October 4, 2016 4:18 PM
Thatcher’s PR guru ran Iraq propaganda for Pentagon
October 3 2016, 12:01am,
Source: Thatcher’s PR guru ran Iraq propaganda for Pentagon | News | The Times & The Sunday Times
Bell Pottinger worked for the US between 2007 and 2011 producing propaganda and faked al-Qaeda videosJerome Delay/AP
Lord Bell, Margaret Thatcher’s PR guru, was hired by the United States to run a $540 million covert propaganda campaign after the invasion of Iraq.
Washington was reported to have paid his company Bell Pottinger’s conflict resolution division to produce fake al-Qaeda videos, which were dropped by US forces.
The films could be tracked by “web-based analytics” when they were played on computers, allowing the Americans to track potential terrorists, according to The Sunday Times.
Martin Wells, a video editor from Bath, was recruited by Bell Pottinger to work on a “psychological operations” campaign for the Pentagon in Iraq.
Posted by Peter Hofman
Categories: Uncategorized
Tags: Iraq, Pentagon, propaganda, USA
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