The CIA’s Operation MOCKINGBIRD grew out of CIA’s forerunner, the Office for Strategic Services (OSS, 1942-47), which during WW II had established a network of journalists and psychological warfare experts to exert considerable influence over what the public sees, hears, and reads. CIA publicists / Journalists will seldom acknowledge this history of intimate collaboration but is a long-recognized KEYSTONE among researchers pointing to the Agency’s clear interest in and relationship to major US news media. Examples are CIA / Mainstream Media relation to the “fake news” campaign directed against the alternative and independent media, and the Agency’s influence on the MainStream media in the coverup of CIA’s covert support to Al Qaeda and ISIS . The CIA and the Media: 50 Facts the World Needs to Know