david hadley: it does not, really. cia,he reason is that the although was originally conceived as something that is going to be working with all of these different agencies and a central hub for intelligence to work through, it pretty quickly gets directed more towards covert action, towards aggressive activity against communist nations or potential communist nations in the third world or the eastern block during the cold war. and i actually argue that a part of the reason for that change is the nature of the press coverage. reporters who support the mission of the cia, or who cannot talk about its activities, they kind of give a certain amount of cover to people who want the cia to be a more active and aggressive agency. time there is an event that happens that is somehow against u.s. interests, the cia in its early years is getting blamed. why did you protect us? and so there are riots in bogota in 1948 and those disrupt a conference that george marshall is at. the cia gets blamed for not projecting violence in bogot

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. >>> we recently sat down with david hadley, ph.d. candidate at ohio state university to talk about the cia and the press in the early days of the cold war. this interview is from the annual meeting for society of historians of american foreign relations. it's 20 minutes. >> david hadley, graduate of gettysburg college and a doctoral candidate at the ohio state university in columbus, let's talk about times like these, the press and the cia brought in the early cold war, in researching this, what did you learn? >> well, what i really learned is that the cia and the press had a pretty at times contentious and very multivaried relationship between the two of them, and it was really founded early on in this common understanding of cold war struggle that the united states is facing this new threat after world war ii, and the soviet union, and that there's in the early days, there's a really strong sense that had to work together in order to advance american interests, but over time, that really declined, and so when the press starts as an

. >> so, if david hadley had unfettered access to go to the cia headquarters in virginia, see everything, talk to anyone, what would you look for? >> i would look for any file on arthur hayes sulzberger, who is the publisher of the "new york times" for the early part of my project, he's there until the 1960s. and whether or not the cia actually paid him to cooperate with them, because that's a question that's been debated quite a bit. i'd really like to find out about that. >> how did you go about researching this dissertation in where did you go for information? who did you talk to? and what was available to you? >> well, a lot of things are available in terms of government files from the freedom of information act. the freedom of information act reve reveals a lot about some communications between the cia and the press. the "new york times" has a really great archive that i looked at, if you want to look at records of how reporting was done in the 1940s and 1950s, that's a great place to go. and honestly, i read a lot of newspapers. i read about 26 years' worth of newspaper stories rs