Today sees the start of the new series of BBC Radio 4's superb podcast programme Intrigue. This series, entitled Mayday, focuses on the late James Le Mesurier, British founder of free Syria's Civil Defence service, the White Helmets. The series also looks at the co-ordinated disinformation campaign against James and the White Helmets, touching on the role of the so-called Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media in this campaign.

You can read about it here, watch the trailer here, or download the whole series now. It is produced, written and presented by: Chloe Hadjimatheou, working with a team including researcher Tom Wright. 

In this post, I have just brought together some of the essential background reading on the story.

http://brockley.blogspot.com/2020/11/intrigemayday-background-reading.html