'Anonymous'

'Anonymous'   (Hackers, Activists, Spooks, Plastic word)
The headless man signifies the leaderless organisation. The global emblem depicts its worldwide relevance and reach.
Formation	2004
Type	•  Multiple-use name •  Virtual community •  Voluntary association
Interests	Free speech
Interest of	Barrett Brown, Rogue Media Labs

This is for the group, named 'Anonymous'. For a list of documents from authors who deliberately remain anonymous, see Anonymous.

'Anonymous' is a decentralized international movement of digital activists known for generating high-profile cyberattacks against governments, companies, and other institutions which has leaked information gleaned from those hacks to the public. It is also a group identity used in online actions that typically seek to thwart the globalised corporate media by reporting alternative information; however, anybody can use the name, government agencies too.

History

Peiter Zatko on the origins of 'Anonymous', starting at 11:20 minutes.

The beginning of Anonymous were the "Habbo Hotel Raids" initially organised on 4chan.

Two of the main accounts on Twitter are/were:

• @YourAnonNews
• @YourAnonCentral (connected to the activist Heather Marsh)

Symbols

An anonymous headless suit logo on a subvertised billboard to highlight Corporate media's Mendacity

The headless suit is commonly used online.

The Guy Fawkes mask, from the film V for Vendetta is used by activists both to hide their own identity and to signify sympathy with the group 'Anonymous'.

Activities

Integrity Initiative

The 2018-19 Integrity Initiative Leak was a set of 7 leaks of compromising material from a UK deep state milieu exposing its subversion with the political process to promote Russophobia.

On 5 November 2018, Anonymous leaked documents about the Integrity Initiative and Institute for Statecraft, apparently showing how these UK taxpayer funded groups were employed to create anti-Russian disinformation.

 

Events carried out

Event	Location	Description
Epik data breach		Data breach in September 2021. Is Anonymous doing the job of the FBI for them because the facts aren't adding up.
Integrity Initiative/Leak	CyberGuerilla	A series of 7 leaks, starting on 5 November 2018, of unknown origin and veracity. After some time, the II disputed the authenticity of some of the documents, but was not clear about which.
Integrity Initiative/Leak/1	Cyberguerilla	The first of many leaks which exposed covertly organised groups of Russophobic academics, journalists, government officers and deep state operatives who strategised about how to alert to people to a purported Russian "threat".
Integrity Initiative/Leak/2	Cyberguerilla	The second Integrity Initiative Leak, 24 days after Integrity Initiative Leak 1.
Integrity Initiative/Leak/3	Cyberguerilla	The 3rd tranche of documents released as part of the Integrity Initiative Leak, on 13 December 2018.
Integrity Initiative/Leak/4	Cyberguerilla	The fourth Integrity Initiative Leak, from early 2019.
Integrity Initiative/Leak/5	Cyberguerilla	Released on the 24 January 2019, the fifth Integrity Initiative Leak.
Integrity Initiative/Leak/6	Cyberguerilla	The 6th Integrity Initiative Leak, posted on 8 February 2019.
Integrity Initiative/Leak/7	Cyberguerilla	The final tranche of Integrity Initiative documents, released in March 2020, which gave an impression of the scale of the multi-million pound operation

 

A Document by 'Anonymous'

Title	Document type	Publication date	Subject(s)	Description
File:Anonymous-open-letter-to-us-citizens.pdf	open letter	24 March 2011	US	An incitement to revolution

 

Event Participated in

Event	Start
Operation Want	2011

 

Related Document

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Anonymous Surpasses Wikileaks	article	17 February 2011	John Young

 

Documents sourced from 'Anonymous'

