2018 Riga Stratcom Dialogue

2018 Riga Stratcom Dialogue(conference)
Date	11 June 2018 - 13 June 2018
Location	Riga, Latvia
Participants	Alex Aiken, Jente Althuis, Eric Applewhite, Ali Aslan, Ingrid Bicu, Neville Bolt, Ramsay Brown, Gemma Calvert, Paolo Cesarini, Jan Engelmann, Ofer Fridman, Alina Frolova, Marina Gorbis, Gilan Gork, Leonie Haiden, Steve Harrison, Ben Heap, Tacan Ildem, Charles Kriel, Eerik-Niiles Kross, Kadri Kütt, Erik Lagersten, Mark Laity, Thomas Eymond Laritaz, Dagnija Lejina, Inese Libina-Egnere, Jarno Limnéll, Edward Lucas, Carlos Malamud, Mikk Marran, Arnaud Mercier, Benjamin Newell, Michael Platt, Bob Posner, Ilmar Raag, Tarmo Randel, Janis Sarts, Juliette Schmidt, Jonas Survila, Briony Swire-Thompson, Päivi Tampere, Riho Terras, Patrick Tucker, Andriy Tyushka, Matthijs Veenendaal, Raimonds Vejonis, Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer, Christine Whitecross, Katie Woodward, Claire Yorke, Maria Ressa
Witnessed by	Maria de Goeij
Description	Spooky/MICC conference attended by Maria de Goeij whose trip report on it for the Integrity Initiative was leaked.

The 2018 Riga Stratcom Dialogue was a 3 day conference on "Russian Propaganda" and "fake news" attended by Maria de Goeij.

Contacts

Maria de Goeij attended this event and submitted a trip report which was leaked in December 2018.^[1]

10 of the 51 known participants already have pages here:

Participant	Description
Alex Aiken	Senior UK "Director of Communications"
Ali Aslan	Spooky journalist, Georgetown University, many deep state ties
Neville Bolt	A "terror expert" mentioned in the 7th Integrity Initiative leak.
Eerik-Niiles Kross	Spooky Estonian politician
Edward Lucas	NATO/II journalist
Bob Posner	Chief executive of the Electoral Commission. Attended the 2018 Riga Stratcom Dialogue
Maria Ressa	Founder of the Philippine news website and "fact checker" Rappler. 'Author-in-Residence at the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research.
Briony Swire-Thompson	Fake news researcher
Jānis Sārts	Latvian propagandist with some deep state connections.
Matthijs Veenendaal	Leading Dutch cyber-expert that helped with the first Dutch cyber-defence strategies. Suspected liaison of the Institute for Statecraft and helped setting up their Dutch cluster. Has a spooky interest in deepfakes.

Witness	Description
Maria de Goeij	Integrity Initiative/Institute for Statecraft polyglot