This analysis of CIA influence on media is light and superficial. Writers were not subtly anti-communist. That was just one small element. The CIA have been promoting communism, anti-Christianity and anti-Americanism since their inception and using Operation Mockingbird to push America into endless wars, civil strife and accepting creeping and now leaping encroachment on all natural rights and freedoms.
just to correct the record, the Popes have always been men in the eyes of Catholics and the Catholic Church – not demigods like the ruling elite consider themselves