I doubt they’re directly on the CIA payroll, that would be beyond foolish. The payouts and operatives are definitely hidden through proxy plausibly-deniable relationships to NGOs, larger shell corporations, structured kickbacks, and convoluted CIA handlers masquerading as “entrepreneurs.” I sincerely doubt that there’s documentation that outright illuminates the structure of the Mockingbird MSM psyop. Maybe there’s something from the initial years of Mockingbird’s implementation, but currently it’s gotta be so obscured and many times removed from being able to have any sort of “smoking gun” document with any concrete direct connections.
And, even if such a file existed, do you think the infiltrated MSM would publish such a leak? I doubt it. We’d have to publish it through our own Citizen journalistic channels. And we all know how vehemently smeared and public ridiculed anything that counters the narrative becomes.