Anderson Cooper – NWO
Posted by rasticus on April 7, 2009
Anderson Cooper: Biography
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Anderson Cooper: Biography
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* Birth Name: Anderson Hays Cooper
* Birth Place: New York, NY
* Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 06/03/1967, Gemini
* Profession: News anchor
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Anderson Cooper Fast Facts:
* The great-great-great grandson of New York Central Railroad founder Cornelius Vanderbilt.
* While in college, he interned for the CIA. After graduation, he studied Vietnamese at the University of Hanoi.
* Got his start in TV news on Channel One, the cable network that broadcasts to schools. He left after six months to do freelance reporting from world hot spots, including Burma, Bosnia and Rwanda.
* Hosted ABC’s short-lived reality show The Mole in 2001.
* Has won news Emmys for his reporting on CNN and ABC.
* His memoir, Dispatches from the Edge, topped the New York Times bestseller list in June 2006.
* Anderson Cooper Relationships:
* Gloria Vanderbilt – Mother
* Wyatt Cooper – Father
* Carter Vanderbilt Cooper – Brother
* Leopold Stanislaus Stokowski – Stepbrother
* Christopher Stokowski – Stepbrother
* College:
* Yale University, New Haven, CT (BA in Political Science, 1989)
via Anderson Cooper Biography.
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Anderson Cooper Comes In From the Cold
Turns out the dashing young CNN star and former host of “The Mole” had a very interesting summer job during his Yale years.
Anderson Cooper worked for the CIA.
Following his sophomore and junior years at Yale — a well-known recruiting ground for the CIA — Cooper spent his summers interning at the agency’s monolithic headquarters in Langley, Virginia, in a program for students interested in intelligence work. His involvement with the agency ended there, and he chose not to pursue a job with the agency after graduation, according to a CNN spokeswoman, who confirmed details of Cooper’s CIA involvement to Radar.
Well, isn’t that special?
We suppose it’s no real surprise that an ambitious young Ivy Leaguer from a powerful East Coast family would wind up working for the Firm.
Cooper’s much-publicized personal history was already loaded with clues.
* He’s reportedly a member of one of those Skull & Bones-style secret societies at Yale, the mysterious Manuscript Society (or Wrexham Foundation) … which also claims the late Sen. H. John Heinz III … whose widow later married Bonesman John Kerry.
* Like Pyle in “The Quiet American,” Cooper mysteriously moved to Vietnam for a year.
* He was trained at some crazy “survival school” in Africa, when he was 17.
* He was an anchor for ABC’s “World News Now,” the bizarre middle-of-the-night network news program seen only by spies and amphetamine addicts.
* He actually admits to taking part in a U.S.-supported insurgency in Burma: “I had a friend of mine make a fake press pass on a Macintosh, and I snuck into Burma and hooked up with some students fighting the Burmese government. I had met the person who was involved in the Burmese student movement in New York, and they gave me the name of a contact in a town in Western Thailand. So I found my way to this town that was like a Wild West border town, and I contacted the person and said I was a reporter. We met in an ice cream parlor, and then they agreed to take me in, and they smuggled me across the border into Burma.”
Burma? Sorry, but wannabe foreign correspondents went to Eastern Europe in the early 1990s, not to some fetid and dangerous military dictatorship in Southeast Asia that was killing thousands of people every year.
But Cooper is in “good company,” as they may or may not say over at Langley. There were more than 400 CIA plants in American newsrooms in the early 1970s. Nobody knows how many operate today. But some of the big names connected with the intelligence agencies include Joseph and Stewart Alsop, Henry Luce, Arthur Hays Sulzberger, Bob Woodward and Philip Graham.
As this Vanderbilt University Television News Archive reminds those of us old enough to remember the Watergate fallout, Congress went after the CIA in the 1970s to find out how many journalists were working for The Man. (Fun fact: Vanderbilt University was founded by Anderson Cooper’s great-great grandfather, Cornelius Vanderbilt!)
Carl Bernstein’s “The CIA and the Media” is still the best summary of the agency’s control of the news flow.
