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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2017 11:03:46 GMT -5
We all know by now that the Washington Post has always been a mouthpiece of the CIA, right?
It started with Phillip and Katherine Graham, in the days when Katherine the Great owned the WaPo and her husband Phil worked for the CIA with Wisner and Dulles.
Ben Bradlee was a CIA asset,# and he recruited Bob Woodward out of U.S. Naval Intelligence (and Yale.)
In more recent years, the CIA awarded a $640 million contract to WaPo owner Jeff Bezos.
So, it comes as no surprise that the WaPo has published a series of erroneous articles this month about JFK's assassination-- falsely framing the 53 year old debate as Warren Commission vs. kooky "conspiracy theorists." PUH-LEEZE!
Do people not realize that we have the declassified CIA order from 1964 ordering all CIA personnel-- including Cord Meyer and Ben Bradlee-- to do whatever was necessary to sell the Warren Commission "Lone Nut" false narrative to the American people?
The 54 year old debate is actually a debate between serious investigators-- DA Jim Garrison, Mark Lane, Jim Marrs, et.al.-- and CIA "Lone Nut" propagandists.
# (See Peter Janney, Mary's Mosaic.)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2018 16:01:08 GMT -5
I'm posting this for Harry and Cheese Burgher-- our two main Company men.
Check out this scathing critique of the new CIA-funded propaganda flick, The Post.
Ouch... I haven't seen the movie, yet. CIA propaganda/fiction isn't my favorite genre.
Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg Mythologize the Washington Post
kennedysandking.com/reviews/tom-hanks-and-steven-spielberg-mythologize-the-washington-post
December 15, 2017
As a corrective to yet another tendentious Hanks-Spielberg historical rewrite, Jim DiEugenio provides a review of past work which puts The Washington Post in a more accurate perspective.
A few weeks ago Ken Burns and Lynn Novick delivered a hugely disappointing ten-part documentary entitled The Vietnam War. Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg will now do the same for the famous Pentagon Papers case.
Their film, entitled The Post, is not focused on Daniel Ellsberg. And it does not use his book Secrets as source material. Their film actually makes Ben Bradlee and Kate Graham the protagonists of the whole struggle to release the multi-volume, Defense Department study about how America got into, and stayed involved in the Vietnam War. It will therefore make Bradlee and Graham into some kind of hero and heroine of that hugely conflicting episode. To anyone who understands who Graham and Bradlee were, and the true story of what Ellsberg did, nothing could be further from the facts. To cite just one example: in Ellsberg’s 457 page book Secrets—which chronicles the entire affair in detail—there is exactly one glancing reference to Bradlee. There are none to Graham.
That is because, when one understands what Ellsberg and his cohorts were up to, the Washington Post was, if not inconsequential to the affair, extraneous to Ellsberg’s strategy. Once Ellsberg made his decision to go public with the Robert McNamara commissioned Top Secret history, it was just a matter of how many newspapers would pick up the story after the New York Times initially published it. Ellsberg and his friends had made many copies of the secret history, since he anticipated that there might be legal action against the Times to stop publishing. He and his friends had arranged for many newspaper outlets to get them once the Times was enjoined by the Nixon White House with a temporary restraining order (TRO) to halt publication. Which the Times was, after three days of stories based upon the documents.
By the time the Supreme Court decided to strike down the TRO and allow publication, almost twenty newspapers throughout the country had printed sections of the Pentagon Papers. The White House had only named four of them in their legal action: the Times, the Post, the Boston Globe and the St. Louis Post Dispatch. But further, Senator Mike Gravel had read the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record on the floor of the Senate. And he then handed out copies to reporters who were there at the time. He then arranged for no other senator to be there so he could move to have the entire set committed to the record without objection. This was on the day the Supreme Court decision was delivered. What Gravel did—committing the documents into the Senate record— made the decision pretty much irrelevant. Gravel agreed to do this after three other senators—including George McGovern—and one congressman had refused to. Then Beacon Press, which came under great duress, published that version of the Pentagon Papers in a four-volume set.
There are some heroes in this story. For example, Ellsberg, Mike Gravel, and Ellsberg’s friend Anthony Russo, who helped him copy the documents and who, like Ellsberg, risked going to jail for that act. There was also Judge Gerhard Gesell who, during two weeks of rapid, almost dizzying court hearings, ruled twice for disclosure. But Graham and Bradlee? Nothing in either of their careers merits this kind of aggrandizement. It could only happen in Tinsel Town. And in these days of MSM synergy, HBO has joined in with documentary specials on Spielberg and Bradlee.
