US Agency for Global Media vows to investigate broadcast report that called George Soros a ‘multimillionaire Jew’

John Lansing, CEO and director of the US Agency for Global Media (formerly known as the Broadcasting Board of Governors), which oversees Radio and Television Martí’s parent office, said that a probe is underway of a Spanish-language program describing George Soros as a “multimillionaire Jew” and espousing conspiracy theories about the billionaire philanthropist. The 15-minute segment was aired in May by Radio and Television Martí, which broadcasts news and other programs promoting US interests to audiences in Cuba. The program calls Soros a “nonpracticing Jew of flexible morals,” claims that he was involved in “clandestine operations that led to the dismantling of the Soviet Union” and describes him as “the architect of the financial collapse of 2008.” It also makes repeated references to Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group that has launched an “Expose Soros” fundraising campaign and whose director of investigations and research recently claimed without evidence that the “Soros-occupied State Department” is funding the migrant caravan making its way to the United States.