Ken Dilanian was a CIA sycophant and government propagandist pretending to have been a reporter for the L.A Times and other news outlets. Dilanian, before publishing any national security stories, shared them with the CIA to obtain their approval to print. The spy agency instructed him in what he could and couldn’t publish, usually lies were approved while the truth languished in the discredited realm of the conspiracists.

After L.A. Times examined Dilanian’s emails, his government approved word smithing become known, and his work was disavowed by the paper in 2017. Dilanian is now working for NBC News as a justice and intelligence correspondent.

Through the years there have been rumors that the CIA had full-time employees seconded to all the major news outlets in the country. Carl Bernstein in 1977 said that upwards to 400 journalists were CIA plants and the most valuable employees or assets were at the New York Times, CBS, and Time.

Source: Muck Rack. The Intercept. CATO. Graphic: Ken Dilanian.