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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 9 Num. 35
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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GLORIA IN EXCELSIS
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[CN transcript of remarks by west coast researcher Dave Emory.]
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[...continued...]
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The last person that we're gonna take a look at (well, the
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next-to-last person, actually) in considerable detail is the
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aforementioned Katherine Graham. A principle stockholder in Ms.
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[magazine], one of the people who helped lean on Random House for
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the deletions in the book, *Feminist Revolution*, Katherine
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Graham is, as mentioned, one of the key people who, not only one
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of the key stockholders, but one of the key people who helped
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found Ms. magazine in the first place.
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Katherine Graham, as well as the entire Washington Post mileau,
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have a long-standing relationship with the Central Intelligence
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Agency. That information came to light in a book called
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*Katherine the Great*, subtitled, "Katherine the Great and the
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Washington Post." Published in hardcover by Harcourt, Brace,
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Jovanovich. Authored by Debra Davis. It's copyrighted 1979, by
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Debra Davis. And I would point out that this book is very
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difficult to find because it was suppressed, almost certainly
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because of the CIA connections revealed in it.
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What we're going to be looking at here (and again, this is, in a
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sense, placing the whole Ms. magazine situation in a much larger
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framework) is basically that the Washington Post is part of a,
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well, I guess you'd have to say (ironically enough here) an "old
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boy network" which is one of the major axes of the CIA's
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involvement with the news media.
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We're going to be taking a look at the evolution of the
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Washington Post in conjunction with the Central Intelligence
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Agency. And then we're going to take a look at Katherine
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Graham's role as head of the Washington Post, and the Washington
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Post's role in getting rid of Richard Nixon on behalf of the U.S.
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National Security Establishment. As I indicated, Watergate was
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much deeper (I guess one could say, extending the metaphor) than
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the popular imagination has generally conceived.
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But we're going to take a look at "Katherine the Great" and her
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involvement with the CIA and Watergate a little later. But
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beyond that, we're going to take a look at Washington Post as
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basically part of a long-standing CIA intelligence/media mileau.
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First thing we're going to look at here is the establishment of
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an operation called "Operation Mockingbird." This was set up,
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not only by Washington Post publisher Phil Graham (the former
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husband of Katherine Graham), but also [by] a CIA official named
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Frank Wisner(sp?). We've taken a look at Frank Wisner's role in
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importing the Ukranian fascists and SS units, in Radio Free
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America #1 and #2. And in Radio Free America show #15, we looked
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at the role of these same elements in the assassination of John
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Kennedy in setting up a "left" cover for the assassination. We
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also took a look at the role of Wesley Liebler(sp?), a law
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partner of Frank Wisner's, in covering up the White Russian,
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Czarist, and Russian fascist connections to the assassination of
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John Kennedy. That, in Radio Free America #15.
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Now Frank Wisner and Phil Graham were two of the people who
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helped set up Operation Mockingbird, which was a CIA/media
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propaganda effort. Debra Davis writes about this in *Katherine
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the Great* as follows.
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Frank Wisner, like Phil Graham, had been born a southerner
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and had made his own way in the Northeastern legal
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establishment. During the war [WWII], he had been
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recruited into the OSS by William Donovan (whose house the
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Grahams had bought) and had been sent to the Balkans where
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he conceived of and executed operations that became models
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for future psychological warfare. He had been excluded
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from postwar intelligence because of bureaucratic
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infighting, had been asked to return as Deputy Assistant
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Secretary of State for Occupied Countries, an intelligence
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post, and by September of 1948 he was named Director of the
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Office of Policy Coordination [OPC], the covert operations
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arm of the CIA. OPC and CIA were officially merged in
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1952. At OPC, Wisner developed a vision that the war
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against Communism would be fought not as another large war,
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but as a series of "guerrilla-like skirmishes," a situation
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that he sought to control.
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Sometimes in co-operation with embassies or the Marshall
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Plan outposts, and sometimes not, Wisner had already begun
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wide-scale recruitment of foreign students and infiltration
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of labor unions. But he wanted something more, a way not
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only to subvert and disrupt but to give foreign peoples a
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sense of America, to "alter their perceptions" against
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Communism without violence. And thus Wisner, his deputy
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Richard Helms, and Phillip Graham, conceived of a formal
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program to recruit and use journalists. A haphazard
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practice until then, it was said to have had the code name,
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"Operation Mockingbird."
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And Philip Graham here, again, one of the people working with
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Richard Helms, later Director of Central Intelligence, and CIA
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official Frank Wisner, was one of the people who helped develop
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this Operation Mockingbird: the first, and most long-running and
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successful, of the many CIA programs infiltrating and
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manipulating the news media.
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The next thing we're going to look at is the primary role that
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the CIA has played in building the Washington Post over the years
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and the Washington Post Corporation. Again, returning to
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*Katherine the Great* by Debra Davis:
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But the Post was also unique among news companies in that
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its managers, living and working in Washington, thought of
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themselves simultaneously as journalists, businessmen, and
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patriots, a state of mind that made them singularly able to
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expand the company while promoting the national interest.
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Their individual relations with intelligence had, in fact,
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been the reason that the Post company had grown as fast as
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it did after the war. Their secrets were its corporate
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secrets, beginning with Mockingbird. Phillip Graham's
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committment to intelligence gave his friend Frank Wisner
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and Allen Dulles an interest in making the Washington Post
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the dominant news vehicle in Washington, which they did by
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assisting its two most crucial acquisitions, the
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Times-Herald and WTOP [radio].
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The Post-men most essential to these transactions (other
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than Phil) were Wayne Coy, the Post executive who had been
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Phil's former New Deal boss, and John S. Hayes(sp?), who
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replaced Coy in 1947 when Coy was appointed chairman of the
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Federal Communications Commission. It worked like this:
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Hayes had been commander of the Armed Forces Radio Network,
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ETO (European Theater of Operations), and in that capacity
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had made intelligence connections all over Europe. He came
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to the Post, after turning the network to the service of
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the Marshall Plan, with the title of Vice President for
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Radio and Television. In Washington, he became friendly
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with Frank Wisner, father of [Operation] Mockingbird, and
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with Allen Dulles, an OSS man who became the second
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Director of the new CIA in 1953.
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(I would interrupt, of course you look at Dulles' role in the Bay
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of Pigs and the importation and manipulation of the [Nazi] Gehlen
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organization as well as the assassination of Kennedy.)
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The relationship with Dulles was particularly important
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because of Dulles' ties to Wall Street, from which
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intelligence, industry, and government all draw their
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leaders -- the men who form this country's ruling clique.
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Between 1937 and 1943, when he joined the OSS, Dulles had
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been a director of the Schroeder(sp?) Bank, which in
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Germany had mis-judged the oneness of corporate and
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national interests to the extent of helping to finance
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Hitler because he promised to stabilize the German economy.
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From his membership in the tiny merchant banking community,
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which includes at any time only about 100 active partners
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distributed among the Morgan, Lazar(sp?), Rothschild,
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Hambros, and Baring Houses, Dulles knew and respected
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former Lazar associate Eugene Meyer.
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[...to be continued...]
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