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Operation Mockingbird journalists and civic groups. None of these reports, however, mentions by name an Operation Mockingbird coordinating or supporting these activities. A "Project Mockingbird" is mentioned in the CIA Family Jewels report, compiled in the mid-1970s. According to the declassified version of the report released in 2007, Project Mockingbird involved the wire-tapping of two American journalists for several months in the early 1960s. In the early years of the Cold War, efforts were made by the governments of the Soviet Union and the United States to use media companies to influence public opinion internationally. Reporter Deborah Davis claimed in her 1979