The son of the head of Romania’s Communist-era state run propaganda bureau, rabid cold warrior Vladimir Socor, is today employed as a propagandist for a Dick Cheney related neocon outfit. He is often quoted as an analyst and commentator and has been known to plant false flag stories which (with a little help from his friends) can make it around the world a couple of times before they fall flat on their face.
Well, dig deeper and it turns out that the guy is actually an advisor to the Moldovan government.
Naturally, he himself doesn’t advertise the fact. Instead, his shtick is to present himself as a serious independent analyst while hinting at having close ties to the U.S. State Department and the White House (to this end, he uses his former employment with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to great theatrical effect. RFE/RL is a U.S. government propaganda outfit which was originally funded by the CIA).
In Moldova, George Sima has this to say:
the latter-day “adviser” to the current Moldovan leadership, Vlad Socor, an American of Romanian origin, whose opinion is recently viewed in the high circles of Chisinau’s cabinet as the certain and indisputable “indication to action” (probably because this suspicious “political scientist” is directly linked to the U.S. State Department !?)
Sima was a former government minister in the Moldovan cabinet, so he has an inside track on who does what in high circles. (Original here).
In an interview with PMR Foreign Minister Valeri Litskai, Oleg Elkov - editor in chief of Olvia Press - confirms Socor’s Moldovan advisor-status:
[…] Commentary made last week by Vladimir Socor, advisor to the Moldovan President
According to Voronin’s advisor, in this case, Moldova will be able to achieve its objectives in Transdniestria.
If he came out and said it as it is, this facade would crumble. “I’ve been working as a close advisor to the Moldovan government all along, and my job is to plant the kind of spin that they want and trick you into believing it as fact.”
Socor’s side-gig as a Moldovan Rasputin has made him the mouthpiece for some of the most vile anti PMR commentary this side of Oazu Nantoi. Like his personal friend Edward Lucas, he would hate to see Transdniestria’s independence become recognized, so he is beating the Cold War drums and sees red whenever he hears someone speak Russian.
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