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Episode 41: “A Confession From the Profession”
Welcome to the People's Voice Podcast. Visit us online at www.peoplesvoice.ca
Presstitutes: Embedded in the Pay of the CIA
Author: Udo Ulfkotte
Publisher: Progressive Press, 2019
Review by Tim Pelzer
It is well documented that the CIA uses the media to spread disinformation. After 1945, in what is known as “Operation Mockingbird,” the agency recruited journalists in major US media to promote its anti-communist Cold War perspective. According to former CIA agent turned whistleblower Philip Agee, the agency has journalists on its payroll across Latin America. In Presstitutes: Embedded in the pay of the CIA, Udo Ulfkotte, a former editor for the mass daily newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), reveals how the CIA and the German Federal Intelligence Agency (BND) use the German media to manipulate and shape public opinion.
The BND recruited Ulfkotte while he was in university and then placed him at FAZ. As a naive young man, he was thrilled to work for his country’s intelligence agency. “However, looking back, l was corrupt, l was manipulative and dealt in disinformation.”
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By DaveWelcome to the People's Voice Podcast. Visit us online at www.peoplesvoice.ca
Presstitutes: Embedded in the Pay of the CIA
Author: Udo Ulfkotte
Publisher: Progressive Press, 2019
Review by Tim Pelzer
It is well documented that the CIA uses the media to spread disinformation. After 1945, in what is known as “Operation Mockingbird,” the agency recruited journalists in major US media to promote its anti-communist Cold War perspective. According to former CIA agent turned whistleblower Philip Agee, the agency has journalists on its payroll across Latin America. In Presstitutes: Embedded in the pay of the CIA, Udo Ulfkotte, a former editor for the mass daily newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), reveals how the CIA and the German Federal Intelligence Agency (BND) use the German media to manipulate and shape public opinion.
The BND recruited Ulfkotte while he was in university and then placed him at FAZ. As a naive young man, he was thrilled to work for his country’s intelligence agency. “However, looking back, l was corrupt, l was manipulative and dealt in disinformation.”
Read the article in full.