By: David Miller | Date: November 3, 2025 | Trackingpower.substack.com
The British Government has, since 2011, been in the business of developing a vast network of deniable front groups in the Muslim community. Leaked document passed to Mintpress show in extraordinary detail how this network was set up, by whom, and the precise contractual arrangements between a British intelligence agency created to institute four levels of arms length relations in order that the end ‘product’ be deniable. This is to ensure, in other words, as one of the leaked documents says: “Campaign products are never directly attributed to RICU”.
Creating a New British Intelligence Agency
In 2007, Charles Farr, the then-head of the Office for Security and Counter Terrorism (OSCT) at the Home Office, set up a strategic communications unit: the Research, Information and Communications Unit (RICU). Although RICU is located within the Home Office, it is also funded by and answerable to the Foreign Office and the Department for Communities and Local Government (which has gone through several name changes since then). The OSCT is, as the Intelligence and Select Committee notes, one of the “seven Agencies and Departments which form the UK Intelligence Community”. RICU, therefore, is part of the intelligence community and not simply a ‘communications’ unit.
