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UK: GCHQ: Britain Used Spy Team to Shape Latin American Public Opinion on Falklands

02 April 2015

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"Faced with mounting international pressure over the Falkland Islands territorial dispute, the British government enlisted its spy service, including a highly secretive unit known for using dirty tricks, to covertly launch offensive cyberoperations to prevent Argentina from taking the islands.

A shadowy unit of the British spy agency Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) had been preparing a bold, covert plan called Operation QUITO since at least 2009...... At the heart of this operation was the Joint Threat Research and Intelligence Group, known by the acronym JTRIG, a secretive unit that has been involved in spreading misinformation."

See the story: Britain Used Spy Team to Shape Latin American Public Opinion on Falklands (The Intercept, link)

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