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new4now ago

Anderson Cooper

During college, Cooper spent two summers as an intern at the Central Intelligence Agency. Although he has no formal journalistic education, he opted to pursue a career in journalism rather than stay with the agency after school,[13][14] having been a self-proclaimed "news junkie since [he] was in utero

Cooper soon began filming and assembling reports of Vietnamese life and culture that aired on Channel One. He later returned to filming stories from a variety of war-torn regions around the globe, including Somalia, Bosnia, and Rwanda.

On assignment for several years[when?], Cooper had very slowly become desensitized to the violence he was witnessing around him; the horrors of the Rwandan Genocide became trivial: "I would see a dozen bodies and think, you know, it's a dozen, it's not so bad."[10] One particular incident, however, snapped him out of it:

On the side of the road [Cooper] came across five bodies that had been in the sun for several days. The skin of a woman's hand was peeling off like a glove. Revealing macabre fascination, Cooper whipped out his disposable camera and took a closeup photograph for his personal album. As he did, someone took a photo of him. Later that person showed Cooper the photo, saying, "You need to take a look at what you were doing." "And that's when I realized I've got to stop, [...] I've got to report on some state fairs or a beauty pageant or something, to just, like, remind myself of some perspective

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderson_Cooper

Another CIA Journalist....Gayle Smith

Once the mistress of a marxist guerilla fighter in the Horn of Africa, today Gayle Smith is a senior advisor to Barack Obama in the White House, USA. Gayle Smith started her career in service to the American Empire as an undercover CIA operative posing as a journalist in the Horn of Africa in the late 1970’s. Taking her duty seriously, she became the mistress of a guerilla fighter

http://www.countercurrents.org/mountain011210.htm

alphabravo ago

Hope you're getting this over to /pol my friend :)

new4now ago

I don't post there, sorry

trying to help here

maybe someone who is signed up can

so sorry

maggiethatcher ago

Lol you don't sign up to /pol/ you just post :-)

new4now ago

Did not know that

Only read whats on it here

Lol

alphabravo ago

No worries, i'll go through your posts and post them to /pol. Thanks for all you're doing!