Anonymous ID: d93372 June 22, 2022, 12:54 p.m. No.16489982   šŸ—„ļø.is šŸ”—kun   >>0037

Revealed: Australiaā€™s Secret Propaganda Unit

June 18, 2022

Britain assisted Australia in setting up a team modeled on the U.K.ā€™s notorious Information Research Department to run influence operations in the Asia-Pacific in the 1970s, John McEvoy and Peter Cronau report.

 

In the early 1970s, officials from Australiaā€™s Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) visited Britain for propaganda training. This culminated in the creation of an Australian propaganda unit in 1971, whose operations were focused on preserving Western power across Asia.

 

The unit was modelled on the Information Research Department (IRD), which was Britainā€™s covert Cold War propaganda arm between 1948 and 1977. It was also staffed with two former IRD officials.

 

The IRD covertly collected and disseminated material to the media to discredit human rights figures, undermine political opponents overseas, help overthrow governments, and promote U.K. influence and commercial interests around the world.

 

Details of Australiaā€™s propaganda unit have remained secret until revealed in newly declassified U.K. Foreign Office files, and shine a renewed light on Anglo-Australian security co-operation during the Cold War.

 

ā€˜Off With It Like a Racehorseā€™

In late 1970, U.K. Foreign Office official Norman Reddaway visited Canberra for a Four Power Information Meeting on defence and security strategy in South-East Asia, involving Britain, Australia, New Zealand and the U.S.

 

Reddaway was a seasoned British propagandist. After serving in the Second World War, he joined the Foreign Office and played a key role in setting up the IRD. In the 1960s, he was assigned as the ā€œcoordinator of political warfareā€ in Indonesia, where Britain was inciting massacres in its effort to overthrow President Sukarno.

By 1970, Reddaway was concerned about a ā€œdiminution of British interestā€ in Asia. Two years earlier, the Harold Wilson government had announced the withdrawal of British troops from major military bases in South East Asia, notably Singapore and Malaysia. Meanwhile, the IRD was undergoing a structural reorganization and facing funding and staff losses.

 

Reddaway thus wanted to plug a gap of declining Western influence in the Asia-Pacific, and recommended that Australia boost its propaganda effort in the region.

 

Recently declassified, this ā€œSecretā€ file revealed for the first time that Australia had set up a propaganda unit in the Foreign Affairs Department, modeled on the U.K.ā€™s Information Research Department==, to run ā€œinformation operationsā€ spoon-feeding journalists with material designed to influence events in the Western Pacific and South East Asian region. (U.K. National Archives)

 

In Canberra, Reddaway asked the Australian foreign affairs chief Keith Waller whether Australia ā€œshould contemplate doing some information policy workā€ of its own ā€” ā€œinformation policyā€ being a gentlemanā€™s euphemism for ā€œcovert propaganda.ā€ He proposed that Australia ā€œsend someone to London to look at the work and functionsā€ of the IRD.

 

In February 1971, the head of the information and cultural affairs branch of DFA, Michael Wilson, was dispatched from Canberra to the U.K. for two weeks. In London, he held ā€œseveral long talksā€ with IRD officials about ā€œsetting up an IRD organisation for Australia.ā€

He was also given ā€œa comprehensive picture of IRDā€™s present structure, the work of Asia and editorial sections, and IRD activities in SE Asia.ā€

 

Wilson was impressed by ā€œthe bipartisan nature of the support for IRDā€ in Britain, as well as ā€œthe lack of any political controversy surrounding it.ā€ In Australia, however, he expressed fears that a similar propaganda unit would be used domestically by rival Australian politicians.

 

In early 1971, in the face of the disastrous Vietnam war and a resurgent Labor Party, head of the Treasury Billy McMahon and Defence Minister Malcolm Fraser were plotters in an internal party coup against their sitting Liberal Party Prime Minister John Gorton, with McMahon emerging as the new prime minister.

 

Ross Smith had been Information AttachĆ© in the Australian embassy in Djakarta from 1962 to 1965, providing contacts and information to Australian reporters and media outlets. His time there had coincided with the period IRD was very active in Indonesia producing propaganda designed to undermine left-leaning Sukarnoā€¦.

 

ā€¦The newly released U.K. files help fill in the gaps in our understanding of the growth of propaganda and disinformation. Australian files on IRD and the PSR unit remain classified.

 

very long articleā€¦.

 

https://consortiumnews.com/2022/06/18/revealed-australias-secret-propaganda-unit/

Anonymous ID: d93372 June 22, 2022, 2:06 p.m. No.16490289   šŸ—„ļø.is šŸ”—kun   >>0546 >>0574

Page 84 of Undead foia request of GA Tech emails, Kek pretty sure it was a joke, but who knows

 

Could we get cloning before we get time travel?

 

Entire 148 pages have many cyber military on the communications. This is in relationship to GA Tech and Durham probe. two tech companies working with Military, GA Tech are:

 

Two Six Lab HTTPS://TWOSIXTECH.COM/

Voreas Labs https://Voreas.io

 

ForTech anons, the team spoke about this system developed

This is the original technical description of the pushback mechanism, link to paper below.

