FOI request reveals Bellingcat collusion with Western intelligence  - The Grayzone
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An extraordinary email uncovered by a Dutch researcher under freedom of information laws confirms what many have long charged: Bellingcat, the “open source” collective widely cited by mainstream journalists and loved by the CIA, collaborates directly with Western intelligence agencies. An email sent on November 12 2020 by an officer within Amsterdam’s National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism (NCTV) shows a Bellingcat investigation was intentionally shared with the agency prior to publication, so as to assist the Dutch spooks in […]

Not news to anybody here, since we already know they take NED money, but still - nice to see some confirmation that Federal Evans and the rest of the Bellingcat crew are collaborators.

  • TheGamingLuddite [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    Should we not take this seriously because the FOI information is fraudulent? Or is it because the publication has a bad track record (in which case I have terrible news for you about bellingcat)? Or should we disregard it because you personally find the information distasteful and inconvenient?

    Unless you can prove the information is fraudulent, it would appear we're all living in the same reality in which bellingcat is a CIA op with only some of us being willing to accept it.