Thanks.

WTC 7's up and coming collapse is also discussed. Even more interesting.

The reporter says, near the end: "There's evidence out here, there's a lot of work left to be done."

Indeed.

It may be possible that there is nothing sinister behind such a sentence. But we should not forget that the real perps want a hidden demolition in plain sight and that they took over to silence every unfitting eyewitness and evidence. It doesn't necessarily mean that all were briefed openly, you can bring one to say something without telling him directly...

So we have Mark Walsh, Doug Eisler, Bob Kerik, Paul Bremer, Jerry Hauer, at least the latter three should be examinied with scrutiny. As Kevin Ryan suggested in his latest radio appearance. There may be more to it.

Mark Walsh is a freelancer for FOX news? What does that mean? Is he some kind of professional associate? Does he have a professional background in reporting? He certainly appears to report his "observations" in a somewhat rehearsed manner. His conclusions about the cause of the collapse of both towers seems too pat and he also appears too sure of himself. Why is he so sure ? If he was just speculating about his own thoughts I think the choice of words would be different. Most disturbing is that he appears to lack real emotion in this situation. This guy is more than ready to "report" his story isn't he. Why is the reporter talking about the collapse of another building? He must have heard that from someone I would presume. It would be interesting to know who?

he's just hyper like tom cruise
if there had been a sofa there he would have jumped on it
relax, he's ok i reckon
i'm switching from my LC2e opinion of him

Operation Mockingbird was the CIA's very successful operation to have cooperative journalists as their assets or even outright agents in influential positions in all major media houses, TV network news departments etc. to make sure the daily news was given the spin they wanted and their propaganda could be inserted into the news as they deemed necessary. Supposedly Operation Mockingbird was abandoned after the investigation into CIA wrongdoing by the Church Committee in 1973, but whether you can confidently believe it was or not I guess depends on how much faith you have that the CIA (or certain elements within the CIA) feel compelled to obey the law of the land.

Today, the public at large is probably mostly unaware of the Church Committee investigations and what it uncovered regarding the manipulation of the media by the CIA.

Operation Mockingbird

In 1948 Frank Wisner was appointed director of the Office of Special Projects. Soon afterwards it was renamed the Office of Policy Coordination (OPC). This became the espionage and counter-intelligence branch of the Central Intelligence Agency. Wisner was told to create an organization that concentrated on "propaganda, economic warfare; preventive direct action, including sabotage, anti-sabotage, demolition and evacuation measures; subversion against hostile states, including assistance to underground resistance groups, and support of indigenous anti-Communist elements in threatened countries of the free world."

Later that year Wisner established Mockingbird, a program to influence the domestic American media. Wisner recruited Philip Graham (Washington Post) to run the project within the industry. Graham himself recruited others who had worked for military intelligence during the war. This included James Truitt, Russell Wiggins, Phil Geyelin, John Hayes and Alan Barth. Others like Stewart Alsop, Joseph Alsop and James Reston, were recruited from within the Georgetown Set. According to Deborah Davis (Katharine the Great): "By the early 1950s, Wisner 'owned' respected members of the New York Times, Newsweek, CBS and other communications vehicles."

In 1951 Allen W. Dulles persuaded Cord Meyer to join the CIA. However, there is evidence that he was recruited several years earlier and had been spying on the liberal organizations he had been a member of in the later 1940s. According to Deborah Davis, Meyer became Mockingbird's "principal operative".

One of the most important journalists under the control of Operation Mockingbird was Joseph Alsop, whose articles appeared in over 300 different newspapers. Other journalists willing to promote the views of the CIA included Stewart Alsop (New York Herald Tribune), Ben Bradlee (Newsweek), James Reston (New York Times), C. D. Jackson (Time Magazine), Walter Pincus (Washington Post), William C. Baggs (Miami News), Herb Gold (Miami News) and Charles Bartlett (Chattanooga Times). According to Nina Burleigh (A Very Private Woman) these journalists sometimes wrote articles that were commissioned by Frank Wisner. The CIA also provided them with classified information to help them with their work.

