The whole of @LiamOHare 's thread on this needs to be reflected on:
Liam O'Hare @LiamOHare
Let's take a look at their directors: SCL is headed up by Nigel Oakes, another old Etonian, who, according to @Powerbase has links to the British royals and was once rumoured to be an Mi5 spy.
In 1992, Oakes described his work in a trade journal as using the “same techniques as Aristotle and Hitler. … We appeal to people on an emotional level to get them to agree on a functional level.”
Mark Turnbull, who joined Alexander Nix at the secretly filmed meetings, heads up both SCL Elections as well as Cambridge Analytica Political Global. He was at Bell Pottinger for 18 years including leading the production of Pentagon funded fake al-Qaeda videos.
The President of SCL is Sir Geoffrey Pattie. He is a former vice chairman of the Tory party, and served in Thatcher's cabinet, including as defence minister.
Another of SCL's directors is the millionare and former British special forces officer in Borneo and Kenya, Roger Gabb. In 2006 he donated £500,000 to the Conservative party.
Gabb was fined by the Electoral Commission for failing to declare his funding for adverts campaigning for a Leave vote in the Brexit referendum.
SLC’s links to the Conservative party go even deeper. The company’s chairman is venture capitalist Julian Wheatland. He also happens to be chairman of Oxfordshire Conservatives Association.
The organisation has also been funded by Jonathan Marland, a former Conservative Party Treasurer, a trade envoy under David Cameron, and a close friend of Tory election strategist Lynton Crosby.
Meanwhile, property tycoon and Conservative party donor Vincent Tchenguiz was also the single largest SCL shareholder for a decade.
What about the Royal links? The Queen’s third cousin, Lord Ivar Mountbatten, sat on SCL’s advisory board. So did privy councillor Sir James Allen Mitchell, former PM of the ex British colony St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
Last but not least we have director Rear Admiral John Tolhurst, a former assistant director of naval warfare in the Ministry of Defence and 'aide de camp the Queen.
What does this tell us? That SCL is run by people inextricably linked to the British establishment, in particular the Conservative party - former ministers, MPs and major donors. Remember SCL is essentially one and the same as Cambridge Analytica.
The evidence suggests that this scandal runs deeper than Alexander Nix and Cambridge Analytica. Is it time for full public inquiry into the activities of Strategic Communication Laboratories, both domestic and international?
Finally, it's worth mentioning that SLC received $1 million to support NATO operations in Eastern Europe targeting Russia. Britain is quick to accuse Russia of interfering but it seems this is exactly what the private arm of its military establishment has been doing.
Missed out a piece of info on SCL shareholder Jonathan Marland. As well as being ex Tory treasurer, he has also donated £304k to the Tory party including £42k to Boris Johnson. H/t @Barking_Madness.
I have issues with the reliability of all of this. Some I think its good some I think is perhaps clutching at straws a bit. So I am keen to say proceed with caution here. 'But yeah.. this is potentially EXTREMLEY murky indeed.