’’’The CIA and the Media: 50 Facts the World Needs to Know’’’
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-cia-and-the-media-50-facts-the-world-needs-to-know/5471956
Sauce is included in each point
’’’Points 1-36’’’ covers early years
’’’Point 37’’’ was actually posted by >>2789275 bread #3524 and that info covers up to the 70’s and includes The Church Committee
’’’Point 38’’’ – interesting tidbit re CIA blowing off reporter looking for George W Bush as well as George HW Bush ties with CIA as early as 1953
(sauce - Russ Baker, Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, America’s Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years, New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2009)
’’’Point 39’’’ - Operation Gladio, the well-documented collaboration between Western spy agencies, including the CIA, and NATO involving coordinated terrorist shootings and bombings of civilian targets throughout Europe from the late 1960s through the 1980s, has been effectively expunged from major mainstream news outlets (especially US).
’’’Point 40’’’ - 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City
’’’Point 41’’’ - Gary Webb’s “Dark Alliance” series in the San Jose Mercury News chronicling the Agency’s involvement in drug trafficking and the CIA’s response
’’’Point 42’’’ - Gary Webb died of two .38 caliber gunshot wounds to the head
’’’Point 43’’’ - Journalists who receive “exclusive” information and access to the corridors of power are typically the most subservient to officialdom and often have intelligence ties. Those granted such access understand that they must likewise uphold government-sanctioned narratives.
’’’Point 44’’’ - The CIA actively promotes a desirable public image of its history and function by advising the production of Hollywood vehicles
’’’Point 45’’’ - Former CIA case officer Robert David Steele states that CIA manipulation of news media is “worse” in the 2010s than in the late 1970s when Bernstein wrote “The CIA and the Media.” “The sad thing is that the CIA is very able to manipulate [the media] and it has financial arrangements with media, with Congress, with all others. But the other half of that coin is that the media is lazy.” James Tracy interview with Robert David Steele, August 2, 2014
podcast https://checkinitout.com/2014/08/02/interview-12-robert-david-steele/
’’’Point 46’’’ blurb about Anderson Cooper and his great uncle, William Henry Vanderbilt III
’’’Point 47’’’ Veteran German journalist Udo Ulfkotte, author of the 2014 book Gekaufte Journalisten (Bought Journalists) revealed how under the threat of job termination he was routinely compelled to publish articles written by intelligence agents using his byline.
’’’Point 48’’’ In 1999 the CIA established In-Q-Tel, a venture capital firm seeking to “identify and invest in companies developing cutting-edge information technologies that serve United States national security interests.” The firm has exercised financial relationships with internet platforms Americans use on a routine basis, including Google and Facebook.
’’’Point 49’’’At a 2012 conference held by In-Q-Tel CIA Director David Patraeus declared that the rapidly-developing “internet of things” and “smart home” will provide the CIA with the ability to spy on any US citizen should they become a “person of interest’ to the spy community,” Spencer Ackerman, “CIA Chief: We’ll Spy on You Through Your Dishwasher,” Wired, March 15, 2012.
’’’Point 50’’’ In the summer of 2014 a $600 million computing cloud developed by Amazon Web Services for the CIA began servicing all 17 federal agencies comprising the intelligence community.