Below we link to a series of articles about Bradlee, Graham the Washington Post and Watergate. We do this so the reader will not be bamboozled by another Tom Hanks version of (ersatz) history.
To counter the Hanks/Spielberg Mythology, here is some real information on Bradlee, Graham and The Washington Post:
Ben Bradlee
“Ben Bradlee’s Not Such ‘A Good Life’, Part 1”, at Consortium News
“Ben Bradlee’s Not Such ‘A Good Life’, Part 2”, at Consortium News
“Ben and Jack: Not a Love Story”, Probe 4.6, September-October 1997
“The Posthumous Assassination of John F. Kennedy” (see in particular Part 1, pp. 11, 29 in the attached original)
Kate Graham
“Unmasking the Washington Post”, Probe 3.2, January-February 1996
Watergate
“The Watergate Saga: The Official Version vs the Reality”, Probe 3.2, January-February 1996
“From Dallas to Watergate: It's Déjà-Vu All Over Again”, Probe 3.2, January-February 1996
“Rearranging the Watergate Myth”, at Consortium News
Bob Woodward
“Government Flaks? Bob Woodward and James Phelan”, by Lisa Pease, with a sidebar, “The Deceptions of All the President's Men”, Probe 3.2, January-February 1996; these have been reposted separately on this site as: “Bob Woodward” and “Adrian Havill, Deep Truth”
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Post by Walter on Jan 2, 2018 18:22:07 GMT -5
More good news for Jim DiEugenio.
Clicks from Willie!
Way to go, Willie. His vacation home at Jackson Hole must almost be paid off by now.
Keep clicking, sucker!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2018 21:19:25 GMT -5
More good news for Jim DiEugenio. Clicks from Willie! Way to go, Willie. His vacation home at Jackson Hole must almost be paid off by now. Keep clicking, sucker! Walter, Try reading some of DiEugenio's excellent research. The guy has done some very good work. As for Ben Bradlee, Peter Janney exposed him quite definitively in his forensic book, Mary's Mosaic. (Janney's father was a CIA higher up who worked with Bradlee.) |
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Post by Walter on Jan 3, 2018 0:16:09 GMT -5
More good news for Jim DiEugenio. Clicks from Willie! Way to go, Willie. His vacation home at Jackson Hole must almost be paid off by now. Keep clicking, sucker! Walter, Try reading some of DiEugenio's excellent research. The guy has done some very good work. As for Ben Bradlee, Peter Janney exposed him quite definitively in his forensic book, Mary's Mosaic. (Janney's father was a CIA higher up who worked with Bradlee.) I have read his schlock, thanks to you. That is how I know about how much money he makes suckering rubes like you. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2018 0:35:46 GMT -5
Walter, Try reading some of DiEugenio's excellent research. The guy has done some very good work. As for Ben Bradlee, Peter Janney exposed him quite definitively in his forensic book, Mary's Mosaic. (Janney's father was a CIA higher up who worked with Bradlee.) I have read his schlock, thanks to you. That is how I know about how much money he makes suckering rubes like you. I'm the opposite of a "rube," Walt. Which of DiEugenio's excellent books have you read? Destiny Betrayed? Parkland Reclaimed? The Assassinations? |
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Post by Walter on Jan 3, 2018 1:03:59 GMT -5
I have read his schlock, thanks to you. That is how I know about how much money he makes suckering rubes like you. I'm the opposite of a "rube," Walt. Which of DiEugenio's excellent books have you read? Destiny Betrayed? Parkland Reclaimed? The Assassinations? Ive read post links you provided. It did not lead me to want to actually pay to read more. I will not even click on the links anymore, because I know it is how he makes his living, namely feeding doggerel to suckers like you. I dont read Lyndon Larouche or L Ron or A&E for 911 truth either. Same stink, different pile o' it. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2018 12:23:50 GMT -5
I'm the opposite of a "rube," Walt. Which of DiEugenio's excellent books have you read? Destiny Betrayed? Parkland Reclaimed? The Assassinations? Ive read post links you provided. It did not lead me to want to actually pay to read more. I will not even click on the links anymore, because I know it is how he makes his living, namely feeding doggerel to suckers like you. I dont read Lyndon Larouche or L Ron or A&E for 911 truth either. Same stink, different pile o' it. Walter, Understanding the WaPo's longstanding ties to CIA psy ops is not rocket science. Two words. Phillip Graham. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2018 13:18:01 GMT -5
Walter,
What do you make of DiEugenio's point about Daniel Ellsberg having only one reference to Ben Bradlee in his entire 457 page memoir about the Pentagon Papers?
