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Anonymous ID: 3f81a6 June 23, 2024, 9:59 a.m. No.21071703 🗄️.is 🔗kun >>1723

>>20936578 Where is Snowden? Where is the 8Kun server? Where are you?

>>20936583 "Might as well go sit in the CIA. Russia grounding our military planes in SYRIA. Autists need Red Bull?"

>>20936587, >>20936591 Bun of Dread inside a Bun of Dread inside a bun of Dread like in Russia

>>20936596 "Think Rogers T-TOWER meeting (right after SCIF set up in TOWER). Think POTUS campaign leaving T-TOWER (base of operations) THE VERY NEXT DAY."

>>20936597 You like coincidences and codes too!? Pray/Prey

>>20936598 Q Drop #4799 "When does a Church become a playground? When does a Church become a business? When does a Church become political? When does a Church become corrupt? When does a Church become willfully blind? When does a Church become controlled?"

>>20936605 "Alex Jones and Jerome Corsi tried to usupr Q" "The Info War against Q (Jones and Corsi)" "Alex Jones a Larp. Time to move on" "Misinformation attacks on Q to get worse (Jones, Corsi, Others)" Drops #1340, 1341, 1343 & 1366.

>>20936607 "FAKE PRO MAGA ATTACKING Q: Alex Jones, Jack Posobiec, Jerome Corsi, more…" "Alex Jones part of collective attacks on Q" "Jerome Corsi subpoened by Mueller: Infowars on Mossad payroll" Drops #2089, 2101 & 2102.

>>20936609 "Alex Jones and Associates trying to deceive and divide you" Drop #2123.

>>20936615 "Those you trust are the most guilty of sin." "Who are we taught to trust?" "If you are religious, PRAY. 60% must remain private [at least] - for humanity." "These people should be hanging." Drops # 586, 587, 107, 3799 and 3565 have a story to tell.

>>20936629 [STEVE BANNON] A Primer for NewFags

>>20936633 "Q Links to Pope's Tweet on Human Trafficking" https://twitter.com/Pontifex/status/1156165039545606144 "Godfather III" "It's going to be BIBLICAL." Q DROP #3565

>>20936641 IS DAN SCAVINO [DAN SCAVINO]? POTUS recently stated that he has learned a lot from Bad Past Advisors

>>20936644 DAN SCAVINO KISSED THE POPE'S RING?

>>20936647 GEN. FLYNN IS [GEN. FLYNN]? TOO SOON?

>>20936648 This next piece is called ''HOLY FUCKING SHIT, WAIT, WHAT!?" Decode of Q drops #87, 88, 95, 4884 & 3565.

>>20936650 NIGHT SHIFT' Patriotic Litmus Test

>>20936654 The Supreme Court > Bohemian Grove > Knights of Malta > Who is Leonard Leo > Who is Harlan Crow? > Vatican.

>>20936655 Who is Leonard Leo? Who is Harlan Crow? Autists need Redbull?

>>20936656 The Truth per the Drops. Reminder: This is Q research and you are here because of Q.

>>20936657 George Soros in 2 Drops. That's called the 2 Drop checkmate. Checkmate.

>>20936658 "To those who are courageous enough to speak out - we stand with you!"

>>20936660 POTUS recites "The Snake" poem too many times to count yet big deep digging patriots fail to connect the snake poem to the snake/serpent Vatican drops?

>>20936661 "Patriot" per the drops.

Problem with the notes in this Bun?

Patriots Fight the Data

[SHILLS WHINE]

"Be nice if Justice system was broken bad?!"

"Next week, do I expect favorable SCOTUS results?"

"NO I expect more corruption."

"Bannon and his guests fail..."

Pretendanon here often?

Cointelpro for the VATICAN here often?

Lie to yourself and others often?

sorry as you coming in all 1:1

SNOWDEN initially wanted to be seen in CHINA

2018 8KUN SERVER WAS IN CHINA MIL DOD

SNOWDEN ended up in RUSSIA

2024 8KUN SERVER IS IN RUSSIA

Mar 11, 2019 12:31:23 AM EDT Drop #3023

Q !!mG7VJxZNCI ID: 8c541b No. 5618056

Mar 11, 2019 12:27:15 AM EDT

Q !!mG7VJxZNCI ID: 8c541b No. 5617930

Mar 11, 2019 12:19:05 AM EDT

Q !!mG7VJxZNCI ID: 8c541b No. 5617724

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/12/us/nsa-shadow-brokers.html

@Snowden

Parades or Restraints?

