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MI5 controls the media? How much infiltration of the media has there been by the intelligence services, with their 'right-wing' agenda? Jon Snow of Channel 4 News confirms that he was approached with an offer to double his salary. He turned it down. So Channel 4 News has told us the war in Afghanistan is about oil.
But what about the BBC?
From an office in Bush House, "a brigadier passed the names of applicants for jobs in the BBC to MI5 for 'vetting'." Journalists with a repuation for independence were refused BBC posts. The Observer exposed this secret process in 1985. Senior management are still vetted by MI5. The BBC is said to have lost its independence when Director General Milne was removed 'for being too critical' of certain powerful people.
Ex MI5 man Peter Wright revealed in his book Spycatcher that MI5 always had senior journalists working for it in the national press.
In 1991 Richard Norton-Taylor of the Guardian disclosed that some 500 prominent Britons were paid by the CIA (Bank BCCI...) and this included 90 journalists and broadcasters.
You may not like Arthur Scargill. But the story that 'Libya paid his mortgage' was a fabrication. The story was peddled by the Mirror when it was owned by Robert Maxwell (a Mossad spy?); and MI5's Stella Rimington is said to have been person behind the government campaign to blacken the Miners' image. (see 'The Enemy Within' by Guardian writer Seamus Milne).
You might not worry about MI5/CIA influence, if you have the same right-wing agenda as those folks. But, let's look at how the 'truth' may be getting distorted.
The Information Research Department (IRD) in the Foreign Office 'ran' dozens of journalists . When things got a bit bloody in Malaya, the job of these journalists was to persuade the public that Britain was running a totally fair and decent counter-insurgency exercise
. When some Kenyans wanted their independence, the job of these journalists was to persuade the public that the people fighting the British were simply bloody savages. When the Military Industrial Complex, during the Kennedy years, wanted more money spent on weapons, the job of these journalists was to spread the story that the Soviets were ahead of the Yanks and that there was a 'missile gap'.
There is a right-wing agenda. Have you heard about the British American Project (BAP) for the Succesor Generation, set up in 1985? This seems to have originated from a 'trust' in Philadelphia with a long record of supporting right-wing causes. A number of key Blair cabinet ministers and a number of key BBC journalists belong to BAP. It may not be a conspiracy, but shouldn't we know more about BAP?
Next time you read the newspaper or watch BBC news, ask yourself if you are getting the truth.
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