From the editorial board: Hungarian portal bennfentes.net revealed links between leading Central European media and the foundations of Georg Soros and Anglo-Saxon peculiar services. The editorial squad “Gazeta Wyborcza” published a message in which he considered it an innuendo, but did not deny the facts subject to the Hungarians.
"TeFI project, the east Frontier Initiative, created leading publishers from Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania at the end of 2023, including "Election", SME, 444.hu and PressOne and the Dutch investigative portal Bellingcat. The aim of the consortium, co-founded by the European Commission, is simply a regional journalism alliance focusing on safety challenges in the region. The materials created by the initiative will let millions of customers and global safety analysts and safety specialists to better realize the position of Central and east Europe on this issue" – read on the TEFI website. What's it truly like?:
"One of the beneficiaries of a media task financed by the European Commission is simply a jewel in the crown of Hungarian media Soros: The east Frontier Initiative (TEFI), Working on page 444.hu. It is simply a publishing consortium that brings together "independent" media from countries of Central and east Europe in Hungary, Slovakia, Romania and Poland.
TEFI task coordinator is 444 media, co-owned by the media fund George Soros, and Polish, Slovak and Romanian beneficiaries are besides Soros media or media supported by George Soros. Bellingcat portal, a key global TEFI task partner, who is besides the beneficiary of a grant from the European Commission, is swarming with intelligence officers and spies, and Bellingcat himself is financed straight and indirectly by a chain of British and American government agencies, defence manufacture and secret services subcontractors or secret service front companies.
According to the division of work, in the TEFI project, intelligence officers and spies working for Bellingcat besides train cream from Hungarian and Central European dollar media, journalists active in the TEFI project. In another words, the European Commission co-finances Soros media, where journalists are trained by British and American intelligence professionals working for Bellingcat.
All of this contributes to the knowing of the information war led by the Hungarian "independent, objective" dollar media: more and more evidence indicates that money, guidance and training besides comes from abroad, and thus service abroad influences and interests of the large powers, just as any information operation rooted in secret services.
The east Border Initiative (TEFI) aims in rule to advance dialog on safety policy in east countries. The European Commission will support the initiative with the amount EUR 1.076.718 from the public funds of European taxpayers over 2 years.
According to TEFI’s authoritative communication, “East Border Initiative brings together independent publishers from Central and east Europe to (...) strengthen public discourse on European defence and security. The task (...) combats Russian and Chinese misinformation and yet contributes to expanding the resilience of European democracy. The east EU border is represented by the Polish “Gazeta Wyborcza” (co-ownership of George Soros), Slovak SME (supported by the media paper George Soros), Hungarian 444 (media fund George Soros is co-owner) and Romanian PressOne (no traces of direct ties to Soros can be detected, but 60% of the budget consists of grants and everyone knows what it means).
Dutch agency Bellingcat is simply a planet leader in the usage of innovative OSINT techniques in public journalism focused on security. Participants will work together to make content focused on national security, defence, energy and natural materials security, economical safety and cybersecurity, individual resilience and emergency preparedness in their national language (PL, SLK, HU, RO – at least 350 content in 24 months) and will launch a joint English-language website aimed at global audiences (at least 85 content in 24 months). The consortium (in collaboration with GLOBSEC) will make a CEE Threat Report, a digital and printed publication (at least 20,000 copies), which will be presented and promoted during live events (6 events) and distributed free of charge in schools and universities. Bellingcat will make OSINT capabilities in all newsrooms (we will train at least 14 reporters) and make a centre for specified activities in the region. We are developing an OSINT curriculum for students of journalism schools in the region."
However, according to the study of the Polish portal signs.pl, there are besides another information objectives behind publishing cooperation: "Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 is most likely the most crucial event since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, which changed geopolitical position quo and shook the planet economy. The participating publishers felt that their task now was to explain the current situation to readers in a broader context and to draw attention to the risks facing Central and east Europe. Therefore, they decided to usage Bellingcat expertise and know-how to make their OSINT skills (open origin intelligence)".
