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NATO’s “information warfare” unit within Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, the Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD), once again posted, on Dec. 20, a list of Western figures who, it charges, promote Russian propaganda. Number one on the list, still, is Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder and head of the international Schiller Institute.

As documented in EIR’s Sept. 2, 2022 exposé, the CCD blacklist is a hit list, which overlaps and is coordinated with the notorious Myrotvorets assassination list. The CCD puts speakers on its hit list for such “crimes” as publicly advocating a peaceful settlement to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, pointing to NATO’s role in provoking that war, or merely asserting that Russia, and Russian culture, have a right to exist. The CCD demands every chance it gets that governments designate people holding such views as “information terrorists,” to be tried as terrorists. (https://larouchepub.com/other/2022/4934-global_nato_orders_a_hit_on_ad.html )

This is the third time the CCD has posted such a list. The first appeared on July 14. That list named 71 people, with Zepp-LaRouche and the first 30-odd speakers at various Schiller Institute international conferences right up front. Feeling the heat of the Schiller Institute’s international campaign against its hit list, and diplomatic pressure from certain governments, the CCD removed the list on August 11. The CCD then re-posted the list in early October, adding a couple dozen more people to those previously named to bring the total to over 90. In the midst of another flurry of negative attention to its hit list, particularly from within Germany, the list was then removed again on the weekend of Nov. 6.

Now the list is back, shortened to some 40 people, for whatever reason, and accompanied by a CYA statement that “it should be noted that the listed persons are not Russian propagandists, but promote narratives consistent with Russian propaganda.”

List or no list, at no time has NATO’s CCD stopped targeting “Russian propagandists” in the West on its Telegram channel, or stopped its campaign for a war against “information terrorists.” (https://cpd.gov.ua/reports/spikery-yaki-prosuvayut-spivzvuchni-rosijskij-propagandi-naratyvy-2/)