Title	Type	Subject(s)	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:5 July Seminar; Potential guest list for discussion	spooky seminar invitation list	Deep state Propaganda UK Integrity Initiative Spooky seminar	26 February 2016	Integrity Initiative	Seminar with a mix of media, academics and lots of spooks
Document:Appendix A Ukraine Indicators and Warnings	Ukrainan view of Russian/separatist tactics and strategy	Russia Ukraine Separatists	26 February 2016	Integrity Initiative	Ukrainian officers tells British colleagues their opinions
Document:Avisa Partners Presentation	company presentation	Propaganda France Integrity Initiative Lobbyism	June 2016	Avisa Partners	This is very revealing but more official presentation of the company's influence work. Compare with the dirty tricks in Document:Combatting Russian Disinformation
Document:Background to the Simulation Seminars	report	Center for the Study of New Generation Warfare	28 February 2018	Chris Donnelly	Background to and observation of two war Simulation Seminars
Document:Balkans Trip Report	cluster meeting		28 November 2018	Simon Bracey-Lane	Workshop in Montenegro. "'Story telling' difficult if journalists are branded fake news"
Document:Bid for MoD Funding 2017-2018	project proposal	Propaganda Integrity Initiative II/C	14 March 2017	Integrity Initiative	"Creation of a Europe-wide network of groups who understand the danger of Russian active measures and who can pass the message on to their own decision-makers and public, often using material which we initiate"
Document:Chief of Defence Intelligence at RUSI 180518	speech summary	Propaganda Fusion center Interoperability Great power competition for resources	24 May 2018	Euan Grant	There need to be exponential growths in information operations [..] and in cooperation with offensive cyber ops.
Document:Chris Donnelly CV Short	CV	Chris Donnelly	13 December 2018	Chris Donnelly	Chris Donnelly short CV
Document:Chris Donnelly Paris Brussels May 2016 v2	report	Propaganda Belgium France Integrity Initiative II/C	13 December 2018	Chris Donnelly	Chris Donnelly talks to his French II connections. "They think our main target needs to be the parts of the political class and the security structures 'where the rot is'"... "As an independent NGO we can do things they can’t do and national governments can’t do"
Document:Chris Donnelly Washington DC Schedule	schedule	Wikipedia Washington DC	26 December 2018	Integrity Initiative	A schedule of c's meetings in Washington
Document:Chris Donnelly proposal to FCO	document	Balkans Eastern Europe Market research Edelman	24 May 2018	Chris Donnelly	The local partner then needs to do or commission an assessment of the agents or promoters of corruption and influence, eg key businessmen or politicians, as well as opposition politicians and clean businessmen, journalists etc who can be allies. These we bring out on trips to London, HQ NATO etc.
Document:Cluster Meeting Schedule Thessanoliki	cluster meeting		28 November 2018	Simon Bracey-Lane	Meeting with focus on Balkan countries and Greece
Document:Combatting Russian Disinformation	report	Wikipedia Propaganda France Integrity Initiative II/C	June 2016	Avisa Partners	A truly astonishing II document, with a lot of dirty methods. It is written by an established covert French propaganda network, spreading more than a 1000 stories a month, offering to work for II. "our ability to publish articles across hundreds of credible media outlets means that any campaign we undertake will have far more sway than the content published only on state-sponsored outlets RT and Sputnik, and their local few allies."
Document:Creating or improving the structural mechanisms for tracking, analysing and responding to Russian malign influence and disinformation	strategy document	McCarthyism Propaganda war Academic restrictions	50318	Euan Grant	identification of academic sympathies with Russia; Providing source material for radio, TV and print and online media on impact of Russian influence; Preparation of a course on information literacy for University-level students
Document:CyberGuardian Cyber Security Education Programme for Children and Young People	brainwashing concept paper	Hacking "Cyberwarfare" Brainwashing of children	30 January 2016	Integrity Initiative	II puts lots of thought into how the military can train British children for cyberwarfare.
Document:Domestic Determinants of Russia’s anti-Western Campaign	analysis draft		28 November 2018	Hannes Adomeit	II analysis of Russian foreign policy (outline)