Another TEFI partner is GLOBSEC, a think tank based in Bratislava, which receives hundreds of thousands of dollars a year from the George Soros Foundation. One of the directors of the organization is 1 of the main figures in backing the Hungarian dollar left, erstwhile Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai. another GLOBSEC directors work part-time for the George Soros Foundation. The improvement of the Hungarian armed forces and the pro-peace government at 444: evil, mistaken, useless, we have been expelled from NATO due to the fact that we service Putin's dreams. After an interview Pétera Kreko, in which the TEFI annex is inaugurated, 444 headlines specified as: ‘Kijów will meet Hungarian demands, Orbán no longer supports Ukraine's accession to the EU as a rule’, "It is not certain that the military will take part in a dangerous mission in Chad", "This is how the Hungarian peace government will arm itself", "German weapons factories flood Hungary", "András Rácz: The failure of Ukraine is completely contrary to the most fundamental safety interests of the EU and NATO", "President of Ukraine's office chief said 444 why they do not support ceasefire", "There are so many problems with military weapons produced in Kiskunfélegyháza that even the withdrawal is discussed," “We have been members of NATO for 25 years, but we celebrate completely different than those with whom we have joined”, "There are traces of Russian propaganda on his body: the communicative of Alexey Anulya, a Ukrainian soldier who spent 10 months in Russian captivity", "Péter Buda: The Hungarian abroad policy strategy has been adapted to Russian targets", "Orbán now tries to block NATO, Hungary can be expelled from safety cooperation in east Europe".
Looking at the headlines of the newspapers, it can be seen that in practice the TEFI task is not a credible presentation of Hungarian NATO membership or military improvement and a careful description of the changed safety situation in the East, but alternatively to exert qualified information force and to spread deliberate misinformation about Hungary (e.g. rumors of the exclusion of Hungary from NATO in the field of east safety or accusations of subjugating Hungarian abroad policy to Russian purposes and fulfilling Putin's dreams).
International partners
Polish publishing company “Gazeta Wyborcza” and its radio station belong to the Czech billionaire and Swiss company George Soros Media improvement Fundwhich besides belongs to 444. The acquisition was made in 2019 for a full of EUR 30 million. All this is part of the construction by Soros of the footheads on the Polish media market. In 2022 she acquired 40% of the shares in Gremi Media, and in 2023 a company based in Amsterdam announced that she had utilized the option to acquisition additional shares, expanding its share to 52%. In addition to the Polish “Rzeczpospolita”, this publisher besides publishes the business and finance paper “Parket”. Pluralis "has thus taken control of Gremi Media and can make full decisions regarding management of board and editorial board," said PAP editor-in-chief of "Rzeczpospolita" Boguslaw Chrabota. “Rzeczpospolita” is the second largest paper in Poland among non-tabloid journals.
In another words, George Soros indirectly owns both the 3rd and 4th most widely read Polish newspaper, 1 of which is besides a associate of TEFI consortium. British and American editorials and spies funded by intelligence train the cream of dollar media. The training partner of the TEFI consortium is, as officially described, the Dutch investigative portal Bellingcat. This editorial office pretends to be independent, but this carefully built image has already been seriously damaged.
Bellingcat, although previously denied, accepts funds from Western intelligence companies as well as funds from secret service subcontractors and government agencies as well as money from National Endowment for Democracy (NED), 1 of the major US sponsors of the Hungarian dollar left and dollar media. Moreover, in the case of Bellingcat, backing from secret services can be traced, but Bellingcat besides has intelligence officers and spies working undercover journalists. The TEFI partnership provides education and training for "independent journalists" from the TEFI consortium.
In another words, the best media in the Western planet are trained by Western intelligence officers to spread narratives in the country that perfectly match the expectations of the powers of Western governments, whether it be about peace or war, energy policy or national security.
