January 24, 2021 - You Can’t Make This Stuff Up. CBS chairman William Paley, Fred Friendly, and Edward R. Murrow were part of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Operation Mockingbird to provide deflection and cover for the CIA’s ‘family jewels’ of the day. CBS News president Sig Mickelson (1954-61) was liaison to the CIA.

February 28, 2012 - “George Clooney’s film does not delve into Joe McCarthy’s preliminary investigation of CIA covert activities and how CBS chairman William Paley, Fred Friendly, and Edward R. Murrow were part of the Agency’s Operation Mockingbird to provide deflection and cover for the Agency’s ‘family jewels’ of the day.“CBS News president Sig Mickelson (1954-61) was liaison to the CIA.

October 8, 2020 - Applying Mockingbird in an “explosive offense is the best defense” method, Wisner used domestic reporters as a weapon against McCarthy. The CIA used multiple reporters to smear McCarthy, taking a steady line of attack on McCarthy. This was capped off with Murrow’s special See It Now broadcast in March of ’54 that went after McCarthy.

Journalists also have power, influence and clout. Not surprisingly, the CIA began a mission in the late 1940s to recruit American journalists on a wide scale, a mission it dubbed Operation MOCKINGBIRD.

Operation Mockingbird was a secret Central Intelligence Agency campaign to influence domestic and foreign ... The activities, extent and even the existence of the CIA project remain in dispute: the operation was first called

March 19, 2023 - CBS chairman William Paley, Fred Friendly, and Edward R. Murrow were part of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Operation Mockingbird to provide deflection and cover for the CIA’s ‘family jewels’ of the day. CBS News president Sig Mickelson (1954-61) was liaison to the CIA.

March 2, 2023 - George Clooney’s film does not delve into Joe McCarthy’s preliminary investigation of CIA covert activities and how CBS chairman William Paley, CBS News president Fred Friendly, and CBS Evening News anchor Edward R. Murrow were part of the Agency’s Operation Mockingbird to provide deflection and cover for the Agency’s ‘family jewels’ of the day.

June 5, 2025 - George Clooney’s celebrated film does not delve into Joe McCarthy’s preliminary investigation of CIA covert activities and how CBS chairman William Paley, CBS News president Fred Friendly, and CBS Evening News anchor Edward R. Murrow were part of the Agency’s Operation Mockingbird to provide deflection and cover for the Agency’s ‘family jewels’ of the day.

1 week ago - On March 13, 1938, the special was broadcast, hosted by Bob Trout in New York, including Shirer in London (with Labour MP Ellen Wilkinson), reporter Edgar Ansel Mowrer of the Chicago Daily News in Paris, reporter Pierre J. Huss of the International News Service in Berlin, and Senator Lewis B. Schwellenbach in Washington, D.C. Reporter Frank Gervasi, in Rome, was unable to find a transmitter to broadcast reaction from the Italian capital but phoned his script to Shirer in London, who read it on the air. Murrow reported live from Vienna, in the first on-the-scene news report of his career: "This is Edward Murrow speaking from Vienna....

March 29, 2010 - Although Bernstein did not mention it by name, the CIA operation to influence the press was officially called "Operation Mockingbird." Here is Spartacus Educational's article on that black-ops project.

December 13, 2021 - Joseph McCarthy began claiming senior CIA members were security risks. The Federal Bureau of Investigation added to the smear by announcing it was unwilling to give Meyer “security clearance”, yet presented no evidence. Drew Pearson, Joe Alsop, Jack Anderson, Walter Lippmann and Edward Murrow all went into attack mode and Joseph Raymond McCarthy was permanently damaged by the press coverage orchestrated by Frank Wisner.

Operation Mockingbird was a secret Central Intelligence Agency campaign to influence domestic and foreign media beginning in the 1950s. The activities, extent and even the existence of the CIA project remain in dispute: the operation was first called Mockingbird in Deborah Davis' 1979 book, ...

The CIA also provided them with classified information to help them with their work. After 1953 the network was overseen by Allen W. Dulles, director of the Central Intelligence Agency. By this time Operation Mockingbird had a major influence over 25 newspapers and wire agencies.

September 13, 2022 - Brief description of CIA's project Mockingbird and the CIA's influence of many domestic reporters to manipulate media.

John McCone also attempted to stop Edward Yates from making a documentary on the CIA for the National Broadcasting Company (NBC). This attempt at censorship failed and NBC went ahead and broadcast this critical documentary. In June, 1965, Desmond FitzGerald was appointed as head of the Directorate for Plans. He now took charge of Mockingbird.

February 28, 2018 - There is, however, a growing paper ... the Family Jewels, MOCKINGBIRD was a surveillance program targeting two newsmen who had been receiving a considerable amount of classified information....

Document number CIA-RDP80B01676R001000210001-9 declassified and released through the CIA's CREST database. Previously available only on four computers located...

Edward R. IKurr+sw Director, United States Inforn:stion Agency Washington, D. C. Dear Mr. Murrow: Just before his departure on a brief holiday, Mr. Dulles asked me to look into the matter of unrest in the Ukraine which I understand you raised in a meeting with him on 31 Ai gust.

February 14, 2026 - Operation Mockingbird is an alleged large-scale program of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that began in the early years of the Cold War and attempted to manipulate domestic American news media organizations for propaganda purposes. According to author Deborah Davis, Operation Mockingbird recruited leading American journalists into a propaganda network and influenced the operations of front groups.