Topic: Cord Meyer

Jay Dyer explores the complex relationship between the CIA, the Council on Foreign Relations, and Fabian Socialism during the 1950s. He suggests that Senator Joseph McCarthy was destroyed by the "Mighty Wurlitzer" of the press when he began investigating CIA operatives like Cord Meyer. The segment highlights the internal power struggle between J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI and the CIA’s Office of Policy Coordination over the direction of American psychological warfare.