Revealed: MI6 plan to infiltrate extremists

Revealed: MI6 plan to infiltrate extremists


Martin Bright, home affairs editor
Sunday September 4, 2005
The Observer


British intelligence officers planned a 'black propaganda' campaign against Islamic extremists, infiltrating their groups through the internet, documents leaked to The Observer reveal.

Details of the proposals, contained in a letter from the head of the intelligence arm of the Foreign Office, will cause widespread alarm within government.

The letter reveals that the FCO planned to spread anti-Western propaganda as a way of gaining the trust of Islamic extremists and then arguing that violence was not the way forward.

Last week, in a separate leak, The Observer revealed that the permanent secretary at the Foreign Office has directly blamed the war in Iraq for a growth of extremism in Britain.

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in a war against terror than say invading a sovereign nation with no way to hurt us.

"The letter reveals that the FCO planned to spread anti-Western propaganda as a way of gaining the trust of Islamic extremists and then recruiting them as covert assets for various strategic purposes around the world."