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The New York Times Smoking Gun

In the 1930s, the U.S. news media had a great influence on how intelligence officials, policy makers and the general public viewed the Soviet Union. One such journalist who was able to sway public opinion through his writings was New York Times correspondent Walter Duranty, who not only disregarded the famine in his dispatches, but also called other journalists outright liars for reporting about Ukraine’s Famine-Genocide.

The Gordon Dispatch clearly indicates The New York Times' complicity in the white-wash of Stalin's regime generally .... and therefore its complicity in the cover-up of the Ukrainian Holodomor - Famine Genocide, in particular.

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With the collapse of the Soviet Union, many U.S. documents have been declassified. Click Here to view a copy of an official memorandum sent by George A. Gordon, Charge d’Affairs, ad interim in Berlin, Germany to the U.S. Secretary of State in June 1931. The memorandum addresses a conversation a U.S. Embassy employee had with Walter Duranty, the Moscow correspondent of the New York Times. Upon reading the document, one can clearly conclude that Walter Duranty was merely a mouthpiece for the Soviet Regime. This is evident when he states, “in agreement with the New York Times and the Soviet authorities’ his official dispatches always reflect the official opinion of the Soviet region and not his own.” This document not only brings to light Duranty’s shortcomings in his coverage of the Soviet Union during the 1930s, but also raises the question as to his journalistic integrity, for which in 1932, he was awarded the prestigious Pulitzer Prize.