RICU

Stories

• Controlled newspaper coverage through subsidiary RICU after an Islamist beheaded British aid worker Alan Henning.
• Advises police accross the United Kingdom on how to control political narratives.
• Portrays protestors of public beheadings by migrants as unsympathetic.
• Brings liaison teams to families dealing with grief in political sensitive stories.
• Writes statements for the families of victims of racially linked stories.
• Recommended the Home Office should record more non-crime hate incidents.
• Claimed that the prevalence of sexual grooming gangs in Pakistani communities was being exploited by the far-Right to stir up hatred against Muslim communities.
• Operates in areas hit by political sensitive stories with posters trying to perpetuate an atmosphere of grief instead of anger.
• Paid boy band Mr Meanor to tour in Muslim areas preaching anti radicalisation themes.
• Planted fake stories in the news using third part Breakthrough Media about Muslims being the heroes in politically sensitive stories.
• Created fake online social media hashtags to be shared by prominent politicians and civil servants.
• Targets far right groups disproportionately according to a review.
• Interest in C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and Aldous Huxley books are signs of far right radicalisation.
• Guardian: inside RICU, the shadowy government propaganda unit inspired by the Cold War.