Germany Yields a CIA Whistleblower

Members of the German media are paid by the CIA in return for spinning the news in a way that supports US interests [...] according to a new book by Udo Ulfkotte, a former editor of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, one of Germany's largest newspapers.

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The allegations, while shocking, are consistent with the CIA's long and well-established history of media infiltration.

Operation Mockingbird, which began in the 1950s, was a secret CIA operation which recruited journalists to serve as mouthpieces for the American government. The program was officially terminated after it was exposed by the famous Church Committee investigations, but evidence of ongoing CIA influence over the media continues to accumulate.

  Russia Insider

"Officially terminated."

The former editor [Udo Ulfkotte] of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, which is one of Germany’s largest newspapers, was secretly on the payroll of the CIA and German secret service, spinning the news in a way that was positive for the United States and bad for its opponents.

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"We’re talking about puppets on a string, journalists who write or say whatever their masters tell them to say or write. If you see how the mainstream media is reporting about the Ukraine conflict and if you know what's really going on, you get the picture. The masters in the background are pushing for war with Russia and western journalists are putting on their helmets."

  Russia Insider

Now that he has abandoned not just the anti-Islamic but the anti-Russian elements of traditional German culture, he no longer is welcomed among the conservative Germans who had helped him to build, and then, for decades, to advance, his successful long career as a ‘journalist,’ but which he now calls “propagandist.”

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Ulfkotte’s book “offers a multitude of cases, names, and examples of manipulation of German public opinion orchestrated by the U.S. embassy in Germany and by various international entities.”

  Washington’s Blog

Here’s an interview with Ulfkotte explaining his new attitude.



Ulfkotte's book (currently #7 on Germany's best sellers list) has not yet been translated and is available only in German. And I’m not surprised that I don’t seem to be finding any reference to it in the American mainstream press...nor any of the top blogs or online journals. It comes to us through the reporting of Peter Oliver for news outlet Russia Today (and not even on their website).