CIA CONTROLLED NEWSPAPERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01070R000100010003-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 14, 2007
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: December 21, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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The Daily Drum STATION WHUR Radio
December 21, 1981 6:00 PM
CIA Controlled Newspapers
Washington, DC
BILL CHRISTIAN: A US researcher says it's easy to spot
CIA controlled newspapers in Latin America. It's all in knowing
how.
Mike Kriegul has the story.
MIKE KRIEGUL: Fred Landis is a Chilean-born American-
based researcher who has spent five years doing content analysis
of the press in Chile, Cuba, Jamaica and Nicaragua, and he says
he's found patterns that run among each of the country's leading
conservative newspapers. In each case, he says, as the countries
move toward socialism, the papers announce the appearance of the
Virgin Mary.
FRED LANDIS: And day by day the appearance of the
Virgin takes over more and more space in the newspaper.
KRIEGUL: Until it comes out that the Virgin isn't happy
with the current socialist government. At the source of these
sightings, says Landis, is the CIA.
LANDIS: The point is that if you look at the front page
of a conservative newspaper, at such time that the CIA has taken
It over, the newspaper looks like a psychological warfare leaflet.
It looks like a cartoon. It does not look like a conservative
newspaper.
KRIEGUL: The idea is to convince devoutly religious
Catholics to circumvent their church for guidance, as the church
often sides with the left.
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LANDIS: Remember, the ultimate purpose of the CIA is
simply to discredit, neutralize or eliminate a government they
consider to be unfriendly.
KRIEGUL: Among the papers that have followed this
pattern, says Landis, is Chile's El Mercurio, which never
announced the victory of Salvador Allende as president until after
he was overthrown. And he says a similar chain of events is now
going on in Nicaragua's La Princa.
I'm Mike Kriegul reporting for the Pacific News Service.
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