Operation Mockingbird

Operation Mockingbird ( eng. Operation Mockingbird ) is an operation by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA, USA) to influence the media . It began in the 1950s, initiated by Cord Meyer and Allen W. Dulles , was later headed by Frank Wisher after Dulles began to lead the CIA. The organization involved leading American journalists in network activities to introduce the CIA's views, founding student, cultural organizations and magazines, using them as a cover. As it developed, the involvement of foreign media and political organizations began, in addition to the activities of other CIA units.

In addition to earlier exposure of the CIA’s activities abroad, in 1966 the Ramparts Magazine was in published an article that argued that the National Student Association was founded by the CIA. The United States Congress investigated this statement, and the report was published in 1976. Other opinions were also published. The operation was first named "Mockingbird" in 1979 in the book by Deborah Davis " Catherine the Great : Katherine Graham and Her Empire at the Washington Post . ”

Davis’s book, which details how the media began to collaborate with the CIA for propaganda purposes, is controversial and not always accurate ^[1] . Further evidence of the existence of the Mockingbird appeared in 2007 in the memoirs American Spy: My Secret History at the CIA, Watergate and Further Events and the book The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America by Hugh Wilford (2008) ^[2] .