Mockingbird (Inez & Charlie Foxx song) her 1965 album "Runnin' Out of Fools"; Franklin performed the song (with Ray Johnson providing the counter-vocal) on the March 10, 1965 episode of the TV program "Shindig!". Franklin's version of "Mockingbird" was one of several tracks to which Columbia Records company gave a single release after the singer's commercial success with Atlantic Records in 1967; released at the same time as Franklin's Atlantic single album "Chain of Fools"—which would reach #2—Franklin's version of "Mockingbird" scored two weeks at #94 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 in December 1967. American singer-songwriters Carly Simon and James Taylor recorded a remake of "Mockingbird"
Operation Mockingbird not included. In a 1977 "Rolling Stone" magazine article, "The CIA and the Media," reporter Carl Bernstein claims that the Church Committee report "covered up" CIA relations with news media, and names a number of journalists who, he says, worked with the CIA. Like the Church Committee report, however, Bernstein does not refer to any Operation Mockingbird. In 2007 a CIA report was declassified that is titled the "Family Jewels". Compiled by the CIA in 1973, it refers to a Project Mockingbird and describes a wiretap of journalists. The report was compiled at the request of then CIA director James