Steele Dossier Is Classic Soviet-Style Disinformation
If the DNC had published the ridiculous accusations in the Steele Dossier on its own, people might be skeptical. Well, people who don’t work for CNN, anyway. So, having learned at the feet of their communist masters, the DNC peddled their handiwork to the Democrat-loving media and Obama’s FBI. Then, they sat back, watched their baby grow, and denied having played any part in the whole fantasy. Today, mainstream media consumers are shocked – just shocked – to learn that the Steele Dossier is a $12 million concoction of the Democrat Party itself.
Disinformation 101
In the book Disinformation, Lt. General Ion Pacepa describes how Soviet propagandists made the general public believe ridiculous things. As the top intelligence officer of Romania for decades during the Soviet era, he took part in high-level Kremlin operations to convince gullible westerners to believe fictional accounts that were damaging to the United States and its allies. The key to these disinformation campaigns was for Soviet bloc propagandists to dupe trusted western media sources to report manufactured tales, rather than making the accusations public themselves. This gave credibility to reports that would be laughed off coming straight from the Soviet agencies.
In the case of the Steele Dossier, the DNC played the part of the Soviet disinformation agents. CNN, the New York Times and the rest of the Democrat media played their part just as they had in the past: They published the damaging account with no mention of its clear partisan origin. Don’t shoot the messenger!
The fiction writers of the modern Democrat Party invented a salacious account of Donald Trump hiring hookers to urinate on a bed once used by Barack Obama. They added further details less lurid but just as unfounded. They then hired multiple levels of lawyers and private, dependable Democrat political firms to peddle the disinformation to the media and to James Comey’s FBI. It worked.
On the night of January 10, 2017, CNN ran 12 solid hours of breathless reporting on the made-up accusations in the Steele Dossier. By the afternoon of January 11, every fair-minded American knew the allegations to be false, but every devoted viewer of CNN and its mainstream media allies believed the lies. Mission accomplished.
In the 1930s, the New York Times helped Soviet propagandists convince Americans that the reports of Stalin’s atrocities in Ukraine and Moscow were untrue. In the 1950s, the Democrat media convinced westerners that the sainted anti-communist Pope Pius XII was a Nazi sympathizer. In 1959, Times reporter Herbert Matthews single-handedly turned western public opinion in favor of the brutal Fidel Castro and his psychotic sidekick Che Guevara. Modern dupes still believe the J. Edgar Hoover cross-dressing fantasies pushed by Cold War era media dupes.
Soviet-style disinformation is alive and well in today’s Democrat Party and its obedient press. General Pacepa couldn’t have done it better himself.
JBO says
DNC, Clinton and CNN have created the biggest mess i could ever imagine, they are in a death spiral and its all coming soon to a end. They will not go down without a fight, lying their way to the bottom of the garbage pile. Good bye Clinton and her cronies your time is coming.
RussiaHack says
Pacepa was the highest ranking Soviet bloc intelligence officer to defect.