Operation Mockingbird | Case file 204

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 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
0:34.0	agency while there. Phillips was wary of the offer and expressed his doubts on an American
0:40.1	journalist cooperating with the clandestine intelligence agency. The representative attempted
0:46.0	to put Phillips' doubts to rest by mentioning that the CIA had a working relationship with the
0:52.9	Times then publisher Arthur Hayes-Solzberger and had other reporters on their payroll.
0:59.7	It wouldn't be until 1973 when documents were revealed during the Church Committee investigations
1:05.4	into the activities of the CIA that the public would begin to learn just how the CIA was utilizing
1:11.4	these reporters as foreign assets in their war of ideologies. This case filed during the
1:18.8	theorist as they opened your eyes to the secret world of spy guys in Operation Mockingbird.
1:48.8	Welcome to alien theorist theorizing case file 204 Operation Mockingbird she's going to
2:11.0	buy me a Mockingbird and if that Mockingbird don't sing don't sing she gonna buy me a diamond ring
2:22.5	diamond ring I'm reading I'm so I'm Dan and I'm Andrew that was a magnificent rendition more
2:32.1	yeah fantastic to say the least it's fucking two parts to the purple wizards here two parts of
2:38.8	the purple wizards what do you want from us yeah professionals come on why do you just out of
2:42.5	us we're supposed to be like daft punk they know well they've heard these sultry voices before they
2:48.1	can recognize them daft punk has released songs though you guys are definitely dafts so I thought
2:53.7	we were on Spotify did they drop us to off that they dropped the purple wiz I got rid of everything
2:58.5	affiliated with any member of the show did got damn it Dan what you had to say all those racist
3:03.5	things you get us kicked off Spotify damn it oh what the horse you were just couldn't keep
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