Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group

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The Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group is a unit of GCHQ, the British signals intelligence organisation, involved in cyber-attacks and online propaganda operations.[1]

Its existence was revealed in February 2014 by NBC News citing documents leaked by the former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.[2]

JTRIG 'Operation methods/techniques'. Screengrab from Mandeep Dhami Behavioural Science Support for JTRIG’S Effects and Online HUMINT Operations DSTL, 10 March 2011, Top Secret. p. 9.

Notes

  1. ↑ Matthew Cole, Richard Esposito, Mark Schone and Glenn Greenwald, Snowden Docs: British Spies Used Sex and 'Dirty Tricks', NBC News, 7 February 2014.
  2. ↑ Snowden Docs: British Spies Used Sex and 'Dirty Tricks', NBC News 7 February 2014.
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