The Bureau of Investigative Journalism revealed in 2016 that the Pentagon paid UK PR firm Bell Pottinger over $540 million from 2007-2011 to produce three types of propaganda: anti-al-Qaeda TV commercials, fake Arabic news segments designed to look like real broadcasts, and fake al-Qaeda recruitment videos embedded with tracking code to monitor who watched them. Bell Pottinger employed 300 staff. The output was signed off by General David Petraeus, and on some occasions, the White House approved the false-flag videos.
The Pentagon paid British PR firm Bell Pottinger $540 million to produce fake al-Qaeda propaganda videos in Iraq
βThe US government is spending hundreds of millions of dollars paying a private PR firm to create fake terrorist propaganda videos as part of a covert information warfare campaign in Iraq.β
π The Receipts
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βBell Pottinger's work was undertaken in line with all relevant laws and regulations and was approved by senior military officials.β
β Bell Pottinger (prior to exposure) Β· Oct 2016
π They Laughed At Us
βBell Pottinger's work was undertaken in line with all relevant laws and regulations and was approved by senior military officials.β
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