British spy agency hit targets with ‘false flag’ attacks and ‘honey traps,’ new leak shows

[unhappycamper]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/07/british-spy-agency-hit-targets-with-false-flag-attacks-and-honey-traps-new-leak-shows/

British spy agency hit targets with ‘false flag’ attacks and ‘honey traps,’ new leak shows
By Scott Kaufman
Friday, February 7, 2014 11:26 EST

National Security Agency (NSA) documents taken by Edward Snowden and obtained by NBC News reveal that the British spy unit known as the Joint Threat Research and Intelligence Group (JTRIG) developed and deployed offensive strategies that included hacking social networks, spying on journalists and diplomats, and using the promise of sex to lure targets into “honey traps.”

The agency’s goal was to “destroy, deny, degrade [and] disrupt” threats by “discrediting” them.

In addition to planting viruses and launching ‘denial of service’ attacks against targets, JTRIG and affiliated organizations also ran numerous “false flag” operations in which they hacked into the social media accounts of presumptive threats and altered them, as shown in the slide — obtained by NBC — below:



The documents obtained by NBC do not, however, detail any successful operation in which these tactics were used, though they did specify that such tactics had been a “major part” of the agencies’s recent offensives.

[gordianot]

1. I was hoping for James Bond and his Aston Martin.