Strategic Communication Laboratories - Revision history

David: /* Subsidiaries */

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Subsidiaries

Melissa Jones: /* circa 2012 */

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circa 2012

Melissa Jones: /* Board of Directors */

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Board of Directors

Melissa Jones: /* Board of Directors */

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Board of Directors

Melissa Jones: /* Shareholders */

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Shareholders

Melissa Jones: /* Election Campaign Services */

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Election Campaign Services

Melissa Jones: typos

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typos

Melissa Jones: /* People */ code

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People: code

Melissa Jones: /* Affiliated Companies */

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Affiliated Companies

Melissa Jones: /* Board of Directors */

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Board of Directors

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 ==Subsidiaries==
 ===Election Campaign Services===
 The website http://www.electioncampaignservices.com [no longer functioning] contained no information except a picture of a blond female model and a message stating that ‘Campaign Election Services is a subsidiary of Strategic Communication Laboratories’, followed by a link to SCL’s website. However,  no company has ever been registered at UK Companies House under that name. A Whois search<ref>[[Media:Whois search.pdf|Whois Record]] of electioncampaignservices.com retrieved from Domain Tools on 19 June 2008 at 10.44am</ref> reveals that the domain is registered to one [[Alexis Everington]], who gives [[Nigel Oakes|Nigel Oakes’s]] home address. Everington is known to have worked as an analyst at [[Beaver Westminster]]<ref>Beaver Westminster, [[Media:Beaver westminster news.pdf|News for September 2005 (PDF)]], (accessed 20 June 2008)</ref> the consultancy company run by ‘terrorism expert’ [[Paul Beaver]]. He was also formerly listed as a friend on [[Ian Tunnicliffe|Ian Tunnicliffe's]] Facebook page.<ref>Google [http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:fp3EFMtiDzkJ:www.facebook.com/people/Ian_Tunnicliffe/753527169+Tunnicliffe+Alexis+Everington&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=uk Cache] of <http://www.facebook.com/people/Ian_Tunnicliffe/753527169> as retrieved on 24 May 2008 17:48:11 GMT, (Accessed 20 June 2008)</ref>

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 ===Board of Directors===
 ====circa 2012====
-*The Rt Hon Sir [[Geoffrey Pattie]]  was listed as president of SCL<ref name="people"> [http://www.companyextra.net/src/people.html People], Strategic Communication Laboratories' website, undated, accessed 24 September 2012 </ref> in September 2012. Companies House records show that he was a director of [[SCL Group]] between November 2005 and 1 December 2008. <ref>Companies House [https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/05514098/officers SCL Group], last accessed 21 March 2018 </ref>
+*The Rt Hon Sir [[Geoffrey Pattie]]  was listed as president of SCL Group <ref name="people"> [http://www.companyextra.net/src/people.html People], Strategic Communication Laboratories' website, undated, accessed 24 September 2012 </ref> in September 2012. Companies House records show that he was a director of [[SCL Group]] between November 2005 and 1 December 2008. <ref>Companies House [https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/05514098/officers SCL Group], last accessed 21 March 2018 </ref>
 *[[Nigel Oakes]] Chief Executive Officer
 *[[Alex Oakes]] Director

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 ===Board of Directors===
 ====circa 2012====
-*The Rt Hon Sir [[Geoffrey Pattie]] President  of SCL<ref name="people"> [http://www.companyextra.net/src/people.html People], Strategic Communication Laboratories' website, undated, accessed 24 September 2012 </ref> and former chairman.
+*The Rt Hon Sir [[Geoffrey Pattie]]  was listed as president of SCL<ref name="people"> [http://www.companyextra.net/src/people.html People], Strategic Communication Laboratories' website, undated, accessed 24 September 2012 </ref> in September 2012. Companies House records show that he was a director of [[SCL Group]] between November 2005 and 1 December 2008. <ref>Companies House [https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/05514098/officers SCL Group], last accessed 21 March 2018 </ref>
 *[[Nigel Oakes]] Chief Executive Officer
 *[[Alex Oakes]] Director

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 ==People==
 ===Board of Directors===
-*The Rt Hon Sir [[Geoffrey Pattie]] President <ref name="people"> [http://www.companyextra.net/src/people.html People], Strategic Communication Laboratories' website, undated, accessed 24 September 2012 </ref> and former Chairman
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 *[[Nigel Oakes]] Chief Executive Officer
 *[[Alex Oakes]] Director
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 *Professor [[Phil Taylor]] BA PhD – [[Behavioural Dynamics Institute]] Advisory Board
 *[[Gavin McNicoll]] Advisory Board <ref>[http://www.scl.cc/staff.php Strategic Communication Laboratories] </ref> <ref>[http://www.scl.cc/board/non-executive-board Non-executive board], Strategic Communication Laboratories, accessed 27 March 2011</ref>
 *[[David Michaels]], Senior Adviser, Advisory Board <ref>[http://www.scl.cc/board/advisory-board David P. Michaels - Senior Advisor], Strategic Communication Laboratories, accessed 27 March 2011</ref>