[2019]

Q

>>5617724

Connect the dots?

@Snowden released code words (NSA_key(s)).

@Snowden travels toRUSSIA.

Shadow Brokers release actual code (NSA_key(s)).

Shadow Brokers ORIG inRUSSIA.

Can you make the connection why @Snowden went toRUSSIA?

Can you make the connection who provided the source code toSHADOW BROKERS?

Define'Spook'.

Define'Shadow'.

Do 'Spooks' hide in the 'Shadows'?

STAND STRONG, GINA.

Q

>>5617930

Who was Agency DIR from 2012- 2016?

[AGENCY DIR]

[JOHN PERRY BARLOW]

How did we know (prior to)?

Q

Mar 20, 2019 2:24:35 PM EDT 3126

Q !!mG7VJxZNCI ID: b16726 No. 5792112

Did both of HUSSEIN's parents learn'RUSSIAN'?

Is'RUSSIAN'a common language to learn?

Think then.

Think now.

[Think Nellie Ohr]

WHY WOULD YOU NEED TO KNOW HOW TO SPEAK'RUSSIAN'IN THEIR FIELDS OF PRACTICE ('PUBLIC' FIELDS)?

The Cold War.

[AB[C]]DEFGHIJKLM…….

Q

CLOWN WANNA PLAY CLOWN GAME?

https://www.opentracker.net/feature/ip-tracker?ip=77.73.68.181

https://www.duffelblog.com/p/russia-grants-snowden-citizenship

https://8kun.top/qresearch/catalog.html

IP address Type Hosted by Location

77.73.68.181

IPv4 Hosted by SIA VEESP SIA VEESPRussian Federation

SIA VEESP

Location Saint Petersburg, St.-Petersburg,Russian Federation

AS AS43317

AS name SIA VEESP

77.73.69.98

IPv4 Hosted by SIA VEESP SIA VEESPRussian Federation

SIA VEESP

Location Saint Petersburg, St.-Petersburg,Russian Federation

AS AS43317

AS name SIA VEESP

IP address: 77.73.68.181

City: St Petersburg

Region name: Unknown

Country name: Russia

Life expectancy: 67.2

Avg income: 1,883 EUR

Timezone: undefined

Sub continent: Eastern Europe

Country code: RU

Geo-targeting: true

◉ Latitude: 59.8983

◎ Longitude: 30.2618

World currency: EUR

EU member: false

org: Veesp

isp: Veesp

Connection: undefined

Continent: Europe

Population: 146,934,000

IP range tracked: 77.73.68.0 - 77.73.69.255

Surface area: 17,075,400 km sq.

GNP: 276,608 mln.

Demographic data: true

Ad (re)targeting: true

8kun.top Server IP 77.73.68.181

IP Tracker

https://www.ip-tracker.org › lookup › ip=8kun

Website 8kun.top that uses public IP Address 77.73.68.181 is actually located in theRussian Federation(RU) on the Europe continent, as we have already seen …

Apr 27, 2018 11:57:57 PM EDT 1290

Q !xowAT4Z3VQ ID: 5086f0 No. 1218390

Apr 27, 2018 11:53:46 PM EDT

Anonymous ID: 6a7ca4 No. 1218316

Apr 27, 2018 11:52:40 PM EDT

Q !xowAT4Z3VQ ID: 5086f0 No. 1218299

Peace on the Korean Peninsula isn’t big news?

Should we drop a #MOAB on that?

Timetables shift.

[Next Week].

Q

>>1218299

Q. Normies only watch CNN. They don't even know ANY of this is happening.

We are too smug.

>>1218316

Hope not.

Might as well go sit in the CIA.

Russia grounding our military planes in SYRIA.

Military aircraft crashing in US.

Coincidence?

Autists need Red Bull?

Q

Anonymous ID: 3f81a6 June 23, 2024, 10:25 a.m. No.21071799 🗄️.is 🔗kun >>1801 >>1809

>>21071797

all this hatred for one anon though

kek

Anonymous ID: 3f81a6 June 23, 2024, 10:25 a.m. No.21071801 🗄️.is 🔗kun >>1809

>>21071797

>>21071799

Jan 27, 2018 1:09:33 PM ESTQ drop #628

Q !UW.yye1fxo ID: 000000 No. 70

@Snowden.

