{"id":38668,"date":"2021-03-02T14:57:23","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T14:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/?p=38668"},"modified":"2021-03-02T14:57:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T14:57:23","slug":"reuters-bbc-and-bellingcat-participated-in-covert-uk-foreign-office-funded-programs-to-weaken-russia-leaked-docs-reveal-the-grayzone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/02\/reuters-bbc-and-bellingcat-participated-in-covert-uk-foreign-office-funded-programs-to-weaken-russia-leaked-docs-reveal-the-grayzone\/","title":{"rendered":"Reuters, BBC, and Bellingcat participated in covert UK Foreign Office-funded programs to &#8220;weaken Russia,&#8221; leaked docs reveal | The Grayzone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thegrayzone.com\/2021\/02\/20\/reuters-bbc-uk-foreign-office-russian-media\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/UK-Foreign-Office-Russia-propaganda-Reuters-BBC-Bellingcat.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>New leaked documents show Reuters\u2019 and the BBC\u2019s involvement in covert UK FCO programs to effect \u201cattitudinal change\u201d and \u201cweaken the Russian state\u2019s influence,\u201d alongside intel contractors and Bellingcat. The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) have sponsored Reuters and the BBC to conduct a series of covert programs aimed at promoting regime change inside Russia and undermining its government across Eastern Europe and Central Asia, according to a series of leaked documents. The leaked materials show the Thomson Reuters [\u2026]<\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/thegrayzone.com\/2021\/02\/20\/reuters-bbc-uk-foreign-office-russian-media\/\">Reuters, BBC, and Bellingcat participated in covert UK Foreign Office-funded programs to &#8220;weaken Russia,&#8221; leaked docs reveal | The Grayzone<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New leaked documents show Reuters\u2019 and the BBC\u2019s involvement in covert UK FCO programs to effect \u201cattitudinal change\u201d and \u201cweaken the Russian state\u2019s influence,\u201d alongside&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,83,23,6,144],"tags":[587,588,586,157,589],"class_list":["post-38668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-history","category-mainstream-media","category-politics","category-research","tag-bbc","tag-bellingcat","tag-reuters","tag-russia","tag-uk-foreign-office","entry","rows-excerpt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38670,"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38668\/revisions\/38670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}