Document:Draft agenda for the conference Tackling Tools of Malign Influence	conference plan	Tackling Tools of Malign Influence		Chris Donnelly	Draft conference plan for the Tackling Tools of Malign Influence event
Document:Establishing a modern perspective - Nation-State vs Network State	article	Perpetual war Cold War II Hypercompetition	26 February 2016	Chris Donnelly	"The...requirement is for the organisation to be able to get its message across, to ensure that the Government and the people understand that they are actually engaged in one (or more) instability, like it or not." Chris Donnelly believes “we are at war, but with peacetime attitudes."
Document:Executive Summary Cyber Security Education Programme for Children and Young People	brainwashing concept paper executive summary	Hacking "Cyberwarfare" Brainwashing of children	26 February 2016	Integrity Initiative	II sums up its thought on how the military can train British children for cyberwarfare
Document:FCO Skripal material 16.03.18	Twitter roundup	George Monbiot Robert van der Noordaa Julia Davis Anton Shekhovtsov James Patrick Paula Chertok Thomas Grove Martin Lewis Jason Beattie Paul Canning Gordon Guthrie David Jack Jamie Dettmer Krisztian Simon Andrew Scott	16 March 18 JL	Chris Hernon	A Twitter roundup from II. The contents are fairly standard fare, but which users II chose to follow is very interesting, including a certain type of journalist, and "other users in our field".
Document:FCO Skripal twitter sample 23.3.18	Twitter roundup	Garry Kasparov Sergei Skripal Julian Lindley-French Edward Lucas Henrik Breitenbauch Integrity Initive network Elliot Higgins Veli-Pekka Kivimäki Hans de Vreij Committee to Investigate Russia Mig Greengard Stiftung Leo Strauss Jimmy Rushmore	23 March 18 JL	Chris Hernon	A Twitter roundup from II. The contents are fairly standard fare, but which users II chose to follow is very interesting, and some are indeed "other users in our field"
Document:FCO Skripal twitter sample 24.3.18	Twitter roundup	Sergei Skripal Jakub Janda Deborah Haynes Ian Bond 112 News Andreas Umland Niels Ockelmann James Marson Craig Silverman John Sweeney Daniel Twining Ryan O'Farrell Nina Khrushcheva Shashank Joshi Thomas Embleton Elizabeth Tsurkov	24 March 18 JL	Chris Hernon	A Twitter roundup from II. The contents are fairly standard fare, but which users II chose to follow is very interesting, and some are "other users in our field".
Document:Finding the money	seminar description	Spying on opposition Financing Russian influence money	12 June 2016	Perry Fawcett Ian Cohen	Inegrity Initiative is convinced all opposition is Russian funded, and wants to prove it
Document:Framing Russian meddling in the Catalan question	report	Julian Assange Spain Catalonia Catalonia/Independence	October 2017	Integrity Initiative/Cluster/Spain	An example of Projection by the Integrity Initiative. The Moncloa operation shows that the group itself has been involved in subverting the Spanish political process. This document accuses Russia of involvment in the Catalonia independence question.
Document:Genesis and features of Russia’s hybrid warfare in Ukraine	presentation	Ukraine Hybrid war	June 2018	Jon Searle	Quote from presentation: “aggression will [only] be over when Russia is over"
Document:Greek Cluster Meeting	cluster meeting		25 June 2018	Integrity Initiative	The Greek cell ('cluster') conspires against the elected Syriza government.
Document:Greek Media and Information Literacy Week	media workshop		28 November 2018	Integrity Initiative	The British covert propaganda outfit wants..."to familiarize readers/media users with basic principles and concepts so that they can judge and control...the online and printed content they read, share or create, so as to be able to distinguish news from misinformation, biased content, or propaganda".
Document:II Network Skripal	report	Skripal Affair	21 March 2018	Simon Bracey-Lane	media feedback from II members in smaller countries to HQ in London in Skripal affair
Document:II Report Greek Diplomatic Expulsions	press summary		28 November 2018	Integrity Initiative	Summary of Greek comments after expulsion of Russian diplomats "with the constant advice of the American embassy".
Document:II Twitter performance January 2018	success analysis	Integrity Initiative	14 March 2017	Chris Donnelly	Our total number of Twitter followers was 328 as of 18th January.
Document:Ideas for Ramping up IfS Contributions to the Cause	strategy document	Propaganda Skripal Affair	16 March 2018	Victor Madeira	Outline of the Ifs-parts of a big covert propaganda campaign to synchronize and spread the British narrative ('the Cause') in the Skripal case.
