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The Pentagon Paid A PR Firm $500 Million For Top Secret Iraq Propaganda

An investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism revealed that the Pentagon gave a controversial UK PR firm over half a billion dollars to run a top secret propaganda program in Iraq.

The Pentagon Paid A PR Firm $500 Million For Top Secret Iraq Propaganda

B ell Pottinger’s output included short TV segments made in the style of Arabic news networks and fake insurgent videos which could be used to track the people who watched them, according to a former employee. The agency’s staff worked alongside high-ranking US military officers in their Baghdad Camp Victory headquarters as

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The Private Sector Is Cashing In On The Pentagon’s ‘Insatiable Demand’ For Drone War Intelligence

With the ratio of contractors to governmental personnel swelling, many worry that targeting decisions could become meaningless.

The Private Sector Is Cashing In On The Pentagon’s ‘Insatiable Demand’ For Drone War Intelligence

Some months ago, an imagery analyst was sitting in his curtained cubicle at Hurlburt Field airbase in Florida watching footage transmitted from a drone above one of the battlefields in the War on Terror. If he thought the images showed someone doing anything suspicious, or holding a weapon, he had to type it in to a chat channel seen by the pilots

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