Front

Front
Interest of	• Thomas Farmer • Paix et Liberté
Front groups are intended to deceive the casual observer by carrying out actions without disclosing who instigated them. They include astroturf (fake 'grassroots' organisations) operated by legitimate companies as well as fronts operated by groups with more questionable legitimacy to provide plausible deniability to as criminal groups, governments or intelligence agencies.

A front organization is any entity set up by and controlled by another organization, such as intelligence agencies, organized crime groups, terrorist organizations, banned organizations, religious or political groups, advocacy groups, or corporations. Front organizations can act for the parent group without the actions being attributed to the parent group thereby allowing them to hide from public view, ie plausible deniability.

Fronts are synonymous, or have large overlap with the term cover.

Front organizations that appear to be independent voluntary associations or charitable organizations are called front groups. In the business world, front organizations such as front companies or shell corporations are used to shield the parent company from legal liability. In international relations, a puppet state is a state which acts as a front (or surrogate) for another state.

Weblinks

List of alleged fronts for the CIA by John Robles.

 

Examples

Page name	Description
Aginter Press	International anti-communist mercenary and "terrorist" organization, subcontracting for intelligence services, disguised as a pseudo-press agency.
Air America	A CIA front company
Allivane International	A CIA/MI6 front company involved in arms deals.
Bank of Credit and Commerce International	The "Bank of Crooks and Criminals International", as some nicknamed it, was a bank set up to facilitate large scale, global money laundering, mainly to support a range of black operations by intelligence agencies.
Brewster Jennings & Associates
Bush Overbey Oil Development Company	GHWB co-founded oil company
Causeway Institute for Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution	Northern Ireland focused peace group with multiple members in the Institute for Statecraft
Century Group	A British-coordinated interventionist group active in the United States prior to American entry into World War Two.
Coalition for Peace Through Strength	US equivalent of the Coalition for Peace Through Strength, spooky MICC front group
Counter Extremism Project	Thinly veiled intelligence front organization to implement internet censorship
Crypto AG	Manufacturers of notoriously backdoored cryptographic communication systems, owned by the CIA.
Eatsco	A CIA front company that plead guilty in 1984 to overcharging the Pentagon by $8 million for delivering arms to Egypt
European Youth Campaign	CIA funded organization to promote European integration and create cadre of young politicians
Far West
Gateside Mills	A semi-derilict venue which was the official HQ of a number of groups, including the Integrity Initiative.
German Marshall Fund	According to whistleblower Udo Ulfkotte, a CIA front group. Despite the 'German' in its name, it is a fully US/CIA-controlled operation, mainly to maintain a network of transatlantic European politicians and journalists. Hugely influential behind the scenes.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement	The US immigration service. Tasked with finding illegals, some reports have hinted it to be a front for sex trafficking.
In-Q-Tel	The CIA's investment arm for cutting edge technology companies. It has provided seed capital for many big IT-companies.
Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament	Nominal overseer the UK's main intelligence intelligence agencies such as MI5, MI6, GCHQ, JIC, DIS. Probably completely captured.
Nugan Hand Bank	CIA front used to launder heroin money and fund the 1975 coup in Australia
Permindex	CIA front
Political party	"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary."
Ptech	Highly suspect US company
Scientology	Religion/Sect known for its hardball tactics against critics.
Sea Supply Corporation
Southern Air Transport
The Asia Foundation	Exposed as CIA front organization as far back as 1967.
Transparency International
Urban Moving Systems	A front company for the Mossad.
World Finance Corporation
Zapata Petroleum	A front company started by George Bush Sr and some spooky CIA friends

Many thanks to our Patrons who cover ~2/3 of our hosting bill. Please join them if you can.

 

Front Groups on Wikispooks

Wikispooks page	Logo	WWW	Description
"9-11/The 19 Hijackers"			A collection of 19 Muslim men blamed for the 9/11 attacks, 15 of whom were given visas to enter USA (in several cases, irregularly) at the orders of Richard Armitage.
American Foreign Policy Institute			Front group to push propaganda
American Security Council		http://ascfusa.org/	A cold war front group for the MICC deserving of further attention
CIA/International Organizations Division
Coalition for Peace Through Security			A spooky UK front group to try to oppose CND.
Congress for Cultural Freedom			A highly funded ant-Soviet propaganda project.
Diligence		http://www.diligence.com	An industrial espionage network fronted by former members of the establishment.
Forum World Features			A London based CIA propaganda operation which operated as a professional news service from 1965 to 1975.
Huffman Aviation			Florida spooky flying school with connections to both CIA drug trafficking and 9-11.
Islamic State			An "Islamic fundamentalist terrorist" organisation which whistleblower Sibel Edmonds links to Operation Gladio/B and succinctly describes as a re-branding of al-Qaeda.
Working Group on Intelligence Reform

This is a page stub. Please add to it.