A British academic corresponded for months with a man who hinted he was a Russian agent, seeking help to discredit a group that gathers evidence of Syrian war crimes.Prof Paul McKeigue asked "Ivan" to help find evidence that the group's director worked for the CIA.
In fact "Ivan's" emails were written by staff of the very group Prof McKeigue was targeting. Prof McKeigue had been trying to unearth details about the Commission for International Justice and Accountability (Cija) - an organisation that gathers Syrian government documents for war crimes trials - when he struck up the email exchange. Prof McKeigue is a member of the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media, a collection of British academics and independent researchers who say the UK government is running a propaganda campaign against Syria designed to prepare the ground for regime change.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-56525694
unos académicos ingleses intentan desacreditar el trabajo de una organización que ha reunido evidencias de los crímenes de guerra del régimen de Assad, consideran que son una tapadera de propaganda inglesa o de la CIA y contactaron con un falso agente ruso para que sacara trapos sucios sobre la organización, averiguara el paradero de los archivos con la documentación oficial de los crímenes assadistas y hasta querían que investigaran a unos periodistas de la BBC
el falso agente ruso con el que contactaba el profesor Paul McKeigue de la universidad de Edimburgo resultaba ser un miembro de la organización que documenta los crímenes de guerra
— Paul McKeigue. Professor of Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics. Usher Institute
https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/paul-mckeigue
