Jim Fetzer The CIA began infiltrating the media in the 1950s, where by 1975, William Colby, then its Director, testified to Congress that the agency “owned everyone of any significance in the media” — and where the situation had only become worse over time. Carl Bernstein followed up with an article in Rolling Stone, “The CIA and the Media” (20 October 1977), in which he quoted high officials of the agency boasting that their greatest successes have been with The New York Times, CBS and Time-Life. During that era,…
