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Amer­i­cans are accus­tomed to deceiv­ing them­selves with the notion that they enjoy a “free press.” In fact, the Amer­i­can media have always pre­sented a dis­torted view of the world and, since the begin­ning of the Cold War, have been actively involved with the intel­li­gence com­mu­nity in dis­tort­ing the truth. From the end of the Sec­ond World War to the present, the U.S. national secu­rity estab­lish­ment has actively struc­tured the Amer­i­can media, in order elim­i­nate view­points it con­sid­ers trou­ble­some. One of the chief ele­ments in this ongo­ing decep­tion of the Amer­i­can peo­ple is the CIA. This broad­cast details the his­tory of the Agency’s involve­ment with, and manip­u­la­tion of major jour­nal­is­tic organs. Begin­ning with the craft­ing of what for­mer Deputy Direc­tor of Cen­tral Intel­li­gence Frank Wis­ner called “the Mighty Wurl­itzer” (his nick­name for the CIA’s media com­po­nent), the pro­gram doc­u­ments the CIA’s fun­da­men­tal and ongo­ing dis­tor­tion of polit­i­cal real­ity. Fea­tur­ing the char­ac­ter­is­ti­cally excel­lent research of Daniel Brandt, the seg­ments also set forth the pro­found influ­ence on both the CIA and the media of the influ­en­tial Coun­cil on For­eign Relations.