On August 17, 1975 Senator Frank Church appeared on NBC's Meet the Press and issued a stark warning about a certain technology perfected by the intelligence community, which could be used by the US government against its own citizens to create “total tyranny”
In 1976 Church famously chaired a congressional investigation of the intelligence community by the Senate Intelligence Committee. During the investigation, several committee members became aware of the IC’s prolific use of journalists and the corporate press in its operations.
The scope of the IC’s use of the corporate press was downplayed in its final report to avoid the embarrassment of exposing some of the most notable journalists and news orgs of the 50s and 60s. Sort of makes you wonder. web.archive.org/web/2013102503…
“Do you have any people paid by the CIA who are working for television networks?”
quod erat demonstrandum
quod erat demonstrandum
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