How Roy Cohn Helped Rupert Murdoch

[Judi Lynn]

How Roy Cohn Helped Rupert Murdoch

January 28, 2015


Special Report: Through Fox News and a vast media empire, Rupert Murdoch wields enormous political clout in the United States, but his entrée into the world of Washington power came from the notorious McCarthyite Roy Cohn who opened the door into Ronald Reagan’s Oval Office, reports Robert Parry.

By Robert Parry

Rupert Murdoch, the global media mogul who is now a kingmaker in American politics, was brought into those power circles by the infamous lawyer/activist Roy Cohn who arranged Murdoch’s first Oval Office meeting with President Ronald Reagan in 1983, according to documents released by Reagan’s presidential library.

“I had one interest when Tom [Bolan] and I first brought Rupert Murdoch and Governor Reagan together – and that was that at least one major publisher in this country … would become and remain pro-Reagan,” Cohn wrote in a Jan. 27, 1983 letter to senior White House aides Edwin Meese, James Baker and Michael Deaver. “Mr. Murdoch has performed to the limit up through and including today.”

The letter noted that Murdoch then owned the “New York Post – over one million, third largest and largest afternoon; New York Magazine; Village Voice; San Antonio Express; Houston Ring papers; and now the Boston Herald; and internationally influential London Times, etc.” Cohn sent the letter nine days after Murdoch met Reagan in the Oval Office along with Cohn, his legal partner Thomas Bolan, and U.S. Information Agency Director Charles Wick.



In a photograph of the Jan. 18, 1983 meeting, Cohn is shown standing and leaning toward Reagan who is seated next to Murdoch. Following that meeting, Murdoch became involved in a privately funded propaganda project to help sell Reagan’s hard-line Central American policies, according to other documents. That PR operation was overseen by senior CIA propaganda specialist Walter Raymond Jr. and CIA Director William Casey, but the details of Murdoch’s role remain sketchy partly because some of the records are still classified more than three decades later.

More:
https://consortiumnews.com/2015/01/28/how-roy-cohn-helped-rupert-murdoch/

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A few lovely photos of "commie" witch-hunt obsessive alcoholic Republican
Senator and his chief legal counsel, Roy Cohn in the height of their failed,
sadist assault on the human race.[/center]

[Journeyman]

1. So Murdoch's entry into the annals of power was greased by a self-loathing closeted homosexual. . .

the irony's so thick it beggars description.

(And I would hardly characterize what McCarthy & Cohn et al did as a "failed, sadistic assault." Sadistic it was. But highly successful, as well, at least if measured by the hundreds of careers and lives it destroyed.)

[Judi Lynn]

3. You're right. They were successful at torturing, tormenting, destroying people.

That was what they were after, as hard as it is to believe!

I see McCarthy as "failed" because he became a wrecked alcoholic, and succumbed to it, and the other man clearly had internal issues which controlled him completely. I see them as wrecked, failed people, but it's clear they did the damage they set out to do.

What an ugly bunch of people, Republicans.

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