-Caveat Lector- from:alt.conspiracy As, always, Caveat Lector Om K ----- Click Here: <A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:642155">The CIA OWNS the Media!</A> ----- Subject: The CIA OWNS the Media! From: No User <A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> Date: Fri, Sep 15, 2000 7:19 PM Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The CIA OWNS The Media! My Apology to the Media by Robert Lederman Boy, do I feel stupid. I've been blaming hard-working reporters for biased coverage of the West Nile Virus issue, their silence on the Manhattan Institute's Nazi-CIA- Eugenics link and for refusing to report on the Bush family's close connection to Hitler. In my naivet� I was implying that the CIA was somehow influencing their coverage. How ignorant can one person get? Now I know better. After following a series of leads starting from an obscure article found on the internet the whole issue is much clearer and I can announce my findings. The media is not influenced by the CIA - the media IS the CIA. Not that I can claim any credit for this insight. There are hundreds of carefully researched articles and even entire books about this subject-not to mention a Congressional report specifically about it. What began the process of pulling the blinders from my eyes was one sentence in a press release announcing Ronald Reagan's nomination of William Casey-the founder of the Manhattan Institute-to be his Director of the CIA. The release mentioned that among Mr. Casey's many accomplishments was that he ran the Reagan campaign, conducted secret intelligence operations during WWII [with Nazi ally and board member of I.G. Farben, Allen Dulles] was the chair of Operation Rescue [a CIA front which helped thousands of former Nazis emigrate to the U.S.], and manipulated the stock market as chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission. It went on to note that Casey was also the lead counsel [and as I later found out-top stockholder] in Capital Cities, the communications company that owned ABC until it was bought by Disney in 1996. He held that textbook example of a conflict of interest position while serving as CIA director. Following that lead I found that many of Capital Cities founders were also formerly involved in intelligence, many of them having worked with Casey under Allen Dulles-the first CIA director. In other words, ABC was owned by the CIA during the Gulf War and throughout the Reagan, Bush and much of the Clinton administrations. It was bought in 1996 by Disney, a company with many allegations of its own to having a CIA-mind control connection, whose creator had long been considered an FBI informer. Perhaps that explains why Manhattan Institute poster boy for a police state Rudy Giuliani's staged radio show is on WABC. Okay, you say, so ABC was owned by the CIA-that still leaves two other major networks and thousands of newspapers and radio stations that aren't, right? CBS and NBC are owned by Westinghouse and General Electric, the nation's two top suppliers of military hardware, satellites, nuclear reactors and spy equipment. One might be excused for imagining a government connection there as well. According to an article by investigative reporter Carl Bernstein-"The CIA and the Media", Rolling Stone, 10/20/77-prominent US media owners and journalists who have knowingly worked for the CIA include William Paley (CBS), Arthur Sulzberger (NY Times), Henry Luce (Time/Life), William Buckley (National Review), Ben Bradlee (Washington Post), and hundreds of others. "By the early 1950s," writes former Village Voice reporter Deborah Davis in Katharine the Great, "Frank Wisner [head of Allen Dulles' CIA clandestine operation to bring thousands of top Nazis to America] 'owned' respected members of the New York Times, Newsweek, CBS and other communications vehicles, plus at least four to six hundred reporters, according to a former CIA analyst." This CIA network of top U.S. media contacts was called Operation Mockingbird and was directly overseen by CIA director Allen Dulles, the Nazis' number one coordinator between American corporations and the Third Reich. "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. From: "Katherine The Great," by Deborah Davis, New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1991. In a 1988 speech at CIA headquarters, Washington Post publisher Katherine Graham said, "We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets, and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows." -Quoted in Journalism and the CIA: The Mighty Wurlitzer by Daniel Brandt <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/8425/CIAPRESS.HTM"> http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/8425/CIAPRESS.HTM</A> While we watch these absurdly hypocritical Congressional hearings on violence in the media, let's keep this CIA- media