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Lots of buzz right now about the latest Tucker interview. To review:
Richard W. Carlson (1941–2025) was embedded in the administrative and media cabal. His was Director of the Voice of America (VOA) from 1986-1991 placing him at heart of Cold War psyops.
VOA has history of being in close (very close) proximity to CIA. During the Cold War, the U.S. Information Agency (USIA), the parent organization Carlson worked under, served as a primary vehicle for propaganda and foreign influence for the CIA. Richard Carlson himself admitted the intelligence nature of his work, mentioning in oral histories that in hostile nations, the line between journalism and "covert" operations was non-existent. Tucker has stated that his father "worked in conjunction" with the CIA throughout his career.
Connection to William F. “Buckley” Jr.
There is a professional overlap between the circles of Richard Carlson and William F. Buckley Jr. Buckley was an iconic figure of the mid-century American right, a Yale graduate with documented CIA service in Mexico City, and the founder of the National Review.
Tucker Carlson joined the National Review in the mid-1990s as a staff writer. At the time, the National Review was, the flagship publication of the “fusionist” conservative movement, the intellectual engine room for the movement William F. Buckley Jr. spent his life constructing. Working at the National Review provided Carlson with the necessary “credentialing” within the Washington-New York conservative elite. It was a foundational post that legitimized him within the same circles of his father.
The Tucker’s dad and William Buckley moved in the same elite, Washington-based circles. This was often characterized by a "fusionist" approach: blending intellectual conservatism with the aggressive, hawk-like foreign policy required by the U.S. national security state. The transition of the "Conservative movement" from a populist or traditionalist impulse into a pillar of the Cold War order was institutionalized by men like Buckley and supported by administrators like Carlson.
Buckley Carlson (Son of Tucker)
Buckley Carlson is currently building his own career within the institutional framework of the American right. He has worked as a Capitol Hill aide since 2019, most notably serving as a communications director for Representative Jim Banks. As of early 2025, he joined the press office of Vice President JD Vance as a deputy press secretary. His path, moving from elite political staff work to high-level executive branch communications, mirrors the career progression typically observed in those who occupy the "inner ring" of institutional conservatism. In a January 2026 interview two firms were mentioned: Kelton Research and McCarthy Communications.
Kelton was founded by Tom Bernthal and Gary Ross. They are the nexus of media and intelligence-adjacent operations: A former producer for NBC News (a pipeline inherently tied to the national security state). His brother is the actor Jon Bernthal, but Tom’s career was built in the “research” and “insights” world. He is an operator in the intersection of corporate branding and narrative strategy, ensuring that the messaging being fed to the public was calibrated by empirical data collection.
Gary Ross: co-founded Kelton with Tom Bernthal in 2002. Branded as consultancy, its core competency is predictive behavioral modeling. By analyzing consumer sentiment for massive corporations (which are themselves often appendages of the national security state, ie large telecom, tech, & defense contractors), Kelton acts as a mechanism for feedback loops. Ross’s expertise lies in taking raw demographic data and turning it into actionable “narrative architecture.” This is same process used by the U.S. government to influence foreign populations, identifying what a segment of society fears, what they value, to frame a message to bypass their critical thinking. Example: RAND/Booz Allen. Buckley is Tucker’s brother name.
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