I kept telling you for years that BBC is covertly controlled by CIA NSA
MI6 and MI5 to "propagandize" britain and the world.

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https://www.mintpressnews.com/bbc-nato-pipeline-british-state-broadcaster-serves-powerful/282156/

The BBC-to-NATO Pipeline: How the British State Broadcaster Serves the
Powerful

The death of Queen Elizabeth II, where the BBC dropped programming to
run endless, wall-to-wall coverage, has underlined the fact to many
Britons that the network is far from impartial, but the voice of the state.

The BBC website draped itself in black, printing stories such as “Death
of Queen Elizabeth II: The moment history stops,” while BBC News
presenter Clive Myrie explicitly dismissed the cost of living and energy
crisis wracking the country as “insignificant” compared to the news.

But even before the monarch’s death, the BBC’s reputation was in crisis.
Between 2018 and 2022, the number of Britons saying they trusted its
coverage dropped from 75% to just 55%. Yet it still remains a giant in
media; more than three-quarters of the U.K. public rely on the network
as a news source.

However, this investigation will reveal that the BBC has always been
consciously used as an arm of the state, with the broadcaster openly
collaborating with the U.K. military, the intelligence services and with
NATO, all in an effort to shape British and world public opinion.

The BBC-to-NATO pipeline

The BBC has always cultivated a close relationship with the British
military, despite the inherent journalistic conflicts of interest
present. “In theory the BBC is supposed to hold power to account, but
this is not how impartiality has tended to work in practice,” Tom Mills,
an academic and author of “The BBC: Myth of a Public Service,” told
MintPress, adding that “a certain deference is expected of you…It’s a
structural feature of the organization, and to some extent journalism
more broadly.”

Yet, studying employment databases and websites reveals the existence of
a revolving door between the broadcaster and NATO.

Between 2007 and 2008, longtime BBC producer and news presenter Victoria
Cook, for instance, was simultaneously collecting a paycheck from NATO,
working as a journalist and media trainer.

Oana Lungescu, meanwhile, left her job as a correspondent at the BBC
World Service (the broadcaster’s flagship international radio service)
in 2010 to take a job as a NATO spokesperson.

Another BBC employee who went through the BBC-to-NATO-pipeline is Mark
Laity, who left his position as the network’s defense correspondent to
become the deputy spokesman to NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson – a
man who journalistic ethics dictates Laity should have been closely
scrutinizing, not doing public relations for him.

David McGee also left his role as a news producer for the BBC to work
for NATO – in this case as a media manager, where he, in his own words,
“Provided PR support to military and civilian stakeholders for external
communications audience,” and, “Undertook crisis management of news
events for [the] U.S. military.”

Others traveled the other way. One of them is Terence Sach, who left his
job as an intelligence and security analyst at the U.K. Ministry of
Defense in 2017 to become an information security specialist at the BBC.

Where news meets psyops

Perhaps most noteworthy, however, is the BBC’s employment of NATO
psychological operations officers, tasking them to provide supposedly
objective information while simultaneously moonlighting as propagandists
for the military alliance.

Between 1994 and 2014, for example, Sulaiman Radmanish worked for the
BBC World Service, primarily helping to produce content targeting the
Afghan population. Over a similar time period (2005-2014), he worked as
a video editor for NATO, “edit[ing] short Psyops clips” according to his
LinkedIn profile. It is surely no coincidence that his work with both
the BBC and NATO ended in the same year as Britain’s withdrawal from
Afghanistan – a country it had been occupying since 2001.

Another operative with one foot in both NATO and the BBC was Bojan
Lazic. At the same time as being a full-time psychological operations
specialist for NATO, Lazic moonlighted as a BBC technical consultant.
This employment coincided with NATO’s bombing of Lazic’s native Yugoslavia.

This close relationship with the military continues to the present day.
One example of this is the BBC’s newly appointed head of assurance,
Khushru Cooper. According to his social media profile, Cooper continues
to be a commissioned British Army officer – a post he has held for 20 years.

The myth of a left-wing bias

In August, top BBC news anchor Emily Maitlis caused a storm of
controversy after she claimed that the network’s former head of
political programming, Robbie Gibb, was, in her words, an “active agent
of the Conservative party” who influenced politics coverage. Others
agreed, including BBC media editor Amol Rajan, who said Gibb’s
appointment “clearly strengthens the BBC’s links not just with
Westminster, but with the Conservative Party specifically”.

At the time she made the remarks, Maitlis had recently resigned,
although only after she had come under huge pressure for reporting on
how senior Conservative politicians were blatantly flouting their own
COVID-19 lockdown rules.

Richard Sharp, the BBC’s chairman, insisted that Maitlis was “completely
wrong”. “We cherish the editorial independence of the BBC,” he added.
Yet her claims were hardly outlandish. Robbie Gibb is the brother of
Tory MP and former cabinet minister Nick Gibb, and left the BBC in 2017
to become Director of Communications for Conservative Prime Minister
Theresa May. And Sharp himself was an advisor to senior Tories,
including Chancellor Rishi Sunak and future Prime Minister Boris
Johnson. He is also one of the party’s largest benefactors, donating at
least £400,000 to its coffers.

Many of the BBC’s biggest and most influential names also have similar
connections to conservative power. Tim Davie, the corporation’s director
general, was the deputy chairman of the Hammersmith and Fulham
Conservative Party and stood for election as a Tory on two occasions.
Nick Robinson, the BBC’s former political editor and current host of its
flagship Today program, was chairman of the National Young Conservatives
and president of the Oxford University Conservative Association. And
Andrew Neil, a longtime senior politics presenter at the BBC, was
far-right media baron Rupert Murdoch’s right-hand man and the chairman
of the hard-right Spectator magazine.

This glut of right-wingers in top jobs is not matched by an equal number
on the left. Far from it. In fact, from the earliest days of the BBC,
the secret services have vetted the majority of its staff – even for
minor positions – in order to ensure that those it deems too left-wing,
radical or anti-war will never enter its ranks. This practice continued
until at very least the 1980s. However, when BBC journalists asked the
company in 2018 whether this practice is still ongoing, they refused to
answer, citing “security issues” – a response many took to be a tacit “yes”.

Nevertheless, the myth that the BBC is a left-leaning institution is a
persistent one. Successive polls have shown that around one quarter of
the public believe the corporation is biased in favor of the Labour
Party and the left – a larger number than those that say the opposite is
true.

Much of this sentiment is driven by the Conservative Party itself, which
constantly harangues the BBC over what it claims is an anti-Tory bias,
to the point where the current government under Liz Truss have vowed to
pull all its funding, effectively destroying it. Earlier this week, Home
Secretary Suella Braverman claimed that there has been a “march of
socialism” throughout public life and that there was an “urgent need” to
address the balance by placing right-wingers into more positions of power.

The BBC is not financed by advertising, but from a license fee paid for
by all Britons (with some exceptions) who wish to have a television. The
cost of the license – and therefore the budget of the BBC – is set by
the government, giving it a weapon to use against the corporation.

As former Director of BBC personnel, Michael Bett said,

The license fee became a bigger and bigger political issue.
Therefore, it mattered very much what the government thought about you,
and you couldn’t rely on the general reputation. You had to please the
government.”

“The BBC is essentially a state broadcaster with a high degree of
operational autonomy. It’s reporting isn’t directed by government, or by
any department of state…plus its public income comes from outside of
general taxation,” Mills told MintPress, adding:

But governments control that income, they appoint executives to its
board and they periodically define its terms of operations. Ultimately
it is answerable to governments and this is well understood in the BBC
itself. They are very conscious of how they are perceived by politicians.”