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Plenty of evidence spanning decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/02/06/john-bren... I immensely enjoy the opinion of the mainstream that "yes the CIA did bad things in the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and 2000s but nobody was ever prosecuted an there were no reforms so now they don't do bad things today you conspiracy theorist."

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I must be getting different webpages when I click those links than you do. Do you think it’s the cia?

Several years after Nixon's resignation,[0] Carl Bernstein published a piece in Rolling Stone alleging that over the course of 25 years, the CIA had tasked more than 400 journalists for special assignments, including Pulizer Prize winnders and a publisher for the New York Times.

"Some of these..relationships with the Agency were tacit; some were explicit. There was cooperation, accommodation and overlap. Journalists provided a full range of clandestine services-from simple intelligence gather to serving as go-betweens."

Laundering information.

[0] https://www.carlbernstein.com/the-cia-and-the-media-rolling-... [1] CIA Officer Frank Snepp discusses planting stories in Vietnam: youtu.be/UwerBZG83YM

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