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“The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment… […]

President Putin has ordered 3,500 servicemen from air defense units to immediately start tactical drills at 30 training ranges in response to the US military having obliterated with airstrikes this past week at least 81 radical Islamic terrorists in Somalia—a national security defensive move said needed because this American action was led by the counterintelligence unit of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) who, for reasons still unknown, have placed under global electronic surveillance US Congresswomen Maxine Waters, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—and about whom the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) maintains have formed a cabal to infiltrate into the United States terrorists from Somalia to assassinate President Trump—after which Russia will be blamed and attacked. […]

Early MOCKINGBIRD influenced 25 newspapers and wire agencies consenting to act as organs of CIA propaganda… among them William Paley (CBS), C.D. Jackson (Fortune), Henry Luce (Time) and Arthur Hays Sulzberger (N.Y. Times). […]