connection in mind. If the media is peddling violence, sex, drugs and depravity to our kids, we have to wonder what is in it for the CIA. Perhaps the Nazi-influenced CIA is conditioning America's youth for the fascist police state they have been working to install here since the end of WWII. Perhaps the content of the media is not just a quest for profits but something far worse. Perhaps these hyper-violent video games; blood, sex and rape filled movies; Eugenics-inspired 'eliminate the competition'shows like Survivor and steroid-fueled stereotypes of maleness like Fox's and UPN's wrestling operas-with personalities seemingly modeled on the guards at a Nazi death camp-are training the stone-cold Storm Troopers of the future. I no longer have any problem understanding why, despite the media being given Mayor Giuliani's Chem-bio Handbook showing Malathion to be a deadly nerve gas, it was never once mentioned in any article; why West Nile Virus keeps being described as, "never before seen in the Western Hemisphere" despite the fact that at least three U.S. government and Rockefeller-connected labs in the NY area have been experimenting with it for decades; why we are told every day via television, radio and newspapers that toxic insecticides being indiscrimenently sprayed on our city are, "safe" and "non-toxic" despite thousands of scientific reports to the contrary; why despite an uncountable number of articles on the candidacy of G.W. Bush his family's extensive ties to the Nazis are never mentioned; why every article on the Manhattan Institute that mentions William Casey as its founder leaves out his role in bringing Nazis to America; why no names of West Nile Virus "victims" are ever released; why I've observed the entire media standing with their cameras and tape recorders turned off at certain press conferences and rallies and why so many people have told me they stopped watching television, reading newspapers and voting after doing a few years of research on who really runs the government. Again, I apologize to any reporters I might have offended by my critical comments over the years. I didn't realize who you actually worked for. ----------------------------- NY Post 9/15/2000 BUSH MADE BUNDLE ON MOVIE VIOLENCE "George W. Bush, who has decried the "pervasiveness of violence" in Hollywood, served on the board of a movie company that financed more than two dozen R-rated films, including a gory 1986 slasher flick." For a few of thousands of links to CIA-media material see: www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/8425/CIAPRESS.HTM www.cia.gov/csi/studies/winter98-99/art07.html <A HREF="http://parascope.com/articles/0997/ciamedia.htm"> http://parascope.com/articles/0997/ciamedia.htm</A> <A HREF="http://www.cpj.org/attacks96/sreports/cia.html"> http://www.cpj.org/attacks96/sreports/cia.html</A> <A HREF="http://www.radix.net/~jcturner/Church-1.html"> http://www.radix.net/~jcturner/Church-1.html</A> <A HREF="http://pw1.netcom.com/~ncoic/cia_info.htm"> http://pw1.netcom.com/~ncoic/cia_info.htm</A> <A HREF="http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/cia/powers.htm"> http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/cia/powers.htm</A> <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/8425/BONES.HTM"> http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/8425/BONES.HTM</A> <A HREF="http://www.tomdavisbooks.com/library/mockingbird.html"> http://www.tomdavisbooks.com/library/mockingbird.html</A> <A HREF="http://members.xoom.com/yugo_archive/20000318mediaoverb.htm"> http://members.xoom.com/yugo_archive/20000318mediaoverb.htm</A> <A HREF="http://www.parascope.com/ds/documentslibrary/documents/mkul"> http://www.parascope.com/ds/documentslibrary/documents/mkul</A> trahearing/mkultraHearing02.htm <A HREF="http://www.syninfo.com/ian/PRIVATE/2000/03/24/2000032420"> http://www.syninfo.com/ian/PRIVATE/2000/03/24/2000032420</A> 330050.html <A HREF="http://www.sightings.com/politics6/mockingbird.htm"> http://www.sightings.com/politics6/mockingbird.htm</A> <A HREF="http://csf.colorado.edu/mail/psn/may98/0104.html"> http://csf.colorado.edu/mail/psn/may98/0104.html</A> <A HREF="http://www.vii.org/papers/medconc.htm"> http://www.vii.org/papers/medconc.htm</A> <A HREF="http://www.fair.org/extra/9511/nbc.html"> http://www.fair.org/extra/9511/nbc.html</A> <A HREF="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/media/july-dec00/mergers_7-"> http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/media/july-dec00/mergers_7-</A> 17.html <A HREF="http://www.sightings.com/politics5/secrets.htm"> http://www.sightings.com/politics5/secrets.htm</A> <A HREF="http://redwood.forestcouncil.org/pipermail/stumps/2000-"> http://redwood.forestcouncil.org/pipermail/stumps/2000-</A> June/00 0979.html <A HREF="http://www.totse.com/files/FA007/wackspy.htm"> http://www.totse.com/files/FA007/wackspy.htm</A> <A