The Rise and Fall of the Bulgarian Connection

by Edward S. Herman, Frank Brodhead

Book by Herman, Edward S., Brodhead, Frank

Genres: History, Bulgaria

255 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1986

About the author

Edward S. Herman was an economist and media analyst with a specialty in corporate and regulatory issues as well as political economy and the media. He was Professor Emeritus of Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He also taught at Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his Bachelor of Arts from University of Pennsylvania in 1945 and PhD in 1953 from the University of California, Berkeley.

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Reviews

[Dan E · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is fine for what it is: an expose on how media and intelligence services place stories, sources, and disinformation into media apparatuses, which is then spun into an ever-growing web usually by echoing and reproducing those same sources and agents as the primary bases. I heard about this book in a footnote and my real interest is the secret Roman Masonic lodge Propaganda Due (P2) which is the closest thing to a REAL “deep state” that I have come across. P2 does play some role in this story as well however it is mostly US intelligence contacts, foreign intelligence agents who are now “scholars,” experts, and contributors, and their friendly media accomplices who serve as the main characters in this story of deception and idea-seeding. It really should not come as a surprise to anyone who is paying attention that this sort of thing has been going on for a very long time and likely will never stop but it’s interesting to read in detail how it is accomplished. As the author put it: “The history of the Bulgarian Connection illustrates well the role of the mass media as a servant of power.” It seems this will never not be true.