How Two of Hollywood’s Top Talent Agencies Quietly Serve the DNC

By Niko House, The Kennedy Beacon

When people hear the words, “Operation Mockingbird,” they immediately think of a U.S. propaganda machine, loosely coordinated by some abstract, pseudo-omnipresent, yet opaque globalist figure that has the influence to shift global opinions with one phone call or email. 

Image source: Forbes, courtesy of UTA and CAA

In reality, Operation Mockingbird is more than a “conspiracy theory.” Not only is Operation Mockingbird a real thing, it has venom-infused fangs meant to penetrate and poison any anti-establishment movement—or candidate. And those fangs have names: Creative Artists Agency (CAA), and United Talent Agency (UTA).

To appreciate the influence of CAA and UTA, one must first acknowledge Operation Mockingbird’s existence and origins. 

Established during Harry S. Truman’s administration after WWII, Operation Mockingbird is the CIA’s pro-U.S. propaganda program. With the Under Directors Walter Smith and, most notably, Allen Dulles (half of the infamous Dulles Brothers), the CIA began planting propaganda mouthpieces in the media and even created propaganda front companies, as The New York Times reported in 1967. Similar to what we see today, in the 50s and 60s, the U.S. would use these corporate media plants to disseminate false stories that portrayed U.S. imperialism in a positive light, while smearing and maligning any dissenters. 

In the early days, it was difficult to track which people, organizations, and publications were infiltrated by the CIA because since its inception the CIA has been unnervingly adept at making it difficult to track where, when, and how the agency funds its shadow operations. However, in the age of the internet and instant access to information, we can at least deduce where proponents of Operation Mockingbird have been coordinating some of its efforts. And the best example of this is the coercive influence of the talent agencies CAA and UTA.

If you’ve ever supported candidates like Tulsi Gabbard, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Bernie Sanders, Cornel West, Jill Stein, or even Donald Trump, you may have felt that the entire mainstream media apparatus would pick days or weeks to focus on attacking a particular candidate, bombarding them and their supporters with every smear and trope at their disposal. RFK Jr.’s clash with the media earlier this year—after a clip of his comments taken completely out of context regarding COVID’s adverse effects varying based on ethnicity/race surfaced—is a great example of this. 

The truth is the attacks on these candidates were coordinated by a specific group. And that group is the collective talent of these two global talent agencies. 

In the email addressed to Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard above, you can see that former CAA executive and agent, Darnell Strom, wrote it on behalf of himself and another CAA agent, Michael Kives. 

As evidenced in the subject line, Strom is lamenting his disappointment in Gabbard’s decision to break free of the Democratic National Committee and endorse Sanders over Hillary Clinton in 2016. Strom takes it a step further by proclaiming the “hammer” had been “dropped” on Gabbard following her decision. At the time of its release, this email was mainly viewed as another example of disgruntled Democratic Party loyalists throwing a tantrum because Gabbard would not bend the knee to the Clinton machine. 

But Robbie Jaeger, an investigative journalist, began to put the pieces together in the years following the release of this email.

According to Jaeger, in an analysis published on Medium, Strom left CAA shortly after and is now Head of the Culture and Leadership Division at UTA. Kives was a former Hillary Clinton aide known as a “super connector” by his contemporaries because of his reputation of connecting the “who’s who” of business people and social leaders. Kives now runs K5 Global, a billion-dollar company in which Kives leverages connections made through CAA to manage investments for many of the celebrities he has represented or currently represents. Kives is so close to the Clintons that he even went to Chelsea Clinton’s graduation in 2001.

Like Kives, Strom represented some of the biggest names in entertainment and world leadership. Among their collective stable of clients were Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Warren Buffet, Mikhail Gorbachev, Will Smith and Vice President Joe Biden. And Strom also had a close relationship with the Clintons and the Democratic Party establishment. He started as the Deputy Director of Scheduling for Bill Clinton, and became one of the most influential cogs in the Clinton machine. Eventually, he was spearheading the Clinton Foundation’s Millennium Network, an organization that Bill Clinton himself described as “an essential fundraising component for the future of the Clinton Foundation.” 

In short, the two men who authored the aforementioned email weren’t just a couple of innocuous disgruntled Democratic Party donors. They were and are two of the most influential figures in both politics and entertainment. So, when Strom wrote “hammer down,” he meant just that. 

Strom and Kives used every single tool at their disposal to attack Gabbard following that email. But the coordinated attacks were not only reserved for Gabbard. Any politician or celebrity who would not fall in line with the Democratic establishment was deemed fair game, and anyone represented by CAA/UTA was/is protected by the mainstream media’s machine to levels most observers would deem as absurd.

A brief list of CAA’s clients includes Anderson Cooper, Ana Navarro, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bill Maher, Chris Cuomo, Alyssa Milano, Donna Brazile (former DNC Chair), Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, Van Jones, Whoopie Golberg, and… President Joseph R. Biden. Yes, the same Joe Biden who many on this list fiercely defend and even lie for at every opportunity.

Some of UTA’s talent won’t surprise you either. Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, Chuck Todd, Jake Tapper, Jim Acosta, Seth Myers, Rod Rosenstein (Former Deputy Attorney General), and Valerie Biden Owens (Biden’s sister) is yet another small list of names represented by half of the most influential tandem of talent agencies in the world. 

If you’ve been following politics over the last several years, you’ll notice that the majority of the names on this list fall into 1 of 2 categories, or both: They’re talking heads that have spent an inordinate amount of airtime and energy attacking anyone viewed as an outsider to the Democratic establishment. Or/and their association with the agency has protected them from any type of legitimate criticism or accountability by members of what was once considered the “4th branch of government”—the media. 

Take Biden and Navarro for instance. At this juncture, the majority of the country is aware that RFK Jr. was running a primary campaign against Biden. However, on a recent episode of “The View,” Navarro flippantly asserts “there isn’t anyone challenging Biden and the Democrats aren’t holding a primary.” 

Of course, we know this is an egregious and purposefully planted lie (Operation Mockingbird?), considering we know that both Kennedy and Marianne Williamson were both running against Biden in the Democratic primary. 

But what should really cause the masses to raise a brow is the fact that Navarro is a hardcore neoconservative Republican, yet, she’s championing Biden, despite the president being the head of the opposing party. The support for Biden from Navarro was consistent throughout the last three years and the Democratic primary of the 2020 election. Why does Navarro constantly come to the defense of a president who isn’t even playing for her team, so to speak? The answer is simple.

The power Biden had before never shielded him from the media in the same way he’s been shielded in the last six to seven years. If it had, it wouldn’t have taken him until 2020 to finally achieve his goal of reaching the Oval Office. In fact, before 2020 Biden was forced to drop out early, and embarrassingly, two times, once in 1988 and again in 2008. But in 2017, according to Variety, Biden signed his deal with CAA and hasn’t looked back. He *finally* became the President of the United States; much of his corruption has been swept under the rug, and he has an entire talent agency of attack dogs to defend his every blunder, and attack his political opponents when necessary.

If you’ve ever wanted to know how Operation Mockingbird works contemporaneously to silence political dissent and propagandize the masses, look no further than CAA and UTA.

There are only a few names listed here, but the deeper you dig the further the rabbit hole goes. Outsider candidates like Kennedy and Dr. Cornel West, along with any dissenting voices in the alternative media, should take heed. Challenging establishment orthodoxy doesn’t merely mean facing a candidate or a primetime news anchor, but rather facing the wrath of the entire political establishment and the entertainment industry, where livelihoods rely on following the orders passed down from the most powerful and influential entities on the planet.