financiers took advantage of the fact that WWI impoverished Germany, which allowed them to pay
for vast propaganda and a mercenary army of Brownshirts for Hitler. See John Loftus and Mark
Aarons, The Secret War Against the Jews (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994) and Thyssen, I Paid
Hitler, p. 133.
62
National Security Council Directive, 10 July 1950, quoted in Final Report of the Select Committee
to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities (Washington: United States
Government Printing Office, 1976). Cited in Saunders, The Cultural Cold War, p. 4, nn. 5, 6.
63
Saunders, The Cultural Cold War, p. 41. Also see Lisa Pease, “The Media and the Assassination,”
in eds. James Di Eugenio and Lisa Pease, The Assassinations: Probe Magazine on JFK, MLK, RFK,
and Malcolm X (Los Angeles: Feral House, 2003), p. 300. On Wisner’s “Wurlitzer,” Joseph
Crewden, “Worldwide Propaganda Network Built by the CIA,” New York Times, 12/26/77, p. 1.
64
Carl Bernstein, “The CIA & the Media,” Rolling Stone, October 20, 1977. On more than 400, see
p. 55. On virtually all leading media companies, p. 56. On Senate Intelligence Committee forcing the
disclosure, p. 65. On “far” more than 400, see CIA “officials most knowledgeable about the subject
say that figure of 400 American journalists in on the low side,” p. 66. On “living double lives,” see
one-time CIA Deputy Director William Bader and others saying “reporters had been involved in
almost every conceivable operation,” p. 66. On reprinting CIA-written story under another name, see
example of Cy Sulzberger, p. 59. On some first worked for media, some CIA, p. 63. On work as
“covert operations” vs. “foreign intelligence,” p. 66. On CIA spy work on Americans locally, see
Seymour Hersh, “Huge C.I.A. Operation Reported in U.S. Against Antiwar Forces, Other Dissidents
in Nixon Years,” New York Times, 12/22/74, p. A1. On blacks, Seymour Hersh, “CIA Reportedly
Recruited Blacks for Surveillance of Panther Party,” New York Times, March 17, 1978, p. A1, A16,
quoted in Huey P. Newton, War Against the Panthers (New York: Harlem River Press/Writers and
Readers Publishing, 1996), p. 90.
65
On McGehee, a former 25-year CIA operative, he obtained documents from 1991 through the
Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) in which the CIA’s Public Affairs Office (PAO) said, “PAO
now has relationships with reporters from every major wire service, newspaper, news weekly, and
television network in the nation. This has helped turn some ‘intelligence failure’ stories into
‘intelligence success’ stories … In many instances, we have persuaded reporters to postpone, change,
hold, or even scrap stories,” from Lisa Pease, “The Media and the Assassination,” in The
Assassinations, p. 311.
66
Bagdikian, The Media Monopoly, pp. 210-11. This was also noted in the film America: Freedom to
Fascism (2006) by the director of the hit comedy Trading Places (1983), Aaron Russo. Russo was
diagnosed with cancer and died young, after refusing one of the Rockefeller’s attempts to “coopt”
him by asking him to join the Council on Foreign Relations.
67
Bagdikian, The Media Monopoly, pp. ix, 24-25. Other researchers have elaborated on how the top
corporations control the general political state of the nation, partly through their dominance in the
National Association of Manufacturers. For example, see an essay by Alex Carey, “Managing Public
Opinion: The Corporate Offensive” (University of New South Wales, 1986, mimeographed), pp. 1-2.
This essay had also been referenced in Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman, Manufacturing
Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (New York: Pantheon Books, 1988), p. 342n.
Bagdikian cited a 1979 study by Peter Dreier and Steven Weinberg that listed the New York Times
interlocked Board of Directors as including Merck, Morgan Guaranty Trust, Bristol Meyers, Charter
Oil, Johns Manville, American Express, Bethlehem Steel, IBM, Scott Paper, Sun Oil, and First
Boston Corporation. Time, Inc. (before becoming Time Warner ) “had so many interlocks it almost