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[–] letsdothis3 ago  (edited ago)

UK Column has more on Integrity Initiative https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/integrity-initiative-look-deep-state

On 26 November, Integrity Initiative published a statement on the Russian media coverage of the hack. In it they said:

The Integrity Initiative was set up in autumn 2015 by The Institute for Statecraft in cooperation with the Free University of Brussels (VUB) to bring to the attention of politicians, policy-makers, opinion leaders and other interested parties the threat posed by Russia to democratic institutions in the United Kingdom, across Europe and North America.

As admitted in the Integrity Initiative statement on the document release, the project belongs to a little known think tank called The Institute for Statecraft, a charity registered in Scotland.

.. A slightly deeper look at the Institute for Statecraft reveals that all is not as it seems however. The charity, registered in Scotland, lists as its principle address Gateside Mills, in Fife. The same address is registered in its Companies House records, and in its recently filed audited accounts.

But as the UK Column’s David Scott discovered last week, Gateside Mills is an empty, semi-derelict, partly demolished building. Why, we wonder, would such a prestigious think tank be potentially breaking the law in this way? How could they have legal documents served on them, for example? We have asked the Scottish Charity Regulator for comment, but they had not replied by the time of publication.

This is not the only issue with Statecraft addresses. Their founding director, former NATO special adviser Chris N Donnelly, seems unable to spell his own address. He misspells Burneside as Burnside. This might seem like a minor mistake, but in the circumstances of what seems like a deliberate falsification of the organisation’s registered address, it is perhaps of note.

one of the directors... Oliver McTernan is a former Senior Adviser at the Club of Madrid and a Visiting Fellow, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University. In 2002, he initiated and participated in the first official high-level post conflict talks between NATO and the government in Belgrade. For 25 years he was Executive Committee Member, Pax Christi International, responsible for the movement's East-West Dialogue programme during the Soviet period. He is the founder and a director of the St Sergius Trust Fund based in London and Moscow, and until founding Forward Thinking, he was a Roman Catholic priest based in the diocese of Westminster, having previously served in Islington and Notting Hill.

More: http://syriapropagandamedia.org/working-papers/briefing-note-on-the-integrity-initiative