Dan Kaszeta

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Born	January 1969
Nationality	US, UK
Interests	terrorism, sarin, ricin, chemical weapons
Spooky US/UK propagandist with a focus on biological weapons, uninvited from a UK MoD conference after his social media posts were deemed to be ill advised. Member of the Integrity Initiative.

Daniel "Dan" Joseph Kaszeta is a US/UK dual national "terror expert" and propagandist who has written for the Institute for Statecraft's Integrity Initiative and StopFake. In 2019 Kaszeta was owner and managing director of Strongpoint Security Ltd. In 2020 he No, the coronavirus is not a biological weapon, a no-holds-barred attempt to promote COVID-19 as a zoonotically emertgent new viral threat.

Career

In 2012, Wiley published his CBRN and Hazmat Incidents at Major Public Events: Planning and Response.

Kit Klarenberg writing in Sputnik News wrote that "Prior to 2013, he was entirely unheard of in the mainstream" but that his "rise to media prominence is also somewhat curious.".

Bellingcat

From October 2015 to January 2019 he wrote 12 pieces for Bellingcat, including several on sarin. Kaszeta reports on his Bellingcat profile that "I started out as a Chemical Officer in the United States Army, and served a total of 16 years as a military reservist, first in the US Army Reserve and then in the Maryland Army National Guard, reaching the rank of Captain".

Institute for Statecraft

Full article: Institute for Statecraft

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After the Integrity Initiative Leak he defended his work for them, stating {{#subobject: |Has superobject=Dan Kaszeta |Has objectClass=Quotation |Has author=Dan Kaszeta|+sep=, |Has text=“I will continue to work for @InitIntegrity as needed. If that makes you angry, that's your problem and not mine.” |Is about=Dan Kaszeta,Integrity Initiative|+sep=, |Has wikipediaPage= |Has location=|+sep=, |Has publicationDate=5 February 2019 |Sourced from= |Has sourceDetails= |Has sourceTitle= |Has sourceName= |Has sourceURL=

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The 2018/9 Institute for Statecraft leak included various invoices for Dan Kaszeta's writing for the Integrity Initiative at a rate of 40p/word.

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Demolishing the Kremlin’s absurd theories about Novichok and Porton Down

On 20 July 2018 Dan Kaszeta wrote an article supportive of the official narrative which concluded that "The simple fact is that a nation like the UK needs a place like Porton Down to do valuable work to protect not just the nation’s armed forces but also to protect all of us who live here. Alleging leaks and plots does not do any good for anyone. In the absence of any evidence, these stories and theories are absurd." His invoice suggests he was paid £622 for the article.

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No, the coronavirus is not a biological weapon (April 2020)

{{#subobject: |Has superobject=Dan Kaszeta |Has objectClass=Quotation |Has author=|+sep=, |Has text=“How does China or the United States or anyone else actually benefit from the covid-19 pandemic? They don’t. Even if the science gave some hint of man-made origin, none of the practicalities make sense. This is a natural event. Not a man-made plague.” |Is about=Dan Kaszeta,COVID-19/Origin|+sep=, |Has wikipediaPage= |Has location=|+sep=, |Has publicationDate=26 April 2020 |Sourced from=The Washington Post |Has sourceDetails= |Has sourceTitle= |Has sourceName=The Washington Post |Has sourceURL=https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/04/26/no-coronavirus-is-not-biological-weapon/

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“How does China or the United States or anyone else actually benefit from the covid-19 pandemic? They don’t. Even if the science gave some hint of man-made origin, none of the practicalities make sense. This is a natural event. Not a man-made plague.”
 (26 April 2020) 

Social media posting controversy

In May 2023 Kaszeta's invitation to a conference was cancelled with an email that informed him an “impartial and purely evidence-based” check had found in his social media posts contained “material that criticises government officials and policy”. The decision was reversed after a legal challenge.

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