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The interviewee describes a long career in journalism spanning about 25 years and asserts that he was educated to lie, betray, and not tell the truth to the public. He claims that German and American media have been pushing war in Europe and toward Russia, and he states that he is leaving behind past practices of manipulating readers and promoting propaganda. He says he is fed up with propaganda and asserts that journalists are bribed to betray people, not only in Germany but across Europe. He emphasizes that war does not come from itself and that there are people behind it, including journalists.
The interviewee explains that he wrote a book to reveal what goes on behind closed doors and to warn against another war in Europe. He recounts a history of misrepresentation and suppression of atrocity stories, noting that in 1988 he witnessed the Kurdish gas attack in Iraq and was sent to Zubaydad near the Iraqi-Iranian border to photograph Iranians allegedly gassed with German-made poison gas (mustard gas, Zyklon-like agents). Upon returning to Germany, he says only a small photo and a minimal article appeared in the Frankfurter Allgemeine, with little emphasis on the brutality and the long-term suffering caused by German poison gas, making him feel misused.
He discusses his role with intelligence agencies, describing himself as non-official cover (a journalist who also works for intelligence agencies). He claims that many foreign journalists are in the same situation and that the process is more prevalent among British journalists, and to a broader extent among Israelis, French, Australians, New Zealanders, and journalists from Arab countries, who may be intellectual puppets for the CIA. He provides an example with the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND), stating that the BND once asked him to write an article about Libya and Muammar Gaddafi, providing him secret information to publish under his own byline. He says the article claimed that Libya and Gaddafi secretly tried to build a poison gas factory, a story he printed that originated with the intelligence agency and appeared worldwide two days later.
The interviewee recounts consequences of resisting intelligence services, such as a colleague who refused to cooperate with the BND and was dismissed from his job as a Yellow Angels helicopter pilot. He recalls multiple police searches of his home—six times—on accusations of leaking state secrets, and he notes that these pressures would intensify if he continued to resist. He claims that he has had three heart attacks, has no children, and suggests that if the authorities jail him, it would be worse for the truth he seeks to reveal. He asserts that Germany remains a colony of the United States, with American nukes on German soil, and that transatlantic organizations influence media to push pro-American and anti-Russian narratives, steering journalists toward compliance.