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− | '''Christopher Nigel Donnelly''' is a UK [[deep politician]] who was a "special adviser" to four [[NATO secretaries general]] for 13 years, as well as to [[UK Prime Minister]] [[Margaret Thatcher]].<ref>https://wikileaks.org/hackingteam/emails/emailid/64512</ref> He also co-founded the [[Institute for Statecraft]] (which he directs) and its offshoot [[Integrity Initiative]].<ref>https://www.moonofalabama.org/2018/12/the-strange-mind-of-christopher-nigel-donnelly.html</ref> Until the [[Integrity Initiative Leak]] on 5 November 2018, he was little known outside of [[deep political]] circles. | + | '''Christopher Nigel Donnelly''' is a UK [[deep politician]] who was a "special adviser" to four [[NATO secretaries general]] for 13 years, as well as to [[UK Prime Minister]] [[Margaret Thatcher]].<ref>https://wikileaks.org/hackingteam/emails/emailid/64512</ref> He also co-founded the [[Institute for Statecraft]] (which he directs) and its offshoot [[Integrity Initiative]].<ref>https://www.moonofalabama.org/2018/12/the-strange-mind-of-christopher-nigel-donnelly.html</ref> Until the [[Integrity Initiative Leak]] on 5 November 2018, he was little known outside of [[deep political]] circles. A NATO biography from 2003 stated that "His current major interest is in the reform of defence and security establishments in Central and Eastern European countries following the end of the [[Cold War]]".<ref name=nato>https://www.nato.int/cv/is/sp-adv/donnelly.htm</ref> |
==Mental health== | ==Mental health== |
Revision as of 13:42, 18 February 2020
Christopher Nigel Donnelly is a UK deep politician who was a "special adviser" to four NATO secretaries general for 13 years, as well as to UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.[1] He also co-founded the Institute for Statecraft (which he directs) and its offshoot Integrity Initiative.[2] Until the Integrity Initiative Leak on 5 November 2018, he was little known outside of deep political circles. A NATO biography from 2003 stated that "His current major interest is in the reform of defence and security establishments in Central and Eastern European countries following the end of the Cold War".[3]
Contents
Mental health
In 2018, 'b' suggested for the Moon Of Alamaba that "Donnelly seems to be obsessed with the 'Russian threat' and is determined to fight it by all means."[4] Donnelly wrote several of the documents in the Integrity Initiative Leak, which suggest he is suffering from a permanent war mentality and sees the world in a one-dimensional "for us or against us" terms.
Activities
"Donnelly was at one time adviser to Margaret Thatcher. From 1989-2003, he was a Special Adviser for central and eastern Europe to the secretary general of NATO. In fact, he served four secretaries general, including Lord Robertson."[5]
In 2003, Donnelly founded the Advanced Research and Assessment Group, which Wikipedia reported in 2020 "brought together experts from the military, academia and other fields in "research clusters" dedicated to specific areas of concern, in order to provide policy-makers with focussed analysis of international security issues."[6]
In 2010, Donnelly took part in Security and Defence Learning/2010, with at least one fellow IfS member Jeffrey McCausland. The discussions were chaired by another member of the IfS, politician/spook Harold Elletson. Donnelly was a director of the Active Change Foundation for over 9 years.[7]
Donnelly's claim that "Russia is happy to accept bribery, using organized crime as a tool" was reported by the BBC in Russian in 2014.[8]
Opinions
Skripal Affair
- Full article: Skripal Affair
- Full article: Skripal Affair
Chris Donnelly told @BBCJLandale at #TMSRussia that the poisoning of Sergei Skripal was an "act of war".[9]
Exposure
Donnelly was exposed as a deep state operative in 2018 when internal documents of the Integrity Initiative were published online. These included a PDF of his passport and his CV. In his role as director of The Institute for Statecraft, he stated that:
“It is essential for a PM to recognise that, whatever they might claim, governmental institutions which have failed over the past decade to foresee, identify and deal with emerging crises and maintain national sovereignty, are today totally incapable of providing a solution to the crisis which is now upon the country.”
