An Old CIA Intellectual Continues to Promote Fake Atrocity Stories and Advance War Propaganda in Retirement

From 1983 until 2021, Carl Gershman served as director of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), which was established by Congress to take over the CIA’s covert propaganda initiatives. The NED packages itself as a champion of human rights, though it finances groups that primarily publicize the atrocities—both real and imagined—of U.S. government enemies in […]
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