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By analyzing CIA documents Church was able to identify over 50 U.S. journalists who were employed directly by the Agency. He was aware that there were a lot more who enjoyed a very close relationship with the CIA who were “being paid regularly for their services, to those who receive only occasional gifts and reimbursements from the CIA” (page 195).

Church pointed out that this was probably only the tip of the iceberg because the CIA refused to “provide the names of its media agents or the names of media organizations with which they are connected” (page 195). Church was also aware that most of these payments were not documented. This was the main point of the Otis Pike Report. If these payments were not documented and accounted for, there must be a strong possibility of financial corruption taking place. This includes the large commercial contracts that the CIA was responsible for distributing. Pike’s report actually highlighted in 1976 what eventually emerged in the 1980s via the activities of CIA operatives such as Edwin Wilson, Thomas Clines, Ted Shackley, Raphael Quintero, Richard Secord and Felix Rodriguez.

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In February, 1976, George Bush, the recently appointed Director of the CIA announced a new policy: “Effective immediately, the CIA will not enter into any paid or contract relationship with any full-time or part-time news correspondent accredited by any U.S. news service, newspaper, periodical, radio or television network or station.” However, he added that the CIA would continue to “welcome” the voluntary, unpaid cooperation of journalists.

Carl Bernstein, who had worked with Bob Woodward in the investigation of Watergate, provided further information about Operation Mockingbird in an article in The Rolling Stone in October, 1977. Bernstein claimed that over a 25 year period over 400 American journalists secretly carried out assignments for the CIA: "Some of the journalists were Pulitzer Prize winners, distinguished reporters who considered themselves ambassadors-without-portfolio for their country. Most were less exalted: foreign correspondents who found that their association with the Agency helped their work; stringers and freelancers who were as interested it the derring-do of the spy business as in filing articles, and, the smallest category, full-time CIA employees masquerading as journalists abroad."

It is almost certain that Bernstein had encountered Operation Mockingbird while working on his Watergate investigation. For example, Deborah Davis (Katharine the Great) has argued that Deep Throat was senior CIA official, Richard Ober, who was running Operation Chaos for Richard Nixon during this period.

According to researchers such as Steve Kangas, Angus Mackenzie and Alex Constantine, Operation Mockingbird was not closed down by the CIA in 1976. For example, in 1998 Kangas argued that CIA asset Richard Mellon Scaife ran "Forum World Features, a foreign news service used as a front to disseminate CIA propaganda around the world."

On 8th February, 1999, Kangas was found dead in the bathroom of the Pittsburgh offices of Richard Mellon Scaife. He had been shot in the head. Officially he had committed suicide but some people believe he was murdered. In an article in Salon Magazine, (19th March, 1999) Andrew Leonard asked: "Why did the police report say the gun wound was to the left of his head, while the autopsy reported a wound on the roof of his mouth? Why had the hard drive on his computer been erased shortly after his death? Why had Scaife assigned his No. 1 private detective, Rex Armistead, to look into Kangas' past?

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKmockingbird.htm

Disclaimer: I have no evidence that Mr. Walsh was or is a CIA asset or an asset or agent of the CIA or any other intelligence agency whatsoever, and make no claim that he is such an asset or agent. I think, however, in the context of wanting to find answers for the many troubling anomalies and unanswered questions surrounding the 9/11 attacks, we should remember that the CIA has been caught in the past manipulating the media and using media figures to promote CIA desired points of view.

Mark Walsh was recorded on Sept 12, 2001 on the Opie and Anthony Show. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iKhV68qPt0
It shows a picture of the apartment building he was in, 5 blocks from the towers, on the north side of the WTC.

When the second plane hit the south tower, he says: "An entire engine, one of the engines comes flying off and goes flying down church street, bouncing off of several buildings, and ends up about a block and an half from my apartment."

2:15: So then, about 15-20 minutes later, the first building starts to collapse. You could just look at it. It's starting to melt. Ah, you know, molten metal is just pouring out. Pouring out of the corner of the building. I'm going, oh, this is it, this thing's going down.

Sounds like he was trying to understand how it could have happened. No repeat of the supposed weakening due to the fire.

3:40: Last night, like at 5:30, 7 world trade center went down. And, uh, we were actually able to get footage directly from my apartment when that thing went down.