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All the King's researchers w/Asa Winstanley and Kit Klarenberg

The East is a Podcast

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The Leaked Cache of Files From Adam Smith International

We obtained a large cache of files from an organization called Adam Smith International, which is essentially a British government intelligence contractor. One of the most interesting files that we've focused on initially and that triggered this article was a project to essentially spy on Palestinian refugee camps within the West Bank but also Jordan Lebanon. And they did so in order to kind of well, to protect British government interests essentially and to try to figure out what the attitudes of Palestinians in the refugee camps is towards the British government towards Israel. They're extremely shady characters. Some of them seem very benign, and they seem like very obvious. But then you've got to bear in mind that some of their staff are former military intelligence veterans

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