(I would not know but could guess that Mockingbird itself is probably a long disbanded project.) The Q emphasis seems to be on the how as well as the who...
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Well the US Government claimed to have shut it down. Would they lie? Could they have refined the project and named it something else?
Recalling that DARPA had a project called Life Log. They discontinued it and at the same time FaceBook was born. Things that make you go Hmmm.
Of course Dr Udo Ulfkotte, had his opinion, but he didn’t live very long after his book came out—Links on the good Dr. and his book below:
Top German Journalist Admits Mainstream Media Is Completely ...
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-03-28/top-german-journalist-admits-mainstream-media-completely-fake-we-all-lie-cia
Top German Journalist Admits Mainstream Media Is Completely Fake: “We All Lie For The CIA”. One (out of many) great examples of a whistleblowing reporter is investigative journalist and former CBC News reporter Sharyl Attkisson. She delivered a hard-hitting TEDx talk showing how fake grassroots movements funded by political, corporate, or other special interests very effectively manipulate and distort media messages.
Former Newspaper Editor Who Exposed CIA Found Dead
https://newspunch.com/german-newspaper-editor-exposed-cia-dead/
Dr Udo Ulfkotte, the former German newspaper editor whose bestselling book exposed how the CIA controls German media, has been found dead. He was 56. Ulfkotte was an editor at Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , one of the largest newspapers in Germany, when he published Bought Journalists the bestselling book that cost him his job …
German Journalist Blows Whistle On How The CIA Controls The ...
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-09/german-journalist-blows-whistle-how-cia-controls-media
German Journalist Blows Whistle On How The CIA Controls The Media. In many instances, CIA documents show, journalists were engaged to perform tasks for the CIA with the consent of the managements of America’s leading news organizations. Like any good intelligence agency, the CIA learned from its mistakes upon being exposed,...
European media writing pro-US stories under CIA pressure ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGqi-k213eE
Oct 18, 2014German journalist and editor Udo Ulfkotte says he was forced to publish the works of intelligence agents under his own name, adding that noncompliance ran th...
> Well the US Government claimed to have shut it down. Would they lie? Could they have refined the project and named it something else?
I was only addressing Bob’s specific question regarding Project Mockingbird, not alleged follow-on projects, which I of course presume continued, at least for a while (a la the Bourne Identity franchise).
Given a choice, I am more interested in proof and efforts towards accountability than in speculation.
As you likely already know, in the frugal golden days of Humint it was common for journalists and spies to intermingle - they were doing the same job: recruiting sources and collecting information. It was expensive to support personnel in scruffy corners of the world so field men did double duty. They were termed 'stringers', paid by product produced.
Major news orgs now only pay regional reporters; Fox News keeps a European reporter in London and I suppose one in Hong Kong (reliable global communications). The rest of the world is covered by 'reliable sources', paid intel informants I guess.