HREF="http://members.aol.com/hndlink/directors.htm"> http://members.aol.com/hndlink/directors.htm</A> <A HREF="http://www.odci.gov/cia/ciakids/index.html"> http://www.odci.gov/cia/ciakids/index.html</A> <A HREF="http://www.cia.gov/">http://www.cia.gov/</A> For mainstream references to the CIA-media connection see: John M. Crewdson and Joseph B. Treaster, "The CIA's 3- Decade Effort to Mold the World's Views," New York Times, 25 December 1977, pp. 1, 12; Terrence Smith, "CIA Contacts With Reporters," New York Times, p. 13; Crewdson and Treaster, "Worldwide Propaganda Network Built by the CIA," New York Times, 26 December 1977, pp. 1, 37; Crewdson and Treaster, "CIA Established Many Links to Journalists in U.S. and Abroad," New York Times, 27 December 1977, pp. 1, 40-41. Also see: Networks of Power, by Dennis Mazzocco. The CIA and the Media published by the U.S. House of Representatives in 1978. Robert Lederman, President of A.R.T.I.S.T. (Artists� Response To Illegal State Tactics) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (718) 743-3722 For the real West Nile Virus story see: <A HREF="http://Baltech.org/lederman/spray/"> http://Baltech.org/lederman/spray/</A> For the street artist issue see: <A HREF="http://www.openair.org/alerts/artist/nyc.html"> http://www.openair.org/alerts/artist/nyc.html</A> Feel Free to Forward ===== Subject: Re: The CIA OWNS the Media! From: Kirby Urner <A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"> [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> Date: Sat, Sep 16, 2000 3:42 PM Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The CIA OWNS The Media! > >My Apology to the Media >by Robert Lederman > >Boy, do I feel stupid. I've been blaming hard-working >reporters for biased coverage of the West Nile Virus issue, >their silence on the Manhattan Institute's Nazi-CIA- >Eugenics link and for refusing to report on the Bush >family's close connection to Hitler. In my naivet� I was >implying that the CIA was somehow influencing their >coverage. I presume you're talking about the "Unauthorized Bio" by Tarpley and company? >The media is not influenced by the CIA - >the media IS the CIA. Many journalists will consider this flattery, as it makes them into undercover CIAers -- which many long suspected they were, but had a hard time confirming, given the CIA's policy of not confirming (but sometimes denying) a person's claim to CIAer status. >by Disney in 1996. He held that textbook example of a >conflict of interest position while serving as CIA >director. A lot of these points you make were indeed in the press at the time. It's true that the CIA is often mixed up at the board room level with various corporations, at other levels of government as well. That's how people get to know you well enough to entrust you with this or that position (as president, you don't want to be accused of picking a rank outsider or clueless newbie -- so you go with some kind of Vernon Jordan type, someone with connections and a good rep). >Following that lead I found that many of Capital Cities >founders were also formerly involved in intelligence, many >of them having worked with Casey under Allen Dulles-the >first CIA director. You have to remember that the CIA was not always looked at askance. In the earlier days, before a lot of wrong turns were taken (re Vietnam especially, but before that as well), journalists got invited over to CIA headquarters where they'd schmooze and get a feel for the CIA's take on stuff, which'd then make its way back to the press rooms. This wasn't considered "manipulation of the media" by the American public back then, which sort of trusted the intelligence community (if they thought about it at all). Of course a lot of water has gone under the bridge since then, but you still should remember that a lot of people consider the CIA a very respectable entity, even to this day, and don't mind even semi-public identifications therewith. For example, InQTel has these affiliations with other USA corporations at the board level. >In other words, ABC was owned by the CIA during the Gulf >War and throughout the Reagan, Bush and much of the Clinton >administrations. It was bought in 1996 by Disney, a company >with many allegations of its own to having a CIA-mind >control connection, whose creator had long been considered >an FBI informer. Perhaps that explains why Manhattan >Institute poster boy for a police state Rudy Giuliani's >staged radio show is on WABC. Again, being an "FBI informer" was never considered in a very controversial light until later. Elvis Presley was an informer. You could wear that as a badge of honor at one time. Where the FBI stands today is harder to fathom. On the one hand, we've had a strong director willing to look into some deep worm cans (Reno supportive), but then we've had a lot of mess ups. But all that aside, you