{"id":40873,"date":"2018-11-24T06:41:38","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T11:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40873"},"modified":"2018-11-24T06:41:38","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T11:41:38","slug":"anonymous-exposes-uk-led-psyop-to-battle-russian-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40873","title":{"rendered":"Anonymous\u00a0Exposes UK-Led Psyop To Battle &#8220;Russian Propaganda&#8221;\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-zerohedge-page-title\" class=\"block block-core block-page-title-block\">\n<h3 class=\"page-title\"><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-11-23\/anonymous-exposes-uk-led-psyop-battle-russian-propaganda\">Anonymous\u00a0Exposes UK-Led Psyop To Battle &#8220;Russian Propaganda&#8221;\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-zerohedge-content\" class=\"block block-system block-system-main-block\">\n<article class=\"node node--type-article node--view-mode-full\" role=\"article\" data-gtm-vis-recent-on-screen-2077925_22=\"1531\" data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-2077925_22=\"1531\" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-2077925_22=\"100\" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-2077925_22=\"1\">\n<div class=\"node__content\">\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>The hacking collective known as &#8220;Anonymous&#8221; published a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyberguerrilla.org\/blog\/operation-integrity-initiative-british-informational-war-against-all\/\">trove of documents<\/a> on November 5 which it claims exposes a UK-based psyop to create a &#8220;<strong>large-scale information secret service<\/strong>&#8221; in Europe in order to combat &#8220;Russian propaganda&#8221; &#8211; which has been blamed for everything from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/jun\/17\/why-isnt-there-greater-outrage-about-russian-involvement-in-brexit\">Brexit<\/a> to US President Trump winning the 2016 US election.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/putin%20puppet.jpg?itok=FRSINeNF\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/putin%20puppet.jpg?itok=FRSINeNF\" data-link-option=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/putin%20puppet.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/putin%20puppet.jpg?itok=FRSINeNF 1x\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"265\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"6d5e583e-9330-4ace-a090-0e29971ebdca\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The primary objective of the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.integrityinitiative.net\/\">Integrity Initiative<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; established in 2015 by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statecraft.org.uk\/about-us\">Institute for Statecraft<\/a> &#8211; is &#8220;to provide a coordinated Western response to Russian disinformation and other elements of hybrid warfare.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And while the notion of Russian disinformation has become the West&#8217;s favorite new bogeyman to excuse things such as Hillary Clinton&#8217;s historic loss to Donald Trump, we note that &#8220;Anonymous&#8221; was called out by WikiLeaks in October 2016 as an FBI cutout, while the report on the Integrity Initiative that Anonymous exposed comes from Russian state-owned network <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/444737-uk-funded-campaign-russia-leaks\/\"><em>RT<\/em><\/a> &#8211; so it&#8217;s anyone&#8217;s guess whose 400lb hackers are at work here.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"Tweet-header\"><a class=\"TweetAuthor-avatar  Identity-avatar u-linkBlend\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wikileaks\" data-scribe=\"element:user_link\" aria-label=\"WikiLeaks (screen name: wikileaks)\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/512138307870785536\/Fe00yVS2_normal.png\" alt=\"\" data-scribe=\"element:avatar\" data-src-2x=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/512138307870785536\/Fe00yVS2_bigger.png\" data-src-1x=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/512138307870785536\/Fe00yVS2_normal.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"TweetAuthor js-inViewportScribingTarget\" data-scribe=\"component:author\">\n<div class=\"TweetAuthor-nameScreenNameContainer\"><span class=\"TweetAuthor-decoratedName\"><span class=\"TweetAuthor-verifiedBadge\" data-scribe=\"element:verified_badge\"><b class=\"u-hiddenVisually\">\u2714<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Tweet-body e-entry-content\" data-scribe=\"component:tweet\">\n<div class=\"Tweet-inReplyTo\"><a class=\"u-linkBlend\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_\/status\/790701418080591872\" data-scribe=\"element:in_reply_to_user_link\">Replying to @MashiRafael<\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"Tweet-text e-entry-title\" dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;Anonymous&#8221; has been controlled by FBI agent &#8220;Sabu&#8221; and other agencies,\u00a0including the CIA. Likely an attempt to manipulate.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>Operating on a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/392195593\/Integrity-2018-Activity-Budget-v3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"tag noopener noreferrer\">budget<\/a>\u00a0of \u00a31.9 million (US$2.4 million),<strong> the secretive Integrity Initiative consists of &#8220;clusters&#8221; of local politicians, journalists, military personnel, scientists and academics.<\/strong> The team is <strong>dedicated to searching for and publishing\u00a0<em>&#8220;evidence&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0of Russian interference in European affairs<\/strong>, while themselves influencing leadership behind the scenes, the documents claim.<\/p>\n<p>The UK establishment appears to be conducting the very activities of which it and its allies have long-accused the Kremlin, with little or no corroborating evidence. The program also aims to\u00a0<em>&#8220;change attitudes in Russia itself&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0as well as influencing Russian speakers in the EU and North America, one of the leaked\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/392195390\/FCO-Application-Form-2018-v2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"tag noopener noreferrer\">documents<\/a>\u00a0states. &#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/444737-uk-funded-campaign-russia-leaks\/\">RT<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anonymous\u00a0Exposes UK-Led Psyop To Battle &#8220;Russian Propaganda&#8221;\u00a0 The hacking collective known as &#8220;Anonymous&#8221; published a trove of documents on November 5 which it claims exposes a UK-based psyop to create a &#8220;large-scale information secret service&#8221; in Europe in order to combat &#8220;Russian propaganda&#8221; &#8211; which has been blamed for everything from Brexit to US President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[2072,281,655,1740,694,2080,4318],"class_list":["post-40873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-anonymous","tag-europe","tag-propaganda","tag-psyops","tag-russia","tag-united-kingdom","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40874,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40873\/revisions\/40874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}