the CIA had at least 400 leading journalists in our country and they had an operation called operation Mockingbird which was an illegal operation to compromise American journalism and they had some of the leading in fact Carl Bernstein in 1973 published a list of the 400 journalists who were secretly working for the CIA and they were from all the leading papers The Washington Post New York Times Time Magazine Newsweek a lot of the editors a lot of the Publishers of those were you know had signed security greement with the CIA and we're working we're assets of the CIA it was an illegal program the CIA is allowed to propagandize around the world and it's the biggest funer of Journalism today in the world it spends 10 billion a year through USA to fund journalism all over the world it owns some of the biggest newspapers and magazines the most influential in in the developing World in Europe and around the world there was an act called the Smith month act makes it illegal for the CIA to propaganda As Americans