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Two Temple Place, the headquarters of the Institute for Statecraft
Hackers have released a sixth batch of Integrity Initiative leaks, this time focusing on how the project sought £5.5 million in funding from the British government to establish an influence campaign in the Western Balkans.
According to the leaks, Chris Donnelly, who heads the Institute for Statecraft (IfS) - the Integrity Initiative's parent organization - used his NATO contacts and extensive background in military intelligence to try to secure the money for the program.
The Integrity Initiative (II) had been positioning itself as an "independent" anti-disinformation charity until hackers began
dumping batches of
internal documents last November which revealed its government funding and the fact that
it was running Europe-wide anti-Russia influence campaigns using "clusters" of cooperative journalists, academics and politicians. In response to the leaks, the II
wiped all content from its website and claimed that while some of the documents were "genuine," others were "falsified" - but did not provide any proof that this was the case.
The latest leaks show that the Balkan program would be run in conjunction with global marketing and communications firm Edelman, which Donnelly said could help produce "advertising campaigns on TV promoting change," English-language training promoting the "right messages" and even "a TV soap opera looking at the problem of corruption."
Comment: The depiction of Gabbard as "the left's Ron Paul" is apt, on foreign policy at the very least. It's no wonder the MSM is working overtime to smear and defame her.
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