New Snowden leaks show how spy agencies disrupts, discredits dissent and sets up false flag operations.
In a new leaked document, journalist Glenn Greenwald
exposes how the UK’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) uses
questionable tactics to infiltrate, disrupt and discredit voices the
government doesn’t agree with.
The document, entitled “The Art of Deception: Training for
Online Covert Operations,” reveals shady practices like using “honey
traps” that may start as Internet dating, but the PowerPoint also points
to in-person meetings to discredit the subject.
Other findings include “false flag” operations (undertaking
malicious actions and making it look like the work of a group they wish
to discredit), the application of social sciences like sociology and
psychology to disrupt and steer online activist discussions, lure
targets into compromising sexual situations, deploy malicious software
and virus and post lies about targets in order to discredit them.
According to NBC News, the British government, when asked
about the document, would not confirm or deny the report: “All of GCHQ’s
work is carried out in accordance with a strict legal and policy
framework,” said the statement, “which ensure[s] that our activities are
authorized, necessary and proportionate, and that there is rigorous
oversight, including from the Secretary of State, the Interception and
Intelligence Services Commissioners and the Parliamentary Intelligence
and Security Committee. All of our operational processes rigorously
support this position.”
Greenwald points out in an article on The Intercept that
targets of these aggressive actions did not have to be charged with — or
convicted of — a crime.
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