Borchgrave, A

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<p><b>Arnaud de Borchgrave</b> was the former editor-in-chief from 1985 to 1991 of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Washington_Times" title="Washington Times">Washington Times</a>, and of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Insight" title="Insight" class="mw-redirect">Insight</a> magazine between 1998 to 2001, both of which are publications owned by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sun_Myung_Moon" title="Sun Myung Moon">Sun Myung Moon's</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Unification_Church" title="Unification Church">Unification Church</a>. Borchgrave often appears on TV, and is a pundit pushed by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Benador_Associates" title="Benador Associates">Benador Associates</a>.

Borchgrave worked for <i>Newsweek</i> but, according to Louis Wolf and Fred Clarkson (page 35), was fired in 1980 "in part for keeping dossiers on fellow employees". Borchgrave was appointed Editor-in-Chief for the Washington Times on March 20, 1985.</p>

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He is currently editor-at-large for the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/United_Press_International" title="United Press International"><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;">United Press International</span></a><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;"> </span>- another Unification Church-owned media entity - and for the <i>Washington Times</i>. He has also been President and CEO of UPI. He is also director of the Global Organized Crime Project at the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_Strategic_and_International_Studies" title="Center for Strategic and International Studies">Center for Strategic and International Studies</a>, where he was appointed as a senior advisor in 1991.

His biographical note on the UPI website states that de Borchgrave:</p>

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<dd>"pioneered a new style of exclusive foreign reporting as <i>Newsweek'</i>s chief foreign correspondent for 25 years, covering more than 90 countries and 17 wars. His war reporting included seven tours in Vietnam, where he was wounded twice."<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.upi.com">[1]</a></dd>

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<h2>Contents</h2>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arnaud_de_Borchgrave#Memorable_quotes"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Memorable quotes</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arnaud_de_Borchgrave#Disinformation_Agent"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Disinformation Agent</span></a>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arnaud_de_Borchgrave#The_recanting_peace-activist_hoax"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">The recanting peace-activist hoax</span></a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arnaud_de_Borchgrave#Affiliation"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Affiliation</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arnaud_de_Borchgrave#Books"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Books</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arnaud_de_Borchgrave#External_links_.28date_order.29"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">External links (date order)</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arnaud_de_Borchgrave#Contact_details"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">Contact details</span></a></li>

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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Memorable_quotes">Memorable quotes</span></h2>

<p>In 1978 he told a <i>Covert Action Information Bulletin</i> editor:</p>

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<dd>… he considered his "key, best sources of information" in the world the heads of "intelligence services in Washington, London, Tel Aviv, and Pretoria, each of which I stay in close contact with." Despite such open reliance on close intelligence ties, de Borchgrave claims coyly nowadays that he spurned two CIA recruitment approaches.

—Louis Wolf, Fred Clarkson, op. cit. p. 35.</dd>

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<dd>Asked whether the United States engages in disinformation, de Borchgrave said that present and former U.S. officials trying "in a free society… to put the best face possible" on what they are doing or did in government is not disinformation "That is called management of the news."

—Louis Wolf, Fred Clarkson, op. cit. p. 35.</dd>

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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Disinformation_Agent">Disinformation Agent</span></h2>

<p>William Preston and Ellen Ray wrote a history of disinformation in the U.S., and observed:</p>

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<dd>The greatest assistance in disinformation – especially during the current Administration – is always forthcoming from the <i>Reader's Digest</i>. In 1977 the <i>Times</i> exposed Digest editor John Barron as having worked hand in glove with the CIA on a book about the KGB. Other fraudulent journalists like Robert Moss, Arnaud de Borchgrave, Daniel James, Claire Sterling, and Michael Ledeen, among others, seem to pick up disinformation themes almost automatically. In fact, coordination between the development of propaganda and disinformation themes by the covert media assets, the overt propaganda machine, and the bevy of puppet journalists is quite calculated. A theme which is floated on one level – a feature item on VOA about Cuba for example – will appear within record time as a lead article in <i>Reader's Digest</i>, or a feature in a <i>Heritage Foundation report</i>, or a series of "exposes" by Moss and de Borchgrave or Daniel James in some reactionary tabloid like <i>Human Events</i> or the <i>Washington Times</i> or <i>Inquirer</i>. Then they will be called to testify by Senator Denton's Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism, repeating one another's allegations as "expert witnesses".

After that they are given credibility by the "respectable" Cold War publications like the <i>National Review</i>, <i>Commentary</i>, and the <i>New Republic</i>. And finally, since they have repeated the theme so many times it must be true, they are given the opportunity to write Op Ed pieces for the <i>New York Times</i> or the <i>Washington Post</i>.

