Operasi Mass Appeal: Perbedaan antara revisi

 

Lebih jauh dan detail, Ritter memberi pernyataan yang semakin menguatkan keterlibatan intelijen Inggris dalam menciptakan disinformasi mengenai kepemilikan senjata pemusnah massal oleh Irak saat diwawancarai oleh media Amerika Serikat. Democracy Now!.

<blockquote>I ran intelligence operations for the United Nations in regards to the disarmament of Iraq. That was my job. Part of this job in 1997 and 1998 took on a propaganda aspect, given the fact that we had launched a series of controversial and confrontational inspections in Iraq, which although successful from a disarmament standpoint in exposing aspects of the Iraqi account which were not accurate, were causing problems for the United Nations in the Security Council […] We made a decision. We, being Richard Butler, the Executive Chairman who ran UNSCOM, and his senior staff members, of which I was one, that we needed to clean up our public image, and we did a number of things […] [In December of 1997] I was approached by the British intelligence service, which I had, again, a long relationship with, of an official nature, to see if there was any information in the archives of UNSCOM that could be handed to the British, so that they could in turn work it over, determine its veracity, and then seek to plant it in media outlets around the world, in an effort to try to shape the public opinion of those countries, and then indirectly, through, for instance, a report showing up in the Polish press, shape public opinion in Great Britain and the United States. I went to Richard Butler with the request from the British. He said that he supported this, and we initiated a cooperation that was very short-lived. The first reports were passed to the British sometime in February of 1998. There was a detailed planning meeting in June of 1998, and I resigned in August of 1998. [...] This is an operation – Operation Mass Appeal, that had been going on prior to UNSCOM being asked to be the source of particular data, and it’s an operation that continued after my resignation<ref name=dn>{{cite web |url=http://www.democracynow.org/2003/12/30/scott_ritter_how_the_british_spy |title= Scott Ritter: How the British Spy Agency MI6 Secretly Misled A Nation into War With Iraq|last1=Goodman |first1=Amy |date=30 December 2003 |website=democracynow.org|publisher= Democracy Now! |accessdate= 3 November 2014}}</ref> </blockquote>