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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

And it seemed to them that, you know, this was a way of kind of fighting the Cold War secretly without and doing it at minimal cost by changing events sort of invisibly. And so it was seductive to them. But everybody, you know, Congress, when they first voted it in place, Congress, both political parties said,

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

And it seemed to them that, you know, this was a way of kind of fighting the Cold War secretly without and doing it at minimal cost by changing events sort of invisibly. And so it was seductive to them. But everybody, you know, Congress, when they first voted it in place, Congress, both political parties said,

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

If we create this thing, it could turn into a monster and it could undermine our values. And today, it's so powerful and nobody knows what its budget is. Plus, it has its own investment fund. In-Q-Tel, which has invested, you know, made, I think, 2,000 investments in Silicon Valley.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

If we create this thing, it could turn into a monster and it could undermine our values. And today, it's so powerful and nobody knows what its budget is. Plus, it has its own investment fund. In-Q-Tel, which has invested, you know, made, I think, 2,000 investments in Silicon Valley.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

If we create this thing, it could turn into a monster and it could undermine our values. And today, it's so powerful and nobody knows what its budget is. Plus, it has its own investment fund. In-Q-Tel, which has invested, you know, made, I think, 2,000 investments in Silicon Valley.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

Oh, it has ownership of a lot of these tech companies that, you know, and a lot of the CEOs of those tech companies have signed state secrecy agreements with the CIA, which if they even reveal that they have signed that, they can go to jail for 20 years and have their assets removed, etc.,

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

Oh, it has ownership of a lot of these tech companies that, you know, and a lot of the CEOs of those tech companies have signed state secrecy agreements with the CIA, which if they even reveal that they have signed that, they can go to jail for 20 years and have their assets removed, etc.,

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

Oh, it has ownership of a lot of these tech companies that, you know, and a lot of the CEOs of those tech companies have signed state secrecy agreements with the CIA, which if they even reveal that they have signed that, they can go to jail for 20 years and have their assets removed, etc.,

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

The influence that the agency has, the capacity to influence events at every level in our country is really frightening. And then for most of its life, the CIA was banned from propagandizing Americans. But we learned that they were doing it anyway. So in 1973, during the church committee hearings, we learned that the CIA had a program called Operation Mockingbird.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

The influence that the agency has, the capacity to influence events at every level in our country is really frightening. And then for most of its life, the CIA was banned from propagandizing Americans. But we learned that they were doing it anyway. So in 1973, during the church committee hearings, we learned that the CIA had a program called Operation Mockingbird.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

The influence that the agency has, the capacity to influence events at every level in our country is really frightening. And then for most of its life, the CIA was banned from propagandizing Americans. But we learned that they were doing it anyway. So in 1973, during the church committee hearings, we learned that the CIA had a program called Operation Mockingbird.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

where they had at least 400 members, leading members of the United States Press Corps, the New York Times, the Washington Post, ABC, CBS, NBC, etc., who were secretly working for the agency and steering news coverage to support CIA priorities. And they agreed at that time to disband Operation Mockingbird in 1973 But there's indications they didn't do that.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

where they had at least 400 members, leading members of the United States Press Corps, the New York Times, the Washington Post, ABC, CBS, NBC, etc., who were secretly working for the agency and steering news coverage to support CIA priorities. And they agreed at that time to disband Operation Mockingbird in 1973 But there's indications they didn't do that.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

where they had at least 400 members, leading members of the United States Press Corps, the New York Times, the Washington Post, ABC, CBS, NBC, etc., who were secretly working for the agency and steering news coverage to support CIA priorities. And they agreed at that time to disband Operation Mockingbird in 1973 But there's indications they didn't do that.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

And they still, the CIA today is the biggest funder of journalism around the world. The biggest funder is through USAID. The USA, the United States funds journalism in almost every country in the world. It owns newspapers. It has thousands and thousands of journalists on its payroll. They're not supposed to be doing that in the United States.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

And they still, the CIA today is the biggest funder of journalism around the world. The biggest funder is through USAID. The USA, the United States funds journalism in almost every country in the world. It owns newspapers. It has thousands and thousands of journalists on its payroll. They're not supposed to be doing that in the United States.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

And they still, the CIA today is the biggest funder of journalism around the world. The biggest funder is through USAID. The USA, the United States funds journalism in almost every country in the world. It owns newspapers. It has thousands and thousands of journalists on its payroll. They're not supposed to be doing that in the United States.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

But in 2016, President Obama changed the law to make it legal now for the CIA to propagandize Americans. And I think we can't look at the... how the narrative has been formed in the minds of Americans and say that the CIA had nothing to do with that.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

But in 2016, President Obama changed the law to make it legal now for the CIA to propagandize Americans. And I think we can't look at the... how the narrative has been formed in the minds of Americans and say that the CIA had nothing to do with that.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

But in 2016, President Obama changed the law to make it legal now for the CIA to propagandize Americans. And I think we can't look at the... how the narrative has been formed in the minds of Americans and say that the CIA had nothing to do with that.

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