[video=youtube;H8NlFaHvPHQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8NlFaHvPHQ&feature=colike[/video] Operation Mockingbird was a secret Central Intelligence Agency campaign to influence domestic and foreign media beginning in the 1950s. According to the Congress report published in 1976: Senator Frank Church argued that misinforming the world cost American taxpayers an estimated $265 million a year.