The London Times is reporting that senior British officials have now confirmed that the British spy agency the MI6 ran a campaign called Operation Mass Appeal to plant stories in the media about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. Former US weapons inspectors Scott Ritter said the misninformation campaign began in the late 1990s. Ritter said he personally met with MI6 officers and for a while agreed to take part in the campaign. Ritter said “The aim was to convince the public that Iraq was a far greater threat than it actually was.”