from
RT
Hackers who leaked documents from the Integrity Initiative, a
shadowy outfit funded by the UK government, claim they show its
connections to the March 2018 alleged poisoning attack in Salisbury and
proposed actions against Russia.
The Integrity Initiative (II) was set up in 2015 by the equally shadowy
“Institute for Statecraft,” according to the documents
published online in November
by hackers calling themselves a part of the Anonymous collective. While
Anonymous has denied the group was behind the leak, the Institute
confirmed the authenticity of the first batch of documents.
The hackers
posted a fresh batch of documents
purportedly from the Initiative and the Institute on Friday, hinting
that both outfits had connections with Western media coverage of the
March 2018 alleged poisoning of former Russian spy Sergey Skripal, and
the actions against Russia taken subsequently by the UK government and
its allies.
One of the documents is the
confidential report by Harod Associates, a company hired by the Initiative to conduct
“mainstream & social media analysis” of the Skripal scandal coverage. The entire undertaking was dubbed
“Operation Iris.”
Among those who found themselves named
“Russian trolls”
and Kremlin agents in the report were Ukrainian-born pianist Valentina
Lisitsa and a gentleman from Kent who goes by Ian56 on Twitter.
... The document dump also contains the
April 14, 2018 email
from Andy Pryce, whom the hackers describe as “chief propaganda man” at
the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, containing the official government
narrative of the Skripal affair and the alleged chemical attack in
Douma, Syria. Pryce ends the email by recommending
“good sources of further information” on alleged Russian propaganda, including the Atlantic Council’s DFR Lab, Bellingcat and Stopfake.
Documents
obtained and published by the hackers also show connections between
Skripal’s recruiter and neighbor Pablo Miller, the Institute for
Statecraft, and the so-called rescue group White Helmets, created in
militant-held areas of Syria by a former British official in 2013...
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