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Post by Walter on Jan 3, 2018 13:56:51 GMT -5
Walter, What do you make of DiEugenio's point about Daniel Ellsberg having only one reference to Ben Bradlee in his entire 457 page memoir about the Pentagon Papers? I don't give a shit what he "makes of" it, but off the top of my head, I'd guess because Ellsberg was a Rand research wonk on the west coast who at the time probably never met Bradlee and had no reason to ever meet him. Look, I get that you're buying his drivel. I'm not. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2018 15:18:58 GMT -5
Take wing operation mockingbird! Fly like a bird!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2018 17:02:51 GMT -5
Walter, What do you make of DiEugenio's point about Daniel Ellsberg having only one reference to Ben Bradlee in his entire 457 page memoir about the Pentagon Papers? I don't give a shit what he "makes of" it, but off the top of my head, I'd guess because Ellsberg was a Rand research wonk on the west coast who at the time probably never met Bradlee and had no reason to ever meet him. Look, I get that you're buying his drivel. I'm not. Non sequitur. The latest DiEugenio article was about the new movie, The Post, which lionizes the glorious role of Ben Bradlee and Katherine Graham in the Pentagon Papers saga. The only problem is that it's mostly a fairy tale. Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower who brought the Papers to the attention of the American people, never even mentions Graham in his account of what happened, and only mentioned CIA asset Ben Bradlee once. |
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Post by Walter on Jan 3, 2018 17:22:35 GMT -5
I don't give a shit what he "makes of" it, but off the top of my head, I'd guess because Ellsberg was a Rand research wonk on the west coast who at the time probably never met Bradlee and had no reason to ever meet him. Look, I get that you're buying his drivel. I'm not. Non sequitur. The latest DiEugenio article was about the new movie, The Post, which lionizes the glorious role of Ben Bradlee and Katherine Graham in the Pentagon Papers saga. The only problem is that it's mostly a fairy tale. Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower who brought the Papers to the attention of the American people, never even mentions Graham in his account of what happened, and only mentioned CIA asset Ben Bradlee once. Are you telling me that a movie about some historic event might not recount things exactly as they happened? Holy Crap!. I'm shocked! You needed an internet hack to tell you that? |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2018 17:32:58 GMT -5
Non sequitur. The latest DiEugenio article was about the new movie, The Post, which lionizes the glorious role of Ben Bradlee and Katherine Graham in the Pentagon Papers saga. The only problem is that it's mostly a fairy tale. Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower who brought the Papers to the attention of the American people, never even mentions Graham in his account of what happened, and only mentioned CIA asset Ben Bradlee once. Are you telling me that a movie about some historic event might not recount things exactly as they happened? Holy Crap!. I'm shocked! You needed an internet hack to tell you that? Get a clue, Walter. As a Tinsel Town native, I'm surprised that you know so little about the longstanding relationship between Hollywood and the CIA. If you're interested, try reading DiEugenio's book, Reclaiming Parkland. Do you know anything about Jack Valenti, LBJ's close associate? You still haven't grasped the significance of Operation Mockingbird as the Rosetta Stone of modern Deep State history, have you? |
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Post by Walter on Jan 3, 2018 20:06:21 GMT -5
Are you telling me that a movie about some historic event might not recount things exactly as they happened? Holy Crap!. I'm shocked! You needed an internet hack to tell you that? Get a clue, Walter. As a Tinsel Town native, I'm surprised that you know so little about the longstanding relationship between Hollywood and the CIA. If you're interested, try reading DiEugenio's book, Reclaiming Parkland. Do you know anything about Jack Valenti, LBJ's close associate? You still haven't grasped the significance of Operation Mockingbird as the Rosetta Stone of modern Deep State history, have you? Oh, not to worry. I've "grasped the significance" of it all. Trust me. I have. |
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