Family Jewels Pt 4: Meddling In The Press (1975) w/ Rick Perlstein

This Day in Esoteric Political History

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🗓️ 15 May 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

We wrap up our four-part series on the 1975/76 Church Committee hearings with a look at the contentious, cozy, and murky relationship between intelligence communities and the press. The CIA targeted individual journalists, but often with the tacit approval of media elites.

Our guest throughout this series has been Rick Perlstein. Be sure to check out his many brilliant books!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia.
0:07.0	My name is Jody Avergan.
0:10.0	This is part four, the conclusion ofules where we are looking back at the
0:16.9	Church Committee revelations than the hearings and the report from 75 76
0:21.6	that's exposed lots of covert activity by the NSA, FBI, and CIA.
0:26.8	First episode was about meddling abroad.
0:28.4	Second episode was about meddling at home.
0:30.5	Third episode was about meddling in people's minds and this one is about
0:34.5	meddling in the press and also a chance to kind of talk about actually about the
0:38.0	press and how this was covered and kind of what came of all these revelations.
0:42.3	So back to do that as always. what came of all these revelations.
0:42.9	So back to do that as always,
0:45.2	Nicole Hammer of Columbia and Kelly Carter Jackson of Wesley.
0:47.9	Hello there.
0:48.6	Hello Jody.
0:49.7	Hey there.
0:50.3	And Rick Perlstein is back for one final episode,
0:53.0	Author of Before the Storm, Nixon Land,
0:55.0	The Invisible Bridge, Reagan Land, but thank you,
0:57.2	Rick, for doing this.
0:58.9	My pleasure.
1:00.0	All right, so meddling in the press, one thing I'll point out, there was a operation mockingbird and a project mockingbird, and you know, so as clever as these people are sometimes, they also just couldn't come up with two
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