Oakes and the company he co-founded in 2005 along with Nix, SCL Group, have now drawn the interest of congressional officials. Three Republican senators wrote Oakes a letter this week requesting information and a briefing related to Facebook\u2019s sudden suspension last Friday of Cambridge Analytica, which is a closely affiliated subsidiary of SCL.<\/p>\n
\nData analytics experts described Oakes as a hidden hand running both SCL and Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
The request \u2014 from Senate commerce committee members John Thune (R-S.D.), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Jerry Moran, (R-Kan.) \u2014 came after recent allegations that Cambridge Analytica used inappropriately harvested private Facebook data on nearly 50 million users and exploited the information to assist President Donald Trump\u2019s 2016 campaign.<\/p>\n
But that has triggered wider questions about whether Cambridge Analytica, whose board once included former Trump political strategist Steve Bannon, could have played some role in the Kremlin\u2019s scheme to manipulate U.S. social media in 2016. The company denies that.<\/p>\n
Captured on an undercover video by Britain\u2019s Channel 4 News, Nix boasted that the firm \u201cdid all the research, all the data, all the analytics, all the targeting,\u201d for the Trump campaign, adding that \u201cour data informed all the strategy.\u201d (Trump officials call that<\/a> an exaggeration.)<\/p>\n
Adding to the concern is the role of Aleksandr Kogan, a Russian-born researcher at Cambridge University who collected the Facebook data without disclosing that it would be used commercially, and who was also working for a university in St. Petersburg, Russia at the time. Cambridge Analytica also reportedly<\/a> discussed a business relationship in 2014 and 2015 with the the Kremlin-connected Russian oil giant Lukoil, which expressed interest in how data is used to target American voters, according<\/a> to the New York Times.<\/p>\n
The recent flurry of coverage has barely mentioned the 55-year-old Oakes, a virtual unknown in the U.S. but more familiar in Great Britain, in part because of his relationship<\/a> in the 1990s with a member of the royal Windsor family.<\/p>\n
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Cambridge Analytica\u2019s CEO Alexander Nix at the 2017 Web Summit in Lisbon | Patricia de Melo Moreira\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n
But data analytics experts described Oakes as a hidden hand running both SCL and Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnyone right now that is focusing on the problems with Cambridge Analytica should be backtracking to the source, which is Nigel Oakes,\u201d said Sam Woolley, research director of the Digital Intelligence Lab at the Silicon Valley-based Institute for the Future.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy research has shown that Cambridge Analytica is the tip of the iceberg of Nigel Oakes\u2019 empire of psyops and information ops around the world,\u201d said Woolley, whose research aims to help protect democracy from the nefarious use of rapidly evolving communications technology. \u201cAs you start to dig in to that, you find out a lot of very concerning things.\u201d<\/p>\n
Woolley said he attended a Cambridge Analytica \u201cmeet-up\u201d in April 2016 during the New York presidential primary in New York. At the time, the company was working for another candidate, Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), and gave a wide-ranging overview of their activities, Woolley said.<\/p>\n
It was clear from the session that the two companies are completely intertwined, Woolley said. He recalled that Cambridge Analytica leaders \u201cconflated all of their work with SCL\u2019s work,\u201d including in several overseas elections. Based on his ongoing research, he described the two firms as selling \u201cpolitical marketing to the highest bidder, whether you\u2019re in government, the military or politics, even authoritarian\u201d regimes.<\/p>\n
Oakes and SCL Group did not return calls seeking comment through a spokesperson.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cWe use the same techniques as Aristotle and Hitler,\u201d he told an interviewer in 1992. \u201cWe appeal to people on an emotional level to get them to agree on a functional level.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
SCL Group \u2014 like its predecessor, Strategic Communication Laboratories, which Oakes co-founded in 1993 \u2014 is no stranger to controversies related to foreign elections, including in connection with alleged dirty tricks it has allegedly employed on behalf of political clients from Europe to Africa and Asia.<\/p>\n
The company also made headlines in 2005 when it billed itself at a global arms fair in London as the first private company to provide psychological warfare services, or \u201cpsyops,\u201d to the British military.<\/p>\n
At the time, Oakes, as chief executive, said he was confident that psyops could shorten military conflicts, and that governments would buy such a service, which SCL had provided commercially.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe used to be in the business of mind bending for political purposes,\u201d he told a reporter, \u201cbut now we are in the business of saving lives.\u201d<\/p>\n
Those who know Oakes, or know of him, are somewhat skeptical.<\/p>\n
