The bottom feeders at the Washington Post are dredging up anything and everything in a futile attempt to disgrace and destroy the presidency of Donald Trump. The latest is this hysterical ahistorical piece, Russia is Trump’s Watergate. Will he react like Nixon? For the real story on Watergate, Nixon, the Washington Post, and the deep state, see my LRC article here. It is cited in Roger Stone’s excellent book, Nixon’s Secrets: The Rise, Fall, and Untold Truth About the President, Watergate, and the Pardon (see pages 439, 440, 492) in the section dealing with the Watergate break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters. Regarding reporters Woodward and Bernstein and the Washington Post:

On March 27^th of 2012, I had the distinct honor of addressing those two wonderful fabulists, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, spinners of the yarn known as Watergate. These aging gatekeepers of the mainstream media were in town to deliver the University of Tulsa’s Presidential Lecture (sponsored by the Darcy O’Brien Endowed Chair). After these gentlemen had once again returned the spell-bound yet geriatric audience to those thrilling days of yesteryear four decades past, re-telling the lurid tales of Nixon, Liddy, Hunt, McCord, Mitchell, Halderman, etc. I expressed to them just how pleased I was to finally meet the Brothers Grimm of our national mythos, and that one day in the future I will perhaps meet Hans Christian Anderson himself, John Dean. Then we may finally address the real question at the heart of Watergate. It was not, of course, the identity of “Deep Throat,” or “What did the president know and when did he know it.” The real question remains: “Was Mo a Ho?” The audience gasped! You should have seen the look on Woodward’s face as he struggled to explain (or as he put it, decode), the meaning of my interrogatory. Priceless! I then stated that my true question was actually directed at Mr. Bernstein, author of the brilliant article, “The CIA and the Media.” I pointed out that he had outlined in his piece how the Central Intelligence Agency had engaged in covert activities with the nations’ press described as “the Mighty Wurlitzer” or “Operation Mockingbird.” Was the intelligence community engaged in such activities today? We can all sleep better tonight since Bernstein reassured me that all that kind of stuff ended at the conclusion of the Cold War. Woodward equally reassured us that “the system worked” because Gerald Ford did the right thing in pardoning Richard Nixon . . .

The Washington Post and the CIA

The Washington Post has long held a close relationship within the Washington power elite Establishment. In the 1950s under the direction of CIA Director Allen Dulles, the Agency formulated a vast strategic program for infiltrating and manipulating the American news media. The plan was designated “Operation Mockingbird.” It was devised by Frank Wisner, director of the Office of Policy Coordination, the covert action arm of the CIA; his aide Richard Helms; and by Washington Post publisher Phillip Graham. Graham committed suicide in August of 1963 after reported mental instability and ravings about CIA manipulation of journalists. His estranged wife Katherine Graham took control of the Post. Katherine was daughter of Washington powerbroker Eugene Meyer, who was chairman of the War Finance Board under Woodrow Wilson, chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation under Herbert Hoover, Governor of the Federal Reserve Board under Franklin Roosevelt, and President of the World Bank under Harry Truman. Meyer purchased the Post in 1933.

Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, who supervised Woodward and Bernstein’s Watergate investigations, was well connected in Washington circles of power. He had been a close friend of President Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline. In fact, Bradlee’s sister-in-law, Mary Pinchot Meyer, former wife of high-ranking CIA counter-intelligence official Cord Meyer, had a sexual affair with JFK, allegedly involving the use of Marijuana and LSD. Mary Pinchot Meyer was mysteriously murdered in 1964. Richard Helms, instrumental in the creation of “Operation Mockingbird,” was a close friend of Bradlee’s since childhood. Helms was CIA Director during the Watergate Scandal. He was later convicted for lying to Congress concerning CIA activities in Chile.

Woodward, former Naval Intelligence elite briefing officer of the highest ranking officials of the National Security Council and the Pentagon, is now editor of the Post. In the nearly forty years since the Watergate Scandal he has built his career reputation as author of a series of best-selling books on America’s military/intelligence Establishment. Bob Woodward has indeed proved to be a good and faithful servant to those secret forces within the corridors of power of the National Security Establishment responsible for the downfall of Richard Nixon, and loyal to the elusive man which contributed so much to building that reputation, W. Mark Felt.

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