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Richard Nixon

"His work landed him on the master list of Nixon political opponents."

First, I think this needs a citation.

Second, it would be very nice to explain what exactly Mr. Braden did to land on that list. It does not sound like it was his CIA work. Journalism?

Zapiens 18:13, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Operation Mockingbird

From the Operation Mockingbird page here on Wikipedia... " Thomas Braden, head of the International Organizations Division (IOD), played an important role in Operation Mockingbird. Many years later he revealed his role in these events:

"If the director of CIA wanted to extend a present, say, to someone in Europe - a Labour leader - suppose he just thought, This man can use fifty thousand dollars, he's working well and doing a good job - he could hand it to him and never have to account to anybody... There was simply no limit to the money it could spend and no limit to the people it could hire and no limit to the activities it could decide were necessary to conduct the war - the secret war.... It was a multinational. Maybe it was one of the first. Journalists were a target, labor unions a particular target - that was one of the activities in which the communists spent the most money."

What? No mention of O.M. on THIS page, nor even a link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird ??? That kind of cross-linking seems obvious, why the omission? I just pasted in the contents from the O.M. article -- feel free to clean it up if you feel it necessary. 199.214.24.27 00:10, 12 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Operation Mockingbird seems to be common knowledge among the conspiracy believers, but it is not grounded in reality.^[1] Braden worked with Frank Wisner in the Office of Policy Coordination to assist anti-Communist organizations, but there was no particular name or operation to those efforts. -Location (talk) 19:11, 9 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Hadley, David P. (2019). "Introduction". The Rising Clamor: The American Press, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Cold War. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky. pp. 4, 10. ISBN 9780813177380. Retrieved June 8, 2020.

Ramparts article

I can find nothing to substantiate the extraordinary claim here that Ramparts was a CIA "proprietary organization" so I tagged it. Ramparts was a frequent and harsh critic of the CIA so if it had a relationship with the agency it must have been a complicated one. Detmcphierson (talk) 11:00, 3 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Death

Can someone update this with a date of death? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.116.188.95 (talk) 06:13, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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[1] Hadley, David P. (2019). "Introduction". The Rising Clamor: The American Press, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Cold War. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky. pp. 4, 10. ISBN 9780813177380. Retrieved June 8, 2020.

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