UK PSYOPS Company

[Sinclair]

I browsed to the link below after seeing it in a comment (by Spot) in the Guardian article here

http://www.scl.cc/article.php?id=10

Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL)

Is a private UK company, specialising in PSYOPS

Have a look at the site, ....some interesting quotes....

An Opcentre is a command facility for strategic communications

What can the OpCentre do?

- Launch a powerful psyop campaign against an engaged enemy
- Engender support within the national community for proposed military action
- Re-engineer foreign perceptions to potentially avert conflict altogether
- Develop national resilience and behavioural compliance for homeland security issues
- Produce powerful public diplomacy campaigns for political, economic, military issues
- Maintain an ‘always ready' public communication command centre for critical incidents
- Develop more effective public information campaigns for social and health issues


SCL are in the business of information management. The stations handle demographic and social data and trend analyses so that the government may use "persuasion and influence" to achieve their ends. The strategic stations are where decisions are made and the output desks are where "the means of communication exist for what the government wants to achieve".

It would be interesting to see SCL's previous client/project list........

[Ally]

holy krap, that's some shady corp

[ian neal]

Good spot DH

According to their website only publicly launched Sept 05 but founded in 1993

In an age of universal deception this is clearly a growth market

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Psyops

Lovely people

Clients

SCL doesn't disclose the name of its past or present clients but boasts that it has worked on communication "campaigns for 27 governments and sovereigns worldwide - including personally advising eleven prime ministers and presidents - as well as NGOs, police departments, military forces and political parties, a major US city, and work for the UN. Projects include election campaigns and analysis (including the largest political research project ever undertaken in the world - a 500-strong team working for over a year on a budget of £20m), together with political lobbying and democratic reform."
(http://www.scl.cc/about.php)

Several projects it has undertaken include:

Design and develop a permanent military strategic communication facility capable of delivering strategic and operational psyop campaigns for a South Asian country;"
"Design, build and install a Homeland Security Centre for an Asian country. The Opcentre can override all national radio and TV broadcasts in time of crisis;" and
"Recruitment, training and equipping an operational and tactical Psyop and Civil Affairs military unit for a British Commonwealth country."
(http://www.scl.cc/projects.php)

Contact details

Strategic Communication Laboratories
12 St James’s Square
Right next door to Chatham House, across the road from BAE systems, 5 mins walk from the FCO and MOD

[ian neal]

For my money, when trying to understand how the powers that be control public perception and public discourse this is the route to go down.

Good article

Sure you need to ensure you monopolise the MSM ownership/editorship in a fewer and fewer dependable hands, but understand who is creating and manipulating the key news agendas and dreaming up the psyops in the first place and you get to the real heart of the matter.

By proving to the wider public the extent to which news is not just managed but invented is key to demonstrating that a deception like 9/11 is possible

Information prostitutes, shame on them

[Andrew Johnson]

What's really so irritating is the mixed in Corpartised Language and the way they think they are so clever.

However, all the people that work for this organisation must surely have been prevented from seeing the wider picture - and what the work they do is directed towards.

They think are so clever when in the opposite is probably true. When will they wake up and realise what is going on and what they are part of? Maybe never.

[flamesong]

It probably isn't of any great significance but I am curious why they chose the domain (.cc) of the Chacos Islands. It isn't as if there is a shortage of domain options - or that there are tax breaks for registering domains in exotic locations.

Their entry at Companies House - http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk -reveals very little additional information about who they are except that they have never submitted their accounts - first submission due this month - which suggests that they have only become a limited company in the last 12 months, which would tie in, somewhat circumstacially, with what Ian says.