Document:Institute for Statecraft & Center for Naval Analyses Joint Workshop	workshop summary	Sweden Estonia Norway Poland Psyop Navy Nuclear weapon US/Marine Corps Zapad Information Warfare	22 June 2018	Integrity Initiative	Information Warfare Study Day hosted by British Navy. Candid opinions (with a NATO-flavor) on lots of military issues.
Document:Institute for Statecraft project on Russian influence - Impact as at 19 04 2016	report	Propaganda	19 April 2016	Chris Donnelly	A list of stories II has planted in media per April 2016, some openly, some secretly, like "Trolls on the Kremlin Payroll"; plus a number of youtube lectures with a lacklustre number of unique views.
Document:Integrity France	report	Propaganda France Integrity Initiative II/C	25 June 2018	Integrity Initiative	a partial list of II-France members. For complete list, see Integrity Initiative/Cluster/France
Document:Integrity Initiative Budget for the 12 months ending 31 March 2019	Budget and activity plan	Propaganda Integrity Initiative II/C Political warfare Information Operation	2 November 2018	Integrity Initiative	Budget outlining how Integrity Initiative is going to control the information space, and influence policy-makers, specialists and media.
Document:Integrity Initiative Weekly Report 16th to 22nd July 2018	report	Australia Norway China Taiwan Greg Sheridan	22 July 2018	Euan Grant	input into media documentaries and fictional entertainment, including specific topics
Document:Integrity Initiative Weekly Report 9th to 15th July 2018	report	Russia Portugal Spain Africa Scotland Moldova Integrity Initiative/Cluster	15 July 2018	Euan Grant
Document:Integrity initiative: Notes on discussions in Greece	report	Greece	2017	Chris Donnelly Integrity Initiative/Cluster/Greece	II looking hard for Russian influence. It "is insidious but everywhere, so it is difficult to pinpoint..Their funding is difficult to identify."
Document:Invoice Visit to Norway 23-4 January 2018 Alex Finnen	Invoice	Norway Alexander Finnen		Alexander Finnen	Proves Alex Finnen is connected to Norwegian cell
Document:Invoice to MoD for Ukrainian Visit	success analysis	Ukraine Integrity Initiative Vidmantas Eitutis Land Intelligence Fusion Centre	22 November 2017	Chris Donnelly	Invoice from Institute of Statecraft to the Ministry of Defence for Ukrainian visit to London
Document:John Searle Statecraft invoice 29 May 18	invoice	John Searle	29 May 18 JL	John Searle	John Searle invoice to Institute of Statecraft for "Research activities"
Document:Journalism skill sharing seminar	review	Foreign Desk Ltd	26 December 2018	Victor Madeira	Foreign Desk Ltd suggested a joint event with the Integrity Initiative to groom 15 young journalists. The proposal has comments from II's Victor Madeira
Document:Maritime Battle Staff Information Warfare (IW) Study Day	seminar description	Netherlands Psyop DETER/DECEIVE	22 June 2018	Integrity Initiative	Information Warfare Study Day hosted by British Navy
Document:Meeting Note Moscow Stock Exchange Forum	seminar description	Gold Oil Aluminium Russian economy Economic warfare Arkady Dvorkovich Alexander Afanasiev Pavel Grachev Oleg Mukhamedshin Grain	12 June 2017	Integrity Initiative	II, probably Victor Madeira or Perry Fawcett, attended a Russian business forum in London
Document:Meetings in Greece Feb 2017	cluster meeting		10 February 2017	Integrity Initiative	Greek II collaborators discussing how to reorient Greek public opinion.
Document:Military measures	report	War Ukraine	3 January 2014	Chris Donnelly	A list of suggested military measures to Ukraine in 2014, including "Mine Sevastopol harbour/bay"
Document:Monthly Accounts	accounts	Integrity Initiative	22 November 2017	Chris Donnelly	The Monthly Accounts for the Integrity Initiative, somewhat in the startup phase
Document:Notes from David Leask meeting 27 March 2018	strategy document	Russia Today Scotland Scottish National Party Integrity Initiative Scottish independence	27 March 2018	Chris Donnelly	Integrity Initiative convinced Scottish 'fringe' nationalism is a Kremlin plot caused by RT and Sputnik; intends to influence to tie Scotland to NATO, England wants to keep media and political dominance
Document:Production schedule 05 04 2016	output report		4 May 2016	Integrity Initiative	A list of written output from II staff, mostly for internal study use.
Document:Production timetable March-April 2016	output planning report		25 February 2016	Integrity Initiative	A list of planned written output from II staff, similar to Document:Production schedule 05 04 2016
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