have you any remarks about the topic: "Operation Mockingbird" &/or how it has successfully demonized the term "conspiracy theory"?
According to what I heard and read > Operation Mockingbird was a C.I.A. operation which used media to try to give Communism a bad name, plus they used media as a cover for operatives in other countries. The cover of being a reporter helped to make it much more easy for a C.I.A. agent to move around.
The United States has the claim in its Constitution, of freedom of the press so ones are free to bring out the truth. So, if an American appears to be a reporter in a foreign country, ones might trust the person . . . assuming the person will be accurate in reporting, since the American is free to report what is true.
However, there have been a number of reporting cases, in which reporters rigged events and falsified reports.
I think, for a spy agency, it would be very practical and clever to have agents posing as reporters. Now, an issue, of course, would be, for what reason? If they were trying to accomplish what really is in the good interest of the United States, and not trying to hurt anyone else who is legal and not hurting people . . . then I would say having an effective and efficient undercover operation can be good. I think that would be practical, and expected.
But is it ever honest to deliberately try to fool other people? It can be.
So, how about how the C.I.A. reportedly used Operation Mockingbird to promote what helped give Communism a bad name? It is said they had media high level people helping, plus they paid certain reporters, to help control what was being said about Communism, and to help cover up certain things which could have been bad for America's reputation . . . I think I understand correctly.
Well, this can depend. While I was a kid, I understood that the United States never did anything wrong to anyone. But . . . now . . . while perhaps certain Communists have done some evil, I see that Americans have, too . . . and possibly citizens have done the most evil to their own selves, often enough. Because Americans in Satan's kingdom are "human", like anyone not with God in any other land.
So, now I might not feel America was so right that she had a right to use media to badmouth Communists by means of false information.
It could work better to not have any cover-ups, but hang out the dirty laundry so ones can see it needs to be washed, if it isn't being washed.
And let the truth speak for itself, about the Communists.
If we are with God, He is able to take care of us, without use of deceit and cover-ups.
But worldly people are going to deceive and be deceived > 2 Timothy 3:13.
Ones could point at the Communists and say, oh we were right to use trickery because look at how bad they are. And now ones can say look at the conspirators; we aren't as bad as they are. Yet, Americans have about a fifty-percent divorce rate, abortion is an industry; and now ones may be saying our average life expectancy in America is down, but they do not point out how drug overdoses are part of this reduced average which might have nothing to do with health of seniors and their life expectancy. Ones have ruined their lives and tortured themselves with cancer, by means of smoking. On we could go.
Who cares if someone else is worse, even if they are????