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Editor of Major German Newspaper Says He Planted Stories for the CIA
By Ralph Lopez
Global Research, February 04, 2015
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Becoming the first credentialed, well-known media insider to step forward and state publicly that he was secretly a “propagandist,” an editor of a major German daily has said that he personally planted stories for the CIA.
Saying he believes a medical condition gives him only a few years to live, and that he is filled with remorse, Dr. Udo Ulfkotte, the editor of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, one of Germany’s largest newspapers, said in an interview that he accepted news stories written and given to him by the CIA and published them under his own name. Ulfkotte said the aim of much of the deception was to drive nations toward war.
Dr. Ulfkotte says the corruption of journalists and major news outlets by the CIA is routine, accepted, and widespread in the western media, and that journalists who do not comply either cannot get jobs at any news organization, or find their careers cut short.
Dr. Ulfkotte is the author of a book currently available only in German, “Bought Journalists” (Kopp 2014). Aged 55, he was also once an advisor to the government of German Chancellor Helmet Kohl.
The book has become a bestseller in Germany but, in a bizarre twist which Ulfkotte says characterizes the disconnect caused by CIA control of the western media, the book cannot be reported on.
Ulfkotte says:
“No German mainstream journalist is allowed to report about [my] book. Otherwise he or she will be sacked. So we have a bestseller now that no German journalist is allowed to write or talk about.”
Among the stories Ulfkotte says he was ordered to plant in his newspaper over the years was a story that Libyan President Moammar Gaddafi was building poison gas factories in 2011. Ulfkotte also says he was an eyewitness to Saddam Hussein’s use of poison gas against Iranians in the war between Iran and Iraq, but that the editors he worked for at the time were not interested, because Iraq was a US ally at the time.
Ulfkotte says he is better positioned to come forward than many journalists because he does not have children who could be threatened. Ulfkotte told the Russian newspaper Russian Insider (RI):
“When I told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Ulfkotte’s nwspaper) that I would publish the book, their lawyers sent me a letter threatening with all legal consequences if I would publish any names or secrets – but I don’t mind. You see, I don’t have children to take care of. And you must know I was severely injured during the gas attack I witnessed in Iran in 1988. I’m the sole German survivor from a German poison gas attack. I’m still suffering from this. I’ve had three heart attacks. I don’t expect to live for more than a few years.”
Ulfkotte says that remorse of having “lied” to mass audiences over the years drove him to come forward. He told RI that he was:
“taught to lie, to betray and not to tell the truth to the public.”
Ulfkotte says:
“I’m ashamed I was part of it. Unfortunately I cannot reverse this.”
Among the admissions that Ulfkotte makes in the interview are putting his own name to articles completely written by intelligence agencies. He said:
“I ended up publishing articles under my own name written by agents of the CIA and other intelligence services, especially the German secret service.”
Ulfkotte detailed the pattern of cajolery and outright bribery used by the CIA and other US-allied intelligence agencies, for the purpose of advancing political agendas. Ulfkotte said:
“once you’re connected, you make friends with selected Americans. You think they are your friends and you start cooperating. They work on your ego, make you feel like you’re important. And one day one of them will ask you ‘Will you do me this favor’…”
Ulfkotte noted that a journalists on international press trips paid for by organizations close to the government are unlikely to submit a storyline not favorable to the sponsor.
Of the gassing of Iranians he had witnessed in the Eighties, Ulfkoppe said:
“they asked me to hand over the photo’s that I had made to the German association of chemical companies in Frankfurt, Verband der Chemischen Industrie. This poison gas that had killed so many Iranians was made in Germany.”
In an interview with Russia Today, Ulfkotte said that it was “not right” what he had done, and that his fear was that politicians were actively driving the world toward war:
“it is not right what I have done in the past, to manipulate people, to make propaganda against Russia, and it is not right what my colleagues do, and have done in the past, because they are bribed to betray the people not only in Germany, all over Europe. … I am very fearful of a new war in Europe, and I don’t like to have this situation again, because war is never coming from itself, there is always people who push for war, and this is not only politicians, it is journalists too. … We have betrayed our readers, just to push for war. … I don’t want this anymore, I’m fed up with this propaganda. We live in a banana republic, and not in a democratic country where we have press freedom…”
In his book “The CIA and the Media,” Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein quotes William B. Bader, former CIA intelligence officer, in his testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Baeder said:
“There is quite an incredible spread of relationships. You don’t need to manipulate Time magazine, for example, because there are [Central Intelligence] Agency people at the management level.”
