The instigators of MOCKINGBIRD were Frank Wisner, Allan Dulles, Richard Helms
and Philip Graham. Graham was the husband of Katherine Graham, today’s
publisher of the Washington Post. In fact, it was the Post’s
ties to the CIA that allowed it to grow so quickly after the war, both in
readership and influence. (8)
MOCKINGBIRD was extraordinarily successful. In no time, the agency had
recruited at least 25 media organizations to disseminate CIA propaganda. At
least 400 journalists would eventually join the CIA payroll, according to the
CIA’s testimony before a stunned Church Committee in 1975. (The committee felt
the true number was considerably higher.) The names of those recruited reads
like a Who's Who of journalism:

• Philip and Katharine Graham (Publishers, Washington Post)
• William Paley (President, CBS)
• Henry Luce (Publisher, Time and Life magazine)
• Arthur Hays Sulzberger (Publisher, N.Y. Times)
• Jerry O'Leary (Washington Star)
• Hal Hendrix (Pulitzer Prize winner, Miami News)
• Barry Bingham Sr., (Louisville Courier-Journal)
• James Copley (Copley News Services)
• Joseph Harrison (Editor, Christian Science Monitor)
• C.D. Jackson (Fortune)
• Walter Pincus (Reporter, Washington Post)
• ABC
• NBC
• Associated Press
• United Press International
• Reuters
• Hearst Newspapers
• Scripps-Howard
• Newsweek magazine
• Mutual Broadcasting System
• Miami Herald
• Old Saturday Evening Post
• New York Herald-Tribune

Perhaps no newspaper is more important to the CIA than the
Washington Post, one of the nation’s most right-wing dailies. Its
location in the nation’s capitol enables the paper to maintain valuable
personal contacts with leading intelligence, political and business figures.
Unlike other newspapers, the Post operates its own bureaus around the
world, rather than relying on AP wire services. Owner Philip Graham was a
military intelligence officer in World War II, and later became close friends
with CIA figures like Frank Wisner, Allen Dulles, Desmond FitzGerald and
Richard Helms. He inherited the Post by marrying Katherine Graham,
whose father owned it.
 
After Philip’s suicide in 1963, Katharine Graham took over the Post.
Seduced by her husband’s world of government and espionage, she expanded her
newspaper’s relationship with the CIA. In a 1988 speech before CIA officials
at Langley, Virginia, she stated:

We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things that the general
public does not need to know and shouldn’t. I believe democracy flourishes
when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the
press can decide whether to print what it knows.

This quote has since become a classic among CIA critics for its
belittlement of democracy and its admission that there is a political agenda
behind the Post’s headlines.
 
Ben Bradlee was the Post’s managing editor during most of the Cold
War. He worked in the U.S. Paris embassy from 1951 to 1953, where he followed
orders by the CIA station chief to place propaganda in the European press. (9)
Most Americans incorrectly believe that Bradlee personifies the liberal slant of
the Post, given his role in publishing the Pentagon Papers and the
Watergate investigations. But neither of these two incidents are what they seem.
The Post merely published the Pentagon Papers after The New York Times
already had, because it wanted to appear competitive. As for Watergate, we’ll
examine the CIA’s reasons for wanting to bring down Nixon in a moment. Someone
once asked Bradlee: "Does it irk you when The Washington Post is
made out to be a bastion of slanted liberal thinkers instead of champion
journalists just because of Watergate?" Bradlee responded: "Damn right
it does!" (10)
It would be impossible to elaborate in this short space even the most
important examples of the CIA/media alliance. Sig Mickelson was a CIA asset the
entire time he was president of CBS News from 1954 to 1961. Later he went on to
become president of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, two major outlets of
CIA propaganda.
The CIA also secretly bought or created its own media companies. It owned 40
percent of the Rome Daily American at a time when communists were
threatening to win the Italian elections. Worse, the CIA has bought many domestic
media companies. A prime example is Capital Cities, created in 1954 by CIA
businessman William Casey (who would later become Reagan’s CIA director).
Another founder was Lowell Thomas, a close friend and business contact with CIA
Director Allen Dulles. Another founder was CIA businessman Thomas Dewey. By
1985, Capital Cities had grown so powerful that it was able to buy an entire TV
network: ABC.
For those who believe in "separation of press and state," the very
idea that the CIA has secret propaganda outlets throughout the media is
appalling. The reason why America was so oblivious to CIA crimes in the 40s and
50s was because the media willingly complied with the agency. Even today, when
the immorality of the CIA should be an open-and-shut case, "debate"
about the issue rages in the media. Here is but one example:
In 1996, The San Jose Mercury News published an investigative report
suggesting that the CIA had sold crack in Los Angeles to fund the Contra war in
Central America. A month later, three of the CIA’s most important media allies
— The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times
— immediately leveled their guns at the Mercury report and blasted away in an
attempt to discredit it. Who wrote the Post article? Walter Pincus,
longtime CIA journalist. The dangers here are obvious.
EXAMPLE OF CIA OPERATION MOCKINGBIRD CONTROL OF MEDIA:                                   
The
Israeli Spy Ring Scandal - The Story That Will Not Go Away - Prior to
9/11, the FBI had discovered the presence of a massive spy ring inside the
United States run by the government of Israel. This seems a harsh gratitude from
a nation which obtains 10% of its annual budget from the American taxpayer, $3+
billion a year. ALSO http://www.freewebs.com/cnnciafront 
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and read below how the CIA public relations officer conrols the media and news
to the public.

WASHINGTON DC ATTORNEY- MARK S. ZAID SPECIALIZES IN
LAWSUITS AGAINST THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY   PHONE 202-223-9050   OR  
202-371-6626
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