Propaganda is as old as humanity itself, but the modern version of it can be traced back to 1948, when the CIA’s Office of Special Projects2 launched Operation Mockingbird,3,4 a clandestine CIA media infiltration campaign that involved bribing hundreds of journalists to publish fake stories at the CIA’s request. The CIA reportedly spent $1 billion a year (about one-third of its entire budget5) on this enterprise. CIA-recruited journalists worked in most major news organizations, including CBS News, Time, Life, Newsweek and The New York Times, just to name a few.6 Later on, the campaign expanded to include foreign media as well.
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Understanding the esalen institute and the mkultra experiments that transitioned into shaping culture and influencing society through the experiments of subconscious manipulation and persuasion, is also key to understanding the propaganda warfare unfolding now. Most people don’t know the link between Alex Jones and Joe Rogan and other “influencers” that are fed from this institute, nor do they recognize how subtle the manipulation truly is. Many of the esalen institutes cult programming of ideas and philosophies have been posted here many times, either knowingly or just naive. But regardless, the origins of the institute go hand in hand with mockingbird and should be studied and understood to fully understand the current situation unfolding.