“Operation Mockingbird” is remembered as a CIA media plot. CIA records show Project Mockingbird was a wiretap on two columnists to find their sources.
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The CIA’s Own 693-Page Account of Its Abuses
The CIA’s 1973 “family jewels” file, declassified in 2007: its own account of spying on journalists, opening mail for two decades, and assassination plots.