The clock is ticking.

How's Russia?

[Mr. Contractor]

Freedom of the Press.

John Perry Barlow.

https://freedom.press

SecureDrop [Whistleblowers]?

SecureDrop>CLOWNS In America.

NOBODY IS SAFE.

Q

>>21071797

>>21071799

>>21071801

sh-sh-sh-shakin'!

Anonymous ID: 3f81a6 June 23, 2024, 10:27 a.m. No.21071815 🗄️.is 🔗kun >>1818

JESUIT SLOPPY BEGS BAD STEVE BANNON SIGNALLING TO HIS JESUIT FRENS FOR HEP!!!

HEP ME!

KEK

COME ON, TUCKER!

YOU KNOW!!!

[THEY] love [their] symbology and gang signs though!

Remember Hillary's [satanic] upside down cross?

thats the cross of St. Peter…

when Q lit up that image it was to draw a connection to the Vatican

yet since [anons] were [decoding] SATAN!

kek

remember when Tucker was good frens with Hunter Biden?

remember when Tucker asked Hunter to write a letter for his son, Buckley?

a letter to help Buckley get into Georgetown?

Georgetown - the nations oldest CATHOLIC and JESUIT learning institution?

did you know that TUCKER'S Father was the head of VOICE OF AMERICAN?

Do you know what VOICE OF AMERICA is?

Who runs it?

Who are the CLOWNS IN AMERICA?

A higher loyalty?

[Their] History?

Surely you have dug in deeply?

SHALL WE PRAY?

BO CALLED JIMBO "JIM WATSON" LAST NIGHT… THE FUCKING AGENT DOESNT EVEN KNOW DIMBO'S NAME! kek

STUDY THE 8KUN ADMIN SHILL VERY VERY CLOSELY

>>21071815

thunder and lightning very very frightening

[STEVE BANNON]A Primer for NewFags. Part I

Sloppy, cries and begs bad like a dog that has lost it's fucking mind, Steve Bannon and associates defrauded Patriots out of Millions via the We Build The Wall Scandal.

Bannon personally received $1 million from the "Charity".

A "charity" that collected funds from Patriots to finish building the border wall which the Founder promised would be used only to build the wall.

The founder and two other associates have been sentenced to 4-6 years for their roles in the scam.

For some odd reason, POTUS pardoned Bannon on the Federal level, yet POTUS must have known that charges would be coming on the State level that would be unstoppable.

Bannon is seen as a main facilitator in the We Build The Wall fraud and his trial is set for May 2024.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Build_the_Wall

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/leaders-we-build-wall-online-fundraising-campaign-charged-defrauding-hundreds-thousands

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGlz9tY0pqg Trump comments on arrest of former strategist Steve Bannon | ABC News Aug 20, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfIcBiwch58 Steve Bannon charged in border wall fundraising scheme CNBC Television Sept 8 2022

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/26/1172343738/we-build-the-wall-founder-sentenced-prison Founder of the We Build The Wall group linked to Steve Bannon is sentenced to 4 years April 26, 2023

https://www.reuters.com/legal/bannon-associates-be-sentenced-fraud-over-trumps-border-wall-2023-04-26/ Bannon associate sentenced to 4-1/4 years for Trump border wall fraud April 26, 2023

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/steve-bannons-we-build-the-wall-scheme-trial-set-for-may-2024 Steve Bannon’s ‘We Build the Wall’ scheme trial set for May 2024 May 25, 2023

Other Relevant Bannon News

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/11/judge-orders-former-trump-aide-bannon-pay-lawyers-nearly-500000/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj6nAxC2ewE Bannon-allied businessman arrested in $1 billion fraud conspiracy Mar 15, 2023

[STEVE BANNON]A Primer for NewFags. Part II

Steve Bannon received the nicknames and attributes "Sloppy Steve", "Begs Bad" and "Cries like a dog" directly from POTUS.

"President Donald Trump savaged his former chief strategist Steve Bannon on Wednesday, contending that “he not only lost his job” but also “lost his mind” when he left the White House."

“Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my Presidency,”Trump said in a statement.

"Earlier Wednesday, excerpts from an upcoming Michael Wolff book quoted Bannon, who did not join the Trump campaign until August 2016, also was quoted as saying."

