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'Fake Personas'

As first reported by ThinkProgress when they originally broke the news of the Chamber Plot last week, key elements of the Team Themis plan included the use of both planting a "fake document", as well as creating "fake insider personas" at both VelvetRevolution.us' StopTheChamber.com campaign and the separate US Chamber Watch campaign run by Change to Win (CtW), a union-backed coalition also fighting against the Chamber's positions and tactics.

Here's a key portion from Team Themis' 11/29/10 "Information Operations Recommendation" [PDF], created for the U.S. Chamber and H&W, explaining how they hoped to "discredit" and "embarrass" US Chamber Watch "and those associated with it" with "information operations" [emphasis added]:

3. Create a false document, perhaps highlighting periodical financial information, and monitor to see if US Chamber Watch acquires it. Afterward, present explicit evidence proving that such transactions never occurred. Also, create a fake insider persona and generate communications with CtW. Afterward, release the actual documents at a specified time and explain the activity as a CtW contrived operation. Both instances will prove that US Chamber Watch cannot be trusted with information and/or tell the truth.
4. Connect US Chamber Watch's radical tactics to Velvet Revolution, explaining that both entities are loosely operating together. Depending on the level of connection established, such an approach may need to be spotlighted as more of a conspiracy rather than a separate, vocal persona.

5. If needed, create two fake insider personas, using one as leverage to discredit the other while confirming the legitimacy of the second. Such work is complicated, but a well-thought out approach will give way to a variety of strategies that can sufficiently aid the formation of vetting questions US Chamber Watch will likely ask.

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