carried out actions in cooperation with major media houses to influence public opinion on national events.
National as well as international media houses were influenced to make public opinion more positive towards the US government.
The operation began in the early 1950s and was intended to influence uncooperative governments, decide trade wars, and intimidate and murder people hostile to the Free World Agenda.
Media agencies
The CIA denied the operation and the media influence, but the list of media controlled is known.
At the top are media like: Newsweek, The New York Times, Miami Herald and CBS.
history
Frank Gardiner Wisner
Frank Gardiner Wisner was hired by Dean Acheson in 1947 in the Office of Occupied Territories of the United States Department of State . On April 28, 1947 appointed George C. Marshall , George F. Kennan head of the Policy Planning Staff (PPS) (later renamed the Office of Policy Coordination). The PPS and William L. Clayton played a key role in developing the European Recovery Program ERP, which George C. Marshall presented on June 5, 1947 at a lecture at Harvard University . Wisner headed Operation Mockingbird , which used funds from the Marshall Plan to organize public relations work in line with the containment policy . The Office of Strategic Services in the United States Department of Defense was replaced from 1946 to September 18, 1947 by the Central Intelligence Group under Hoyt S. Vandenberg in the United States Department of State .
Covert public relations
Against the background of the rivalry between Dean Acheson and J. Edgar Hoover , Joseph McCarthy contributed to the clarification of the US State Department's public relations activities. In a 1950 speech, he revealed that he had a list of 250 Foreign Ministry employees who were members of the Communist Party .
From the United States presidential election, 1952 was Dwight D. Eisenhower out victorious. The partisanship of Henry Luce in Time and Life and an anti-communist mobilization by Joseph McCarthy contributed significantly to this election success . Joseph McCarthy chaired the Senate Committee on Government Operations .
In the first half of 1953 a hearing was held on the International Information Administration (IIA). The IIA, a division of the State Department , had a budget of $ 100 million and employed about 10,000 people in early 1953. In addition to the Voice of America , the Foreign Information Service, which was renamed the United States Information Service in 1953, was part of their area of responsibility . A wide variety of cultural, information and training programs were located in its nearly 200 information centers . This household ran the libraries known as America Houses . 41 information centers had been set up for re- education in the Federal Republic of Germany and in West Berlin .
Family Jewels Report
During the Watergate affair on May 7, 1973, James R. Schlesinger commissioned a dossier on the activities of his predecessor Richard Helms , who in August 1952 - as the Office of Policy Coordination and the Office of Special Operations in the Directorate of Plans ( DPP) were merged under Frank Wisner - headed the operative part of the department.
The dossier was classified as secret under the successor William Colby and went to the archive. On June 26, 2007, after the statute of limitations commenced , a blackened, censored bundle of 693 individual pages was sent to the independent National Security Archive . In it, the Kennedy Cabinet was held responsible for telecommunications surveillance from March 12 to June 15, 1963, among US journalists.
Cultural policy
The sponsored institutions and individuals also included the winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature Boris Leonidowitsch Pasternak and Heinrich Böll .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ose: Operation Mockingbird: What Exactly Is It? Here Are Facts You Need To Know. September 19, 2018, accessed July 26, 2020 (American English).
- ↑ James Slate: What was Operation Mockingbird? January 10, 2019, accessed on July 26, 2020 .
- ^ The CIA and the Media: 50 Facts the World Needs to Know - Global Research . In: Global Research . January 30, 2018 ( globalresearch.ca [accessed July 26, 2020]).
- ↑ Evan Thomas, The Very Best Men : Four Who Dared: The Early Years of the CIA
- ^ Reeves, Life and Times of Joe McCarthy, p. 477.
- ^ Greg Mitchell: Before Nixon: When JFK tapped the phone of a New York Times reporter Columbia Journalism Review , October 18, 2016
- ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 17, 2010, "Doktor Schiwago" and the CIA .
- ↑ Used and controlled, artists on the CIA network, documentation. Director: Hans-Rüdiger Minow, Second German Television, Germany 2006, 52 minutes. First broadcast on Arte TV, Wednesday, November 29, 2006, 8:40 p.m.