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Western intelligence agencies have numerous methods of getting their stories into the mainstream press without people noticing that the news media are publishing CIA propaganda. Paul Mason's leaked emails show that Bellingcat is one such pipeline from spook agencies to the press.
If there's something the western intelligence cartel wants published, they launder it through proxies like Bellingcat and then the news media run it saying it's been verified by an "independent" "OSINT" service. And presto, you've got spook propaganda.
This revelation is a big deal for normal people who don't think public thought should be manipulated by sociopathic intelligence agencies, but it's unlikely to have any bearing on the mainstream press as they often just directly publish western intelligence assertions themselves.
This doesn't mean everything Bellingcat publishes is false (the best propaganda is generally a mixture of truth with half-truth, distortion, and the removal of context), it just means it's untrustworthy, because it operates at the behest of agencies who want to rule the world.
Higgins (not @-ing him because he's had me blocked for years) has recently denied Mason's claims that Bellingcat gets a steady stream of western intel, but immediately walked that denial back with some pretty hefty equivocations.
Okay we don't know who we're talking to and we could totally be getting fed a stream of info from western intelligence agencies, but we make sure we get "related data" from other sources (who could also easily work for western intelligence agencies).
This is on top of information we already had about Bellingcat's shady operations, like its funding.
That Bellingcat is a proxy of the western intelligence cartel had already been fairly well established before the email leaks.
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Now Mason confirms it in his communications with other spook proxies.
Mason has confirmed the authenticity of the emails in a mealy-mouthed "Hey everybody look at Putin!" non-denial of something he could have easily denied since they're his own communications.
You may be familiar with this concept of information laundering from the often-mocked song about it by Nina Jankowicz, who also features in the Mason leaks. But it ain't the Russians laundering it.
(πΆIt's how you hide a little, hide a little lie πΆ)
(πΆIt's how you hide a little, hide a little lie πΆ)
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