Jacopo Iacoboni
 Jacopo Iacoboni     (journalist, propagandist) | |
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| Born | 21 April 1972 Naples |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Member of | DisinfoPortal, Integrity Initiative/Cluster/Italy |
Jacopo Iacoboni is a journalist and member of the Italian cluster of the Integrity Initiative.
Career
Iacoboni worked for the NATO-strategy think-tank The Atlantic Council, where he co-authored v. 2.0 of The Kremlin's Trojan Horses[1] with Alina Polyakova, Markos Kounalakis, Antonis Klapsis, Luigi Sergio, Francisco de Borja Lasheras and Nicolás de Pedro.
Russian spies among doctors
In April 2020, Jacopo Iacoboni published a story claiming, in relation to Russia's medical mission to Italy in the coronavirus crisis, that the "104-strong contingent of doctors and experts almost certainly included officers from Russia's GRU military intelligence agency." The expert quoted for this claim was Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, the British soldier spreading the UK government line on the in the Skripal-affair and the alleged Douma chemical incident.[2]
"We can assume that (the Russian team) will want to find out as much about Italian forces as possible and set up intelligence networks," de Bretton-Gordon told La Stampa.[3]
References
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20181223120214/https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/images/The_Kremlins_Trojan_Horses_2_web_1121.pdf
- ↑ https://www.lastampa.it/topnews/primo-piano/2020/04/02/news/tra-i-soldati-russi-con-gli-aiuti-anche-ufficiali-dell-intelligence-1.38668495
- ↑ https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/italy-and-russia-spar-over-alleged-coronavirus-spies/ar-BB128mE7
