Related to what’s likely going on with COVID today: Operation Mockingbird was a bit of a two-pronged approach to dealing with the media: on the one hand, journ

Related to what’s likely going on with COVID today: Operation Mockingbird was a bit of a two-pronged approach to dealing with the media: on the one hand, journalists were routinely employed by the CIA to develop intelligence and gather information, or to report on certain events in a way that portrayed the US favorably. On the other, there were actual plants within the media—paid off with bribes or even directly employed by the CIA—to feed propaganda to the American public