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	===Shareholders===		===Shareholders===
		+	====Circa 2006====
	Several of the company directors hold shares in the company and there are a number of non-executive shareholders. In early 2006 it was reported that the Iranian born London property tycoon [[Vincent Tchenguiz]] had acquired 23 per cent of Strategic Communications Laboratories,<ref>Jenny Davey 'Tchenguiz turns focus to green projects' The Times (London), 31 January 2006, Tuesday Pg. 45</ref> and in May that year the investment company [[Viatrade PLC]] bought a small stake. Conservative Party treasurer and venture capitalist [[Jonathan Marland]] also holds shares, as does his company [[Herriot Ltd]].		Several of the company directors hold shares in the company and there are a number of non-executive shareholders. In early 2006 it was reported that the Iranian born London property tycoon [[Vincent Tchenguiz]] had acquired 23 per cent of Strategic Communications Laboratories,<ref>Jenny Davey 'Tchenguiz turns focus to green projects' The Times (London), 31 January 2006, Tuesday Pg. 45</ref> and in May that year the investment company [[Viatrade PLC]] bought a small stake. Conservative Party treasurer and venture capitalist [[Jonathan Marland]] also holds shares, as does his company [[Herriot Ltd]].

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 ==Origins of the company==
-The company’s website states that SCL was formed in 1993<ref>Strategic Communication Laboratories, [http://www.scl.cc/article.php?id=2 History], (20 June 2008)</ref> although the company was not registered at Companies House until 20 July 2005. In September that year the company officially launched as a military communications company at the [[Defence Systems and Equipment International]] (DSEi) arms show at London’s Excel Centre. Reporting the launch, ''The Observer'' called SCL a UK political communications consultancy firm, which it said was ''re-launching'' as a psyops operator.<ref>Oliver Morgan, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2005/sep/11/theobserver.observerbusiness4 ‘Lobby firm goes to war’], ''The Observer'', 11 September 2005</ref>
+The company’s website states that SCL was formed in 1993<ref>Strategic Communication Laboratories, [http://www.scl.cc/article.php?id=2 History], (20 June 2008)</ref> although the company was not registered at Companies House until 20 July 2005. In September that year, the company officially launched as a military communications company at the [[Defence Systems and Equipment International]] (DSEi) arms show at London’s Excel Centre. Reporting the launch, ''The Observer'' called SCL a UK political communications consultancy firm, which it said was ''re-launching'' as a psyops operator.<ref>Oliver Morgan, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2005/sep/11/theobserver.observerbusiness4 ‘Lobby firm goes to war’], ''The Observer'', 11 September 2005</ref>
-What legal personality the company had prior to the 2005 relaunch - if any - is not clear. Companies House lists no former companies under that name although there were several companies affiliated to the founder [[Nigel Oakes]] during the 1990s so perhaps it existed in name only, whilst legally taking the form of a network of offshore entities. It must have existed in some sense because several newspapers in 2000 reported that the company had worked for the Indonesian government. Australia’s ''The Age'' reported at the time that SCL had operated in Indonesia since the final days of the Suharto regime,<ref>Simon Mann, ‘PR tweaks president, then folds his tent’, ''The Age'', 7 August 2000</ref> which confirms the company’s existence at least as far back as 1998. What it was, and what it was doing between its purported formation in 1993 and its first appearance in the press in 2000 however is unknown.
+What legal personality the company had prior to the 2005 relaunch - if any - is not clear. Companies House lists no former companies under that name although there were several companies affiliated to the founder [[Nigel Oakes]] during the 1990s so perhaps it existed in name only, whilst legally taking the form of a network of offshore entities. It must have existed in some sense because several newspapers in 2000 reported that the company had worked for the Indonesian government. Australia’s ''The Age'' reported at the time that SCL had operated in Indonesia since the final days of the Suharto regime,<ref>Simon Mann, ‘PR tweaks president, then folds his tent’, ''The Age'', 7 August 2000</ref> which confirms the company’s existence at least as far back as 1998. What it was, and what it was doing between its purported formation in 1993 and its first appearance in the press in 2000, however, is unknown.
 ==Activities==
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 What this scientific methodology ''does'' is enable governments 'and countries' to 'manage their relationships with their key audience groups through more powerful communication.'  SCL offers various solutions based on this methodology to help countries in specific governmental areas such as defence, foreign affairs, internal security, health, finance and tourism.  The site also tells us that SCL are the 'leading supplier of strategic communications, information operations and [public diplomacy] to governments and military clients around the world'.  Communication can be more than just propaganda.  Their section on Homeland Security [http://www.scl.cc/article.php?id=45] tells us they are in the business of 'population control.'
-''Public diplomacy'', ''information operations'' and ''strategic communication'' are the polite terms for propaganda, spin and psychological operations, a further look at the site reveals that this methodology has a name (and an institiute) the 'Behavioural Dynamics Institute' a 'virtual lab' led by Professor [[Phil Taylor]] of Leeds University.
+''Public diplomacy'', ''information operations'' and ''strategic communication'' are the polite terms for propaganda, spin and psychological operations, a further look at the site reveals that this methodology has a name (and an institute) the 'Behavioural Dynamics Institute' a 'virtual lab' led by Professor [[Phil Taylor]] of Leeds University.
 At times their tone can be a bit ominous "In a world where the perception is the reality, all countries need to have the capability to manage their own perceptual alignment – otherwise someone else will."  But they are not without humour, and quote Sourcewatch on their own site.<ref>SCL [http://www.scl.cc/article.php?id=40 Strategic Communication Laboratories], reposted from Sourcewatch</ref> Nigel Oakes, their CEO has stated: 'We used to be in the business of mindbending for political purposes....'<ref>[http://www.scl.cc/article.php?id=37 Lobby firm goes to war] Oliver Morgan Sunday September 11, 2005 The Observer</ref>
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 The company pledges strict confidentiality, saying that “absolutely no information concerning any of our past projects will be made available under any circumstances”.<ref>[http://www.scl.cc/article.php?id=2 Strategic Communication Laboratories]</ref> However, [[Nigel Oakes]] did tell ''Slate Magazine'' that they have worked for post-Apartheid South Africa and the United Nations.<ref>Sharon Weinberger, [http://www.slate.com/id/2126479/ ‘You Can't Handle the Truth: Psy-ops propaganda goes mainstream’], ''Slate Magazine'' 19 September 2005</ref> SCL are also known to have operated in Indonesia until 2000 and were reportedly operating there since at least 1998<ref>Simon Mann, ‘PR tweaks president, then folds his tent’, ''The Age'', 7 August 2000</ref> (see the page on SLC head [[Nigel Oakes]] for further details).
-It is also extremely likely that SCL are involved in operations in Afghanistan. A word document previously posted on [[RUSI|RUSI’s]] website lists retired colonel [[Ian Tunnicliffe]] of ‘Strategic Communications [sic.] Laboratories’ as a presenter of a talk at the [[RUSI]] event ''Countering Asymmetric Taliban Strategies in Afghanistan'', held on 26 March 2008. The session Tunnicliffe co-presented was
+It is also extremely likely that SCL is involved in operations in Afghanistan. A word document previously posted on [[RUSI|RUSI’s]] website lists retired colonel [[Ian Tunnicliffe]] of ‘Strategic Communications [sic.] Laboratories’ as a presenter of a talk at the [[RUSI]] event ''Countering Asymmetric Taliban Strategies in Afghanistan'', held on 26 March 2008. The session Tunnicliffe co-presented was entitled ''Winning and Maintaining Indigenous Support: Current and Future Strategies''.<ref>Google [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&cr=countryUK%7CcountryGB&q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.rusi.org%2Fdownloads%2Fassets%2FProgramme.doc html version] of the file http://www.rusi.org/downloads/assets/Programme.doc</ref>
 ===Lithuania - Training Centre "Valkyrie"===

