Over the years studying the published history about the Comintern’s Willi Münzenberg and his elaborate propaganda/espionage NKVD/GRU apparat, and of the CIA’s Operation Mockingbird network of journalists and media assets, has made me jaded and suspicious, sadder but wiser about such matters. Things are not always what they seem or as initially “reported.” But I still believe that eventually truth will out, and the good guys will win in the final reel of the movie. Recent damning reports document the extent that select contemporary journalists are in thrall to their intelligence agencies paymasters, much like the CIA’s long-standing media disinformation/propaganda campaign, Operation Mockingbird, during the Cold War. The Agency had a … Continue reading “News,” Propaganda, or Disinformation: The World Is Not What It Seems