One private investigator said the company is known to have done extensive work for the U.S. military and other government agencies against targets including Iran. SCL got its start in the U.S. by selling the same psychological warfare product as it did to the British, including manipulation of elections and \u201cperception management,\u201d or the intentional spread of fake news.<\/p>\n
The State Department confirmed<\/a> to Defense One this week that it retains SCL Group on a contract to \u201cprovide research and analytical support in connection with our mission to counter terrorist propaganda and disinformation overseas.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Senior congressional Democrat Adam Schiff | Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
Company literature describes some of SCL\u2019s services, besides \u201cpsychological warfare,\u201d as \u201cinfluence operations\u201d and \u201cpublic diplomacy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Absent from such descriptions is some of the more bombastic rhetoric of Oakes\u2019 youth.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe use the same techniques as Aristotle and Hitler,\u201d he told<\/a> an interviewer in 1992. \u201cWe appeal to people on an emotional level to get them to agree on a functional level.\u201d<\/p>\n
On its website<\/a>, SCL Group does not highlight its connections to Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur vision is to be the premier provider of data analytics and strategy for behavior change,\u201d the website says.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur mission is to create behavior change through research, data, analytics, and strategy for both domestic and international government clients.\u201d<\/p>\n
But Oakes and his company have a history of secrecy, making the hidden-camera footage of Nix all the more shocking. In the footage aired by Channel 4, Nix appears to tell a journalist posing as a potential client that the company could, for instance, send Ukrainian sex workers to an opponent\u2019s house to sabotage him.<\/p>\n
SCL Group said it has suspended Nix while it investigates, and several U.S. lawmakers cited the reports in saying that they want to call him back before committees investigating Russian meddling to answer more questions.<\/p>\n
One British journalist who has investigated the two companies and their leaders also suggested that the real trail of questions leads to Oakes.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlexander Nix has been suspended from a shell company that has no employees and no assets,\u201d said Carole Cadwalladr of the Observer, who authored last weekend\u2019s expose, and others. \u201cIf you think this ends here, think again.\u201d<\/p>\n
The letter from the three senators \u2014 which they also sent to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg \u2014 asks Oakes whether he acknowledges the conduct described in Facebook\u2019s statement announcing the suspension of Nix\u2019s account, and those of both SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cWe ought to bring Alexander Nix back and quite frankly the other Cambridge Analytica witnesses that had been on our witness list. Still a lot of questions\u201d \u2014 Adam Schiff<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
It also asks him to provide information about whether he was aware of other activity by Cambridge that Facebook said led to the suspension, including how it accessed the data in question and whether it falsely certified that it had destroyed it at Facebook\u2019s request.<\/p>\n
\u201cConsumers rely on app developers to be transparent and truthful in their terms of service so consumers can make informed decisions about whether to consent to the sharing and use of their data,\u201d the senators wrote. \u201cTherefore, the allegation that SCL was not forthcoming with Facebook or transparent with consumers is troubling.\u201d<\/p>\n
The senators reminded Oakes that their committee has jurisdiction over the internet and communications technologies generally, as well as over consumer protection and data privacy issues.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Democrats who have been investigating Russian election interference and suspected collusion between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign are expressing heightened interest in Oakes\u2019s company, though for how their focus is primarily on Nix.<\/p>\n
Representative Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House intelligence committee, said on MSNBC Wednesday that he was particularly concerned about Nix\u2019 comments, captured by Channel 4, about how he got off easy during his interview with Congress.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Republicans asked three questions. Five minutes, done,\u201d Nix said. And while the Democrats asked two hours of questions, Nix said he didn\u2019t have to answer them because \u201cit\u2019s voluntary.\u201d<\/p>\n
Schiff (D-Calif.) said Wednesday he wants Nix to come back and testify as well as witnesses the committee Democrats wanted to interview.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe didn\u2019t get the information that we needed and in light of these whistleblower allegations there are serious questions about the truthfulness of Mr. Nix\u2019s testimony,\u201d Schiff said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe ought to bring Alexander Nix back and quite frankly the other Cambridge Analytica witnesses that had been on our witness list. Still a lot of questions.\u201d<\/p>\n
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