3 days ago - Edward Roscoe Murrow (born Egbert Roscoe Murrow; April 25, 1908 – April 27, 1965) was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent. He first gained prominence during World War II with a series of live radio broadcasts from Europe for the news division of CBS.

2 weeks ago - 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 ...

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Edward R. Murrow, like his boss ... Army Psych Warfare Division, and the CFR has sponsored the “Edward R. Murrow Press Fellowship” for the past 75 years. Allen Dulles, who ran the CIA “Operation Mockingbird”, was a CFR director for 40 years....

October 8, 2020 - On March 9th, 1954, Edward Murrow's See It Now broadcast portrayed Sen. McCarthy as a nose picking buffoon and helped turn the nation against him. It ended with this nice call for political freedom and for Americans to reject fear-mongering. How could Americans resist a call to free speech in 1954?

January 24, 2021 - 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.

The Recorded Sound Research Center provides access to the commercial and archival audio holdings of the Library of Congress. The Library's audio collections are now the largest in the United States and among the most comprehensive in the world. The collection dates from 1926 when Victor Records ...

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

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 ...

In its overt and covert propaganda programs - the latter programs were more believable abroad because they were not identified with the U.S. government - USIA began to resemble certain CIA operations. In fact, USIA closely collaborated with the CIA. Under Murrow's directorship, USIA projects ...

February 10, 2025 - The program was run by the Office ... Edwards, who received their orders from McCone. Other Agency personnel included Deputy Director of Central Intelligence Marshall Carter, executive director-comptroller Lyman Kirkpatrick, general counsel Lawrence Houston, and McCone's executive assistant Walter Elder. An internal CIA biography ...

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.

Document number CIA-RDP80B01676R002900170004-1 declassified and released through the CIA's CREST database. Previously available only on four computers located...

John McCone, the new director of ... 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...

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With the war finally over, Edward R. Murrow considered various job offers among them the presidency of Washington State College, Assistant Secretary of State, administrating philanthropies at Carnegie Foundation, or working as news correspondent for a radio contract paid for by Campbell's Soup ...

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March 21, 1999 - Edward R. Murrow was a radio and television broadcaster who was the most influential and esteemed figure in American broadcast journalism during its formative years.