Cambridge Analytica's daddy biz had 'routine access' to UK secrets
Cambridge Analytica's parent biz had "routine access to UK secret information" as part of training it offered to the UK's psyops group, according to documents released today.
A letter, published as part of a cache handed over to MPs by whisteblower Chris Wylie, details work that Strategic Communications Laboratories (SCL) carried out for the 15 (UK) Psychological Operations Group.
Dated 11 January 2012, it said that the group – which has since been subsumed into the unit 77 Brigade – received training from SCL, first as part of a commission and then on a continued basis without additional cost to the Ministry of Defence.
The author's name is redacted, but it stated that SCL were a "UK List 'X' accredited company cleared to routine access to UK secret information".
It said that five training staff from SCL provided the group with measurement of effect training over the course of two weeks, with students including Defence Science and Technology Ltd scientists, deploying military officers and senior soldiers.
It said that, because of SCL's clearance, the final part of the package "was a classified case study from current operations in Helmand, Afghanistan".
The author commented: "Such contemporary realism added enormous value to the course."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/29/cambridge_analytica_parent_firm_had_routine_access_to_uk_secret_information/