The Deep State - Control of the Press, Control of the Truth

By

M. Richard Maxson 


This series of articles continues to examine what the shadow government and the deep state are and how they have gained so much control over the U.S. government and society in general.

      In 1948 the CIA created a covert action wing, the Office of Policy Coordination. Allen Dulles along with his brother and James Forrestal helped form the office. During 1949 he co-authored the Dulles–Jackson–Correa Report, which was sharply critical of the Central Intelligence Agency, which had been established by the National Security Act of 1947. As a result of the report, President Truman replaced the Director of Central Intelligence with Lieutenant General Walter Bedell Smith who reorganized the CIA, redefined its structure and its mission, and he gave it a new sense of purpose. He recruited Allen Dulles, who had authored the critical report, to oversee the agency's covert operations as Deputy Director for Plans.

      Dulles had his own vision of the agency. Spying during the war and afterwards was a gentleman’s pursuit, he believed, practiced in the shadows by and among “men of affairs” like him, who were comfortable bending ethics or cutting legal corners for a higher cause. His reorganization of the intelligence services done in the previous years, began to shape and implement his the policy that the agency that would take control of the American's perception of events, in order to stifle opposition through carefully placed triggers in the media. The justification was that it was of the most importance to halt the spread of Communism. His plan would change America forever.

      He greatly expanded Operation Mockingbird a large-scale program of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) which began in the early 1950's that recruited American news organizations and journalists to become spies and collaborators in an attempt to manipulate the news media for propaganda purposes. Operation Mockingbird recruited leading American journalists into a propaganda network and oversaw the operations of front groups. It was spearheaded by Philip Graham, publisher of The Washington Post, which becomes a major CIA player. Eventually, the CIA’s media assets will include ABC, NBC, CBS, Time, Newsweek, Associated Press, United Press International, Reuters, Hearst Newspapers, Scripps-Howard, Copley News Service and more. By the CIA’s own admission, at least 25 organizations and 400 journalists will become CIA assets during the 1950's. In many cases, the CIA’s involvement and collaboration with major American media outlets was done with the full knowledge, consent and complicity of the management of these corporations.

      The CIA’s primary purpose in infiltrating and collaborating with the major mass media outlets in America was twofold: to gather and assess information

gleaned from its many contacts, operatives and sources in the mass media and to spread information (or misinformation) that ostensibly advanced American national interests, at least those interests as perceived by the forces of the Deep State.

      "The Deep State’s “special relationship” with the major media outlets in America “enabled the CIA to post some of its most valuable operatives abroad without exposure for more than two decades.” according to Bernstein. “In most instances, agency files show, officials at the highest levels of the CIA (usually director or deputy director) dealt personally with a single designated individual in the top management of the cooperating news organization. The aid furnished often took two forms: providing jobs and credentials (‘journalistic cover’ in agency parlance) for CIA operatives about to be posted in foreign capitals; and lending the agency the undercover services of reporters already on staff, including some of the best known correspondents in the business.” - Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein

      According to Bernstein and other investigators, over 400 mainstream media journalists were employed by the CIA to parrot their disinformation. The CIA worked closely with CBS, Time magazine, The New York Times, ABC, NBC, the Associated Press, United Press International, Reuters, Hearst Newspapers, Newsweek magazine, The Miami Herald, and many other media outlets in America and abroad. The CIA's tentacles are long and deep and world-wide

                    "The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media” 

                            - William Colby, director of the CIA from 1973 to 1976

      Suffice it to say, the CIA and other Deep State associates have successfully infiltrated the major American media outlets, establishing a base of

operations in newspapers, magazines, and film which information and mis-information is gathered and spread to advance the agency’s clandestine agenda of a “New World Order” as expounded by their ex-CIA chief George H. W. Bush.

      Today most Americans remain blissfully unaware that their Constitutional government with its separated powers of legislative, judicial and executive departments, has been entirely superseded by the Shadow Government and the Deep State, which generates basic policy for all three branches of our lost Republic. It is a reality which President Trump has become painfully aware. The exposure of this regime and its operations must now become a primary duty of citizens who still believe in the Rule of Law and in the freedoms which this country is supposed to represent.