Chris Donnelly (10 May 2018) [10]
Cover-up
A 7 minute long video of Donnelly in a kitchen was posted on YouTube. In it he suggests that the hack occurred because the group was effective at countering Russian disinformation.
Documents by Chris Donnelly
Title | Document type | Publication date | Subject(s) | Description |
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Document:An Open Letter On Defence | open letter | UK/Ministry of Defence UK/Army | An open letter the BBC published from a group of academics and military men written to the UK Prime Minister highlighting "global threats", warning that "security is threatened in almost every corner of the globe" and that decreased military expenditure would "damage our international credibility". Authors included at least three members of the Institute for Statecraft. | |
Document:Background to the Simulation Seminars | report | 28 February 2018 | Center for the Study of New Generation Warfare | Background to and observation of two war Simulation Seminars |
Document:China’s Strategy towards Europe: Implications and Policy Recommendations for EU Security | analysis, policy recommendations | 26 December 2018 | China 21st century Hypercompetition | |
Document:Chris Donnelly CV Short | CV | 13 December 2018 | Chris Donnelly | Chris Donnelly short CV |
Document:Chris Donnelly Paris Brussels May 2016 v2 | report | 13 December 2018 | Propaganda Belgium France Integrity Initiative II/C | 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 proposal to FCO | document | 24 May 2018 | Balkans Eastern Europe Market research Edelman | 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:Discernment: Why information statecraft matters | strategy document | 26 December 2018 | Censorship Brainwashing "Radicalisation" Information health | Musings on how to keep media dominance and control young minds |
Document:Draft agenda for the conference Tackling Tools of Malign Influence | conference plan | Tackling Tools of Malign Influence | Draft conference plan for the Tackling Tools of Malign Influence event | |
Document:Establishing a modern perspective - Nation-State vs Network State | article | 26 February 2016 | Perpetual war Cold War II Hypercompetition | "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:II Twitter performance January 2018 | success analysis | 14 March 2017 | Integrity Initiative | Our total number of Twitter followers was 328 as of 18th January. |
Document:Institute for Statecraft project on Russian influence - Impact as at 19 04 2016 | report | 19 April 2016 | Propaganda | 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 initiative: Notes on discussions in Greece | report | 2017 | 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 to MoD for Ukrainian Visit | success analysis | 22 November 2017 | Ukraine Integrity Initiative Vidmantas Eitutis Land Intelligence Fusion Centre | Invoice from Institute of Statecraft to the Ministry of Defence for Ukrainian visit to London |
Document:Military measures | report | 3 January 2014 | War Ukraine | A list of suggested military measures to Ukraine in 2014, including "Mine Sevastopol harbour/bay" |
Document:Monthly Accounts | accounts | 22 November 2017 | Integrity Initiative | The Monthly Accounts for the Integrity Initiative, somewhat in the startup phase |
Document:Notes from David Leask meeting 27 March 2018 | strategy document | 27 March 2018 | Russia Today Scotland Scottish National Party Integrity Initiative Scottish independence | 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:Pitch for a long-Form TV series about Russia in the 1990s | media strategy planning | 26 December 2018 | Russia Media strategy TV-series | Pitch for creating a long-Form TV series about Russia in the 1990s |
Document:Private List for Chris. (Possible Funders in Swittzerland) | name list | 26 December 2018 | List of cutouts | This is a list of cutouts, seemingly 'independent' 'philanthropic' foundations financing intelligence work |
Document:Private discussion with Gen Sir Richard Barrons | report | 26 December 2018 | Former leader of British forces Richard Barrons telling of his worries for Britain and the British forces | Former leader of British forces Richard Barrons sketching out military needs. "The 1st offset in the 1950s was through nuclear weapons. The 2nd was precision munitions in the 1980s. The 3rd offset today is to use information technologies to build new capabilities".."The Army understands the importance of information warfare and 77 Brigade is right" ..So we should them [our allies], especially the US, to tell us what is expected of us." |
Document:Project Proposal Integrity Initiative 2017-18 | budget application and plan | 27 April 2017 | Integrity Initiative II/C | Budget proposal for a secret influence network that will protect "the Western system of democratic values"..."against attack by those powers who would seek to overturn our system and all it stands for," no less. |
