FROM EIR DAILY ALERT
Integrity Initiative’s Donnelly Urged Ukrainian Military Mobilization in 2014
Dec. 17, 2018 (EIRNS)—On Friday, Dec. 14, Anonymous hackers released documents revealing that, in the days just prior to the Crimea’s reunification with Russia, Institute for Statecraft director Chris Donnelly, founder of Integrity Initiative, urged escalation of the situation, including provocative military actions.
As revealed in Sputnik, Donnelly (who, they note, is “a special advisor to the House of Commons Defense Committee”) lays out six options, in an e-mail titled “Military measures,” starting with “[setting] up a cordon sanitaire across the isthmus of Crimea [the eastern end leading toward Russia] with troops and mines,” and “[mining] the Sevastopol harbor/bay” on the west side of the island. Donnelly further urges launching whatever “air force” they can, and activating, “all their air defenses.” Indicating his close knowledge of Ukraine’s defenses, Donnelly’s fourth point reads, “Ukraine used to have some seriously important weapons, such as a big microwave anti-satellite weapon. If they still have this, they should use it.” The Ukrainian government “needs a Strategic communication campaign,” he adds, “Without it, what have people to fight for?”
Other documents reveal that, two years later, in July 2016, the Institute for Statecraft hosted a unit of “Ukrainian Reserve Officers,” who, Sputnik claims, were “from the Ukrainian special services” to the U.K.—fully paying for their expenses—in order to “counter Russian disinformation about the conflict with Ukraine.”
In their release, Anonymous cautioned the Brits to carry out a serious investigation of the Integrity Initiative, threatening to release more documents, otherwise.
“This is only a part of the documents that we have on Christopher Donnelly. If the investigation into the Integrity Initiatives illegal activity in the U.K. turns out to be nothing more than a farce, we will publish more documents proving close connections between Donnelly and U.K. secret services which he often employs to mislead MPs and bring his agents to meetings of various committees in the House of Commons.”
