In 2014, Udo Ulfkotte — a 17-year editor at Germany's prestigious Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung — published 'Bought Journalists,' confessing that the CIA and German intelligence (BND) bribed journalists to write pro-NATO, anti-Russia articles. He said journalists understood they would lose their jobs if they didn't comply. The book was a bestseller in Germany for months. The eagerly awaited English translation was suppressed for three years. Ulfkotte died of a heart attack in January 2017 at age 56.
A senior German newspaper editor confessed that the CIA paid European journalists to publish pro-NATO propaganda
“I was a journalist for 25 years, trained to lie, to betray, and to never tell the truth to the public. I was bribed by billionaires, Americans, and the CIA to report in a certain way. Most journalists are paid by the CIA, by intelligence agencies, to betray the people.”
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“Ulfkotte's claims are frivolous and unsubstantiated. His conspiracy theories about CIA control of German media have no basis in reality.”
— German media establishment · Oct 2014
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“Ulfkotte's claims are frivolous and unsubstantiated. His conspiracy theories about CIA control of German media have no basis in reality.”
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