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Abigail Fielding-Smith and Crofton Black | BIJ

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.

October 03rd, 2016

By Abigail Fielding-Smith and Crofton Black | BIJ

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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