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Not a single mention of Operation Mockingbird?
by arthurcolle 5y ago
Not a single mention of Operation Mockingbird?
- TurkishPoptart 5y agoArticle is from '77 so may be from before that operation was known to the general public. And still, the NYT is one of the most useful publications to the Agency, so there's that.
- dredmorbius 5y agoGoogle's Ngram Viewer shows no instances of that phrase in print prior to the early 1990s, and even the early hits there look questionable. The project likely was not known, perhaps at all, and at least under that name, in 1977. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Operation+Mockingbird&year_start=1970&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Operation+Mock... The Wikipedia article does not make clear when the term entered the public domain, though the associated reference (Deborah Davis) seems to have been published in 1979.