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 *[[Alexander Nix]] Director
 *[[Roger Gabb]] Director
-*[[Julian Wheatland]] Director and Chairman <ref name="people">
+*[[Julian Wheatland]] Director and Chairman <ref name="people"/>
 *Rear Admiral [[John G Tolhurst]] CB FRAeS Advisory Board
 *The Rt. Hon. Sir [[James Mitchell]] Advisory Board

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 SCL are based at 33 [[St James's Square]] London SW1Y 4JS, <ref>[http://www.scl.cc/contactscl.php Strategic Communication Laboratories]</ref> according to their website, this houses 18 separate companies. These include [[Anglo & International Corporate Finance Ltd]], [[Kobe Steel Europe Ltd]], and [[Scotland & Associates]]. <ref>[http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/addressfinder;jsessionid=MNZPRLEAXSAPSFB2IGFENZQUHRAYWQ2K?catId=400145&pageId=pcaf_a_ma_results&_requestid=106779&gear=postcode Postcode]</ref> The Website according to http://www.whois.net was registered by REGISTER.COM, INC. <ref>[http://www.whois.net/whois_new.cgi?d=scl&tld=cc www.whois.net], accessed 14/02/07</ref> whose principal activity is to provide internet domain name registration and other online products and services such as web hosting, email, domain name forwarding and advertising.
-==Affiliated Companies==
+==Affiliated companies==
 *[[Behavioural Dynamics Institute]]. associated research company
 *[[Advanced Strategic Initiatives]], Inc, partner