Excellent article and it was very timely for me since I literally just finished reading 'Legacy of Ashes' last weekend. It's really a great book by Tim Weiner, which must have been quite a daunting task to go through the CIA and research the archives. Finding resistance and roadblocks, having to get FOIA requests and denials for access. So many interviews of the agency's personnel and other government officials that really add perspective, details and information.
While he did go into much detail about the agency's use of the media to plant stories, have editors squelch ones they didn't like, print books and drop leaflets behind the Iron Curtain, he never mentioned Operation Mockingbird by name. He only briefly mentioned MKUltra, only about a paragraph. But I've definitely read about these programs in other books, will see what more I can find.
So true that we need to keep doing our due diligence to stay ahead of the disinformation curve. It gets harder with every passing day and the explosion of information from every angle to keep up with researching and knowing what's true and what's hogwash. Especially in the age of AI and the ability to create any video about anything and anybody with all-too lifelike voices and faces and movements. I know I can still count on the Truth in Nature. That's my refuge in all this madness.
Thank you for continuing to be a voice of reason and clarity in these tumultuous times.
"The truth in nature" just gave me a chill because it resonates so much! Whatever the information or disinformation cacophony, our connection to nature (and how much reconnecting does for the soul/body/mind/heart) is one of the deepest truths I've found.
Rigorous scholarship is a hall-mark of legitimized academia; however the veracity of academia today is seriously in question. Documentation of a source is more about establishing credit (ownership) than it is about establishing absolute truth. The edifice known as science is built up on mathematics which is in turn built up on proofs. Proofs are built up on postulates or axioms. Axioms are accepted on faith, much like religion. Jesus proffers us the promise that when we are born again of God that we will receive the Holy Spirit who will bring us into all truth. Love of truth; especially in dealing with all peoples is what distinguishes a person as being of God. The scientific method derives its power from its insistence on rigorous truth, a truth which religions seem to have lost track of. Business and government also have neglected the practice of honesty as noted in the psalm which chronicles this "fall of man" while elevating the ONE. "The stone that the builders rejected has now become the cornerstone" Psalm 118:22
While I do agree with you. The reason people believe this about the CIA is because it's obvious with all their other operations that that is what they would do. So even without documentation I will still be for the abolishment of such agencies for doing things like this.
I'm with you on the abolition and the general shadiness of the CIA. It's been a focus of mine for as long as I've been making content. However, if people claim to have "the truth," they have to do better digging and research than the average person who believes the lies. The speech linked in this article goes more into depth about what I'm talking about here.
Excellent article and it was very timely for me since I literally just finished reading 'Legacy of Ashes' last weekend. It's really a great book by Tim Weiner, which must have been quite a daunting task to go through the CIA and research the archives. Finding resistance and roadblocks, having to get FOIA requests and denials for access. So many interviews of the agency's personnel and other government officials that really add perspective, details and information.
While he did go into much detail about the agency's use of the media to plant stories, have editors squelch ones they didn't like, print books and drop leaflets behind the Iron Curtain, he never mentioned Operation Mockingbird by name. He only briefly mentioned MKUltra, only about a paragraph. But I've definitely read about these programs in other books, will see what more I can find.
Great article! I enjoyed reading it.
Have you looked at "The Dirty Tricks Department" by John Lisle? It's kind of new, so it may have slipped under your radar.
I haven't, I will have to check it out. Sounds intriguing, thanks for sharing! :D
Thank you. I’m sharing.
So true that we need to keep doing our due diligence to stay ahead of the disinformation curve. It gets harder with every passing day and the explosion of information from every angle to keep up with researching and knowing what's true and what's hogwash. Especially in the age of AI and the ability to create any video about anything and anybody with all-too lifelike voices and faces and movements. I know I can still count on the Truth in Nature. That's my refuge in all this madness.
Thank you for continuing to be a voice of reason and clarity in these tumultuous times.
"The truth in nature" just gave me a chill because it resonates so much! Whatever the information or disinformation cacophony, our connection to nature (and how much reconnecting does for the soul/body/mind/heart) is one of the deepest truths I've found.
Rigorous scholarship is a hall-mark of legitimized academia; however the veracity of academia today is seriously in question. Documentation of a source is more about establishing credit (ownership) than it is about establishing absolute truth. The edifice known as science is built up on mathematics which is in turn built up on proofs. Proofs are built up on postulates or axioms. Axioms are accepted on faith, much like religion. Jesus proffers us the promise that when we are born again of God that we will receive the Holy Spirit who will bring us into all truth. Love of truth; especially in dealing with all peoples is what distinguishes a person as being of God. The scientific method derives its power from its insistence on rigorous truth, a truth which religions seem to have lost track of. Business and government also have neglected the practice of honesty as noted in the psalm which chronicles this "fall of man" while elevating the ONE. "The stone that the builders rejected has now become the cornerstone" Psalm 118:22
While I do agree with you. The reason people believe this about the CIA is because it's obvious with all their other operations that that is what they would do. So even without documentation I will still be for the abolishment of such agencies for doing things like this.
I'm with you on the abolition and the general shadiness of the CIA. It's been a focus of mine for as long as I've been making content. However, if people claim to have "the truth," they have to do better digging and research than the average person who believes the lies. The speech linked in this article goes more into depth about what I'm talking about here.
So... CIA took over the narrative of CIA taking over the narrative? Takeoverception. :)
One of the finest books I’ve read about
“What we’re all staring into”
Surveillance Valley...by Yasha Levine
He’s trending now through his film titled
Pistachio Wars ...
It is a telling about the Terra Forming of the west coast
The Nixon takedown was a CIA operation.
Bernstein was an operative under the 'FBI': https://www.mediaite.com/tv/what-in-the-world-tucker-carlson-claims-carl-bernstein-literally-participated-in-an-fbi-operation-to-bring-down-nixon/
Woodward was naval intelligence and worked for Alexander Haig - Woodward wasn't a reporter.
https://constantinereport.com/bob-woodwards-intelligence-credentials-assassination-politics-of-the-nixon-era/