House Select Committee On Intelligence - The Pike Committee (November 6th, 1975)
Director William Colby testifies on the CIA's utilization of the media.
The audio is from a portion of a 1975 episode of 'Open Journal' that aired on KPFK Radio Station of the Pacifica Foundation Network.
full broadcast: https://archive.org/details/pra-KZ1146.02
alternate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6Hm0Sla65E
PRA Archive #: KZ1146.02
Description:
Open Journal episode concerning reports of the CIA employing newsmen for information gathering and dissemination, including CIA director William Colby's testimony before the House on Intelligence Commission on utilizing foreign news agencies for planting false stories. Episode begins with Robert Krulwich's report, which includes a speech by journalist Stuart Loory on the three dozen reporters discovered on the CIA's payroll. Broadcast on KPFK in 1975.
Contributor: Robert Krulwich
Role: Host
Contributor: William Colby
Role: Speaker
Contributor: Stuart Loory
Role: Speaker
Contributor: Jim Berland
Role: Host
https://www.pacificaradioarchives.org/recording/kz114602
"Operation Mockingbird is an alleged large-scale program of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that began in the early 1950s and attempted to manipulate news media for propaganda purposes. It funded student and cultural organizations and magazines as front organizations. According to writer Deborah Davis, Operation Mockingbird recruited leading American journalists into a propaganda network and oversaw the operations of front groups. CIA support of front groups was exposed after a 1967 Ramparts magazine article reported that the National Student Association received funding from the CIA...A Project Mockingbird is mentioned in the CIA Family Jewels report, compiled in the mid-1970s. According to the declassified version of the report released in 2007, Project Mockingbird involved the wire-tapping of two American journalists for several months in the early 1960s."
https://cognitive-liberty.online/operation-mockingbird/
"(Frank) Wisner established Operation Mockingbird, a program to influence the American media. Wisner recruited Philip Graham (Washington Post) to run the project within the industry. Graham himself recruited others who had worked for military intelligence during the war. This included James Truitt, Russell Wiggins, Phil Geyelin, John Hayes and Alan Barth. Others like Stewart Alsop, Joseph Alsop and James Reston, were recruited from within the Georgetown Set. According to Deborah Davis (Katharine the Great): 'By the early 1950s, Wisner 'owned' respected members of the New York Times, Newsweek, CBS and other communications vehicles.'...In 1951 Allen W. Dulles persuaded Cord Meyer to join the CIA. However, there is evidence that he was recruited several years earlier and had been spying on the liberal organizations he had been a member of in the later 1940s. According to Deborah Davis, Meyer became Mockingbird's 'principal operative'...Other journalists willing to promote the views of the CIA included Ben Bradlee (Newsweek), James Reston (New York Times), Charles Douglas Jackson (Time Magazine), Walter Pincus (Washington Post), William C. Baggs (Miami News), Herb Gold (Miami News) and Charles Bartlett (Chattanooga Times). According to Nina Burleigh (A Very Private Woman) these journalists sometimes wrote articles that were commissioned by Frank Wisner. The CIA also provided them with classified information to help them with their work."
https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKwisner.htm
"After 1953 the network was overseen by Allen W. Dulles, director of the Central Intelligence Agency. By this time Operation Mockingbird had a major influence over 25 newspapers and wire agencies. These organizations were run by people such as William Paley (CBS), Henry Luce (Time Magazine and Life Magazine), Arthur Hays Sulzberger (New York Times), Helen Rogers Reid (New York Herald Tribune), Dorothy Schiff (New York Post), Alfred Friendly (managing editor of the Washington Post), Barry Bingham (Louisville Courier-Journal) and James S. Copley (Copley News Services)."
https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKmockingbird.htm
http://carlbernstein.com/magazine_cia_and_media.php
https://www.villagevoice.com/1976/02/16/the-cia-report-the-president-doesnt-want-you-to-read/
Pike Committee Intelligence Hearings Transcripts (1975): https://archive.org/details/PikeCommitteeIntelligenceHearings/mode/2up
Pike Committee Report (1976): https://archive.org/details/PikeCommitteeReportFull
The Pike Committee Report (audiobook):
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBINnEpNu5u70gL3ebLHrlpe5d9kffLmq
https://archive.org/details/TheUnexpurgatedPikeReportAudiobook
Church Committee: CIA & the Media (Operation Mockingbird) (B1.10) - Our Hidden History (May 10th, 2016):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrY93p0SYfc
