Kevin Gosztola, managing editor of Shadowproof Press, and producer and co-host of the weekly podcast, “Unauthorized Disclosure,” interviews Nicholas Schou, an investigative journalist for OC Weekly on his new book, Spooked: How the CIA Manipulates Media and Hoodwinks Hollywood. Schou previously authored Kill the Messenger: How the CIA’s Crack Cocaine Epidemic Destroyed Journalist Gary Webb.
LRC readers may find the followings items helpful in delving into the historical backstory of this interview: Carl Bernstein, “The CIA and the Media;” “Operation Mockingbird;” Thomas Braden, “I’m glad the CIA is ‘immoral;‘” Prof. James F. Tracy, “The CIA and the Media: 50 Facts the World Needs to Know;” Tyler Durden, “Top German Journalist Admits Mainstream Media Is Completely Fake: “We All Lie For The CIA”; Charles Burris,”Culture, Art, Media, and the CIA;” Hugh Wilford, The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America; Alfred W. McCoy, A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror; and Tricia Jenkins, The CIA in Hollywood: How the Agency Shapes Film and Television.
2:05 am on July 11, 2016 Email Charles Burris