 

Implementing Pushback: Router-Based Defense Against DDoS Attacks

 

https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/papers/pushback-impl.pdf

 

Link to emails:

 

https://sleuthscorner.docdroid.com/file/download/6W0SpEp/gt-docs-6-16-pdf.pdf

Anonymous ID: d93372 June 22, 2022, 2:26 p.m. No.16490375   šŸ—„ļø.is šŸ”—kun   >>0395 >>0517 >>0524 >>0546 >>0574

22 Jun, 2022 19:43

Not worth your sympathy: The story of Ukraineā€™s neo-Nazi Azov battalion

Much less than the heroic defenders they are made out to be, the extremist regimentā€™s many crimes are well documented

By Evgeny Norin, a Russian historian focused on conflicts and international politicsPart 1 of 2

Ukrainian propaganda has elevated the Azov Battalionā€™s protracted but ultimately doomed final stand, in Mariupol, to heroic proportions. Adding further pathos to this sentimental story were the desperate calls for help from the commanders of the units entrapped in the bowels of the Azovstal factory and the photogenic young wives of the besieged fighters pleading with Pope Francis at the Vatican.

Yet, an observant eye could also wonder about the abundance of Nazi tattoos adorning the battalionā€™s POWs. The fighters of the Donetsk militia even came up with a joke about capturing ā€œlarge numbers of pirates and electriciansā€ in reference to the numerous individuals with the skull and crossbones and SS bolts ā€“ the widely recognizable Totenkopf and Schutzstaffel symbols ā€“ emblazoned on their skin.

Western media has been bending over backwards trying to explain how people covered in Nazi tattoos are not neo-Nazis. However, it turns out that sporting symbols related to Adolf Hitler's odious Third Reich is not even close to being the worst of the crimes committed by the Azov.

The battalionā€™s history pre-dates the current conflict in Ukraine. Between 2005 and 2010, the governor of the Kharkov Region, the major industrial hub of northeastern Ukraine, was Arsen Avakov. During Avakovā€™s tenure in office, nationalist Andrey Biletsky, known as the White Ruler, became very active in the area. The two were close acquaintances during Biletskyā€™s university years. In 2005, he founded an ultranationalist organization, The Patriot of Ukraine, which mostly consisted of aggressive football fans and low-level criminals of the street fighter variety.

According to media reports, the movement didnā€™t bother doing much that was patriotic but preferred involving itself in various semi-legal and shadowy activities. Biletsky ended up doing some jail time, though not for political reasons, but rather for plain and simple hooliganism. After the 2014 Western-backed Maidan coup in Kiev, Biletsky was set free as a ā€˜politicalā€™ prisoner of the fallen Viktor Yanukovich government. He used his connection to Avakov, who by then had become Ukraineā€™s new minister of the interior, to set up a territorial defense battalion to fight in the east of the country. This became known as the Azov.

In Eastern Ukraine, the protests of locals in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions against the Maidan movement escalated to an armed rebellion, and Biletskyā€™s newly formed battalion was tasked with suppressing it. Unlike many other territorial defense volunteer units, the Azov had a very distinct ideological flavor from the very start. It was a far-right organization that welcomed all sorts of neo-Nazis ranging from mild to radical ones. The Azov fighters were known for their obsession with pagan rituals and were considered freaks by regular military units.

That, however, was what made the battalion a good fit for the task. Being fanatics, these people did not shy away from killing. Before the Donbass militia was established, the Azov carried out killings of a number of pro-Russian activists.

These acts of individual terror had a philosophy behind them. ā€œIt will suffice to kill about fifty ā€˜vatniksā€™ {a pejorative term used for those with pro-Russian sympathies} in every town to put a stop to all this,ā€ as one of the fighters with the battalion put it. On June 13, 2014, Azov put this motto into practice by defeating, as part of a larger combat group, a small unit of the Donbass peopleā€™s militia in Mariupol. The Azov Battalion was able to put forward quite a few combat-ready soldiers and several gun trucks, while the militia in Mariupol was weak and poorly armed. Five insurgents were killed. The Azov and Ukrainian security services did not hesitate to open fire on local civilians in the Mariupol standoff. There is a video showing the Ukrainians wounding and killing several unarmed people by gunfire. One of the victims is ā€˜armedā€™ with a plastic chair.

However, because it was not part of the army ā€“ at least formally ā€“ the Azov Battalion rarely engaged in actual combat operations. In the summer of 2014, a small group of its fighters attacked the town of Ilovaisk, and in the winter of 2015 they launched an assault on Shirokino, a village located on the Azov Sea coast, where they interacted with officers from the Ukrainian Army who later recounted that the battalion had left the impression of an undisciplined unit, one that was hard to deal withā€¦

 

https://www.rt.com/russia/557589-azov-battalion-documented-crimes/

Anonymous ID: d93372 June 22, 2022, 2:30 p.m. No.16490395   šŸ—„ļø.is šŸ”—kun   >>0517 >>0546 >>0574

>>16490375

Not Worth Your Sympathy

Part 2 of 2

The evidence of the Azov's true nature, however, is much more visible in the reports by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, not to mention the crime news. Right from the start,Azov was often found in the midst of some of the darkest and grimmest events and news stories in Ukraine, because of its unofficial special status and the status of ā€˜vatniksā€™ who were de facto outlawed in Ukraine.

