In George Orwell’s famous novel, “1984,” an oppressive government – symbolized by the phrase “Big Brother” – is continually spying on everyone and manipulating how and what they think.
In many ways, today’s Central Intelligence Agency seems to be America’s version of “Big Brother” – or perhaps even to exceed it. By multiple reliable accounts, the CIA has been involved in everything from manipulating the media, to trafficking drugs, to flipping governments, to controlling Hollywood, even to participating in the assassination of a U.S. president. And of course, spying on Americans.
Recruiting journalists for spy work
It started long ago. Operation Mockingbird was “a CIA project that recruited journalists to write fake stories promoting government ideas while dispelling communist ones” – or at least that is how it started. The operation began in the 1950s, recruiting “American journalists into a propaganda network,” but was expanded to include influencing foreign media as well.
During the 1970s, the U.S. Senate established the “Church Committee” to examine potential abuses by the CIA, the NSA, the FBI and the IRS. Finally, in 2007, about 700 pages of documents pertaining to scandals and misconduct of the agencies during the 1970s were declassified and released by the CIA, and nicknamed “The Family Jewels.”
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