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 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/
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Thank God for my first college English professor… “Wikipedia is NOT an authoritative research source!”
Words to live by.
Wow, a youngster at TBP, RESPECT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah, there was no Wikipedia in my college years, and that was after 4 years of military service and 4 more years of work.
Nah. Just went to college in my 40’s…so I actually paid attention instead of letting my hormones run my life. I do, however, try to get the message out to the youngsters at every opportunity about what’s coming.
My question has always been what makes us think that any other encyclopedia is any better?
spot on!
It’s just a quick reference like how many Americans were killed in Vietnam compared to how many died in the name of freedom for the US representing our ally the State of Israel? Figures vary from source to source of course but I’m thinking our freind sacrificed 10 or less. And to think the friend blew up an American Naval vessel. And all the wall kissers to this day. SMDH
My brain is about fried in the heat, like 110 heat indexes for days now, supposed to be 114 today , still use what one has left to ascertain true or false. If one likes the simulation of living in a broiler , move to Texas. Wait, no don’t. Honestly it’s reached full capacity and the LGBTQ keep coming!
wiki is nothing but a quick reference starting point like what is a pocket gopher for example. lol (cackle, cackle)
The “encyclopedia” that doesn’t admit they accept “facts” from anonymous idiots (like Wikipedia) is normally going to be the more reliable source.
And education has always been more about learning HOW to think, not WHAT to think.
That is Lesson # 1.
I had an instructor for Basic Language. I say instructor because the credit course was offered at a Junior College. Not sure professors operate at that level. Perhaps some administrative types were known as professors.
Anyway, while I ended up clueless what Basic Language was garnishing a D for my efforts , one thing the instructor taught sticking in my head since was his always referring to “the nature of the beast.” While I think the expression referred to something all I find on wikipedia is This
I did find a definition though on Wiktionary.
nature of the beast – (idiomatic, with “the”) The unchangeable nature of something.
I think I get it.
All sources are suspect. That’s just were we are now. That said , this page on unethical human testing gives insight into some of the madness that brought us to COVID world.
A reader had posted the comment they were surprised that nurseries were not sprayed with test toxins. Well , sad to report , they were.
How long before this page and its documented footnotes is altered ? Erased ?
Radioactive iodine experiments
In 1953, the AEC ran several studies at the University of Iowa on the health effects of radioactive iodine in newborns and pregnant women. In one study, researchers gave pregnant women between 100 and 200 microcuries (3.7 and 7.4 MBq) of iodine-131, to study the women’s aborted embryos in an attempt to discover at what stage, and to what extent, radioactive iodine crosses the placental barrier. In another study, they gave 25 newborn babies (who were under 36 hours old and weighed from 5.5 to 8.5 pounds (2.5 to 3.9 kg)) iodine-131, either by oral administration or through an injection, so that they could measure the amount of iodine in their thyroid glands, as iodine would go to that gland.[64]
In another AEC study, researchers at the University of Nebraska College of Medicine fed iodine-131 to 28 healthy infants through a gastric tube to test the concentration of iodine in the infants’ thyroid glands.[64]
In 1953, the AEC sponsored a study to discover if radioactive iodine affected premature babies differently from full-term babies. In the experiment, researchers from Harper Hospital in Detroit orally administered iodine-131 to 65 premature and full-term infants who weighed from 2.1 to 5.5 pounds (0.95 to 2.49 kg).[64]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentation_in_the_United_States
The 1970’s movie ” The Island Of Dr. Moreau ” was a documentary.
I actually find wikipedia useful. And like you said and I have been saying for some time, what makes people think that other sources aren’t as well tainted? Due diligence is your friend.
I admit I throw wiki some left over hen scratch each year. Left over as the chickens like fresher stuff. Note: always give the watermelon rinds to the chickens. They go crazy over them if still chilled. I read something in those regards on wiki. Joking.
Of course wiki is stocked with spook writers.
But they are so bad its finking funny.
Consistency between stories?
Not on CIAWiki!
Some of the best fun I have had is studying on the ww2 “campaigns” and “theaters”as presented on Wiki-tales.
“Theater” is the perfect word to describe ww2.
I can write wiki entries;
WIKI~TALES
The battle for Atoll Island.
450,000 uS marines invaded Atoll Island, [0.09 total square miles, 9 feet highest island elevation] occupied by 700 000 fanatical battle hardened, Japanese troops, dug into a tunnel system [max depth: 8 feet]
US Navy shells the island for three days before 1,000 Higgins boats deliver the 420,000 marines to the beaches, where, they met no resistance. Until 4 am the next morning when all 1,000,000 of the Japanese who had hidden in the 100 mile long 3 foot deep tunnels, pop up all over the place and give the US guys a hard time.
But, after the game of Island Whak-A-Mole is over the total deadees will be:
Japanese killed: 1,500,000
US deadees: -7
Did it even mention the roller coaster of death?
Wikipedia, along with Snopes, are more than reliable sources of information…..
Nothing you see is real.
Strawberry fields forever…………….
Living is easy with eyes closed
Misunderstanding all you see
Ole hippy
Didn’t notice that the light had changed?
The fact is Fox Corporation and Executive Chairman of News Corp is the only reliable source. Is Rupert still hanging out there?
A person has to use judgement believing anything from any source. Reading Janis Joplin’s bio on wiki even as conspiratorial as things are I have no reason to doubt Joplin appeared at the ’67 Monterey Pop Festival. The info is even referenced. lol
Wait, Resident Trump was NOT born in 1946. It was ’45, right? When one is a victim all one’s life others just make up lies about them.
Tex, As if wiki was bad enough by itself, now with everything infiltrated by AI all sources are compromised. Truth and trust are joined at the hip. Societies and civilizations fail when truth is denied and trust is destroyed.
A lefty friend asks “where do YOU get your news?”. The implied premise is that one should expect there to be a trustworthy source. If you believe that, there’s no hope for you. All you can do is read, watch and listen to everything (to the extent you have time and desire) and consider it in relation to the biases and agendas of the sources – whether obvious or discerned over time.
Unfortunately it’s gotten to the point that “Russia Today” is far more reliable for “news of the world” than either FOX or The New York Times; the only American news outlet that’s at all half-decent is the Tennessee Star
I find Covert Geopolitics interesting and who knows the CIA controls that source.
Same stuff one finds at TBP.
October 2021 America’s Fate: Oligarchy or Autocracy
Tex
I’ve had a lot of trouble locating the origin of CG/where it’s published and the best I can find is Cebu, Phillipines – gives a very interesting slant/bias to its reportage.
If you have any other information, I’d appreciate it.
Gerhardt v H.
The first few years Wiki was pretty reliable, in my opinion. Then they started to get more and more dogmatic on things like “Global Warming”. Today, Wiki seems to still be good for technical subjects which have no political implications. But anything which touches on politics? Forget about it. You might as well listen to CNN or watch The View.
That was obvious….Wikipedia itself said that it was not a reliable source of information…LOL
I noticed right away wiki said it wasn’t reliable, but I couldn’t rely on that information, because they said they weren’t reliable!