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JFK files release October, 2017
Record Number 104-10322-10231, titled “LETTERS: CORRESPONDENCE WITH MEMBERS OF CONGRESS RE ALLEGATION OF CIA USE OF JOURNALISTS” and dated 06/13/1977
https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32403785.pdf
DCI Turner flatly denies that there are U.S. journalists employed by the Central Intelligence Agency but acknowledges that the CIA has employed U.S. journalists in the past. Included in the file is not only the letter in which the CIA Director makes this acknowledgment to Congressman Fauntroy, but some supporting documents worth a closer look
page 3 of the file, is typed on CIA letterhead and is simply titled “STATEMENT”.
The statement is not signed by Bush or anyone else. However, it does make clear that the Central Intelligence Agency has entered into paid relationships with U.S. journalists and that at least some of these relationships were still active at the time the CIA issued the statement on February 11, 1976. This is significant because it would logically follow that these journalists were engaged in domestic propaganda in clear violation of the CIA’s mandate.
2013, when Udo Ulfkotte, former editor of one of Germany’s largest newspapers, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, publicly admitted that he had been on the CIA payroll to spin the news in a way that was positive for the United States and negative for its opponents.
page 16 of the file there is further evidence of the CIA practice of employing journalists in the American media in a document titled “Memorandum for the Record” and stamped “INTERNAL USE ONLY”. This a memo drafted by another of Stansfield Turner’s DCI predecessors, William E. Colby, dated 4 DEC 1973. The memo is in reference to conversations that DCI Colby had with a reporter and an assistant managing editor of the Washington Star-News.
In these conversations, DCI Colby confirmed that the CIA did, in fact, have about forty journalists working for or with the CIA. Specifically, 3 – 5 “staff journalists of significant journals” without the knowledge of the publisher, 3 -5 more who were approved by the publisher’s management, “10 or so with trade journals such as trade or industry journals of general utilization” and about 40 “free lance stringers”.
In the memo, Colby notes that he also attempted to get the paper to defer publishing the story, but it went to print on November 30, 1973. The Washington Star-News story was followed up with a similar story published by The Washington Post on December 1, 1973, the very next day. Neither story names William Colby or any other CIA personnel by name as the source of the information. Clippings of both articles are included in the same JFK file.
https://politicalnewsreport.com/media/released-jfk-file-confirms-cia-had-agents-working-in-news-media/
https://twitter.com/iwillredpillyou/status/923735144057528320?lang=en
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/10/26/jfk-secret-assassination-files-how-to-read-them-215749
https://www.maryferrell.org/pages/Main_Page.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fcpl7Lm6vAI
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/10/16/cia-owns-everyone-significance-major-media/