Document:Project Title INTEGRITY INITIATIVE Phase II | budget application and plan | 27 April 2017 | Integrity Initiative II/C | Project application for phase II of Integrity Initiative |
Document:Russian Lies and the Skripal Case | strategy document | 10 March 2018 | Propaganda Skripal Affair | II document describing the backstory to the British narrative of the Sergei Skripal incident |
Document:Sergei Skripal Affair: What if Russia is Responsible? | strategy document | 11 March 2018 | Skripal Affair | Donnelly creates an overarching narrative, and then makes a list of British punitive measures and a PR-campaign against Russia for the the Skripal Affair |
Document:The Challenge of Brexit to the UK | strategy document | 2 January 2018 | Foreign and Commonwealth Office Brexit Militarisation UK Integrity Initiative | "So, if we consider what qualities and characteristics we need in those whom we select for leadership today, in a period of rapid and profound change, in all sorts of institutions – government departments, big companies, the NHS - the conclusion is that we need to look for people who have abilities that suit a wartime environment"... Leadership understands that in a period of tumultuous change you cannot control, you have to command..." |
Document:The Institute for Statecraft Expert Team v 3 | name list | 13 December 2018 | Integrity Initiative Institute for Statecraft | biographies of core team members with lots of obscure but interesting former and present employers |
Document:The Network of Networks | analysis | 30 May 18 JL | Propaganda Integrity Initiative II/C Information Operation | A handbook for Integrity Initiative activities, including starting clusters |
Document:Think Piece: Current Russian Strategic Thinking | strategic analysis | 19 January 2018 | War Russia | Chris Donnelly gives his view on Current Russian Strategic Thinking |
Quotes by Chris Donnelly
Page | Quote | Date | Source |
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"Anti-corruption" | “In Slovakia in the 1990s I used UK companies wanting to do business to engage with local businesses. We set up the Klub 500 of companies with more than 500 employees. We got UK MPs via the NATO Parliamentary Assembly to teach them how business relates to, and can fund and lobby, political parties legitimately in a democracy, instead of their then model of cash in brown envelopes.” | 24 May 2018 | Document:Chris Donnelly proposal to FCO |
Institute for Statecraft/Purposes | “We cannot deter this current attack, only fight it. It is a pre-condition which is the baseline of a conflict. Denial, i.e. pretending that it is not happening or denying its significance, is not a sensible response... A fundamental, universally-held Russian belief is that Russia can only be secure at the expense of their neighbours’ security. All the Russian leadership and military consider that other countries' security is secondary to, and must be subordinated to, Russia's.” | 19 January 2018 | Integrity Initiative/Leak/5 |
Institute for Statecraft/Purposes | “We go to war with Russia as a whole, not just with the Russian military. They have been developing everything as a weapon, Cyber, energy, money, investment, dirty tricks, disinformation and other sorts of malign influence.” | 19 January 2018 | Integrity Initiative/Leak/5 |
Institute for Statecraft/Purposes | “Moreover, the “war” mindset is being pumped into the Russian population. It is one of the great successes of Putin’s propaganda offensive” | 19 January 2018 | Integrity Initiative/Leak/5 |
Institute for Statecraft/Purposes | “How might war be deterred?
Russia is not on a wartime ‘ready to launch’ setting, but they are developing and implementing concepts of conflict very different from those being thought about in Western countries. We cannot deter this hybrid war, it is upon us and we can only fight it.” | 19 January 2018 | Integrity Initiative/Leak/5 |
Institute for Statecraft/Purposes | “We cannot deter this hybrid war, it is upon us and we can only fight it.” | 19 January 2018 | Integrity Initiative/Leak/5 |
Institute for Statecraft/Purposes | “the crisis which is now upon the country.” | 10 May 2018 | Integrity Initiative/Leak |
Permanent war/Mentality | “But because this is not a shooting war like 1939-45, we in “Western” countries have not adopted the “wartime mentality” essential if we are to cope with the instability which drastic change inevitably brings. We are now trying to cope in a wartime situation but with a peacetime mentality, peacetime institutions and peacetime procedures shaped by the last 70 years of living in a stable, secure, rules-based environment.