In his statement, the president said Bannon — the nationalist firebrand —“had very little to do” with his electoral victory in 2016. Trump added that “Steve is learning that winning isn’t as easy as I make it look.”

“Steve pretends to be at war with the media, which he calls the opposition party, yet he spent his time at the White House leaking false information to the media to make himself seem far more important than he was,” Trump said.

“It is the only thing he does well. Steve was rarely in a one-on-one meeting with me and only pretends to have had influence to fool a few people with no access and no clue, whom he helped write phony books,”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGlz9tY0pqg Trump comments on arrest of former strategist Steve Bannon | ABC News

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/03/trump-disavows-steve-bannon-he-not-only-lost-his-job-he-lost-his-mind.html

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sloppy-steve-bannon-trumps-latest-calling/story?id=52161329

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/05/trump-sloppy-steve-bannon-michael-wolff-326365

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/04/new-book-alleges-trump-doodles-about-sloppy-steve-bannon.html

https://rumble.com/embed/v2if110/?pub=4

>>21071817

you drop so much pain on the board though

>>21071817

Steve Bannon

1: Coached Epstein in exchange for Funding

2: received $1 million from the WE BUILD THE WALL fraud.

3: bad mouthed POTUS in Wolff's book to which POTUS called Steve a loser who "beg and cries like a dog".

4: started warroom in 2017 and its CFO/COO is Grace Chong - https://twitter.com/gc22gc?lang=en

5: trial set for May 2024. The Prosecution considers Bannon the Ring Leader of the Build the Wall Scam. This isn't going away and good luck with your Pain.

6: trial Postponed until November. The Suspense!

Meet Grace Chong. The CFO/COO of Steve Bannon's WARROOM

https://twitter.com/gc22gc

https://twitter.com/gc22gc/highlights

Pay close attention to the names/faces of those who swirl about Steve Bannon and Warroom.

Do they have anything in common?

Do you think they have an agenda?

Here is Grace Chong with Karli Bonne A.K.A POISSANT A.K.A KARLI Q of MG Show/Inthematrixxx/P = Payseur Claim to Fame.

>>21071817

who needs fucking confirmation when all you do is whine and suck ass?

On campaign trail, RFK Jr. pushes 'bonkers' theory about CIA's 'takeover of the American press'PI

Such conspiracy theories are "classic techniques of propaganda," an expert says. By Mike Levine June 20, 2024, 12:17 PM

Independent presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. has received intense public scrutiny for promoting an array of unconventional theories, from claiming that vaccines are behind an "epidemic" of diseases in America to insisting that the CIA was directly involved in the assassination of his uncle, former President John F. Kennedy.

But one recurring conspiracy theory has garnered relatively little notice: his persistent assertion that major U.S. media outlets are being run by undercover CIA operatives or are controlled in some other way by the CIA, as part of a secret government plot to manipulate Americans' minds.

"The new head of NPR is a CIA agent," Kennedy declared at a New York campaign fundraiser in April, drawing gasps from some of his supporters.

MORE: RFK Jr. claims doctor said parasite 'ate' part of his brain

He was specifically referring to Katherine Maher, who nearly two months earlier became NPR's CEO and president after a long career in international development and digital advocacy. At the fundraiser, Kennedy said Maher's hiring at NPR was just the latest salvo in the CIA's "systematic takeover of the American press, particularly the liberal media."

Kennedy continues to amplify such claims at campaign events, in media interviews, and on social media, supporting them with what experts described to ABC News as "half-truths," "intimations," misinterpretations of law, and twisted historical anecdotes. He often cites widespread but utterly unsubstantiated allegations that a CIA program supposedly called "Operation Mockingbird" secretly recruited journalists decades ago to help brainwash Americans.

"Operation Mockingbird is alive and well today," Kennedy has said repeatedly in recent months.

Kennedy's questionable tactics are all "classic techniques of propaganda," according to Sarah Oates, a journalism professor at the University of Maryland who specializes in propaganda. And that's ironic, she said, when Kennedy is employing those techniques to claim that the CIA and its media proxies are the ones propagandizing Americans.

Kennedy has offered varying explanations of the CIA's supposed goal for the purported media takeover – from allegedly promoting the Democratic Party's agenda to protecting the "military industrial complex."

