Most Voaters are familiar with this story which was outed in Senator Frank Church's Senate hearings in 1975. It's fascinating and it's amazing how many "normals" still have never heard of it which is why it's going to be put up one more time.

“Operation Mockingbird” was a fully implemented CIA program to spread disinformation throughout American media. CIA Director William Colby testified to the Church Committee that over 400 CIA agents were active in the US media to control what was reported through American mainstream television, newspapers, and magazines.>

https://archive.li/comwk

They claim to have suspended the program, and they may have but there are claims that they still are running disinformation operations. Here's a recent one from 2015 titled "Newly Declassified Govt Docs Reveal Operation Mockingbird is Alive and Well"

An agency of the U.S. government was exposed trying to control the public narrative over WikiLeaks in 2011 by influencing media outlets coverage, as revealed in the latest batch of Hillary Clinton emails released by the State Department.>

https://web.archive.org/web/20180411182731/http://thefreethoughtproject.com/feds-exposed-planting-talking-points-questions-60-minutes-episode-wikileaks/

If you want to verify this through Wikipedia, feel free but be aware that in addition to all of the "state dept" officials spinning and disinforming, the Pentagon currently has actively working for them just under 30,000 FTE (Full Time Employees) who's job it is to spin what we see and hear. Thus you get Wikipedia pages edited by people on computers that have government IP addresses and when you edit the truth in there later find some government drone has edited it back.

Makes one wonder what kind of a fantastic price in taxes and psychic energy burned off that citizens pay to have all these lies directed our way.