Revealed: How British Intelligence Sold the Iraq War

[G_j]

Revealed: How British Intelligence Sold the Iraq War
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/122903B.shtml

Revealed: How British Intelligence Sold the Iraq War

  By Nicholas Rufford
  The Sunday Times of London
  Sunday 28 December 2003

  The Secret Intelligence Service has run an operation to gain public support for sanctions and the use of military force in Iraq. The government yesterday confirmed that MI6 had organised Operation Mass Appeal, a campaign to plant stories in the media about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction.

  The revelation will create embarrassing questions for Tony Blair in the run-up to the publication of the report by Lord Hutton into the circumstances surrounding the death of Dr David Kelly, the government weapons expert.

  A senior official admitted that MI6 had been at the heart of a campaign launched in the late 1990s to spread information about Saddam's development of nerve agents and other weapons, but denied that it had planted misinformation. "There were things about Saddam's regime and his weapons that the public needed to know," said the official.

  The admission followed claims by Scott Ritter, who led 14 inspection missions in Iraq, that MI6 had recruited him in 1997 to help with the propaganda effort. He described meetings where the senior officer and at least two other MI6 staff had discussed ways to manipulate intelligence material.

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[RBHam]

1. What does the CIA call their propaganda campaign?

Operation Mass Brainwashing?

[truthspeaker]

2. they call it "Fox News"

[G_j]

3. that would be funny if it wasn't actually true. :-( n/t

[blindpig]

4. just like they suckered us into WWI n/t