Many people have heard of the Central Intelligence Agency’s “Operation Mockingbird”, which sought to control the dissemination of information to the public through mainstream media.
In 1986, Canada’s premier investigative documentary program, The Fifth Estate, tackled the issue of the CIA and fake news in the 1980s.
Fifth Estate host Eric Malling investigates the covert falsification of news reports by CIA propagandists attempting to influence public perception of the world. Former CIA officer John Stockwell explains how a CIA task force wrote misleading news releases all over the world which were picked up by international media organizations.