Bernstein writes:
“The Agency’s relationship with the Times was by far its most valuable among newspapers, according to CIA officials. From 1950 to 1966, about ten CIA employees were provided Times cover under arrangements approved by the newspaper’s late publisher, Arthur Hays Sulzberger. The cover arrangements were part of a general Times policy—set by Sulzberger—to provide assistance to the CIA whenever possible.”
Ulfkotte was on the staff of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation from 1999 to 2003, according to his Wikipedia entry. He won the civic prize from the Annette Barthelt Foundation in 2003.
Um vídeo - claramente, pró-NOM - que já muitos deverão ter visto mas que, ainda assim, poderão querer rever mais umas quantas vezes, talvez em ecrã inteiro, para que possam reparar em todos os pormenores - e interpretá-los da maneira que bem entendam.
É este o estado a que chegou todo o chamado mundo ocidental... Chegámos a um ponto tal em que até quem na destruição da sociedade que temos e no fenómeno da manipulação das massas está envolvido se pode gabar, perante todos, sobre o que nos está a fazer.
Serão as pessoas capazes de inverter o sentido em que vão as coisas?
A propósito de um outro vídeo, publicado noutro blogue, em que se fala de um personagem, também já referenciado nos sítios do Alex Jones, que ultimamente tem aparecido nos vários média controlados, a fazer campanha por uma intervenção ocidental na Síria e que, visivelmente, se esforça ocasionalmente para não se partir a rir enquanto o faz (vejam o vídeo de que falei, aquando dos 5m e 15s), não quis deixar de chamar aqui a atenção para um vídeo, este último, ainda mais revelador do grau de cinismo e insidiosidade a que é capaz de chegar a propaganda feita para a imprensa controlada.
(Vejam o vídeo que se segue mais do que uma vez, se quiserem, para repararem bem no que falo.)
Reparem na ausência de feridas visíveis nas crianças, no quão descontraídas estas estão, na clara ausência de medo por parte destas e na ausência de expressões faciais que revelem algum trauma ou que estejam estas em "estado de choque". Observem isto e depois reflictam seriamente sobre se esta é uma cena genuína ou não...
(Só para verem o quão cínica pode ser esta gente e o nível de mentira com que nos bombardeiam, quase todos os dias...)
E uma nota.
Eu não irei, ao contrário do que ocasionalmente fazia no passado, estar aqui neste blogue a denunciar as várias mentiras, ou propaganda embebida nas supostas notícias ("Não façam nada... Deixem-se ser destruídos...") dos média de massas, de que me vou apercebendo. (Também, cada vez menos, por ser, cada vez menos, capaz de ver telejornais, dada a quantidade dessas mesmas mentiras e propaganda e a incrível e desmesurada atenção que é dada a eventos desportivos, enquanto toda a sociedade continua em Colapso...)
Pois, se o fizesse, teria de estar aqui constantemente a fazer colocações, as quais ofuscariam os assuntos mais importantes dos quais quero aqui estar a falar e também porque, acima de tudo, não tenho mesmo paciência para, e coisas melhores que fazer do que, andar a corrigir quem se deixa enganar por órgãos de comunicação de massas, que tem a obrigação de saber estarem controlados.
Assim como não irei também estar aqui sempre a comentar o que vejo nos olhos de cada político nacional no governo, de cada vez que vejo um desses seres abjectos numa televisão.
("Quem quiser comprar a banha da cobra, que compre...")
Mas dado o grau de cinismo deste vídeo em particular, não resisti a esta partilha.
E a finalizar... Quem tiver sabido de um massacre de mulheres e crianças, que ocorreu na Síria, que foi reportado esta última semana, prontamente atribuído pela imprensa às forças do regime (que obviamente, querem-nos fazer crer, têm todo o interesse em andar a matar os seus próprios cidadãos inocentes desta maneira...) lembre-se, ou saiba: que os países da OTAN têm já tropas colocadas na Síria; que foi emitido um aviso, há semanas, de um ataque desta natureza que iria ser erradamente atribuído ao regime sírio; e que não é fenómeno raro as tropas dos países da OTAN fazerem este e outro tipo de coisas.
Mas... "Oh... Ajudem as crianças..."