Martin Wells

Martin Wells LinkedIn Unwelcome Guests (Whistleblower, propagandist)
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Residence	UK
Nationality	UK
Exposed	Bell Pottinger
Exposed that Bell Pottinger was paid £120 million year by the US army to create propaganda for the 2003 Iraq war and occupation.

Martin Wells worked for Bell Pottinger from 2006-2008. He reported that the company was paid about £120 million a year by the US army to create propaganda for the 2003 Iraq war and occupation.

Bell Pottinger's work in Iraq was a huge media operation which cost over a hundred million dollars a year on average. A document unearthed by the Bureau shows the company was employing almost 300 British and Iraqi staff at one point.

Contract

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Wells worked on creating and editing:

• Arabic looking videos about news in Iraq, for a Western audience.
• TVCs, "television commercials to say Al-Qaeda are bad"
• VCDs using Al Qaeda footage, using Real Player particular technical format so that their viewing by machines on line could be tracked by Google analytics. These were dropped in Iraq in houses raids and patrols by US marines. Wells claims that he collated the data of where these VCDs where watched.

Resignation

Wells spent over a year on the contract before resigning. He was concerned about his safety, flying in and out of a war zone, and he explained "I just couldn't do it any longer. When you've got over 500 tapes with more atrocities than you can believe could ever be committed to another human being on, um, there's only so much you can take."