In summer 2025, a claim spread online that U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard confirmed in an interview with conservative commentator Benny Johnson that "Operation Mockingbird," an ...

Watching the mainstream and online media begin to "confuse" Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama with Al Qaeda terrorist scum Osama bin Laden reminded me of Operation Mockingbird, the CIA's ...

The Democratic Party is going all-in on a “weird” messaging push, building on Minnesota Gov. and potential Democratic vice presidential pick Tim Walz’s description of the Republican Party. As ...

Benny Johnson asked Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard about "Operation Mockingbird" during an interview Thursday. Gabbard avoided using the term, but said: "It's something that we've ...

Operation Mockingbird is an alleged large-scale program of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that began in the early years of the Cold War and attempted to manipulate domestic ...

In the late 1940s, as geopolitical tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union began to heat up, the CIA launched Operation Mockingbird, a large-scale program that used news media for one ...

Operation Mockingbird wasn’t science fiction. It was real — and it worked. A CIA program that infiltrated newsrooms, recruited journalists, and fed propaganda directly to the public. Officially, it ...

For decades, the CIA quietly infiltrated America’s most trusted news outlets. Operation Mockingbird turned journalists into operatives and headlines into weapons — a covert campaign that still echoes ...