THE PROPAGANDA DOES NOT HAVE AN EXPIRATION DATE

The so-called Dulles Plan

F2N2 was curious, therefore decided to conduct more detailed examination of one of our disinformation articles related to the so-called “Dulles Plan”. It was interesting to investigate the time dimension of the narrative in the narrow region. The F2N2 managed to find a text dated January 2013 initially published by a Serbian news portal. Later on in a similar form published by other Serbian portals in 2015, 2017 and 2018.

Source: vesti.rs

In Montenegro the first article (found by F2N2) was published some two weeks after the article in alo.rs in 2018, transmitting the so-called Dulles Plan almost identically.

When looking at the regional context, the conspiracy theory about the so-called “Dulles Plan” aiming to destroy the Slavs and Orthodox Christians has arrived in Macedonia in September 2018. Actually, this disinformation narrative arrived in Macedonia at a time of one of the country’s most important events since its independence, that is few weeks before the Referendum day on the country’s name change that opens the NATO membership and the expectation of the opening of the negotiation talks with the EU.

The video was shared more than 1,100 times in Macedonia, with the same content, but with Serbian subtitles. In January 2019, although this video was recycled, on Facebook another video was shared, with identical content, but with Macedonian subtitles.

What is the so-called “Dulles Plan” about?

The so-called “Dulles Plan” is an alleged document produced by Allan Dulles in the post Second World War period targeting the Russian and other Slavic nations. In accordance with the alleged plan, the US, through CIA, should influence the Russian society by destroying the values, targeting the citizens through various channels, thus making them immoral. In other words, impose values that would contribute towards failed society, and later towards failed state. It is evident that the entire story was launched by a fiction novel, taken on by the Russian propaganda in the dawn of the USSR breakdown, serving as a narrative for the failed state at that point. Serghei Golunov and Vera Smirnova within their conclusions admit that the language in which the document is written matches the style of the Russian language much more than the one of the English language. Another interesting point was made by Julie Fedor. While she was a Postdoctoral Research Associate, at the Cambridge University, she made a research on the mythical so-called plan and beside many things she confirms that the so-called “Dulles Plan” is at the top of the conspiracy theories and the official document cannot be found.

When and where the “Dulles Plan” is first mentioned?

The Russian scholars Serghei Golunov and Vera Smirnova published a study on the “Dulles plan”, as one of the conspiracy theories that appear in Russia. The analysis of the text that is presented as the “Dulles plan” shows that the first and the last paragraph of it are almost verbatim copy from the fiction novel “Eternal call” by Anatoly Ivanov from 1981.

In 1992, the so-called “Dulles Plan” as a term, appears in the book “My Prince: Two years in Kremlin” by the Ukrainian poet Boris Olinyk, published in Moscow. In 1993, Boris Olinyk worked for the journal “Molodia Guardia” whose editor is Anatoly Ivanov. The so-called “Dulles Plan” finds its way to his journal and by that the term reaches the media in Russia for the first time in 1993 in a text authored by Boris Olinyk.

The conclusion is that the propaganda and disinformation narratives have no expiration date nor geographical limitations and the conspiracy theories are timeless tools used by the propaganda masters.

If culture is falling apart, do not look at anyone in power in Russia. It’s obviously a CIA plot to destroy the heart of Russian power – Panchenko