It is quite evident from their DNS record that they were a little publicity shy when they registered their domain:

Registrant:
Domain Discreet
ATTN: scl.cc
P.O. Box 278
Yarmouth, NS B5A 4B2
CA
Email: 1bb2e6f30a1e67290018cea6e0f50c5c@domaindiscreet.com

Registrar Name....: REGISTER.COM, INC.
Registrar Whois...: whois.register.com
Registrar Homepage: www.register.com

Domain Name: scl.cc

Created on..............: Thu, Sep 16, 2004
Expires on..............: Sat, Sep 16, 2006
Record last updated on..: Wed, Jun 21, 2006

Administrative Contact:
Domain Discreet
ATTN: scl.cc
P.O. Box 278
Yarmouth, NS B5A 4B2
CA
Phone: 1-902-7495331
Email: 1bb2e6e90a1e67290004e11e9eb47212@domaindiscreet.com

Technical Contact:
Domain Discreet
ATTN: scl.cc
P.O. Box 278
Yarmouth, NS B5A 4B2
CA
Phone: 1-902-7495331
Email: 1bb2e6f80a1e67290007cd35e7253dab@domaindiscreet.com

[Sinclair]

From here: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Strategic_Communication_Lab oratories, some more on Strategic Communication Laboratories.


Strategic Communication Laboratories describes itself as "the leading supplier of Information Operations, Strategic Communication and Public Diplomacy services to governments and military clients worldwide."

At the centre of SCL's activities are what it refers to as construction and training of people to run an "Opcentre."

"A strategic communication centre puts influence, control and power back into the hands of the government and military. It is an essential component for Homeland Security, Conflict Reduction, International Public Diplomacy and un-mediated Government communications [what exactly is that?!]. Over the last 15 years the military use of Psyop has saved thousands of lives on both sides of military conflicts. In the future, conflicts may well be resolved on the global media stage, so that direct action becomes an unnecessary tactic," it states on its website.

"Governments and Military forces worldwide are realising that communication can be a very powerful force. Those countries without the ability to control and respond to communications in a strategic capacity will be at a serious disadvantage in political and military terms," it states.

"SCL is providing governments and military forces all over the world with the power to control their own communication messages and manage perceptions on the world media stage. Furthermore, it gives governments greater access to their own publics in time of crises and the military greater power to influence enemy disengagement in time of conflict," it states.

SCL Comes Out At An Arms Fair
SCL made its public debut in September 2005 with a glitzy exhibit occupying prime real estate at Defense Systems & Equipment International 2005, or DSEI, the United Kingdom's largest showcase for military technology. The main attraction was a full-scale mock-up of its ops center, running simulations ranging from natural disasters to political coups," Sharon Weinberger writes for Slate. [1] (http://slate.msn.com/id/2126479/)

The elaborate booth included actors, flashing computer screens and a "a dark-suited man with a wireless microphone [pacing] like a carnival barker, narrating the scenarios." One of which features a "sophisticated campaign of mass deception" that uses a fictitious chemical plant accident as a ploy to minimize the spread of smallpox."If your definition of propaganda is framing communications to do something that's going to save lives, that's fine," says Mark Broughton, SCL's public affairs director. "That's not a word I would use for that." [2] (http://slate.msn.com/id/2126479/)

Clients
SCL doesn't disclose the name of its past or present clients but boasts that it has worked on communication "campaigns for 27 governments and sovereigns worldwide - including personally advising eleven prime ministers and presidents - as well as NGOs, police departments, military forces and political parties, a major US city, and work for the UN. Projects include election campaigns and analysis (including the largest political research project ever undertaken in the world - a 500-strong team working for over a year on a budget of £20m), together with political lobbying and democratic reform." [3] (http://www.scl.cc/about.php)

Several prorjects it has understaken include:

"Design and develop a permanent military strategic communication facility capable of delivering strategic and operational psyop campaigns for a South Asian country;"
"Design, build and install a Homeland Security Centre for an Asian country. The Opcentre can override all national radio and TV broadcasts in time of crisis;" and
"Recruitment, training and equipping an operational and tactical Psyop and Civil Affairs military unit for a British Commonwealth country." [4] (http://www.scl.cc/projects.php)


There is also an article from infowars.net, The Most Powerful Weapon In The World - Strategic Communication Laboratories and the war for your mind here ---> http://infowars.net/articles/march2006/080306SCL.htm

[scubadiver]

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/unmediated

adj : without the interposition of other agencies or conditions.

I should think it would mean Government propaganda with no third-party oversight.