[MAPC-discuss] CIA and the media

[MAPC-discuss] CIA and the media

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        Rolling Stone Magazine once reportedly found 400 members of the
media had been in intelligence work before entering the media, according
to Gary Webb, formerly of the San Jose Mercury News.  Gary said so
visiting Madison at the WilMar Center on his Dark Alliance book tour
exposing the CIA-contra-crack cocaine epidemic.  In Catherine the Great
we learn the Washington Post had former intelligence operatives Phil
Graham and Ben Bradley managing the paper during much of the Cold War,
as well as former Naval intelligence Bob Woodward of Watergate fame may
have used CIA connections and called them "Deep Throat".
           Former CIA spook Walter Pincus helped the New York Times
destroy Gary Webb's career for daring to expose the CIA's latest drug
habit.
            How this works may have been indicated by a recent incident
that happened to me.  On July 24, 2001, Ted Koppel (another former
spook) used a classified defense report to belittle Paul Wolfowitz's
attempts to promote the national missile defense.  terrorism was the
most probable (#1) and NMD the least probable (#9 and #10) on a ranked
list of ten main security threats.  When I tried to get a copy of the
whole list, I was told by Feingold's office that it was classified.
            So classified material makes good news stories and you can't
get it unless you've had security clearances.  Hence being a CIA spook
is a great way to boost a news career.  Hence the media loves to hire
CIA spooks with there inside connections and assigns these "super"
reporters to foreign policy stories.  This operates to reinforce the
American business bias of the press (and the CIA: see trade center story
about CIA office there destroyed, that had interviewed businessmen
coming home from abroad)
            One big happy family of international corruption:  CIA,
media, transnationals, and the pentagon.  Did I say pentagon?  The Iron
Triangle classic documents the heavy board of directors interlock
between major banks and major defense contractors, about 15% to 20%
overlap, almost 50% for Citicorp with 60% of its profits overseas.
Pretty thick percentages when the average interlock for all big business
is the same 15% to 20%.


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[MAPC-discuss] CIA and the media