Syria Chemical Attack Deniers Admit Links to WikiLeaks and Russia Michael Weiss, Jett Goldsmith © Provided by The Daily Beast Anas Alkharboutli/Getty
A group of British academics was secretly in contact with Russian diplomats in four separate embassies as they worked to undermine evidence that Bashar al-Assad was using chemical weapons against his own people, according to emails seen by The Daily Beast.
The documents were obtained as part of a sting operation on one member of the group that was disclosed last month by the BBC and
The Times of London. Paul McKeigue, a Professor of Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics at the University of Edinburgh’s College of Medicine, was duped into sharing the inner workings of the so-called Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media by emails from someone calling himself “Ivan,” who implied he was a Russian intelligence officer.
Syria Chemical Attack Deniers Admit Links to WikiLeaks and Russia
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