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Matt Kennard

MATT KENNARD

Matt Kennard is chief investigator at Declassified UK. He was a fellow and then director at the Centre for Investigative Journalism in London. Follow him on Twitter @kennardmatt

Liz Truss approved £289m of UK exports with potential military use to Russia before Ukraine invasion

July 28th, 2022

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Evo Morales: ‘We lament the English were celebrating the sight of dead people’

July 14th, 2022

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Exclusive: Jeremy Corbyn on the establishment campaign to stop him becoming PM

June 22nd, 2022

Tagged AssangeIsraelSaudi ArabiaUnited States
Guillermo Carmona, Argentina’s minister for the Malvinas (Falklands), Antarctic and South Atlantic. (Photo: Matt Kennard/DCUK)

Argentine minister: ‘We can’t be sure there aren’t nuclear weapons in the Falklands’

May 26th, 2022

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Argentinian soldiers on parade for Independence Day celebrations, Buenos Aires, 9 July 2019. (Photo: Muhammed Emin Canik/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

UK trained Argentine soldiers after signing controversial Falklands oil deal

May 24th, 2022

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Entrance to RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk, the centre of the US Air Force’s presence in Britain. (Photo: Matt Kennard/DCUK)

US Air Force deployment in Britain is third largest in world

May 10th, 2022

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Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson meets with President Mauricio Macri in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 22 May 2018. (Photo: UK government)

Boris Johnson was ‘determined’ to ban fishing in South Atlantic after meeting Argentina’s president

May 5th, 2022

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Carlos Foradori, who as Argentina’s deputy foreign minister negotiated a landmark agreement with the UK in 2016. (Photo: Violaine Martin/WIPO)

Argentine minister ‘was pissed’ when he agreed controversial Falklands deal with UK

April 26th, 2022

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Priti Patel (R) meets Alejandro Mayorkas, US Secretary of Homeland Security, Washington DC, 17 November 2021. (Photo: Priti Patel / Twitter)

Priti Patel was part of CIA-linked lobby group with husband of Assange judge

March 29th, 2022

Tagged AssangeCIAus
Russian soldiers roll through the bombed city of Grozny after intense fighting in the Second Chechen War, 15 February 2000. (Photo: Antoine Gyori/Sygma via Getty Images)

When Tony Blair backed Putin’s brutal war

March 25th, 2022

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Robert Dudley (left), then BP’s chief executive, meets with Vladimir Putin in 2011. (Photo: Kremlin)

Under Putin, MI6-linked BP extracted Russian oil worth £271 billion

March 17th, 2022

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Ukraine far-right groups with UK-made rocket launchers (Design: DCUK)

Ukraine neo-Nazis pictured with UK-made rocket launchers

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March 10th, 2022

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Entrance to Northwood Headquarters in northwest London, the location of Nato’s Maritime Command. (Photo: Matt Kennard / DCUK)

Nato’s key role in the UK

March 8th, 2022

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British commanders (left) meet with senior officials from Ukraine’s National Guard in Kyiv, September 2021. (Photo: NGU)

UK commanders in Ukraine met neo-Nazi-linked National Guard to ‘deepen military cooperation’

February 15th, 2022

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Communication towers in Ukraine. Britain financed the installation of 16 radio transmitters in eastern Ukraine to broadcast to Russia-backed rebel regions. (Photo: Anton Petrus / Moment)

UK spends over £80m on media in 20 countries around Russia

February 8th, 2022

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Shanghai, China’s largest city and financial hub. (Photo: Creative Commons)

Conservatives give £100m aid to ‘reduce poverty’ in China, while increasing it in UK

January 27th, 2022

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US President Ronald Reagan makes a speech outside 10 Downing Street, 9 June 1982. During this visit, Reagan outlined his vision for the National Endowment for Democracy. (Photo: Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

‘CIA sidekick’ gives £2.6m to UK media groups

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January 17th, 2022

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Pemex is Mexico’s state-owned oil company. (Photo: Creative Commons)

Britain’s £75 million aid project to open up Mexican oil to UK business

December 16th, 2021

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Business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng was funded by Le Cercle in 2019. (Photo: Dan Kitwood / Getty)

Secret ‘CIA-funded’ group linked to UK ministers

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December 9th, 2021

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Lord Chief Justice Ian Burnett. (Photo: Peter Summers / Getty)

Assange judge is 40-year ‘good friend’ of minister who orchestrated his arrest

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December 2nd, 2021

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Duckpool Bay, downstream from GCHQ’s Cornwall site. (Photo: Creative Commons)

Revealed: GCHQ leaked 10,000 litres of contaminated water into Cornwall stream

November 24th, 2021

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Alan Duncan speaks at the UN in New York in 2010 (Photo: UK government)

Minister pushing Venezuela regime change discussed its oil with petrol company

November 16th, 2021

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Blair visits Bashar al-Assad in Damascus, 2001. (Photo: Alistair Grant / AFP via Getty)

Revealed: Tony Blair’s extraordinary efforts to court Syria’s dictators

October 29th, 2021

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Village airport: A cargo plane taxis down Warton’s runway, bound for Saudi Arabia (Photo: Phil Miller / Declassified UK)

New film exposes English village key to bombing Yemen

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October 15th, 2021

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