However, the evidence gathered as a consequence of an in-depth investigation shows that Bellingcat is far from independency and neutrality due to the fact that it is funded by Western governments, has in its ranks erstwhile military officers and state intelligence, repeats authoritative narratives of power against hostile states and plays a key function on the route, which can be described as follows: "Propagan channel from spies, by Bellingcat, to authoritative mainstream media", which depicts narratives of Western governments as independent research.
A large number of Bellingcat employees and associates have a very suspicious past. For example, Chief Investigator Nick Waters spent 3 years as an officer in the British Army, including Afghanistan, where he supported the goals of the British state. Shortly after leaving the service, he was hired by Bellingcat to conduct allegedly impartial investigations in the mediate East.
Cameron Colquhoun He has an even more suspicious past. Colquhoun spent a decade in advanced positions at GCHQ (British version of the NSA, U.S. ultimate Intelligence Authority), where he directed terrorist operations in cyberspace and the mediate East. The Scotsman specializes in safety in the mediate East and besides holds the qualifications of the U.S. State Department. Bellingcat, however, did not uncover this to his readers, stating simply that Cameron is the executive manager of a private intelligence company that “conducts ethical investigations” for customers worldwide.
There are besides a number of erstwhile American spies on the Bellingcat list. erstwhile associate, Chris Biggers, who wrote over 60 articles on the website in 2014-2017, worked for the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency before working at Bellingcates. It is simply a reconnaissance unit of satellite combat support, subject to the Ministry of Defence and a wider intelligence community. Biggers is presently the manager of an intelligence company based in Virginia, in the suburbs of Washington (near another semi-private business groups specified as Booz Allen Hamilton). Biggers' company boasts that retired army and air force generals are on its board. Bellingcat has not disclosed any of this information: Biggers' biography simply states that he is simply a "public and private sector advisor in Washington".
Dan Chestnut, a atomic weapons agent in Bellingcat, was a U.S. agent. Secret Service specialized in chemical, biological and atomic weapons for six years before serving as program manager at the White home military office for another six years. In Bellingcat, he provided any ammunition for the Syrian chemical weapons program and the poisoning of Sergei Skripal. The helmet besides works for the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), a think tank funded by many Western governments and arms suppliers specified as Airbus, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon. The institute is headed by a British field marshal (highest available military degree) and its elder vice president is David Petraeus, retired American general and erstwhile CIA chief. The president is Lord Hague, who was the British abroad Minister from 2010 to 2015.
All of this matters only due to the fact that Bellingcat presents himself as completely independent – and is so regularly defined by the Hungarian "independent, objective" dollar media – while in fact their views almost perfectly match the views of the governments, agencies and secret services or subcontractors of the secret services that fund them. The cassette, for example, is described by Bellingcat only as managing manager of a safety company with 27 years of experience in safety and combating terrorism. another Bellingcat employees have a akin history. Nour Bakr had previously worked for the British Ministry of abroad Affairs and Commonwealth, while Karl Morand proudly served on 2 separate missions in Iraq within the American 82nd Airborne Division.
Who pays for Bellingcat?
Bellingcat backing is just as stunning as the staff themselves. Its founder, Eliot Higgins, rejected in 2016 as an absurd conspiracy explanation that its organization received US government money from the National Endowement for Democracy (NED). But Higgins openly admitted in 2017 that it was true. Since then, the available Bellingcat financial study confirms that they inactive receive financial support from NED. NED was specifically created by the Reagan administration as a cover for CIA operations aimed at changing U.S. hostile regimes. “Many of what we do today, 25 years ago, the CIA was doing in secret,” said the organization’s arrogant co-founder, Allen Weinstein.
From 2016 to 2019, Higgins was a elder associate of the Atlantic Council, a quasi-official think tank of NATO, even after the creation of the "independent" Bellingcat. The Board of Directors of the Atlantic Council was composed of the most crucial representatives of state power, including Henry Kissinger, Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell, and retired generals specified as James “Mad Dog” Mattis (Defense Secretary 2017-2019, erstwhile head of USCENTCOM) and H.R. McMaster. The panel besides includes 7 erstwhile CIA directors.
