CBC | The Fifth Estate | The CIA: Faking the News (1986)

From 1986 Fifth Estate host Eric Malling investigates the covert falsification of news reports by CIA propagandists attempting to influence public perception of the world.

Former CIA officer John Stockwell explains how a CIA task force wrote misleading news releases all over the world which were picked up by international media organizations.

Stockwell served in Africa, where local CIA media assets published fake stories about Cuban soldiers raping locals in Angola during an ongoing proxy war with Russia there.