can't discount the X-Files for coloring everything to do with the FBI, even though that's "just a TV show". >Okay, you say, so ABC was owned by the CIA-that still >leaves two other major networks and thousands of >newspapers and radio stations that aren't, right? CBS and >NBC are owned by Westinghouse and General Electric, the >nation's two top suppliers of military hardware, >satellites, nuclear reactors and spy equipment. One might >be excused for imagining a government connection there as >well. Yes, it's all schmooed together. All these entities you mention are just a mouse-click away from one another. The so-called military-industrial complex (aka the Grunch) is highly hyperlinked to itself. >According to an article by investigative reporter Carl >Bernstein-"The CIA and the Media", Rolling Stone, >10/20/77-prominent US media owners and journalists who have >knowingly worked for the CIA include William Paley (CBS), >Arthur Sulzberger (NY Times), Henry Luce (Time/Life), >William Buckley (National Review), Ben Bradlee (Washington >Post), and hundreds of others. Given how tightly controlled is the whole show from the top, the way you portray it, there's really no hope of things being otherwise. In other words, _by definition_ you've got big shots working for the CIA if, at the same time, you posit the CIA's "ownership" of all these assets. That's just the way it'll sort out, if you start with the premise you've started with (and which I haven't said is wrong -- premises are just starting points for storytelling, not necessarily "proved" one way or the other (they tell us how the storyteller intends to organize the events, provide a framework for analysis)). >"By the early 1950s," writes former Village Voice reporter >Deborah Davis in Katharine the Great, "Frank Wisner [head >of Allen Dulles' CIA clandestine operation to bring >thousands of top Nazis to America] 'owned' respected >members of the New York Times, Newsweek, CBS and other >communications vehicles, plus at least four to six hundred >reporters, according to a former CIA analyst." This CIA >network of top U.S. media contacts was called Operation >Mockingbird and was directly overseen by CIA director Allen >Dulles, the Nazis' number one coordinator between American >corporations and the Third Reich. It's true that some financial networks reflected the interests of eugenicists in the pre-WWII USA. This is a part of history which is due for more exposure. We've looked a lot at the Swiss bank thing (getting assets of doomed families, and benefitting thereby), but more could be written about how racism, including anti-semitism, played out in high places on the USA and UK scenes, leading up to later events we've all been taught about (or experienced directly -- I'm too young to have personal experiences from the WWII era). >"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. From: "Katherine >The Great," by Deborah Davis, New York: Sheridan Square >Press, 1991. And some of the more patriotic ones would even do it for free. >In a 1988 speech at CIA headquarters, Washington Post >publisher Katherine Graham said, "We live in a dirty and >dangerous world. There are some things the general public >does not need to know and shouldn't. I believe democracy >flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to >keep its secrets, and when the press can decide whether to >print what it knows." -Quoted in Journalism and the CIA: >The Mighty Wurlitzer by Daniel Brandt ><A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/8425/CIAPRESS.HTM"> http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/8425/CIAPRESS.HTM</A> That's a pretty strong-minded statement on her part. You always want to second-guess the judgement of those who would censor what goes out to the public, or at least I do. But I don't deny that I exercise my own sense of judgement as well. Sometimes it's just the old story of scholars knowing more about their world just because they study hard. There's really no substitute for doing your own homework in a lot of ways. >While we watch these absurdly hypocritical Congressional >hearings on violence in the media, let's keep this CIA- >media connection in mind. If the media is peddling >violence, sex, drugs and depravity to our kids, we have to >wonder what is in it for the CIA. We should always wonder about stuff. How you want to phrase the question is important. Partly, you just have to realize that any agency calling itself the "Central Intelligence Agency" is, by definition, going to get into the middle of storylines, as an inner circle or controlling cabal. It's a foregone conclusion. If I opened a novel and saw an agency named that, I'd know just from the way language is set up that we'd be weaving a lot of stories around that so-called CIA. There'd be little choice in the matter. >Perhaps the Nazi-influenced CIA is conditioning