Integrity Initiative


 * ''See also US information war

The leak

 * Operation "Integrity Initiative": British informational war against all. Part 4 - January 4, 2019
 * Index of /Integrity_Initiative
 * Statement on Russian media publication of hacked II documents - Integrity Initiative, November 26. 2018
 * Operation "Integrity Initiative": British informational war against all. Part 5 - January 25, 2019
 * Anonymous Publishes New Docs on Integrity Initiative's Institute for Statecraft - Sputnik, January 25, 2019
 * Operation "Integrity Initiative": British informational war against all. Part 6 - February 8, 2019
 * Operation "Integrity Initiative": British informational war against all. Part 7 - March 22, 2019
 * Complete FCO.rar (All files up to September 2020, 136.81 MB)

Open Information Partnership

 * Hacker Integrity Initiative in Hiding? Whitehall Launches Secret European ‘Disinformation Factory’ Kit Klarenberg, Sputnik July 4, 2019
 * British Government Disinformation Shop Lost Charity Status - Continues In New Format - Moon of Alabama, November 4, 2019

More sources

 * 'British Government Runs Secret Anti-Russian Smear Campaigns', MoA, November 24, 2018
 * Integrity Initiative websiteand Twitter Feed
 * Benjamin Norton, November 26, 2018
 * See also: Cassad blog, Греческий кластер, and Операция Integrity Initiative, posted 30 Nov. 2018
 * Secret Scottish-based office led infowars attack on Labour and Jeremy Corbyn - Daily Record, December 9, 2018 (archive)
 * What is the Integrity Initiative? A short briefing paper UK Column December 2018 with the UK Column articles under this tag.
 * 'Newly Released 'Integrity Intitiative' Papers Include Proposal For Large Disinformation Campaigns', MoA, December 14, 2018 ('third release', etc)
 * Операция Integrity Initiative: The Institute for Statecraft, Cassad, December 15, 2018
 * 6. The documents express regret that the influence of Russia is strong in those countries where purges are not completed in relation to people educated in the USSR (the document was written before lustration of MGIMO graduates in Poland). (Noted, not sure which document is that).
 * Graduates of Moscow Institute of International Relations, a leading Russian/Soviet higher education institution for diplomats, are fired from Polish FM jobs (lenta.ru, September 10, 2018).
 * Mike Robinson's article on Intergrity Initiative and Institute for Statecraft https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/integrity-initiative-look-deep-state
 * Chris Williamson MP tweets after visiting the mill (with several follow-up tweets in the chain), and raises criticism in his video presentation, December 11-14, 2018
 * British Security Service Infiltration, the Integrity Initiative and the Institute for Statecraft - Craig Murray, December 13, 2018
 * Private Eye on the Integrity Initiative and Its Links to American Intelligence Beastrabban's Weblog December 30, 2018
 * New Documents Reveal More British Efforts To Undermine Russia - Moon of Alabama, February 15, 2021
 * Reuters, BBC, and Bellingcat participated in covert UK Foreign Office-funded programs to “weaken Russia,” leaked docs reveal - Max Blumenthal, The Grayzone February 20, 2021



Allegations involved

 * Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, Oral evidence: Fake News, HC 363, UK House of Commons, 19 Dec 2017
 * Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament - Russia - Published July 21, 2020
 * The real lesson from the Russia report is that interference in UK democracy is far closer to home - Tom Coburg, The Canary, July 21, 2020
 * The Russian Interference Report, Without Laughing - Craig Murray, August 12, 2020

Funding?
(Incomplete).
 * 'Integrity Initiative': 1.98 mln pounds this year, from the UK Foreign and Commonwealth office (FCO), see full Alan Duncan answer here and here, (Citation: HC Deb, 3 December 2018, cW)
 * 'Albert Einstein Institution' (Gene Sharp), $424,746 in 2014 from '179 individuals and organizations '

Skripals?

 * ''See also Poisoning of Sergei Skripal‎


 * Was the Integrity Initiative behind the Salisbury Poisoning? - Tom Secker, January 4, 2019
 * Shock Files: What Role Did Integrity Initiative Play in Sergei Skripal Affair? - Kit Klarenberg, Sputnik, January 4, 2019
 * Integrity Initiative: The Sinister Chain of Events Leading Up to Salisbury - Kit Klarenberg, Sputnik, March 4, 2019

Dan Kaszeta
As well as writing for Bellingcat he wrote articles for the Integrity Initiative's web site: Dan KaszetaTwitterdiscussed novichoks in an explainer on nerve agents for Bellingcat in the days after the attack. A month after the incident he wrote a piece, praised in Integrity Initiative internal documents, explaining how exposure by dermal absorbtion accounted for the Skripals being able to recover. He has acted as source/consultant on chemical warfare for London media on several occasions. Latest after Bellingcat's naming of a third suspect in the Skripal poisoning.
 * How Integrity Initiative's 'Counterfeit Expert' Perpetuated Novichok Narrative Sputnik February 7, 2019

Syria

 * The Foreign Office and the Propaganda War on Syria - Barbara McKenzie, December 22, 2016
 * Op. HMG Trojan Horse: From Integrity Initiative To Covert Ops Around The Globe. Part 1: Taming Syria I
 * Op. HMG Trojan Horse: From Integrity Initiative To Covert Ops Around The Globe. Part 1: Taming Syria II
 * New Documents Reveal Secret British Efforts To Arm, Assist And Propagandize 'Moderate Rebels' In Syria - Moon of Alabama, September 18, 2020
 * Trove of Docs Leaked by Anonymous Shows How Western Intel, PR Firms Crafted False Syria Narrative - Ilya Tsukanov, Sputnik, September 27, 2020
 * Leaked papers appear to show UK ran secret training & PR op for Syrian militants costing millions, despite knowing the risks - Kit Klarenberg, RT, October 27, 2020

Analysis

 * Operation Integrity Initiative — British Intelligence Celebrates a Century of Russia Lies and Self-deception - John Helmer, Dances With Bears, January 13, 2019
 * Integrity Initiative: Big Brother's Minions – or Flim-Flam Artists? - Patrick Armstrong, Strategic Culture, January 23, 2019
 * Authoritarian UK government is funding military grade psyops to smear and calumniate HM’s opposition Kitty S Jones, Politics and Insights December 9, 2018
 * To What Extent Has Integrity Initiative Infiltrated UK Political Parties? - Kit Klarenberg, Sputnik, August 27, 2019
 * JOE BIDEN ADVANCE TEAM RECOMMENDS BRITISH APPROACH TO FIGHTING RUSSIA – START THE DISINFORMATION BEFORE THE FACT, THE FAKE BEFORE THE TRUTH — DOUBT IS RUSSIAN MIND CONTROL - John Helmer, Dances with Bears, July 22, 2020