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As an example, Anderson Cooper of CNN proudly admits that he worked as an intern at the CIA. Do with that what you will. There's a prejudice to pejoratively dis
by aww_dang 5y ago
As an example, Anderson Cooper of CNN proudly admits that he worked as an intern at the CIA. Do with that what you will. There's a prejudice to pejoratively dismiss these things out of hand as conspiracy theory. One could easily push back asking about naivete, but it isn't worth it.
>"As a college student, I had a number of summer jobs and internships, including working at the CIA."
>"Oh, yeah, in case you're interested, after I graduated college, I briefly worked as a waiter, but I decided not to make a career out of that job either."
See also: "Operation Mockingbird"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird
https://edition.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/anderson.cooper.360/blog/2006/09/my-summer-job-nearly-20-years-ago.html https://edition.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/anderson.cooper.360/blo...
- Victerius 5y agoAnd Princeton valedictorian and current professor of mathematics at Duke Lilian Pierce interned at the National Security Agency. Don't read too much into Cooper's very brief time at the CIA.
- itsyaboi 5y agoSlightly tongue in cheek, but that's probably what the CIA prefer you think.
- imwillofficial 5y agoAh so this other guy worked for a different place so we shouldn’t look to closely at Cooper. Makes total sense.
- cool_dude85 5y agoDon't know anything about the specific guy, but I wouldn't be surprised if there were 3-letter involvement in higher ed at some level. But the broader answer to your point is to consider the stakes and possible outcomes of clandestine influence of US media and of the Duke math department. It would probably very often come in handy to get favorable coverage, spike stories, influence hiring, etc. at major outlets, and not so often to do the same in the Duke math department. It's the difference between believing that the CIA is the one who knocked my mailbox over last night and believing that they were involved in the JFK assassination. Before considering evidence, we can provide many plausible reasons that the CIA may have wanted to assassinate JFK and few that they wanted to knock over my mailbox.
- tboyd47 5y agoDo you know what the hiring process is like for the CIA? https://www.cia.gov/careers/how-we-hire/hiring-process/ https://www.cia.gov/careers/how-we-hire/hiring-process/
- mhh__ 5y agoWhat I will do with that is nothing because there is no way an intern did anything interesting enough to be worth mentioning in this thread.
- jevoten 5y agoNothing interesting, except go on to attain a leading role in a major news network. Ah but he's not officially a CIA asset or apologist, so nothing can be read into his working there, and CNN was simply unable to find any journalists without CIA ties to hire, so they regretfully had to bear the appearance of conflict of interest.
- burnafter291 5y agoI always thought Cooper looked like a spook. Like he was grown in a lab to run around in a suit with a badge doing "REDACTED" and "CLASSIFIED".