Why fill up on lies first?
Hit the BLOGS FIRST!
"NY Times columnist says his paper took CIA cash"
"For those in the know there is no big shock here regarding the info, but to admit it is unusual. I wonder if someday an NYT writer will tell us how much AIPAC cash the paper might have taken?
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MOCKINGBIRD - The Subversion Of The Free Press By The CIA
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"You could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple hundred dollars a month." - CIA operative discussing with Philip Graham, editor Washington Post, on the availability and prices of journalists willing to peddle CIA propaganda and cover stories. "Katherine The Great," by Deborah Davis (New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1991)
That's why we call 'em "presstitutes."
--Mike Rivero
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January 23, 2008, 9:53 am
The C.I.A. and the Culture War
By Barry Gewen
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.,The name is Schlesinger, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (Associated Press)
So far as I know, I have never taken money from the C.I.A. (though I have worked for some organizations that have had C.I.A. connections, including, apparently, my present employer). The same can’t be said for any number of prominent writers and artists, from Arthur Schlesinger Jr. to Jackson Pollock.
During the early years of the cold war, they were supported, sometimes lavishly, always secretly, by the C.I.A. as part of its propaganda war against the Soviet Union. It was perhaps the most successful use of “soft power” in American history. Yet once the facts came out in 1967 the episode became a source of scandal and controversy that continues to percolate to this day. How close should presumably independent intellectuals get to their government?
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