Kit Klarenberg

Kit Klarenberg is an investigative journalist and MintPresss News contributor exploring the role of intelligence services in shaping politics and perceptions. His work has previously appeared in The Cradle, Declassified UK, and Grayzone. Follow him on Twitter @KitKlarenberg.

How Covert British Information Wars Target Russia, Threatening Civilians and Journalists 

Leaked documents reviewed by MintPress show covert plans by a shadowy British intelligence contractor to “achieve influence” with Russians and turn them against their government using a formula perfected in Syria.

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How Covert British Information Wars Target Russia, Threatening Civilians and Journalists Feature photo

In late July, a shocking interview with a captured Azov Battalion fighter began circulating online. In the clip, the prisoner-of-war claimed that Oleksiy Arestovych, once a key advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, had, prior to the war, ordered his Neo-Nazi regiment (among other military units) to carry out and film “brutal

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New Research Finds CIA Used Black Americans as Drugs Experiment Guinea Pigs

A new study exposes a hitherto wholly unknown dimension of MKULTRA; Black Americans were disproportionately targeted by the CIA.

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MKUltra Black Americans Feature photo

By now, many will be familiar with Project MKULTRA. For decades, the CIA conducted highly unethical experiments on humans in order to perfect brainwashing, mind control and torture techniques. Perhaps the program's most notorious aspect was the administration of high doses of psychoactive drugs to targets, particularly LSD. These substances were

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Leaked Docs: Facebook ‘Bot’ Adviser Secretly in Pay of US Regime Change Agency

U.K. intelligence-linked communication firm Valent has been advising Facebook on which accounts to ban for inauthentic behavior and on suspicions for being foreign-backed disinformation operations. But documents show that Valent itself is secretly funded by U.S. regime change organization USAID. This connection might explain the recent mass purgings from Sudanese and Ethiopian social media.

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Valent Feature photo

Documents shared with MintPress reveal that Valent Projects – a shadowy communications firm that advises social media platforms such as Facebook on alleged state-backed online influence campaigns – has itself received $1.2 million from U.S. intelligence front USAID, for “counter disinformation and communications support.” This relationship has

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From UK Troll Farms to Covert Psyops: The Troubling Past of Nina Jankowicz

Kit Klarenberg exposes the troubling past and murky connections of Nina Jankowicz, head of Biden’s recently shuttered “Disinformation Governance Board.” Jankowicz, Klarenberg reveals, has a long history of acting as a de facto government propaganda agent.

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Nina Jankowicz Feature image

WASHINGTON – The Washington Post revealed Wednesday that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s highly controversial “Disinformation Governance Board,” launched with much fanfare just three weeks earlier, was to close, and that its director, Nina Jankowicz -- former fellow at the quasi-state Wilson Center think tank, and Ukrainian foreign

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Cambridge Analytica Reborn? Private Spy Agency Weaponizes Facebook Again

For all the public outcry, official probes and hearings, financial penalties, apologies and proposed regulations, Facebook remains the world’s foremost surveillance tool – weaponized in all manner of malevolent ways by any number of hostile elements.

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Facebook propaganda

DeMENLO PARK, CA -- On April 4, plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit brought against Facebook over its data-sharing practices following the eruption of the Cambridge Analytica scandal filed a fresh motion, charging that the social media giant deliberately obstructed discovery of information revealing the scale of its malfeasance. It’s the latest

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CIA Files Confirm Guantanamo Bay Torture Program’s MKULTRA Roots

Kit Klarenberg investigates the troubling links between the CIA’s clandestine Guantanamo Bay torture program and MKULTRA-era mind control experiments.

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GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA -- In March the CIA declassified a 2008 CIA Inspector General report on the agency’s treatment of 9/11 suspect Ammar al-Baluchi at overseas ‘black sites’ and Guantanamo Bay. The report was released as a result of legal submissions and its shocking contents offer an unprecedentedly candid snapshot of the brutal physical and

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Leaked Files Expose Syria Psyops Veteran Astroturfing Breadtube Star to Counter COVID Restriction Critics

By covertly recruiting popular YouTube influencer Abigail Thorn to counter growing opposition to UK gov’t Covid restrictions, psy-ops pros are bringing home the tactics they honed in the Syrian dirty war.

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And Max Blumenthal

The Grayzone -- Leaked documents have revealed a state-sponsored influence operation designed to undermine critics of the British government’s coronavirus policies by astroturfing a prominent founder of the BreadTube clique of “anti-fascist” YouTube influencers. The project aims to conduct psychological profiling on British citizens dissenting

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