Mayday: How the White Helmets and James Le Mesurier got pulled into a deadly battle for truthon February 27, 2021 at 12:52 am

James Le Mesurier fell to his death in Istanbul in 2019 with a sense that Syrian and Russian disinformation had destroyed his reputation.

By the time a Netflix documentary about the rescuers won an Oscar in 2017 Le Mesurier’s organisation, Mayday Rescue, was receiving millions of dollars from states around the world including the USA, France, Britain, Germany, Holland, Japan and Qatar. The money was used to run training camps for the rescuers and to send equipment across the border into Syria, including fire trucks and ambulances.