77th Brigade is an agent of change; through targeted Information Activity and Outreach we contribute to the success of military objectives in support of Commanders, whilst reducing the cost in casualties and resources.

Our outputs are a fundamental part of the Army’s Integrated Action model.

Aside from the delivery and support of Information Activities and Outreach we have a role in planning and advising across the Army and wider Defence.

• Conducting timely and appropriate audience, actor and adversary analysis
• Planning and integrating information activity and outreach (IA&O)
• Supporting and delivering IA&O within pre-designated boundaries
• Supporting counter-adversarial information activity
• Support to partners across Government upstream and post-conflict institutional development/reform
• Collecting, creating and disseminating digital and wider media content in support of designated tasks
• Monitoring and evaluating the information environment within boundaries or operational area

• Audience, Actor and Adversary Analysis
• Information Activity and Outreach
• Counter-adversarial Information Activity
• Support to Partners Across Government
• Collecting media content
• Disseminating Media
• Monitoring the information environment
• Evaluating the information environment
• Advising and training on Human Security and providing support to current operations ¹⁾

Information Activities (IA) Group provides planning support focusing on the behavioural analysis of actors, audiences and adversaries. It provides detail on motivations, narratives and perceptions and provides options for levers of influence.

Operations Centre. A non-deployable, Information and Activity Outreach reach-back and coordination capability, which with suitable augmentation can provide 24/7 support to deployed elements. It provides a hub that conducts planning and analysis, which can draw upon the Brigade’s wider capabilities to support both deployed and UK-based operations and training.

Digital Operations (Web Ops) Team. The Web Ops Team collects information and understands audience sentiment in the virtual domain. Within the extant OSINT policy framework, they may engage with audiences in order to influence perceptions to support operational outcomes.

Content Team. The Content Team design and create video, audio, print and digital products that aim to influence behaviours for both an Army and external audience. Additionally, they advise on campaign strategy and propose innovative behavioural change methods.

Analysis Team. The Analysis Team, consisting primarily of tri-Service intelligence specialists, supports the Web Ops and Content Teams by conducting Target Audience Analysis (TAA) to allow focused audience engagement. ²⁾

The Task Group provides the deployable framework to deliver Information Activity and Outreach (IA&O) either independently, or in support of a composite force package.

Division IA&O Cell. Divisional level the IA&O Cell has staff embedded to ensure IA&O is considered throughout the planning, refinement and execution of operations and in accordance with Integrated Action.

Brigade IA&O Cell. This supports the Brigade’s planning and execution ensuring IA&O is properly integrated into the conduct of operations.

IA&O Teams. IA&O teams operate at the battle group/unit level, but can also operate independently or with elements of specialised Infantry Battalions.

Information Warfare Team (IWT). Providing the Information Activity component of the IA&O Team, an IWT provides an Information Warfare capability to the Field Army and wider Defence.

Tactical Engagement Team (TET). Providing the Outreach component. The TET can support the manoeuvre commander through: directed and casual local engagement; collection and analysis of the human terrain, contributing to Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning, tactical Civil-Military Co-operation, including identification of opportunities for long term institutional development and reform.

IA Training and Advisory Team (TAT). Currently a nascent capability undergoing development, the IA TAT is intended to develop and train an organic IA capability at unit level across the Army. ³⁾

We deliver professionalised Security Capacity Building (SCB) expertise.

We support wider MOD and Cross-HMG objectives with linkages to infrastructure and the military contribution of support to Governance in the context of a host nation’s security framework.

Our remit is to support the development of institutional capability and capacity of foreign security forces and their supporting institutions.

Personnel from the Outreach Group provide support to Defence Attaches and host nation upstream as a preventative lever. They augment the Tactical Engagement Teams in the Task Group to provide subject matter expertise and provide support post-conflict through early recovery, stability operations and longer-term institutional develop.

Our team members are permanently embedded within the Operations Centre to inform the planning of future and current operations.

We provide advice, training and support on Human Security to the wider Army. Human Security is an approach that gives primacy to people and their complex social and economic interactions rather than focusing on the security of the state. This includes

Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC) Protection of Civilians (POC) Modern Slavery Human Trafficking (MSHT) into military activity ⁴⁾

We are mainly Army Reservists with collect content capability and can deploy Combat Camera Teams (CCTs) and Communications Operations Officers to support Defence Strategy Communications and operational support.

We are able to support various operations, projects and functions with media related expertise.

• Photographers
• Videographers
• Journalists
• Marketing specialists
• Media minders
• Social media specialists
• Digital Content specialists ⁵⁾

The Staff Corps consists of around 100 Group B reservist officers who operate at predominantly chief executive, director, and senior technical or operation manager level in large commercial enterprises or organisations. Currently the Staff Corps is made up of two distinct groupings: the General Staff Corps (GSC) and the Engineer & Logistic Staff Corps (ELSC).

A ‘Group B’ Officer organisation, the ELSC was originally formed following the Napoleonic wars. Charles Manby, Hon Sec of the Institution of Civil Engineers, proposed the formation of a “Volunteer Engineering Staff Corps for the Arrangement of Transport of Troops and Stores, the Construction of defensive works and the destruction of other works in case of Invasion”. Thus, on 4th January 1865, the Queen accepted the services of the Engineer and Railway Staff Corps.

