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If you haven’t heard of independent journalist, producer, writer, Youtuber, and lifestyle influencer Luke Rudkowski, you’ll want to by the end of this article. Luke’s a firecracker who’s made waves on projects like the Timcast podcast and Mike Cernovich’s documentary, Hoaxed. So when we stumbled upon a clip of Luke grilling CNN’s Anderson Cooper about his CIA connections, we knew we had to spotlight it.

It’s not a secret that Cooper worked at the CIA. He actually came clean about it back in 2006.

The Gray Zone:

The media’s favorite “silver fox” hails from one of the most powerful families in human history. He is the son of oligarch Gloria Vanderbilt, and his great-great-great grandfather was Cornelius Vanderbilt, a prototypical American robber baron who had in fact helped lead a bungling imperial plot to build a canal through Nicaragua during the 1850s.

It is by no means uncommon for scions of elite families to get rewarded with massive platforms in US corporate media. The mainstream press is chock-full of figures like Cooper’s CNN colleague Erin Burnett, who was hired by the media giant after occupying senior positions at Goldman Sachs and Citigroup.

A blue-blooded TV anchor coming from money and privilege is one thing, but a top news personality with a background at the Central Intelligence Agency is quite another.

In 2006, Cooper published an article at CNN admitting that he worked at CIA headquarters for two summers while he was a student at Yale University — an intelligence agency-linked elite bastion where former CIA director George H. W. Bush also studied.

Anderson clearly isn’t eager to discuss the CIA; just watch him duck into his car as Luke confronts him head-on. The clip might be dated, but its impact is timeless.

Here’s the breakdown of what happened during the incredible confrontation.

Wall Street Apes:

“Hey Anderson, how you doing? Luke Radowski of WRC. I just really quickly just wanted… Thank you very much. It’s amazing to meet you. I just wanted to know what you think of German reporter, Alf Ote, who said the CIA bribed him and extorted him to publish news stories. Have you ever heard of Operation Mockingbird, Anderson? Operation Mockingbird, Mr. Anderson? It’s a very serious question, Mr. Anderson. Do you have any comment on your knowledge of Operation Mockingbird? I’m sorry.

Sir Anderson, what influence do you think the CIA has when it comes to mainstream media? Dude, you’re being stridekos. I mean, it’s time to ask really the hard questions. Because there is a western pro-government slant when it comes to mainstream media. We see that when we see coverage of Putin and Assad, but not coverage of the human rights violations in Saudi Arabia. Have you ever heard of Operation Mockingbird? Operation Mockingbird, have you ever heard of the Declassified CIA program?

To manipulate the news and mainstream media. Anderson Cooper has three security guards all around him now, making sure people can’t engage in a conversation when it comes to very important matters, like the manipulation of our news by government officials. Are you signing about this because of your CIA past, Anderson? Is it because you were in the CIA during college, Anderson? Can we get just one statement from you?

We just made Anderson Cooper hide in his car because he couldn’t face questions about really important issues like him training to be a CIA officer when he was in college. And as we know, under Operation Mockingbird, CIA officials have infiltrated the mainstream media in the 60s. There’s a German journalist, a very prominent one, Udo Psoff, and he came out just a few months ago and he said the CIA is still continuing this program, openly manipulating, openly writing the scripts for the mainstream media.

As we see by their biased coverage, they’re just another branch of the government, another mouthpiece of propaganda, and they can’t even face up to real questions when asked eye to eye, man to man, and they just run around their private security guards and hide in their cars. Anderson Cooper has eight security guards here.”

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You’ve got to admit, it’s intriguing how an uber-privileged gay man and ex-CIA employee chose to become a news anchor for a struggling cable network that is widely suspected to be CIA-backed. Coincidence? Probably not, and maybe that’s why Luke managed to catch Anderson so off guard.

Switching gears a bit, Luke recently turned his attention to Gavin Newsom. He confronted Newsom, asking how he feels about the human suffering he’s caused his constituents during the COVID crisis:

We need more fighters like Luke, unafraid to take on the elites with the intensity of a thousand suns. For more hard-hitting content from Luke, make sure to check out his website: WeAreChange.org.

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