The theory Kennedy promotes is consistent with his long-running criticism of both the CIA, which he says "continues to be involved in the coverup" of his uncle's murder, and "the mainstream media," which he claims have "slandered and censored" him over the last decade.

But Oates said the CIA conspiracy theory also creates a "Catch-22 situation," where the CIA's secretive nature makes it virtually impossible to disprove what Kennedy is alleging – and media reports questioning it can be spun "as evidence that the conspiracy is true."

"And that's the challenge," Oates said.

In a statement to ABC News, a CIA representative said, "Any notion that CIA is controlling American media is absolutely false. CIA Is an organization focused on providing foreign intelligence information to policymakers and protecting the United States from a range of overseas threats."

'Compromised by the CIA'?

According to Kennedy, the CIA infiltration of media is wide and deep: The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, and several prominent online news sites, including the Daily Beast, are "under the control of Intelligence Agency operatives," as he put it in a late April post on X, formerly Twitter.

Penske Media Corporation, which owns Rolling Stone, Billboard, Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, is "a kind of front for the CIA," Kennedy said at the fundraiser in New York.

And "even journals like Smithsonian and National Geographic … appear to be compromised by the CIA," he said in an interview last year.

To support his claims, Kennedy last month cited writings from former CIA officer Kevin Shipp, a conspiracy theorist who openly supports the QAnon movement and claims "Pearl Harbor was a myth," as well as author David Talbot, whose 2015 book on the CIA was "animated by conspiracy theories" and "speculations" that "often run far ahead of the evidence," the San Francisco Chronicle said in its review of the book.

In addition, Kennedy has frequently cited a pair of articles from author Dick Russell.

Though Kennedy hasn't always mentioned it, those articles were published three years ago by the media arm of his own nonprofit organization, Children's Health Defense, which promotes vaccine skepticism and often alleges government corruption.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/campaign-trail-rfk-jr-pushes-bonkers-theory-cias/story?id=111274658

On campaign trail, RFK Jr. pushes 'bonkers' theory about CIA's 'takeover of the American press'PII

The articles attacked the "mainstream media" and said they "falsely vilify" Kennedy as a "disinformation 'conspiracy theorist,'" arguing that news outlets could be under "the sway of the intelligence apparatus."

To try to make that case, the articles offered a rambling dissection of the personal and professional lives of then-Rolling Stone editor Noah Shachtman, former Daily Beast chief John Avlon, and Markos Moulitsas, the founder of the liberal website DailyKos.

Kennedy has claimed the articles exposed their "agency ties," by reporting that Moulitsas began the process of becoming a CIA officer two decades ago while looking for work, and then chose a different career path. The articles also said that Avlon is "childhood best friends" with a former high-ranking national security official who once worked for an "intelligence agency-linked think tank." And they said Shachtman, who started covering national security issues long before joining the Daily Beast, was in regular contact with intelligence officials – which is typical of national security reporters.

Moulitsas told ABC News that Russell's articles are "utter horse crap" and "hilariously wrong." Avlon, who left the Daily Beast six years ago and is now running for Congress in New York as a Democrat, similarly called the articles "bonkers."

"I am not, nor have I ever been, a CIA agent or member of the intelligence community," Avlon said on a podcast last week when asked about Kennedy's claims, calling the accusations "a sort of cautionary tale about RFK Jr. … because he keeps saying this."

Shachtman, who stepped down as editor of Rolling Stone earlier this year, did not comment on the record about Kennedy's claims.

As for Maher and her alleged ongoing work for the CIA, the only alleged sources of such information Kennedy has pointed to are an online column by conservative activist Christopher Rufo and an X post from a writer who claims to be fighting government censorship and "mind control."

Both suggested that, as the writer's X post put it, Maher's resume and CV "scream spy": She focused on Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies in college, she then worked for the World Bank and a host of democracy-promoting foreign policy organizations, she frequently traveled to Arab countries, and before joining NPR she helmed the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that maintains Wikipedia.

MORE: Month after announcement, RFK Jr.'s running mate, Nicole Shanahan, remains in the shadows

"That would be a very normal and a very impressive CV" for someone who works in that foreign-focused sphere, Oates said, saying that Kennedy's CIA accusations are a "leap that a lot of people wouldn't make."

When Kennedy reposted Rufo's column in late April, he said, "I don't know if she is actual CIA, or just ideologically aligned." Then, at the fundraiser just three days later, he was unequivocal: "The new head of NPR is a CIA agent," he said.

