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英サンデイ・タイムズ：MI6はいかに戦争を売り込んだか。決定的暴露記事出現！
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Times Online - Sunday Times
The Sunday Times - Britain. December 28, 2003 Revealed: how MI6 sold the Iraq war
Nicholas Rufford. THE Secret Intelligence Service has run an operation to gain public
support for sanctions and the use of military force in Iraq. The government ...
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The Sunday Times - Britain
December 28, 2003
Revealed: how MI6 sold the Iraq war
Nicholas Rufford
THE Secret Intelligence Service has run an operation to gain public support
for sanctions and the use of military force in Iraq. The government
yesterday confirmed that MI6 had organised Operation Mass Appeal, a
campaign to plant stories in the media about Saddam Hussein's weapons of
mass destruction. The revelation will create embarrassing questions for
Tony Blair in the run-up to the publication of the report by Lord Hutton
into the circumstances surrounding the death of Dr David Kelly, the
government weapons expert.
A senior official admitted that MI6 had been at the heart of a campaign
launched in the late 1990s to spread information about Saddam's development
of nerve agents and other weapons, but denied that it had planted
misinformation. "There were things about Saddam's regime and his weapons
that the public needed to know," said the official. The admission followed
claims by Scott Ritter, who led 14 inspection missions in Iraq, that MI6
had recruited him in 1997 to help with the propaganda effort. He described
meetings where the senior officer and at least two other MI6 staff had
discussed ways to manipulate intelligence material. "The aim was to
convince the public that Iraq was a far greater threat than it actually
was," Ritter said last week. He said there was evidence that MI6 continued
to use similar propaganda tactics up to the invasion of Iraq earlier this
year. "Stories ran in the media about secret underground facilities in Iraq
and ongoing programmes (to produce weapons of mass destruction)," said
Ritter. "They were sourced to western intelligence and all of them were
garbage." Kelly, himself a former United Nations weapons inspector and
colleague of Ritter, might also have been used by MI6 to pass information
to the media. "Kelly was a known and government-approved conduit with the
media," said Ritter. Hutton's report is expected to deliver a verdict next
month on whether intelligence was misused in order to promote the case for
going to war. Hutton heard evidence that Kelly was authorised by the
Foreign Office to speak to journalists on Iraq. Kelly was in close touch
with the "Rockingham cell", a group of weapons experts that received MI6
intelligence. Blair justified his backing for sanctions and for the
invasion of Iraq on the grounds that intelligence reports showed Saddam was
working to acquire chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. The use of MI6
as a "back channel" for promoting the government's policies on Iraq was
never discovered during the Hutton inquiry and is likely to cause
considerable disquiet among MPs. A key figure in Operation Mass Appeal was
Sir Derek Plumbly, then director of the Middle East department at the
Foreign Office and now Britain's ambassador to Egypt. Plumbly worked
closely with MI6 to help to promote Britain's Middle East policy. The
campaign was judged to be having a successful effect on public opinion. MI6
passed on intelligence that Iraq was hiding weapons of mass destruction and
rebuilding its arsenal. Poland, India and South Africa were initially
chosen as targets for the campaign because they were non-aligned UN
countries not supporting the British and US position on sanctions. At the
time, in 1997, Poland was also a member of the UN security council. Ritter
was a willing accomplice to the alleged propaganda effort when first
approached by MI6's station chief in New York. He obtained approval to
co-operate from Richard Butler, then executive chairman of the UN Special
Commission on Iraq Disarmament. Ritter met MI6 to discuss Operation Mass
Appeal at a lunch in London in June 1998 at which two men and a woman from
MI6 were present. The Sunday Times is prevented by the Official Secrets Act
from publishing their names. Ritter had previously met the MI6 officer at
Vauxhall Cross, the service's London headquarters. He asked Ritter for
information on Iraq that could be planted in newspapers in India, Poland
and South Africa from where it would "feed back" to Britain and America.
Ritter opposed the Iraq war but this is the first time that he has named
members of British intelligence as being involved in a propaganda campaign.
He said he had decided to "name names" because he was frustrated at "an
official cover-up" and the "misuse of intelligence". "What MI6 was
determined to do by the selective use of intelligence was to give the
impression that Saddam still had WMDs or was making them and thereby
legitimise sanctions and military action against Iraq," he said. Recent
reports suggest America has all but abandoned hopes of finding weapons of
mass destruction in Iraq and that David Kay, head of the Iraq Survey Group,
has resigned earlier than expected, frustrated that his resources have been
diverted to tracking down insurgents.
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