{"id":63146,"date":"2021-05-01T12:18:36","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T16:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=63146"},"modified":"2021-05-01T12:20:08","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T16:20:08","slug":"the-cia-used-to-infiltrate-the-media-now-the-cia-is-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=63146","title":{"rendered":"The CIA Used to Infiltrate the Media. Now the CIA *is* the Media<\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Caitlin Johnstone
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The CIA’s Operation Mockingbird has succeeded beyond the wildest dreams of any Soviet propagandist<\/p>\n

Back in the good old days, when things were more innocent and simple, the psychopathic Central Intelligence Agency had to covertly infiltrate the news media to manipulate the information Americans were consuming about their nation and the world. Nowadays, there is no meaningful separation between the news media and the CIA at all.<\/p>\n

Journalist Glenn Greenwald just highlighted an interesting point about the reporting by\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>\u00a0on the so-called\u00a0“Bountygate” story<\/a>\u00a0the outlet broke in June of last year about the Russian government trying to pay Taliban-linked fighters to attack US soldiers in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

“One of the NYT reporters who originally broke the Russia bounty story (originally attributed to unnamed ‘intelligence officials’) say today that it was a CIA claim,” Greenwald\u00a0tweeted<\/a>.\u00a0“So media outlets – again – repeated CIA stories with no questioning: congrats to all.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Indeed, NYT’s original\u00a0story<\/a>\u00a0made no mention of CIA involvement in the narrative, citing only “officials,” yet\u00a0this latest article<\/a>\u00a0speaks as though it had been informing its readers of the story’s roots in the\u00a0lying, torturing<\/a>,\u00a0drug-running<\/a>,\u00a0warmongering<\/a>\u00a0Central Intelligence Agency from the very beginning. The author even writes “The New York Times\u00a0first reported<\/a>\u00a0last summer the existence of the C.I.A.’s assessment,” with the hyperlink leading to the initial article which made no mention of the CIA. It wasn’t\u00a0until later<\/a>\u00a0that\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>\u00a0began reporting that the CIA was looking into the Russian bounties allegations at all.<\/p>\n