@jeff_kaye Controlling the source is a very attractive strategy. Can't imagine they've given it up. Makes me think about how Omidyar money dominates "fact checking" organizations. Or the US funded circumvention software that's made to bust China's digital autonomy.
@SusaHatchRedux@DoItForMaMa Here's C. D. Jackson in the minutes of a 1950 Radio Free Europe meeting talking about how easy it was to manipulate radio audiences. Radio Free Europe was a CIA proprietary (they had full control).
@SusaHatchRedux@DoItForMaMa There's a biography...don't know if it's good though. Total Cold War by Kenneth Osgood talks about him. https://t.co/JDKUXsKTvC
@SusaHatchRedux@DoItForMaMa He wasn't CIA staff, but ranked above it and coordinated with it at Time-Life (with Henry Luce). He also served on lots of CIA fronts. C. D. was special assistant to Eisenhower on the Operations Coordinating Board which oversaw CIA's nasty plans. JFK abolished the OCB.
@euthlogo@adamjohnsonCHI A lot of stuff got switched to overt government funding, but aims still covert: National Endowment for Democracy, Asia Foundation, East-West Center, US Institute for Peace, USAID, US Agency for Global Media, Internews, Open Technology Fund--funder of circumvention software
@lisapease@benjaminwah2016 I found this 1970s article more satisfying, but the author's ending made me doubt his claim of being unwitting. https://t.co/QsOsx4Aibx
@lisapease Don't know if it's important, but the psychiatrist in charge of James Earl Ray in prison before the assassination was the same guy in charge of all the US Korean POWs. @jeff_kaye argues that the handling of those POWs was a big US cover up and experiment in mind control.