This expose is getting very little coverage. This morning, according to Google, there were just 42 articles on this scandal. ( As of 9:12 EST am the article count is up to 46) Not one main stream! No CNN, NBC, CBS, BBC, ABC. CBC, PBS, Guardian etc.,Why would the media be avoiding this like the plague?Because they are completely complicit. Fully aware and participatory in the dissemination of this fake news/false flag propaganda. I've assembled information from three sources1st: Fake News and False Flags : the original investigation, undoubtedly a limited hangout, but gives us a good idea of just how much of what we see is faked2nd: Bell Pottinger in the spotlight for creating propaganda videos for US military in Iraq3rd: Pentagon Paid a PR Firm $500 Million to Make Fake al-Qaeda VideosThe monetary figures paid to Bell Pottinger add up to $660 million over an approximate 6 year period. Clearly the investigation is limited in it's scope by the time frame and just one company being scrutinized. Though the investigation mentions other companies involved, no monetary payments are mentioned And, of course, Bell Pottinger is not the same company now as it was then. Or at least your supposed to believe that this all occured under agency founder Lord Bell, who has now left Bell Pottinger to begin a new outfit.
Bell, who in August announced his departure from the agency to form a new venture Sans Frontières, told The Sunday Times he was "proud" of Bell Pottinger’s work in Iraq, saying: "We did a lot to help resolve the situation. Not enough. We did not stop the mess which emerged, but it was part of the American propaganda machinery.
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism traced Bell Pottinger's activities through US army contracting censuses, reports by the Defense Department's Inspector General and federal procurement transaction records, plus the agency’s own corporate filings and specialist publications on military propaganda.
Bell Pottinger declined to comment further when contacted by PRWeek this morning.Some have seen Bell’s departure from Bell Pottinger as an opportunity for the agency to distance itself from the controversial geopolitical work it has been associated with in the past, including work with foreign governments accused of human rights abuses. It remains to be seen if the new revelations will hamper that process.
Bell Pottinger changed ownership after a management buyout in 2012 and its current structure has no connections with the unit that operated in Iraq, which closed in 2011. It is understood the key people who worked in that unit deny any involvement with tracking software as described by Wells.
It would seem that this expose was done as part of a public relations operation for Bell Pottinger and Lord Bell. Enabling Bell Pottinger to distance themselves from this disgusting abuse of the masses. While Lord Bell can run off to his new venture- Sans Frontiere with the slate wiped clean- For the rest of us, it should better help us to understand that, as I always say... It's all perception management. All of the time. The real skill is to sort through it all to the best of our capabilitiesMartin Wells (PRMan) worked for Bell Pottinger in Iraq during 2006-8
Quoted widely in the media, former Bell Pottinger employee Martin Wells said his work consisted of three types of products: TV ads portraying al Qaeda in a negative light; news items made to look as if they had been "created by Arabic TV" and with the origins sometimes hidden; and the production of fake al Qaeda propaganda films.
Bell Pottinger in the spotlight for creating propaganda videos for US military in Iraq
The agency’s work started in Iraq in March 2004 when it was tasked with "promotion of democratic elections", but the Bureau said it has identified transactions worth $540m (£420m) between the Pentagon and Bell Pottinger relating to contracts issued from May 2007 to December 2011, with a contract worth a similar annual rate ($120m, £93m) reportedly in force in 2006 too.
That's where I get the $660 million dollar figure from. 540 + 120 = $660 million. The headlines are downplaying the reported amount paid
The work included creating short news segments made to look like Arabic news networks and fake insurgent videos, The Sunday Times, which worked with the Bureau on the investigation, and other news outlets reported over the weekend.The scale of Bell Pottinger’s operation in Iraq was significant; costing, on average, more than a hundred million dollars per year, with the agency at one point employing almost 300 British and Iraqi staff.Bell Pottinger produced reams of material for the Pentagon, some of it going far beyond standard communications work. There were three types of media operations commonly used in Iraq at the time, said a military contractor familiar with Bell Pottinger’s work there.“White is attributed, it says who produced it on the label,” the contractor said. “Grey is unattributed and black is falsely attributed. These types of black ops, used for tracking who is watching a certain thing, were a pretty standard part of the industry toolkit.”
The latter (black ops) would be put on CDs and dropped into areas that were raided. The CDs had a code embedded in them that gave the location of where they had been played.
More on the black ops videos:
What’s more, they created false al-Qaeda propaganda videos and would plant them in homes that the military raided. U.S. Marines would take CDs on their patrols and drop them as they raided targets.
“If they’re raiding a house and they’re going to make a mess of it looking for stuff anyway, they’d just drop an odd CD there.” The CDs were set up to only play use Real Player, a popular streaming application that requires an Internet connection. A code was embedded on the CDs which was linked to a Google Analytics account, producing IP addresses where the CDs were played.
It was reported that these videos ended up in the US
In his 2011 article Covert Intelligence Provision in Iraq, Segell notes that US law prevented the government from using propaganda on the domestic population of the US.
In a globalised media environment, the Iraq operations could theoretically have been seen back home, therefore “it was prudent legally for the military not to undertake all the…activities,” Segell wrote.
So the US was looking for plausible deniability... And a way to distance themselves from the mass manipulation of minds and heartsGeneral Petraeus signed off on Bell Pottinger's material, says Wells. As did the White House
The Pentagon has confirmed that Bell Pottinger did work for it as a contractor in Iraq under the Information Operations Task Force (IOTF), producing some material that was openly sourced to coalition forces, and some which was not. It insisted all material put out by IOTF was "truthful".
Truthful, as in it had a ring of truthiness to it? Nearly truth? Or, the truth as the PsyOps Task force wanted you and I to believe? Which means this information had nothing to do with truth as it actually exists/ed
Wells said Bell Pottinger also carried out some work under the Joint Psychological Operations Task Force, which a US defence official confirmed but declined to give details of.
Wells said Bell Pottinger’s work was signed off by the commander of coalition forces in Iraq, General Petraeus, although some of it went higher up the command chain and was approved by the White House.Bell, who in August announced his departure from the agency to form a new venture Sans Frontières, told The Sunday Times he was "proud" of Bell Pottinger’s work in Iraq, saying: "We did a lot to help resolve the situation. Not enough. We did not stop the mess which emerged, but it was part of the American propaganda machinery."I mean if you look at the situation now, it wouldn’t appear to have worked. But at the time, who knows, if it saved one life it [was] a good thing to do."
It wouldn't have appeared to work? It seems to me it worked quite well because the war of terror has expanded and has more 'true believers' then in the early 2000's. So, clearly the psyop worked, as intended!In less then 24 hours. Yup, been busy!