America's >youth for the fascist police state they have been working >to install here since the end of WWII. Perhaps the content >of the media is not just a quest for profits but something >far worse. Perhaps these hyper-violent video games; blood, >sex and rape filled movies; Eugenics-inspired 'eliminate >the competition'shows like Survivor and steroid-fueled >stereotypes of maleness like Fox's and UPN's wrestling >operas-with personalities seemingly modeled on the guards >at a Nazi death camp-are training the stone-cold Storm >Troopers of the future. I confess, I'm both a Quaker AND I play Quake. Some would take that as testament to the fact that the CIA's media ownership has corrupted USAer culture, as here's someone from a peace church, a nonviolent sect, formed in reaction to the Crown in some ways (and suffering a kind of anti-semitism at first, but growing stronger through that and becoming powerful in business -- lots of parallels), now sucumbing to the mindless blood and guts twitch games from id. But hell, Quake III is simply gorgeous. Sometimes I just slide up to a wall and oogle at the pretty skulls. As a computer programmer, I appreciate the craftsmanship that went into this game. Just last night I was staring at these swinging crosses (on Tier 5 or 6), listening to the groaning iron sounds as they swung back and forth, and marveling at the atmospherics. So what if I get blown away by some other character while I'm watching the swinging crosses? Mostly I just chuckle when I get blown away (I'm not particulary good at this game, plus my trackball isn't the primo device for it, so I have no pretensions of joining the "big boys" a third my age -- I'm just a tourist here). >I no longer have any problem understanding why, despite the >media being given Mayor Giuliani's Chem-bio Handbook >showing Malathion to be a deadly nerve gas, it was never >once mentioned in any article; why West Nile Virus keeps >being described as, "never before seen in the Western >Hemisphere" despite the fact that at least three U.S. >government and Rockefeller-connected labs in the NY area >have been experimenting with it for decades; why we are A lot of these stories _do_ get mentioned of course, just not in the mainstream press. That's because the big cheese media people feel they have a responsibility to let stories simmer and see where they go, before jumping on some bandwagon, trafficing in allegations that can't be substantiated very credibly. Investigative journalism is a hard business. It's easy to repeat rumors, amplify something you read, but it's hard to source stories for yourself, with your byline on the line. This doesn't mean I think brave journalists are in short supply. By definition, highly brave and talented individuals are a standard deviation or two from the norm, meaning relatively few in number. That's just Bell Curve semantics. Your run of the mill journalist isn't going to let his or her byline attach to something investigative if that looks like it'll hurt job prospects. Indeed, a lot of jounalists share your model of a tight, centralized, controlling administration (kind of like many of them experienced in high school), and know that one "out of line" story could brand them for life as "alternative" (meaning too controversial to work at some of the mainstream papers). Look what happened to those reporters at CNN who did the nerve gas against defectors in Vietnam. The defense department went ballistic and CNN backed away, pulling the rug out from under those journalists. Few journalists want to risk being in that difficult position. >told every day via television, radio and newspapers that >toxic insecticides being indiscrimenently sprayed on our >city are, "safe" and "non-toxic" despite thousands of >scientific reports to the contrary; why despite an >uncountable number of articles on the candidacy of >G.W. Bush his family's extensive ties to the Nazis are >never mentioned; why every article on the Manhattan >Institute that mentions William Casey as its founder leaves >out his role in bringing Nazis to America; why no names of >West Nile Virus "victims" are ever released; why I've >observed the entire media standing with their cameras and >tape recorders turned off at certain press conferences and >rallies and why so many people have told me they stopped >watching television, reading newspapers and voting after >doing a few years of research on who really runs the >government. I haven't been tracking the West Nile story much. I'm aware of a lot of HIV/AIDS conspiracy stories, but hadn't seen this in connection with WNV. I'll do some search engining and see what I can see. >Again, I apologize to any reporters I might have offended >by my critical comments over the years. I didn't realize >who you actually worked for. So now you know, I guess. 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