It is unclear why Higgins had no conflict of interest by taking a paid occupation at the Atlantic Council, while being the founder and face of Bellingcat, an open, independent and allegedly influential medium.
Why do these journalists not uncover to the public that they have contacts with secret services, instructors, and through them they participate in trainings that prepare them to wage an information war, which is simply a typical intelligence operation, not a journalistic one? Why not tell their readers that their strategical partner organization providing training is funded by the intelligence services of the large powers?
Hungarian ties to Bellingcat
On the basis of shreds of information, it can now be concluded that this is an information task aimed at taking control of defence issues in Central and east Europe and Hungary, undermining assurance in the improvement of the Hungarian armed forces and spreading misinformation in the delicate and hard times of war, erstwhile the increased information war itself became an integral part of the kinetic war.
It is now known that 444 is the flagship – coordinator – of the TEFI consortium, and that Bellingcat, whose intelligence and spies, cybersecurity and satellite intelligence specialists, is the partner of the “investigative” project.
However, it was unclear who, in addition to the Hungarian contact individual – Lili Takács – was seconded from Bellingcat to TEFI consortium to conduct training for Soros media cream. It's no 1 else. Like Ross Higgins, Founding Brother Bellingcat Eliot Higginswho denies everything and then admits everything. The second is the face of Bellingcat, who, after its establishment, was inactive a paid worker of the Atlantic Council. Eliot is credited with the controversial past of shooting down the Dutch MH-17 over Donetsk in east Ukraine (thanks to him the planet knows the version that Russian separatists shot down a passenger aircraft – there are many question marks in this story). Higgins is besides associated with the past of the alleged usage of chemical weapons by the Assad regime, and with the fact that it was later revealed that he had received information from the Syrian branch of ISIS, 1 of many muslim organizations fighting each another during the Syrian civilian War. According to the dezozger.nl portal, the founder's brother Eliot, Ross Higgins and Takács jointly presented themselves in the programme "Fighting Disinformation: Cross-border Journalistic Initiatives", which was besides funded by the European Commission.
The Dutch portal describes the joint performance of Takács and Ross: “Ross Higgins of Bellingcat and Lili Takács of 444 Hungarian news platforms [have arrived] as part of the east Border Initiative. Together with independent information platforms in Slovakia, Romania and Poland joined forces in the fight against Russian and Chinese misinformation. The eventual nonsubjective is to contribute to building a resilient European democracy."
The Dutch portal describes Brother Eliot, a specialist who trains independent Soros media: “Ross Higgins is simply a elder investigator for Bellingcat in the UK and heads a financial investigation investigation team. Prior to joining Bellingcat Ross, he worked in the bankruptcy sector in the public and private sectors for over a decade. Ross besides acts as an teacher at Bellingcat, regularly conducting workshops and appearing at events across Europe that address all aspects of open origin investigations, especially in Central and east Europe. Ross is the leader of the Bellingcat squad in the east Border Initiative".
In 444 Lili Takács, the global contact individual and TEFI task coordinator, is the author of materials presenting the Hungarian military sector in a unilateral way. These reports depict the Hungarian Defence Forces as a patheticly weak organization in which nothing succeeds, where everyone disarms, where there is full confusion, and in any case, through the transfer of the German arms manufacture to the country, pro-peaceful Hungary, which serves Putin's plans and thus are completely isolated, as Orbán's peace mission is simply a complete failure.
When they compose about Hungary's national security, our membership in NATO, Hungary's abroad policy, defence manufacture or national energy policy, they completely discover and deny the thesis that dollar media is free of any influence, "independent-objective" and service only readers.
It is neither independent nor for readers. The mission of dollar media is not to inform, but to influence. The contacts of dollar media cream include intelligence professionals and black belt spies who supply a "training" of the best "journalists" to spread undisturbed Western and large powers of desire and expectations of Hungarian readers who are deceived to believe that their work is free of any influence."
Think Poland, No. 37-38 (8-15.09.2024)
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