Updated: February 2024
Published: December 2018
Languages: English, German
The secretive British “Integrity Initiative”: one of the biggest intelligence revelations since Edward Snowden, yet almost completely ignored by Western media. An overview.
According to hacked internal documents, the British “Integrity Initiative” operates an international, covert network of intelligence operatives, military officers, politicians, journalists and academics who coordinate extensive anti-Russian media campaigns.
The initiative is financed mainly by the British Foreign Office, the US State Department and NATO, but also, occasionally, by Facebook and German organizations. The official slogan of the covert information warfare initiative is “Defending Democracy Against Disinformation”.
The “Integrity Initiative” links key actors in several high-profile campaigns, including the unsolved Skripal case, alleged poison gas attacks in Syria, the discrediting of former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, the successful prevention of a Spanish security director, the disruption of Bernie Sanders’ presidential election campaign, and other operations.
In more than a dozen countries, the “Integrity Initiative” had already set up so-called “national clusters”. In Germany, for example, the national “cluster” was led by a former MI6 British intelligence officer. The future head of the short-lived DHS “Disinformation Governance Board”, Nina Jankowicz, happened to be a member of the UK cluster.
In view of the 2019 Swiss elections, the Swiss cluster was to be coordinated by the Deputy Director of a Geneva security center who had previously served as a NATO advisor and officer in the British army. The security center is co-financed by the Swiss government.
To this day, most established media have never reported on the “Integrity Initiative”.
Reports about the “Integrity Initiative”
- Inside the Temple of Covert Propaganda (The Grayzone, 12/2018)
- The ‘Integrity Initiative’ – A Military Intelligence Operation (MoA, 12/2018)
- Nina Jankowicz was a member of the Integrity Initiative (Revolver, 05/2022)
More about the “Integrity Initiative”
- Whitehall Launches Secret European ‘Disinformation Factory’ (07/2019)
- Why Germany is the Integrity Initiative’s ‘Most Important Target’ (01/2019)
- Integrity Initiative: Foreign Office Funded, Staffed by Spies, Housed by MI5? (01/2019)
Connections to the Skripal case
- Integrity Initiative: The Sinister Chain of Events Leading Up to Salisbury (03/2019)
- What Role Did Integrity Initiative Play in Sergei Skripal Affair? (01/2019)
- British Government Covert Anti-Russian Propaganda and the Skripal Case (12/2018)
Original documents
- Overview of documents (WGSPM)
- Archive of all documents (WBN)
- Membership list by country (archive)
Videos
- Inside the Integrity Initiative (Blumenthal/Norton, 2018)
- The Russiagate Deception (Swiss Policy Research)