CIA and the media

CIA and the media

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), America's intelligence agency, has made use of media assets, both foreign and domestic, for its covert operations. It was first reported on in the late 1960s, when it became known that that the Congress for Cultural Freedom was largely funded by the CIA. In 1973, the "Washington Star-News" reported that CIA had enlisted more than thirty Americans working abroad as journalists, citing an internal CIA inquiry ordered by CIA director William E. Colby. [cite news | title = U.S. Journalists Doubling as CIA Agents, Paper Says | publisher = Los Angeles Times | date = 1973-11-30] The Church Committee was the first congressional committee established in the 1970s to look specifically into the CIA's past activities. Some classified information in the (unpublished) report of the Pike Committee was leaked to "The Village Voice", which showed more details on the CIA's media manipulation. The Committee mentioned that the:cquote|CIA, as no doubt every other major intelligence agency in the world, has manipulated the media. Full-time foreign correspondents for major U.S. publications have worked concurrently for CIA, passing along information received in the normal course of their regular jobs and even, on occasion, travelling to otherwise non-newsworthy areas to acquire data. Far more prevalent is the Agency's practice of retaining free-lancers and "stringers" as informants...CIA acknowledges that "stringers" and others with whom the Agency has a relationship are often directed to insert Agency-composed "news" articles into foreign publications and wire services. U.S. intelligence officials do not rule out the possibility that these planted stories may find their way into American newspapers from time to time, but insist that CIA does not intentionally propagandize in this country." [cite news | title = The Select Committee's Investigative Record | publisher = The Village Voice | page = 88 | date = 1976-02-16]

Further reading

*cite journal | title = Proselytes for Espionage - The CIA and Domestic Fronts | author = Jerrold L. Walden | journal = Journal of Public Law | year = 1970 | volume = 19 | issue = 2
*U.S. House. Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Oversight of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. "The CIA and the Media". 95th Congress, 1st and 2nd sessions. December 27, 28, 29, 1977, January 4, 5, and April 20, 1978.

ee also

*CIA influence on public opinion
*Radio Free Europe
*The Asia Foundation
*Encounter magazine
*Operation Mockingbird
*United States journalism scandals

References

External links

* [http://carlbernstein.com/magazine_cia_and_media.php The CIA and the Media] 1977 Rolling Stone article by Carl Bernstein.


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