Thomas John Cardell Martyn

[Ron Bulman]

10 hours ago, Loli Menezes said:

 

Hi, I'm a Brazilian documentary filmmaker and I'm doing a movie about Thomas J. Cardell Martyn, founder of Newsweek magazine. I read these questions that Professor John Simkin raised here in the forum and I was very interested in talking to him. I would like to make contact with Mr. Simkin and with whom else may have information, materials, stories about Thomas. I hope you can help me!!

PS: I leave my contact: loli@vinilfilmes.tv 

Mr. Simkin is retired, though you might  pursue contact through the site if serious.  Interesting subject in terms of relation to Time, Life,  and Operation Mockingbird. 

     

Here's the "approved" version,

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

[Loli Menezes]

Thank you Ron Bulman,

Very interesting content.

I just need to interview someone who can tell me about Operation Mockingbird, how agents came to South America to influence social media, and I think Mr. Simkin would be the perfect person to tell me that story. I'll keep trying!!

 

[Larry Hancock]

Loli, I suggest you start with The Mighty Wurlitzer by Hugh Wilford, afterwards Shadow Warfare (by myself) will give you a number of good leads and sources as to CIA political warfare in South America...you should also try the studies on that available at the National Security Archives (a web search will quickly find that for  you).  One of the important things to keep in mind is that David Phillips, the CIA's master psychological warfare specialist became the CIA Chief of Western Hemisphere during the 1970s and would have driven any projects directed towards media manipulation.  Normally such programs would have been conducted by political action officers operating out of the American foreign diplomatic missions so you might also want to check the FRUS state department releases for the nations and time periods for the countries you are focused on; there is an immense amount of information there and it is now publicly available.