‘Operation Mockingbird was an alleged large-scale program of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that began in the early 1950s and attempted to manipulate news media for propaganda purposes. It funded student and cultural organizations and magazines as front organizations.
According to writer Deborah Davis, Mockingbird recruited leading American journalists into a propaganda network and oversaw the operations of front groups. CIA support of front groups was exposed after a 1967 Ramparts magazine article reported that the National Student Association received funding from the CIA. In the 1970s, Congressional investigations and reports also revealed Agency connections with journalists and civic groups. None of these reports, however, mentions an Operation Mockingbird controlling or supporting these activities.
A Project Mockingbird is mentioned in the CIA Family Jewels report, compiled in the mid-1970s. According to the declassified version of the report released in 2007, Project Mockingbird involved wire-tapping of two American journalists for several months in the early 1960s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird
Lots of interesting stuff at the site.
TWB
I believe that he said or implied that all journalist receive their talking points at 4 a.m. That is why they’re talking points are always identical every day. It could mean that the white hat have taken over the center that sends out the talking points.
Interesting new comment about Snowden. It seems to imply he might have been CIA contractor working along with swap.