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groups, and support of indigenous anti-Communist elements in threatened countries of the free
world."
Later that year Wisner established Mockingbird, a program to influence the domestic
American media. Wisner recruited Philip Graham (Washington Post) to run the project within
the industry….
According to Deborah Davis (Katharine the Great): "By the early 1950s, Wisner 'owned'
respected members of the New York Times, Newsweek, CBS and other communications
vehicles."…
NEW YORK TIMES EXPOSES OPERATION MOCKINGBIRD
The New York Times actually revealed a small part of this explosive story in 2007.
http://washington.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/06/26/project-mockingbird/
The C.I.A. monitoring of journalists in 1963, 1971 and 1972, including wiretapping their phones
and setting up observation posts across the street from their offices to track their comings and
goings and their visitors, was a practice that the White House itself employed during the Nixon
administration….
As with other questionable or illegal C.I.A. activities that were endorsed by top government
officials, this account shows that spying on reporters was approved at the highest levels of the
Kennedy administration….
By ordering the director of central intelligence to conduct a program of domestic surveillance,
Kennedy set a precedent that Presidents Johnson, Nixon, and George W. Bush would follow.
The top investigative books on this subject include A Very Private Woman by Nina Burleigh,
Mockingbird: The Subversion of the Free Press by the CIA by Alex Constantine, The Mighty Wurlitzer:
How the CIA Played America by Hugh Wilford, Who Paid the Piper? by Frances Stonor Saunders and
The Very Best Men by Evan Thomas.
This consolidated control did not fizzle out in more recent years. It has only gotten worse.
After a shocking betrayal, Conan O’Brien led the pack in revealing how centralized the media still is
today.
CONAN O’BRIEN’S SHOCKING BETRAYAL FROM BIG MEDIA
Very few entities within the mainstream media have ever risen up against their own companies – but
Conan O’Brien is a rare exception who should definitely be mentioned at this point.
Conan O’Brien was spectacularly humiliated by Big Media in January 2010 – only seven months after
NBC made him the host of the Tonight Show, fulfilling a long-term contract from 2004.