Leading German Journalist Admits CIA ‘Bribed’ Him
and Other Leaders of the Western ‘Press’
Eric Zuesse
Udo Ulfkotte, a former editor of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (which
is one of Germany’s largest newspapers), has decided to go public about
the corruption of himself and the rest of the Western ‘news’ media,
because he finds that this corruption is bringing Europe too close to a
nuclear war against Russia, which he concludes the U.S. aristocracy that
controls the CIA wants to bring about, or else to bring closer to the
brink.
I’ve been a journalist for about 25 years, and I’ve been educated
to lie, to betray, and not to tell the truth to the public. … The
German and American media tries to bring war to the people in Europe, to
bring war to Russia. This is a point of no return, and I am going to
stand up and say … 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. …
The German media, especially, my colleagues …, day by day, write
against the Russians, [these journalists] who are in transatlantic
organizations, and who are supported by the United States to do so. …
[4:40 on the video] Most of the journalists you see in foreign
countries … European or American journalists …, like me in the past, are
so-called non-official cover. … Non-official cover means what? You do
work for an intelligence agency, … but … when they [the public] find out
that you are not only a journalist but a spy too, they [the CIA] will
never say this was one of our guys. … So, I have helped them in several
situations, and I feel ashamed for that. … I feel ashamed that I … was
bribed by billionaires, I was bribed by the Americans, not to report
exactly the truth. …
I was just imagining in my car while I was driving to this
interview, I just try to work out in my brain what would have happened
if I had written a pro-Russian article, in the Frankfurter Algemeine.
Well, … we were all educated to write pro-European, pro-American, but
please not pro-Russian. … But this is not what I understand for
democracy, for press freedom, I am very sorry for that. …
[6:30] Germany is still a kind of a colony of the United States,
you’ll see that in many points; like for example, the majority of
Germany do not want to have nukes in our country, but we still have
American nukes; so, we are still a kind of an American colony, and,
being a colony, it is very easy to approach young journalists through
(and what is very important here is) transatlantic organizations. All
journalists from respected and big German newspapers, magazines, radio
stations, TV stations, they are all members or guests of those big
transatlantic organizations, and in these transatlantic organizations
you are approached to be pro-American, and … they invite you for seeing
the United States, they pay for that, they pay all your expenses and
everything. So, you are bribed, you get more and more corrupt, because
they make you good contacts. … So, you make friends, you think they are
your friends and cooperate with them. They ask you, ‘will you do me
this favor,’ ‘will you do me that favor,’ so your brain is more and more
brainwashed, through these guys. …
Is this only the case with German journalists? No, I think it is
especially the case with British journalists, because they have a much
closer relationship. It is especially the case with Israeli journalists.
Of course with French journalists. … It is the case for Australians,
[with] journalists from New Zealand, from Taiwan, well, there is many
countries, … like Jordan for example. …
[9:17] Sometimes the intelligence agencies, they come to your
office, and want you to write an article. … I just remember [for
example] that the German foreign intelligence agency, the Bundesnachrichtendienst –
it is just a sister organization of the Central Intelligence Agency,
see it was founded by the American intelligence agency — … came to my
office, and they wanted me to write an article about Libya and about
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. … They gave me all these secret informations,
and they just wanted me to sign the article with my name. I did that. It
was published in the Frankfurter Algemeine, … it was about how he
secretly tried to build a poison gas factory, … it was a story that was
printed worldwide days later, but I had no information on that [the CIA
wrote it].
[11:25] A very good example [what happens] if you say no [to the
CIA]: … So [regarding the particular employee who said no], what
happened is that he lost his job.
[12:40] Six times my house was searched, … I have [had] three
house attacks, [but] I have no children, so … it’s worse for the truth
[for other journalists, whose family can be threatened, not only
themselves].
Ulfkotte has become a turncoat. He had originally been a conservative
Christian German, who opposed the increasing presence in Germany of
Muslims. He then came to feel so guilty as a German having discovered as
a journalist the role that a major German company played in helping
Saddam Hussein to gas Kurds, but which his newspaper never published, so
that Ulfkotte briefly converted to Islam.
Perhaps he was dealing with the shame he felt about his not bucking his
newspaper’s top management by simply ignoring them and going public
about what he had found, his letting it remain hidden.
But then, he co-founded a Christian peace-movement against the
Islamic extremism emerging in Germany. And now, he has come out with a
book which argues that the U.S. is actually the biggest of all threats
to peace. The book is available only in German, Gekaufte Journalisten, meaning “Purchased Journalists.”
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.”
He is, perhaps, a German equivalent to America’s Kevin Phillips, the
former Nixonian (inventor of “the Southern strategy”) who then became a
critic of the very same aristocracy he had previously so well served
while in office under Nixon.
Extensive other, independent, evidence, backs up Ulfkotte’s claim
that the CIA is (and even that its predecessor the OSS actually was)
essentially fascist. It was, in fact, set up by U.S. fascists; the CIA
recruited especially anti-Russian nazis, throughout eastern Europe, and
it directed European governments to work for Russia’s destruction.
Examples of such evidence are this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this.
Consequently, there is no sound reason to doubt what Ulfkotte says:
his narrative instead fits into a much broader documented picture, of
U.S. oligarchically-led global fascism from behind the scenes, which
systematically deceives publics throughout the industrialized countries,
and produces wars that America’s aristocrats want: made-to-order and
profitable wars (such as see this).
There also is a recent flurry of other news articles on the current consequences of that decades-long history, such as this, and this, and this, and this. The first three of those current examples come from Germany, just as does Ulfkotte’s own testimony. Moreover, a German poll in November 2013 showed
increasing public distrust there of America’s government. Since Germany
is central to the Western Alliance — and especially to the American
aristocracy’s control over the European Union, over the IMF, over the
World Bank, and over NATO — such a turn away from the American
Government threatens the dominance of America’s aristocrats (who control
our Government). A breakup of America’s ‘Alliance’ might be in the
offing, if Germans continue to turn away from being just America’s
richest “banana republic.”
However, U.S. President Obama is attempting to ward off that possibility, by placing
America’s international corporations directly in control, above and
beyond any laws by democratically elected governments: international fascism that’s beyond any nation-state.
Harry Reid (and his power via Democratic control of the U.S. Senate)
has been the main stumbling-block against Obama’s getting that (Obama’s
mega international-trade deals) passed into law. (Congressional
Republicans are overwhelmingly supportive of this Obama-initiative.)
Thus, if Democrats lose the Senate in November’s elections, Obama’s
plan to achieve ironclad control over the public, handing America’s
aristocracy yet another increase in their power, will be well within his
reach; he’ll probably call it “bipartisan,” even though the vast
majority of Democrats don’t want it.
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