Tag: Germany: ‘White’ and ‘Gray’ Propaganda

NOVANEWS Sputnik  A former GDR intelligence agent, Horst Kopp, wrote a book named “Disinformant” (Der Desinformant) revealing how fake news was produced during the postwar period in Germany. In an interview with Sputnik Germany, Kopp reveals the origin of propaganda and how it is used to achieve certain goals. In his book, Kopp draws attention to the fact that state-sponsored propaganda was not invented by the East during the Cold War. It was a communication tool developed by the US 100 years ago. “In 1917, the world’s first state propaganda apparatus was created in the United States. President Woodrow Wilson approved the annual funding of the Committee on Public Information (CPI) in the amount of five million dollars. Foreign newspapers were supplied with positive information about the...