Crofton Black

Crofton Black is a researcher, journalist and writer with extensive experience of complex investigations in the field of human rights abuses and counter-terrorism. He is a leading expert on the CIA’s rendition, detention and interrogation programme and a specialist in military and intelligence corporate contracting. He has a PhD in the history of philosophy from the University of London and is co-author of the award-winning Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition.

Senior British Diplomat Moonlights for the Saudi Crown Prince’s PR Firm

A senior British diplomat is taking time off from his government duties to help the Saudis promote “the idea that Saudi Arabia is becoming Switzerland.”

12 марта, 2018

От Abigail Fielding-Smith and
Crofton Black

Senior British Diplomat Moonlights for the Saudi Crown Prince’s PR Firm

A senior British diplomat is working for a firm at the heart of a multimillion dollar Saudi public relations offensive whilst still employed by the Foreign Office (FCO), the Bureau can reveal. The news comes as the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia prepares for a trip to London, where he will be greeted by demonstrations against the

Abigail Fielding-Smith

Abigail Fielding-Smith joined The Bureau of Investigative Journalism in 2014 after six years as a reporter in the Middle East, during which she covered the Arab Spring and subsequent civil war in Syria for the Financial Times. She was awarded a UK Foreign Press Award in 2013 for her role in a Financial Times investigation in to Gulf funding for Syrian rebels.

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The Future Of Fake News?

A misleading map of ‘refugee crime’ in Germany distorts reality in a slick and sophisticated way.

27 февраля, 2017

От Abigail Fielding-Smith and
Crofton Black

Last year, an anonymously-produced map started to make its way around German social media. It claimed to show viewers the spread of “refugee and migrant crime” throughout Germany. Unlike some of the lurid tales of migrant depravity that have circulated in Germany in recent months and turned out to be false, the interactive map seemed

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“Site Violet”: How Lithuania Helped Run A Secret CIA Prison

No government file was opened for this site, according to Lithuanian officials. No paper records were kept of anything happening there, and everything at the site was paid for by the US.

13 октября, 2016

От Crofton Black

“Site Violet”: How Lithuania Helped Run A Secret CIA Prison

Secret documents obtained by the Bureau prove that Lithuania helped the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) set up and run a “black site” for detention of al Qaeda suspects, say lawyers. The building, not far from the Lithuanian capital city of Vilnius, is thought to be where the alleged 9/11 mastermind Khaled Sheikh Mohamed was held, as well

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Revealed: British Firms Paid $60 Billion By Obama’s Pentagon

Between 2009 and the end of 2015, total spending by the Department of Defense (DoD) on goods and services from the private sector at large was more than $2.3 trillion.

06 октября, 2016

От Crofton Black

Revealed: British Firms Paid $60 Billion By Obama’s Pentagon

British companies have earned more than $60 billion from US military contracts since President Obama came to power eight years ago, a Bureau analysis of Pentagon spending has found. As the Bureau exclusively revealed on Sunday, controversial UK public relations firm Bell Pottinger received over half a billion dollars to run a