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Is the CIA the Biggest Funder of Journalism Around the World?

The CIA and its puppet organizations exert a powerful influence on what we see, hear, and believe in the global public sphere. Perhaps we should start to question our ‘reality.’

During a recent interview with Lex Fridman, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called the CIA “the biggest funder of journalism around the world.” Rather surprisingly, the Democratic presidential candidate’s claim carries a great deal of truth.

In 1948, Frank Wisner was appointed director of the Office of Special Projects, which was quickly renamed the Office of Policy Coordination (OPC). Known as the CIA’s espionage branch, the OPC focused on the promotion of propaganda and economic warfare, as well as subversion against hostile states and providing aid to underground resistance groups.

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