New leaked documents show Reuters’ and the BBC’s involvement in covert UK FCO programs to effect “attitudinal change” and “weaken the Russian state’s influence,” alongside intel contractors and Bellingcat. The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) have sponsored Reuters and the BBC to conduct a series of covert programs aimed at promoting regime change inside Russia and undermining its government across Eastern Europe and Central Asia, according to a series of leaked documents. The leaked materials show the Thomson Reuters […]
  • longhorn617 [any]
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    4 years ago

    Robert Evans is a spook. More and more people are saying it, folks.

    • JoeySteel [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      Is anyone saying he isn't? Bellingcat get their funding from NED(CIA) and Integrity Initative (a british propaganda unit)

      Wikispooks article on bellingcat is great

      https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Bellingcat

    • Gay_Wrath [fae/faer]
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      4 years ago

      Anyone else kinda skeeved out about how he's basically training kids to work for bellingcat now too? He met this kid at the protests while he was covering them, this kid went on his podcast, and now he's starting writing for bellingcat :|

      https://twitter.com/hungrybowtie

      I've said before i don't think he's a fed, but yo that's fucking fed shit right there. A charitable mind would be like, oh of course he's just giving a young investigative journalist a leg up but idk ya'll, idk :side-eye-1:

      Also reminder why Robert Evans is sus outside of bellingcat https://twitter.com/IwriteOK/status/1194094729962672128

      • longhorn617 [any]
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        4 years ago

        It's almost as if his coverage of domestic events is used to give himself credence when he says things like "oh golly, it's hard to tell if this Bolivia thing is a coup".

          • longhorn617 [any]
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            4 years ago

            You know what, yes, you are right, there probably are good people who work for the CIA and we shouldn't just throw them all in a prison camp.

              • longhorn617 [any]
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                4 years ago

                Yes, you are right once again , there is no difference between an intelligence analyst and the barista who works at the Starbucks in the CIAa HQ.

    • zxcvbnm [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Whom amongst us hasn't taken a little govt money? Not that many places pay for overseas reporting. Bellingcat seems like a stovepipe outfit, but Evans' articles for Bellingcat are all about domestic right-wing extremism. Is there anything egregious in his foreign reporting? Like does he obviously elide the neo-nazis in Ukraine? https://twitter.com/IwriteOK/status/1194861639926829056

      Was domestic unrest encouraged by the IC to undermine Trump?

      I don't think Evans is an asset to the same degree as someone like Bob Woodward.

    • Audeamus [any]
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      4 years ago

      No, it isn't? If you want to be more conservative, you could say "wage covert information warfare against Russia", but the critical part of the headline is the compromised nature of media organizations that claim to have the highest standards of journalistic quality and integrity.

        • Audeamus [any]
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          4 years ago

          That's a fair gripe, but the actual quote is “weaken the Russian State’s influence on its near neighbours”, not the UK, so you're doing a bit of misleading yourself ;-). And because it's 'weaken Russia's influence by inserting UK/US influence' it's not benign/defensive the way it sounds without context. So "weaken Russia" shouldn't be in quotes, but it's a fair summary of the article's content.

        • gammison [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          The leaked documents page they link to also accuses the skripal poisoning of being a British op, I do not trust that site lol.