In 2017 Dr. Piers Robinson established the Working Group on Syria, Media and Propaganda which was quickly subjected to mainstreamcorporate media attacks. In this presentation, Piers describes these character assassinationsmear attacks as well as setting out the motivations for them. The controversy the working group had stumbled upon was that of a strategic deception, perpetrated by the US, UK and French governments, regarding chemical weapons attacks in Syria and the corruption and manipulation of the Fact Finding Missions (FFMs) co-ordinated by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).