"Geez," a woman in the crowd could be heard saying.

It's not the first time Maher has been accused of being a CIA agent: In 2016, when Maher joined the Wikimedia Foundation, a Tunisian blogger whom she had met before and even visited his home speculated online that her new job could indicate she's a spy.

"Seriously?" Maher responded. "I'm not any sort of agent. You can dislike me, but please don't defame me."

"Operate on evidence," she implored him.

An NPR spokesperson declined to comment to ABC News.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/campaign-trail-rfk-jr-pushes-bonkers-theory-cias/story?id=111274658

On campaign trail, RFK Jr. pushes 'bonkers' theory about CIA's 'takeover of the American press'PIII

'Makes no sense'

According to experts who spoke with ABC News, Kennedy has misleadingly tried to frame an alleged CIA "takeover of the American press" as not only plausible, but permitted by law.

Kennedy a lawyer who touts his own legal acumen claims that for decades, a law known as the Smith-Mundt Act "prohibited the CIA from spying on Americans or propagandizing Americans" – but then those laws were removed, "and now the CIA actually can legally not only spy on us but it can propagandize us," as he put it at the April fundraiser.

The Smith-Mundt Act, however, had nothing to do with spying and didn't even mention the CIA, which legal experts say is still restricted from spying on Americans and operating inside the United States.

Instead, the Smith-Mundt Act, enacted in the wake of World War II, allowed the State Department to distribute propaganda overseas.

Then in 2013, with the internet making it hard to wall-off information from abroad, Congress and the Obama administration signed off on updates to the Smith-Mundt Act that allowed Americans to access and review the State Department-produced content sent overseas. The revised law specifically said that none of the resources it provided could "be used to influence public opinion in the United States."

The revised law also made it clear that it applied "only to the Department of State," not any "other department or agency of the Federal Government."

"So there was still a prohibition that prevented messages from targeting or being designed for people inside the United States," said Mac Thornberry, the former Republican congressman from Texas who led the push to update the Smith-Mundt Act and retired in 2021 after more than 25 years in Congress.

Several years ago, when various social media users began alleging, like Kennedy does, that the Smith-Mundt Act's changes allowed the U.S. government to propagandize Americans, both the Associated Press and the fact-checking Poynter Institute labeled the claims "false."

"The simple explanation that the [law was updated] just to reflect the existence of the Internet somehow is not what some people want to hear, so they have to come up with other explanations that get pretty far-fetched," Thornberry said.

"It makes no sense to me," he said, especially since "there are a number of [other] laws that limit what the CIA can do."

In its statement to ABC News, the CIA said, "Federal law prohibits the Agency from engaging in domestic propaganda efforts and CIA takes this very seriously."

'Operation Mockingbird'

As Kennedy tells it, the CIA has deliberately used American media before to spread propaganda at home.

"[The CIA] had a program called 'Operation Mockingbird,' where they had [many] of the leading journalists in our country, and editors … actually working for the CIA and propagandizing Americans," Kennedy said in an interview last month.

According to Kennedy, it was all "revealed" in the 1970s by a Senate probe of CIA activities, which helped uncover a cache of secret documents known as the "Family Jewels" – as well as by Pulitzer Prize-winner Carl Bernstein, who in 1977 published a lengthy piece in Rolling Stone titled "The CIA And The Media."

But an ABC News review of Bernstein's article, publicly-released portions of the "Family Jewels," and the Senate's final report found no information to support Kennedy's claims that journalists were used to deliberately propagandize Americans or that a propaganda-pushing program called "Operation Mockingbird" even existed.

The Senate report and Bernstein's article were both clear about one thing: The CIA's use of media personnel in the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s didn't target Americans; it targeted foreigners, who were largely viewed as fair game then.

The world at that time was gripped by the Cold War, and the U.S. government was scrambling to protect America from the growing threat of communism – so the CIA asked employees of U.S. media organizations to help. Some "provided cover for CIA agents abroad," while about 50 journalists around the world collected intelligence and would "at times attempt to influence foreign opinion through the use of covert propaganda," concluded the Senate report, which was released in 1976.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/campaign-trail-rfk-jr-pushes-bonkers-theory-cias/story?id=111274658

On campaign trail, RFK Jr. pushes 'bonkers' theory about CIA's 'takeover of the American press'PIV

"We have taken particular caution to ensure that our operations are focused abroad and not at the United States," the report quoted former CIA director William Colby as telling investigators during their probe.