In 2015, the ELSC was subordinated to 77th Brigade; since then the Staff Corps cohort has grown considerably and now boasts not only specialists in Engineering and Logistics, but also in the following areas: Technical Communications, Corporate, Stratcoms, Advertising, Marketing, Digital Commerce, Banking and Academia among others.

Group B officers provide strategic level consultancy to a variety of areas within Defence and Government. ⁶⁾

Behavioral Insights Team (BIT) (also unofficially known as ‘the Nudge Unit’) has now morphed into a ‘social purpose limited company’ with offices in London, Manchester, Paris, New York, Singapore, Sydney, Wellington and Toronto. They ran over 750 projects in 31 countries in 2019 alone, and have trained over 20,000 civil servants around the world on the dark arts of behavioural insights.

BIT is now one of several ‘nudge units’ that work across the UK government. These include The 77th Brigade – part of the army engaged in ‘non-lethal’ forms of psychological warfare. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the Head of Editorial (EMEA) at Twitter, Gordon MacMillan, is a part time officer with the 77th Brigade. ⁷⁾

Twitter #muttoncrew examples

=== Pandata File ===

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Unlike many other groups that have a dozen or so members, Pandata has an extensive team and professional organisational structure although the identities of some controversial members have been hidden from the public. Fortunately the HARTleaks included a copy of Pandata's organisational structure, the members listed are involved in a large number of campaign groups and organisations across continents.

Members have seeded false narratives about death tolls and false positive PCRs, they have sought to undermine every measure to cut transmission from masks, asymptomatic transmission, lockdowns, testing, they have made repeated claims the pandemic is over, predicted there would be no second wave, members have promoted conspiracy theories about Bill Gates, the WHO, lockdowns being a Chinese conspiracy theory, some have even questioned if viruses even exist.

Even if some members do not believe in all the narratives their colleagues promote, they are well aware of their beliefs and are still willing to collaborate with conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers to create the alternative science base of the sceptic movement, even though some of these organisations are engaging in the violent rhetoric of putting vaccinators and health officials on trial, Nuremberg 2.0 as they call it.

It seems undeniable that the group has influenced the pandemic strategy of more than one government. Members of the group Scott Atlas and Paul Alexander found themselves working inside the Trump White House, other members had meetings with the UK government, while working closely with elements of the Republican Party and the Covid Recovery Group of Conservative Party MPs, in other countries they sought to foster relationships with right wing political parties and as members facilitated the creation of an ecosystem of groups they also built close ties to elements of the right wing media and developed a network of alternative media, websites, YouTube channels, podcasts and blogs.

Pandata Scientifc Advisory Board

Pandata’s Scientific Advisory Board members include the Great Barrington Declaration’s authors Gupta, Bhattacharya and Kulldorff, Scott Atlas and Michael Levitt who with John Ioannidis were the early advocates of herd immunity as a strategy, lobbying the Trump administration in March 2020. (more)

The final member is Michael Yeadon, a former Pfizer scientist now retired, he was a key person in advancing the idea of a “casedemic”, questioning the reliability of PCR tests by claiming the majority of cases were false positives and manipulating data to produce anti-vax papers, the most egregious of these being the claim that vaccines caused infertility in women and could harm unborn babies when the reality is that pregnant women are at increased risk from covid. His background of working in big pharma was well received by the sceptics who treated him like a whistle blower from inside the industry, after being banned from Twitter he disappeared from mainstream media but continued being a workhorse for the disinformation network, keeping track of all the groups he’s supporting has been a challenge as he collaborates across borders. ⁸⁾

Substack July 20, 2022

GB News sunk to another low on Tuesday 30 August when it platformed disinformation lawyer Francis Hoar’s calls for Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty and Chief Scientific officer Patrick Vallance to face criminal investigation.

Pandata’s Stacey Rudin, Clare Craig and Pandata member Francis Hoar was a signitory of a letter sent to the intelligence agencies of UK, Australia, Canada, Germany and the UK titled “The Chinese Communist Party’s Global Lockdown Fraud” accusing authorities around the world of collaborating with the Communist Party to bring about unneeded lockdowns as part of an elaborate plan to permanently remove our freedoms.

Clare Craig of HART and Pandata was also a signatory as was Stacey Rudin of the AIER and also Pandata.

Other signatories include Attorney Michael Senger, Retired Brigadier General Robert Spalding, Sanjeev Sabhlok, Brian O’Shea who called for the assassination of the leaders of national health authorities, Simon Dolan who funded conspiracy theorist David Icke’s 2019 Renegade film, and Maajid Nawaz a former LBC presenter at the time whose contract was cancelled by the radio station. Nawaz is known to have attended a Pandata meeting.

The letter was promoted by sceptic influencers including Daily Sceptic and Free Speech Union founder Toby Young and the AIER’s Naomi Wolf who has been removed from Twitter for disinformation and conspiracy theories including the claim she overheard Apple employees talking about vaccines containing time travelling nanoparticles.

Even after #hartleaks showed HART to be a bunch of cranks, @JuliaHB1 continued to platform the group's members. Including Ros Jones falsely claiming that children were more at risk from vaccination than covid, and Tony Hinton comparing vaccine passports to the holocaust!⁹⁾