— William Preston and Ellen Ray, op. cit., pp. 7-8.</dd>

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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="The_recanting_peace-activist_hoax">The recanting peace-activist hoax</span></h3>

<p>Borchgrave was instrumental in laundering a story about a recanting peace-activist who "saw the light" in Iraq before the war. Although Joseph went to Iraq to protest against the impending war in 2003, while in Baghdad, he changed his mind, and now favored the war. It transpires that this was a hoax, there was no "Kenneth Joseph", and the details can be read <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Johann_Hari#Hari_and_the_Kenneth_Joseph_story" title="Johann Hari">here</a>.</p>

<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Affiliation">Affiliation</span></h2>

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<li>Senior Advisory Board, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Diligence" title="Diligence" class="mw-redirect">Diligence</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=World_Strategy_Network&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="World Strategy Network (page does not exist)">World Strategy Network</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=U.S._Global_Stratey_Council&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="U.S. Global Stratey Council (page does not exist)">U.S. Global Stratey Council</a> – Board of Directors</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Washington_Times" title="Washington Times">Washington Times</a> – Editor in chief</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/UPI" title="UPI" class="mw-redirect">UPI</a> – Editor in chief</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Benador_Associates" title="Benador Associates">Benador Associates</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CAUSA" title="CAUSA">CAUSA</a> (affiliated to Unification Church) -- setup during the 1980s to counter US-campus sympathy for the revolutionary movements in Central America. It also sought to put the Contra leadership in best light, despite the fact they were CIA agents. On the other hand it sought to tarnish the image of Daniel Ortega, and all the Nicaraguan Sandinista leadership. Unification Church students of Latin American descent were sent to the main US-campuses to spread the CAUSA magazine.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Unification_Church" title="Unification Church">Unification Church</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Central_Intelligence_Agency" title="Central Intelligence Agency">Central Intelligence Agency</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NewsMax.com" title="NewsMax.com">NewsMax.com</a> – Board of Directors</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Committee_for_the_Free_World" title="Committee for the Free World">Committee for the Free World</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Newsweek" title="Newsweek">Newsweek</a> – journalist/editor until 1985.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/United_States_Committee_for_a_Free_Lebanon" title="United States Committee for a Free Lebanon">United States Committee for a Free Lebanon</a> – Listed as "expert"</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_Strategic_and_International_Studies" title="Center for Strategic and International Studies">Center for Strategic and International Studies</a> – Senior Adviser and Director (2005); Transnational Threats Initiative program.</li>

<li>Director, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Legal_Center_for_the_Public_Interest" title="National Legal Center for the Public Interest">National Legal Center for the Public Interest</a></li>

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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Books">Books</span></h2>

<p>With <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Robert_Moss" title="Robert Moss">Robert Moss</a> Borchgrave co-authored the best-selling novel <i>The Spike</i>, in which a biographical note states he "drew on his extensive knowledge of Soviet KGB operations." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.upi.com">[2]</a> This duo has produced "novels" that were meant to sell Cold Warrior propaganda, e.g., by smearing people as communists, traitors etc.They were especially active before the overthrow of Allende in Chile in 1973.

<i>The Spike</i> is a McCarthy-esque (cold-warrior) "novel" that smeared some as communist agents. A critical assessment of this novel can be found <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Historical_engineering_with_novels#The_Spike:_spook_approved_propaganda" title="Historical engineering with novels">here</a>.</p>

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<li>Arnaud De Borchgrave, Robert Moss, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0517536242/qid=1107382660/sr=2-2/ref=pd_ka_b_2_2/103-9984960-3207044">The Spike</a>", Outlet, April 1980. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Special:BookSources/0517536242" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn">ISBN 0517536242</a></li>

<li>Arnaud de Borchgrave, Frank J. Cilluffo, Sharon L. Cardash, Michele Ledgerwood, Csis Homeland Defense Project, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0892063882/ref=pd_sim_b_2/103-9984960-3207044?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance">Cyber Threats and Information Security: Meeting the 21st Century Challenge</a>", Center for Strategic & International Studies, May 2001. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Special:BookSources/0892063882" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn">ISBN 0892063882</a></li>

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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="External_links_.28date_order.29">External links (date order)</span></h2>

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<li>William Preston, Jr. and Ellen Ray, "Disinformation and Mass Deception: Democracy as a Cover Story", <i>Covert Action Information Bulletin</i>, Spring-Summer 1983, No. 19, pp. 3–12. (contains photo of Borchgrave in "Rhodesian army gear, one of his favorite outfits."</li>

<li>Louis Wolf and Fred Clarkson, "Arnaud de Borchgrave Boards Moon's Ship", <i>Covert Information Information Bulletin</i>, Summer 1985, No. 24, pp. 34-35.</li>

<li>Fred Clarkson, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.fair.org/extra/best-of-extra/washington-times.html">Behind the Times: Who Pulls The Strings at Washington's No. 2 Daily?</a>", <i>FAIR/Extra!</i>, August/September 1987.</li>

<li>Arnaud de Borchgrave, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030321-023627-5923r">Lucky Break for Jordan</a>", <i>UPI</i>, March 21, 2003.</li>

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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Contact_details">Contact details</span></h2>

<p>Phone: (202) 775-3285 E-mail: adeborch AT csis.org</p>

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