Operation Dark Bird

Enjoy a film-noir detective adventure as our hero detectives investigate CIA media influence and manipulation! 🎸🔎🎶🔥

Operation Dark Bird 🎵

In the depths of Cold War's silent chill, a dark bird took its flight,
Operation Mockingbird soars like Icarus in the night.
A CIA scheme, where journos were swayed,
To shape the news, to guide the views, like a blade.
The early '50s saw its birth, a time of fear and strife,
When truth was molded, stories told, to counter Soviet life.
The Church Committee brought to light, in '75's exposé,
How news was sculpted, views were molded, an astonishing array.

Operation Dark Bird, a shadow on the air,
From mid-century to present day, life's a managed affair.
With tech and tunes, New Media questions why,
Operation Dark Bird, oh, don’t let it fly.

From the pens of leading scribes, to the jaws of broadcast news,
Came tales aligned with CIA unseen, manipulative muse.
With foreign correspondents, too, their ties were deeply set,
A network of intelligence, where news and secrets met.
Front organizations, funded well, spread propaganda wide,
Cultural groups, magazines too, with truth and lies allied.
In Hollywood, the CIA touch has been known to roam,
Shaping scripts, advising plots, in films and shows we know.

Operation Dark Bird, a shadow on the air,
From mid-century to present day, life's a managed affair.
With tech and tunes, New Media questions why,
Operation Dark Bird, oh, don’t let it fly.

The names of those involved were known, yet many stayed concealed,
A testament to how deeply this operation was heeled.
And though reforms have come and gone, the echoes still resound,
Of how intelligence might mingle with what's news or what's profound.
In an age where information flows like rivers to the sea,
The question lingers, unaddressed, of what we cannot see.
A cautionary tale it stands, of truth's manipulation,
A reminder in our modern world of media's strange creation.

Operation Dark Bird, a shadow on the air,
From mid-century to present day, life's a managed affair.
With tech and tunes, New Media questions why,
Operation Dark Bird, oh, don’t let it fly.

A reminder in our modern world of media's strange creation.

Lyrics by RowanMorgan
Song generated with Suno
Art generated with Midjourney &
Animated with Kling
©RowanMorgan