... The qualities we now need in our public servants So, if we consider what qualities and characteristics we need in those whom we select for leadership today, in a period of rapid and profound change, in all sorts of institutions – government departments, big companies, the NHS - the conclusion is that we need to look for people who have abilities that suit a wartime environment rather than a peacetime one.” | 2 February 2018 | Integrity Initiative/Leak/3#general pdf/Brexit FCO update 02 02 2018.pdf |
Boris Tadić | “In Serbia, for example, we used the Club de Madrid to get the former Spanish MOD, Narcis Serra, to act as mentor to the then MOD Boris Tadic. I brought Tadic to London via the Atlantic Treaty Association (of which IfS is now the UK Rep) to expand his horizons and link him to MPs. He eventually became President.” | 15 October 2018 | Document:Chris Donnelly proposal to FCO |
Related Quotations
Page | Quote | Author | Date |
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Institute for Statecraft/Secrecy | “* Chris Donnelly makes initial country introduction with nominated trusted 'coordinator' & relevant II team member/s (normally 2 members minimum per country)
| 30 May 2018 | |
Institute for Statecraft/Secrecy | “Code of Conduct (Greg to commence with internet etiquette) Anonymity of the team remains paramount. As our activity increases we will, no doubt, attract unwanted attention.” | 30 May 2018 | |
Edward Lucas | “Chris Donelly [sic.] is one of the most admirable people I know.” | Edward Lucas | 23 February 2019 |
Events Participated in
Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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Herzliya Conference/2007 | 21 January 2007 | 24 January 2007 | Israel Tel Aviv Reichman University | "The conference examined the array of dangers, threats and difficulties Israel has faced since early 2006, identified a broad web of problems in all of the fundamental strata upon which national security is based, and proposed strategies for action." |
Russia’s Strategy on NATO'S Eastern and Southern Flanks | 27 January 2017 09:30:00 | 27 January 2017 16:30:00 | Barcelona Centre for International Affairs | A CIDOB/The Institute for Statecraft/NATO meeting |
Security and Defence Learning/2010 | 1 December 2010 | 1 December 2010 | Berlin Hotel InterContinental | A conference about training people for "defence" and "security" that featured at least 3 members of the Institute for Statecraft |
Strengthening Europe's 'soft' and 'hard' defence | 25 March 2019 13:00:00 | 25 March 2019 17:00:00 | Netherlands The Hague Clingendael Institute | Chatham House rule meeting with organised by the Institute for Statecraft and the Clingendael Institute. |
Related Documents
Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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Document:Chris Donnelly CV Short | CV | 13 December 2018 | Chris Donnelly | Chris Donnelly short CV |
Document:Chris Donnelly Recommendation for the Appointment or Extension of Tenure of an Honorary Colonel of a T/A Reserve Regional Unit | Recommendation for Extension of Tenure of an Honorary Colonel | 26 December 2018 | Integrity Initiative | Recommendation for Extension of Tenure of an Honorary Colonel for Chris Donnelly working in Specialist Group Military Intelligence |
References
- ↑ https://wikileaks.org/hackingteam/emails/emailid/64512
- ↑ https://www.moonofalabama.org/2018/12/the-strange-mind-of-christopher-nigel-donnelly.html
- ↑ https://www.nato.int/cv/is/sp-adv/donnelly.htm
- ↑ https://www.moonofalabama.org/2018/12/the-strange-mind-of-christopher-nigel-donnelly.html
- ↑ https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/integrity-initiative-look-deep-state
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Advanced_Research_and_Assessment_Group&oldid=916249843
- ↑ https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/05964653/officers
- ↑ https://www.bbc.com/russian/uk/2014/08/140829_brit_press
- ↑ Integrity Initiative/Leak/3#general pdf/skripal/II Twitter performance April 2018 (2).pdf
- ↑ Integrity Initiative/Leak Developing Strategic Thinking and the Means for Implementing National Strategy