Editor of major German newspaper says he planted stories for CIA

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78. Alex Jones has a PhD in international politics?

And he wrote for the leading conservative newspaper in his country for 17 years?

There is no doubt that Dr. Ulfkotte is a right-winger (just like most of his former colleagues and superiors at that newspaper). It is true that he makes provocative statements, sometimes bolstered with spurious evidence.

I'm afraid the same or worse must be said about your own 'source', though. It doesn't take much effort to find claims there which are outright false. As regards Ulfkotte:

In 2003 the journalist and security expert Dr. Udo Ulfkotte published a book So lügen Journalisten ("This is How Journalists Lie&quot where he accused the fourth estate of deliberately distorting the truth.

http://www.dialoginternational.com/dialog_international/2010/05/so-l%C3%BCgt-udo-ulfkotte.html

The writer and "Islam expert" Dr. Udo Ulfkotte has made a nice career for himself in Germany by spreading hate and fear against Muslims. ... What concerns me is that he is viewed by the German media as an "expert" and frequently appears on German television.

http://www.dialoginternational.com/dialog_international/2011/05/ulfkotte-turkish-womens-poor-hygiene-to-blame-for-ecoliehec-outbreak.html

Ulfkotte was pretty much ignored by legitimate news outlets. Or he was derisively dismissed as a conspiracy nut. But two events happened last year that revitalized his career in fake journalism: the unfolding events in the Ukraine and the rise of the "Pegida movement".

http://www.dialoginternational.com/dialog_international/2015/01/fake-journalist-udo-ulfkotte-makes-a-comeback-as-putin-propagandist.html

According to this ominous blog, it was 'the Lügenpresse! battle-cry of the Pegida protesters' which gave 'Ulfkotte a convenient cover to go after the journalists who scorned or ignored him in the past'. 'Lügenpresse' means 'lying press' and is a fighting term with a long tradition reaching back almost 200 years. Since it has also been used by Goebbels (denouncing the foreign press), it is now seen as a given that everyone who uses it now must be a Nazi.

But was it in fact the 'Pegida' rabble who started denouncing the German press of unfairly reporting the events in Ukraine? 'Pegida' was founded in October 2014, after Ulfkotte's book came out. Harsh criticism of mainstream media reporting had been voiced much earlier, not only at 'Montagswachen' (Monday peace vigils) throughout the year but also by official supervisory organs:

The supervisory committee of Germany’s ARD public television station has criticised the station’s coverage of developments in Ukraine. The station’s coverage had “given the impression of bias” and appeared to be directed against “Russia and Russian standpoints”, the committee declares in the minutes of its meeting of June 24, which has been published in the online magazine Telepolis. ...

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/09/26/ardp-s26.html

The widely known and appreciated satirical TV progam 'Die Anstalt' had aired some skits on the same topic in September:

Some of the more interesting information mentioned by 'Die Anstalt' and also cited in Ulfkotte's book, about the pro-NATO networking among journalists, was cited from a book that came out in February 2014: Uwe Krüger: Meinungsmacht. Der Einfluss von Eliten auf Leitmedien und Alpha-Journalisten - eine kritische Netzwerkanalyse

That must be one big conspiracy indeed, I guess, no doubt directed by the lying press of Putin.