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broadcast The Ugly Face of Freedom is similar in that it was loaded with palpable

incongruities, though not the incongruity of criminals publicly confessing their

crimes. For example, while host Morley Safer is describing a pogrom which was supposed

to have taken place in Ukraine in July of 1941, the scene being shown is of bodies

lying on the ground in snow. Multiply this sort of incongruity a hundredfold - I do

not exaggerate - and you create the 60 Minutes broadcast The Ugly Face of Freedom.

The explanation may be different each time. In each case, some explanation of

such incongruities is called for, and in each case the explanation may be different.

In the case of the 60 Minutes story The Mule, the explanation seems to be that a

fraudulent story advanced the career of a documentary filmmaker. In the case of the

ABC TV Prime Time story Girls for Sale, my speculation is that the story was true and

that it advanced Israeli interests. And in the case of the 60 Minutes story The Ugly

Face of Freedom, it is evident that the story was false, my speculation being again

that it advanced Israeli interests.

North American News May be Particularly Susceptible to Corruption. We have

three reasons for suspecting this, two of them coming from Reid's Washington Post

article below: (i) Reid describes London journalism as "furiously competitive" where "a

dozen newspapers and four TV networks regularly investigate - and savage - one

another's reporting" and contrasts this with the United States where "newspapers and TV

networks generally don't go on the attack against the other guy's story." (ii) The

British government's Independent Commission requires TV news to demonstrate "a respect

for truth," whereas in the United States, the accuracy of news reporting is not subject

to any official review. (iii) We see Israel Shahak repeatedly offering the observation

that North American news shows a unique degree of submission to Jewish control, as for

example in the following statement:

The bulk of the organized US Jewish community is totalitarian,

chauvinistic and militaristic in its views. This fact remains

unnoticed by other Americans due to its control of the media, but is

apparent to some Israeli Jews. As long as organized US Jewry remained

united, its control over the media and its political power remained

unchallenged. (Israel Shahak, Open Secrets: Israeli Nuclear and

Foreign Policies, Pluto Press, London and Chicago, 1997, p. 139).

CBS News Does Not Investigate Itself. Although an admission from 60 Minutes seems

imminent that its story of The Mule was fraudulent, CBS did not discover this fraud,

and is not undertaking any investigation of its own. Rather, there appear to be a

"series of investigations," possibly all British, including one by Carlton Television

which originally financed and broadcast the documentary, and including a study by the

British government. One may hypothesize, then, that CBS does not place high priority

on the acknowledgement and correction of its own errors, and that it will do so only

when forced to by public disclosure of these errors by some other agency. For this

reason, the acknowledgement by 60 Minutes that its story The Mule was entirely

fraudulent cannot be taken as offering hope that CBS is any closer to acknowledging

that its story The Ugly Face of Freedom was entirely fraudulent.

American Competence Gap? Mention has often been made in the Ukrainian Archive

of the existence of competence gaps as these relate to brain drains and gains. The

observation of a startling degree of credulity in the highest levels of the American

Press constitutes one such competence gap, although in this case it is not a gap that

leads to any brain theft from other nations, as the gap is largely hidden from the

American public. Perhaps the American public has its own competence gap - one in which

the people watching the news are as blind to incongruities as the people who are

broadcasting it.

Below are excerpts only. The complete Washington Post article is purchasable online

from the Washington Post by anyone who cares to first set up an account with the

Washington Post.

Acclaimed Expose Questioned as Hoax

British Drug Documentary Was Featured on "60 Minutes"

By T.R. Reid

Washington Post Foreign Service

Saturday, May 9, 1998; Page A01

LONDON, May 8 - That powerful expose on "60 Minutes" last summer about Colombian drug

runners was [...] quite possibly, false.

After a lengthy investigation, London's Guardian newspaper has charged that the

award-winning documentary "The Connection" [...] was essentially fiction.

The program featured dramatic footage of a drug "mule" said to be smuggling several

million dollars' worth of heroin to London for Colombia's Cali drug cartel. The

Guardian reported, though, that the "mule" actually carried no drugs, that his trip to

London was paid for by the documentary's producers, and that many of the report's

dramatic moments were faked.

[...]

When the report was shown on "60 Minutes," CBS reporter Steve Kroft said that the mule

had "no problem" slipping past British customs with the heroin in his stomach.

"Another pound of heroin was on the British streets," the "60 Minutes" report said.

But the Guardian, which says it found the "mule," reports that he actually swallowed