Initially, the unit attracted people of vague and dubious backgrounds. For example, it was in this battalion that the killers of pro-Russian activists Aleksey Sharov and Artyom Zhudov served. The two men were shot dead in street clashes in Kharkov on March 14, 2014 ā€“ even before the armed conflict broke out in the Donbass. Their killers were never identified ā€“ we donā€™t know their names, but we know that the activists were shot from the office of The Patriot of Ukraine, while they were standing right in front of it.

The UN reports said that in May 2014, after a short skirmish, acivilian named Vladimir Lobach was murdered near the city of Poltava by Azov Battalion fighters. His killers threatened the police officers who arrived at the crime scene and then simply fled. In June of that year, Azov soldiers in Mariupol abducted a local newspaper editor and journalist named Sergey Dolgov, who sympathized with the idea of federalizing Ukraine. Nothing is known about this manā€™s whereabouts up to this day.

Arguably Azov's most twisted crime, as reported by the UN Commissioner for Human Rights, was the gang rape of a mentally ill man by about 10 members of the battalion in 2014. The victim was hospitalized with severe physical and psychological trauma. The incident wasn't investigated, and the perpetrators were never brought to justice.

The Azov Battalion has a long record of crimes and offenses of all kinds, from harassment of homosexuals and cases of looting in a war zone, to torture and murder. According to the testimonies of victims, the most common scenario usually involved a random person being kidnapped and taken to a location belonging to the regiment. There,the victim would be tortured and forced to confess to being a member of an insurgent group. After that, the person would be handed over to the SBU, Ukraineā€™s security service. Moreover, according to victims' reports, SBU officers were often present at the torture sessions.

For example, in May 2017 in Mariupol, Azov fighters used torture and threats to force a woman to sign an interrogation protocol they had written about her alleged involvement in an insurgent cell. The confession was filmed on camera, andthe woman was forcibly stripped naked. Later, she was handed over to the SBU. In another case, a man reported having been subjected to electric shock torture, with wires attached to his genitals.

In the Zaporozhye Region, Azov fighters abducted a woman, had her hands and feet bound with cable ties, kicked her, hit her with rifle stocks, shoved needles under her fingernails and threatened to rape her. A man detained in late January 2015 reported being tortured by oxygen deprivation and electric shocks. After an entire week of this ordeal, he was handed over to the SBU and 'formally' arrested. The UN has published records of numerous similar incidents, but it's safe to say these records amount to only a portion of what actually took place.

This peculiar connection between the neo-Nazis and the SBU is far from a coincidence. Thanks to the Azov Battalion, the Ukrainian security services found the perfect way of proving to their government that they had been successful in dealing with the pro-Russian 'insurgent cells' in Mariupol and Eastern Ukraine ā€“ even if such organizations were not actually there.

Most of the real insurgents and their sympathizers had fled to the territories held by the rebels, or at least kept their mouths shut about their allegiances. Yet, somehow, the nationalist regiment was always able to capture the proper number of 'traitors', so that their performance, on paper, looked good.

Even as the bulk of the Azov Battalionā€™s forces have been defeated and have surrendered in Mariupol, a significant group of nationalists remains at large. For example, the Kraken unit, which was formed in Kharkov, serves as a special forces unit under the Azov Battalion. In recent months, the fighters of this newly formed regiment have already gained infamy for shooting Russian prisoners of war in their legs and filming it on camera.

In short, the Azov Battalion is, despite all the Western and Ukrainian efforts to portray them as heroic defenders of freedom, the most odious group to have operated in the country since 2014.

https://www.rt.com/russia/557589-azov-battalion-documented-crimes/

Anonymous ID: d93372 June 22, 2022, 2:42 p.m. No.16490439   šŸ—„ļø.is šŸ”—kun

>>16490355

Anon, Well we know there is at least a few on a team, that have worked on saving America for many years, so yes the majority in gov will not do anything, but there are definitely some.

 

It's really our only hope, that this team is still working, along with the other patriots that were in the Trump admin. When we see day after day the non stop destruction of the country, and liberals screaming, it's not enough, it's pretty fucking depressing.

 

But I have faith in God, and the spirit of good men to do something, along with all the angelic hosts assisting to help.

 

I have not giving up, although it's getting pretty difficult watching the absolute disgusting creatures that prance around like humans, but are demons and devils incarnate demanding more dead babies for Molloch and their followers.

 

PS: We know there are some in gov that have leaked things about the Bidan admin, they didn't want anyone to know, and there's 100s of whistleblowers coming out reporting on the FBI, Military, DOJ, DHS and other agencies violating every law and the very constitution, so there are some that will do something.