Though the Senate report counted about 50 American journalists as CIA "assets," Bernstein's article, published a year later on Oct. 20, 1977, alleged a much broader program, saying that more than 400 American journalists "secretly carried out assignments" for the CIA – and many even got paid.

"The Agency's use of journalists in undercover operations has been most extensive in Western Europe … Latin America and the Far East," Bernstein wrote.

MORE: Biden, in counter to RFK Jr., gets endorsement of other Kennedy family members

"The tasks they performed sometimes consisted of little more than serving as 'eyes and ears' for the CIA; reporting on what they had seen or overheard in an Eastern European factory [or] at a diplomatic reception in Bonn," Bernstein wrote. "On other occasions, their assignments were more complex," such as "plant[ing] false information with officials of foreign governments."

But, echoing a concern raised by the Senate report, Bernstein also said that some "fallout" pieces of propaganda distributed overseas inadvertently making their way to Americans "is inevitable." Colby later told lawmakers it happened on "a few minor occasions."

In his 1977 article, Bernstein named several prominent U.S. media organizations, including ABC News and the New York Times, that he said provided cover to CIA operatives or had employees who personally helped the CIA over the previous two decades.

Many media executives, however, disputed parts of Bernstein's reporting, both before and after it was published.

The senior vice president of ABC News at the time, William Sheehan, told the New York Times in 1977 that "there was no arrangement by this company to provide cover for the C.I.A," and that "there was no one on our staff" working for the CIA – though the New York Times quoted an unnamed, former ABC correspondent claiming otherwise.

In December 1977, two months after Bernstein's article, the New York Times reported that during the Cold War the CIA did use American journalists to gather intelligence. But, said the Times, they were not used "to further its worldwide propaganda campaign."

"[None] of those interviewed … said that the CIA had ever encouraged them to slant their dispatches to suit its purposes or to compromise themselves journalistically in any other way," the New York Times reported.

Despite all that, Kennedy continues to claim that American journalists aiding the CIA were intentionally manipulating their fellow Americans: "Their job was to propagandize the American people," Kennedy said last month on an episode of his own podcast titled "CIA Propagandizing Americans."

https://abcnews.go.com/US/campaign-trail-rfk-jr-pushes-bonkers-theory-cias/story?id=111274658

On campaign trail, RFK Jr. pushes 'bonkers' theory about CIA's 'takeover of the American press'PV

That's "a completely different thing" than what the CIA actually did, Oates said.

"The CIA has been found to have done shady things, including with journalists," she said. "But he's using the missteps and some of the scandals that have happened in America to try to build into a propagandistic conspiracy theory."

'Just go' look

In the late 1970s, after the CIA's Cold War-era use of journalists was exposed, the CIA announced a series of restrictions, recognizing that "the use of American journalists and media organizations for clandestine operations is a threat to the integrity of the press."

As for whether any of that was part of an "Operation Mockingbird," neither Bernstein's article nor the Senate report makes any mention of such an operation. Neither do other publicly-available congressional reports or declassified CIA documents.

Portions of the "Family Jewels" that the CIA released in 2007 do reference a "Project Mockingbird," but they repeatedly and explicitly state it was a short-lived leak investigation that secretly tapped the phones of two journalists in Washington, not a decades-long global program that gained willing cooperation from dozens or even hundreds of journalists.

"Project Mockingbird, a telephone intercept activity, was conducted between 12 March 1963 and 15 June 1963, and targeted two Washington-based newsmen who, at the time, had been publishing [classified materials]," a once-secret document from the 1970s said.

Claims of a much broader "Operation Mockingbird" first emerged more than 40 years ago, and now they are being amplified by a significant candidate for the U.S. presidency.

"All of the propaganda that particularly liberals are hearing is all controlled now by the intelligence agencies," Kennedy told supporters at the fundraiser in April. "I'm going to be called a conspiracy theorist for saying it, but just go [look]."

ABC News repeatedly asked Kennedy's campaign to point out any references to an "Operation Mockingbird" in congressional proceedings or government documents, and repeatedly asked for more information regarding the theories espoused by the candidate, but several representatives for Kennedy never responded to multiple messages from ABC News.

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