MAINSTREAM MEDIA (MSM)
Reporter Admits Most Media Work for CIA, MI6,
Mossad
AMERICAN FREE PRESS frequently exposes the noxious collaborators with tyranny who
operate the mainstream media. Now a courageous German former journalist, Dr. Udo
Ulfkotte, has written a powerful new bestselling book that exposes the rampant cooperation
of the “Fourth Estate” with the world’s largest intelligence agencies, trans-Atlantic
organizations, banks, corporations and billionaires, making it into a political “fifth column.”
The book, Gekaufte Journalisten (literally, “Bought Journalists”), is not yet in English, but this
writer interviewed Ulfkotte on October 17 to bring this newspaper’s readers his stunning
revelations. Admitting first his own guilt of participating in the destructive underworld of
journalism, Ulfkotte fearlessly names other collaborators in his latest work and calls for a
return to a free and morally-upright press. The book has garnered worldwide interest, but the
German journalistic establishment is giving it the “silent treatment”—and worse.
Ulfkotte, 54, was raised in a devout Christian family and even educated at a religious school.
During early adulthood, like many young people, he began investigating other beliefs. At the
university in Freiburg in Breisgau he took an interest in law and Islamic studies. He became
fluent in Arabic—important for his future, albeit unintended, career.
During college in the 1980s, Ulfkotte also was recruited into the world of espionage. Prior to
a particular semester break, when he hoped to visit Italy and meet young women, a
professor asked if he would like to attend a two-week seminar in Bonn on the East-West
conflict. This was during the Cold War in a divided Germany. Ulfkotte was not at all
interested, but university professors in Germany were (and are) highly respected. It was
difficult to refuse.
He was promised that his travel would be paid for, as well as lodging and meals, and he
would receive spending money into the bargain. For a young man from poor economic
circumstances, this was too much. Relates Ulfkotte, “I suddenly felt this deep feeling inside
me that I had ‘always’ wanted to go” to such a seminar. Such “innocent” beginnings were the
first bribes, which would draw him ever deeper into a widespread network of corruption and
spying, where no one considered such behavior immoral, but rather “accepted practice.”
No one said, “I’m from the CIA,” or from the Bundesnachrichtendienst ( BND )—the German
intelligence service. But the seminar leaders sorted out “who was communist and who was
pro-Western” among the young attendees. After further similar events, someone asked
Ulfkotte if he would work for the BND—the last thing on his mind. But again, a professor—his
doctoral advisor—pressured him to “think about it.” And once more, a poor boy found a free
automobile and a good salary very attractive.
Upon receiving his doctorate, Ulfkotte—who never studied journalism—was provided a job
as a reporter for the leading conservative German newspaper, the Frankfurter Allgemeine
Zeitung ( FAZ) , hired over hundreds of other applicants. He became a war correspondent in
Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq, Iran and much of the Middle East, and later an FAZ editor.
Eventually, he did indeed meet agents of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), BND,
Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, commonly known as MI6 (Military Intelligence, Section
6), and Israel’s Mossad, who valued his ability to travel freely in countries largely closed to
the West. His editors were knowing accomplices.
Former Journalist Udo Ulfkotte in His Own Words
“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 [is trying] 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, but all over Europe. . . . I am very fearful of a new war in
Europe, and I don’t [want to see] this situation again. There are always people who
push for war, and this is not only politicians, it is journalists too. We have betrayed
our readers. . . . I’m fed up with this propaganda. We live in a banana republic
[Germany], and not in a democratic country where we have press freedom.” — Udo
Ulfkotte