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.

  • Grimble [he/him,they/them]
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    1 year ago

    I finally see why a bunch of outraged comments always spawn under Grayzone articles.

    Anyone on any social platform who touches Bellingcat allegations or any ongoing social-engineering op gets hit by a hive of random Punk Hacker/"Infosec News"/Anarcho-fem-techno-nihilist-whoever accounts who all mysteriously have fully-formed grudges against them and accuse their sources of somehow being more CIA-connected than Bellingcat. BTW, a common tactic of undercover feds is to accuse someone of being a worse fed and rally fed-hating people against them.

    You're scared, dipshit. If not, the shady people who ghostwrote your whole personality sure are. That's assuming I'm even replying to a real user.