Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD) reports that Ian Paterson, Deputy Head of the British Foreign Office’s Department for Russia Policy, met in Kyiv Sept. 17 with the head of the CCD, Defense Forces officer Andriy Kovalenko, to map out “joint efforts” to silence any voices, anywhere, who oppose NATO’s war against Russia, including passing legislation to do so.
The British Foreign Office deployment is of a piece with the State Department’s Sept. 13 announcement of the campaign to shut down RT, etc. globally, and the report the next day that the U.S. and the U.K. had agreed to “intensify” coordination against so-called “Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference” (the ridiculous term dubbed “FIMI") at last week’s “U.K.-U.S. Strategic Dialogue” in London.
EIR warned in September 2022 that the CCD was established from the get-go as a NATO pilot project, operating out of President Zelenskyy’s Office of the Presidency, for the projected generalized NATO-run operations to draw up hit lists of advocates of peace to be eliminated as “information terrorists.” This was made explicit in the March 2022 CCD memo which demanded that “the international community must officially recognize information terrorism” as a “crime against humanity.… Infoterrorism must be equated with actual terrorism and require appropriate measures to counter it.”
That NATO project has now entered the operational phase.
The CCD reported enthusiastically on their meeting with the Foreign Office. As machine translated: “The main topic of the meeting was the discussion of threats arising in the information environment due to the actions of the Russian Federation and effective ways to deepen cooperation in the fight against disinformation. In a context where information attacks are becoming an integral part of hybrid warfare, such cooperation is critical.
“Kovalenko emphasized the urgent need to modernize the legislation of Western countries to clearly distinguish between two polar definitions: freedom of speech and disinformation. He noted the importance of preventing a situation where Russia or its proxies exploit democratic principles to spread manipulative narratives.”
Two others joined the two principals in the meeting: Anayit Khoperiya, number two at the CCD, and Maryna Bezkorovaina, a representative of the British Embassy in Ukraine.
“The parties expressed confidence that their joint efforts would contribute to strengthening the information security of both Ukraine and the international community as a whole,” the CCD concluded.