During the 1976 investigation of the CIA by the Senate Intelligence Committee, chaired by Senator Frank Church, the dimensions of the Agency’s involvement with the press became apparent to several members of the panel, as well as to two or three investigators on the staff. But top officials of the CIA, including former directors William Colby and George Bush, persuaded the committee to restrict its inquiry into the matter and to deliberately misrepresent the actual scope of the activities in its final report. The multivolurne report contains nine pages in which the use of journalists is discussed in deliberately vague and sometimes misleading terms. It makes no mention of the actual number of journalists who undertook covert tasks for the CIA. Nor does it adequately describe the role played by newspaper and broadcast executives in cooperating with the Agency.
William Colby mysteriously drowned in the Cheasapeake. Things worked out better for George H.W. Bush.
The Church Commission supposedly made it illegal for the CIA to run agents in newsrooms, although there’s no evidence the practice stopped. And in 1996, Bush 41’s South Asia chief of the NSA (Richard Haass) led a Council on Foreign Relations project to take a “fresh look … at limits on the use of non-official ‘covers’ for hiding and protecting those involved in clandestine activities.”
Because CFR is loaded with big-name journalists who had to feign shock and horror over Haaass’ project, the whole thing was quietly shelved.
That same year, the practice was allegedly outlawed again — unless the president decided he wanted journalist-spies again.
Is there some snappy finish that will somehow make this a coherent “Wonkette Featurette”? You bet! Back to Bernstein:
The CIA even ran a formal training program in the 1950s to teach its agents to be journalists. Intelligence officers were “taught to make noises like reporters,” explained a high CIA official, and were then placed in major news organizations with help from management. “These were the guys who went through the ranks and were told ‘You’re going to he a journalist,’” the CIA official said. Relatively few of the 400‑some relationships described in Agency files followed that pattern, however; most involved persons who were already bona fide journalists when they began undertaking tasks for the Agency.
Anderson Cooper’s CIA Secret [Radar]
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CNN received a call from the Web site yesterday informing us that they were going to publish this story. They didn’t have all their facts straight, and I’ve received some questions about it, so I decided to just write this blog post, hoping to get the facts out there.
As a college student, I had a number of summer jobs and internships, including working at the CIA. Keep in mind, we are talking about nearly 20 years ago. The Bangles “Walk Like An Egyptian” was on the radio. I was 19 years old, and like many college students was curious about a variety of careers.
There was a flyer for the CIA in my college career counseling office, and I applied for a summer job. I was a political science major and was interested in serving my country.
For a couple months over the course of two summers, I worked at the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. There are reporters who’ve been in the military, others who’ve interned on Capitol Hill while they were in college.
I know the CIA may sound more exotic and mysterious, but it was actually pretty bureaucratic and mundane, at least the little bit that I saw of it. By the end of the second summer, I realized it was not a place I wanted to work after college.
I’ve told all my employers about it over the years, but have chosen not to talk about it publicly. When I began to travel overseas to war zones as a reporter, I realized that some Jihadist might not understand that what people do for summer jobs in college doesn’t mean they make a career out of it.
Oh, yeah, in case you’re interested, after I graduated college, I briefly worked as a waiter, but I decided not to make a career out of that job either.
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Anderson Cooper: The CIA asset?
The gossip-news-whatever magazine Radar has found out quite a few dirty secrets recently. The most recent one, though, is probably the most interesting: Anderson Cooper, the silver haired CNN anchor, has been outed as being a former trainee in the CIA. This may not seem like huge news since he never became a full scale agent, but perhaps it is his job to infiltrate the high levels of journalism and mold public opinion? It may be a little too much of a “conspiracy theorist” and it probably isn’t his active job, but if before the debate the CIA heads told Cooper to watch out for Ron Paul, that could explain CNN’s brash and almost obvious hatred of the constitutionalist congressman.
This may not be a big story, it may be, but either way, Cooper was involved with the CIA. I recently read Murray Rothbard’s Betrayal of the American Right, and in it he said that he knew two CIA agents in the 1970’s who said “Once a CIA agent, always a CIA agent.” (I’m paraphrasing a bit.)
I’m far more suspicious of Mr. Cooper now than I was, but I guess we should all be watching out for the guy who withstands hurricanes at full force.
