Case File 204 | Operation Mockingbird

Alien Theorists Theorizing

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🗓️ 17 September 2021

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

In 1952, Wayne Philips was a reporter for the New York Times and was attending Columbia University’s Russian Institute. It was here that Philips was approached by a representative of the CIA. The man offered to ensure Philips a posting in Moscow if he were to agree to be helpful to the agency while there. Philips was wary of the offer and expressed his doubts on an American journalist cooperating with the clandestine intelligence agency. The representative attempted to put Philips’ doubts to rest by mentioning that the CIA had “a working relationship” with the Times’ then-publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger and had other reporters on their payroll. It wouldn’t be until 1973, when documents were revealed during the Church Committee investigations into the activities of the CIA, that the public would begin to learn just how the CIA was utilizing these reporters as foreign assets in their war of ideologies. This case file, join the Theorists as they open your eyes to the secret world of spy guys in...Operation Mockingbird
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0:00.0	In the In 1952, Wayne Phillips was a reporter for the New York Times and was attending Columbia
0:20.4	University's Russian Institute.
0:23.7	It was here that Phillips was approached by a representative of the CIA.
0:28.6	A man offered to ensure Phillips a posting in Moscow if he were to agree to be helpful to the agency while there.
0:36.8	Phillips was wary of the offer and expressed his doubts on an American journalist cooperating
0:41.5	with the clandestine Intelligence Agency. and had a working relationship with the Times then publisher Arthur Hayes
0:55.2	Salzberger and had other reporters on their payroll. It wouldn't be
1:00.3	until 1973 when documents were revealed during the Church Committee
1:04.2	investigations into the activities of the CIA that the public would begin to
1:08.9	learn just how the CIA was utilizing these reporters as foreign assets in their war of ideologies.
1:16.7	This case file joined the theorists as they open your eyes to the secret world of spy guys
1:22.1	in operation. your eyes to the secret world of spy guys in Operation Mockingbird. Oh, Welcome to Alien Theerist, case file 2004.
1:57.0	Theerizing case file 2004 operation mock yeah
2:03.2	Ing yeah bird yeah yeah yeah my Bird. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
2:04.2	Mocking bird. Don't everybody have you heard?
2:08.7	Have you heard?
2:09.7	She's gonna buy me a mocking bird. She gonna buy me a mocking bird
2:14.4	And if that mocking bird don't sing
2:17.8	Don't sing
2:18.8	She gonna buy me a daimuring Daima ring a I'm a ring, I'm a ring. I'm a ring. I'm Braden. I'm Zell. I'm Dan. And I'm Andrew. That was a magnificent rendition.
2:31.8	More than, yeah.
2:33.0	Fantastic, to say the least.
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