The Agency has been covertly “moderating” that online encyclopedia for over ten years, according to a former editor
As a mere attentive reader, I’d say the CIA has been manipulating Wikipedia for even longer (maybe from the start?), since it was some fifteen years ago that I looked up Philip Agee’s entry, and found that it was nothing but a tissue of the propaganda smears that CIA pumped out in 1975 (and ever since), in fierce (covert) response to Agee’s indispensable Behind the Company: CIA Diary. (For those interested in that attack, and Agee’s many other punishments for authoring that book, I’d skip that Wikipedia entry, and, instead, read Agee’s memoir On the Run.)
So when Wikipedia “revised” the entry on myself, sometime in 2021 (I think it was), to make it even nastier and more deceptive, I was not surprised. While it had not been flattering from the start, it was now poisonously amplified with tidbits from the slanders that my department colleagues used to tried to get me fired from NYU, and that echoed and re-echoed in the media (including the Chronicle of Higher Education).
Wikipedia on Philip Agee: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Agee
Wikipedia on myself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Crispin_Miller
So now we have some inside confirmation of the CIA’s involvement in that online resource, which therefore can’t be trusted for an accurate account of any subject that the CIA wants all the rest of us to “know” as they, and the high interests that they serve, prefer.
https://www.newswars.com/cia-moderating-wikipedia-former-editor/
Guest Post by Mark Crispin Miller The Agency has been covertly “moderating” that online encyclopedia for over ten years, according to a former editor As a mere attentive reader, I’d say the CIA has been manipulating Wikipedia for even longer (maybe from the start?), since it was some fifteen years ago that I looked up … Continue reading “If you’re interested in what the CIA wants you to think about a subject, check it out on Wikipedia”