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It is absolutely amazing how each evening on Tucker Carlson Tonight I find a momentary hour of clarity, reassurance, vindication, and enlightenment. I don’t think this is a case of confirmation bias but simply my recognition of the outstanding ability of Tucker to communicate informative and reliably truthful information and intelligent commentary in a manner that reaches more viewers in his vast audience than any previous news/opinion program in history.

Tucker is number one in his ratings and it is easy to see why. People seek quality authoritative news information delivered by someone they respect. Tucker has an aura of responsibility and integrity which people believe is genuine. He has earned their trust.

In the early years of TV  broadcasting people saw Edward R. Murrow as the person that earned their trust. Later it was Walter Cronkite (“Uncle Walter”) who attainted this measure of respect and trust. But detailed exposure of Murrow‘s and Cronkite‘s role with Operation Mockingbird as mouthpieces of lies, disinformation, and duplicity at the behest of the deep state shattered the illusions of those faux legacies. We were all so innocent and naïve in those years. No one gave any thought about media manipulation or propaganda at the the behest of the intelligence community.

But this harsh brutal reality is one of the principal narrative stories of the past 100 years.

CBS chairman William Paley, Fred Friendly, and Edward R. Murrow were part of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Operation Mockingbird to provide deflection and cover for the CIA’s ‘family jewels’ of the day. CBS News president Sig Mickelson (1954-61) was liaison to the CIA. Because of his frequent communications, Mickelson even had a direct private phone line installed to the Agency. CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite was a former military intelligence officer also connected within this elite nexus.

CIA director Allen Dulles (fired by JFK after the Bay of Pigs disaster and later the key member of the Warren Commission cover-up), CBS chairman William Paley, and CBS board director Senator Prescott Bush were intimate associates in various sociopolitical networks of the northeastern seaboard establishment found in Washington and New York during the days of the early Cold War. Whether they would meet in their elite private clubs, at the Harold Pratt House of the Council on Foreign Relations, or in Wall Street corporate and bank board rooms, these old birds of a feather flocked, connived, schemed, and conspired together.

In the past at LRC I have written about the covert war in the 1950s between the Central Intelligence Agency and Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy, particularly how the CIA mobilized its Operation Mockingbird media assets such as Murrow to engage in a counter-attack upon old “Tail Gunner Joe” when he was building up momentum in going after the Agency’s “family jewels” of the time after his highly-publicized campaigns against communist spies in the state department and the army.  Two interesting books of Establishment Studies (or power elite analysis) have outlined how CIA director Allen Dulles directed his counterintelligence chief James Jesus Angleton to find a means of destroying McCarthy. Angleton chose a veteran of the OSS, James McCargar, to undertake this covert espionage/disinformation action against McCarthy. These facts are discussed in Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA; and Gregg Herken, The Georgetown Set: Friends and Rivals in Cold War Washington.

In the fascinating and absolutely compelling book by David Talbot, The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government, we find the following:

In March 1954, McCarthy’s subcommittee convened a hearing on “alleged threats against the chairman.” One witness — a military intelligence officer named William Morgan who had worked for C. D. Jackson in the White House — stunned the subcommittee by recounting a conversation that he had the previous year with a CIA employ named Horace Craig. As the two men were discussing how to solve the McCarthy problem, Craig flatly stated, “It may be necessary to liquidate Senator McCarthy as was [assassinated Louisiana senator] Huey Long. There is always some madman who will do it for a price.” (pages 223-224).

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10:43 pm on November 16, 2020