Busted! Chats in 'War Room' suggest dozens of women groomed

One of Tate's employees turned whistleblower with thousands of private War Room messages. Miles Sonkin (hypnotist/magician) is the leader of the War Room. He makes millions a year from memberships! Hope the FBI opened a file on him.

BBC scoop: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66604827

The BBC's latest investigation - outlined in the documentary Andrew Tate: The Man Who Groomed the World? - centres on 12,000 pages of encrypted Telegram messages sent by hundreds of War Room members.

However the BBC's access to the logs was limited to those sent over a period of 13 months - so the total number of women possibly targeted and exploited by the group, which was formed in 2019, could be much higher.

Mr Tate says the War Room - which costs $8,000 (£6,300) a year to join - is a network of powerful men and those who want to learn from them.

However, the leaked online chats indicate the War Room teaches members through its so-called "PhD" course - the initials stand for "Pimpin' Hoes Degree" - how to groom women into sex work.

Members are instructed by some of the War Room leadership - known as "generals" - to romantically seduce, emotionally manipulate and socially isolate women before luring them into performing on webcams - often taking all or most of the money they make.

While most media attention around the organisation has focused on the Tate brothers, the BBC's investigation found that a self-proclaimed "wizard" who goes by the alias "Iggy Semmelweiss" appears to be the War Room's true leader and intellectual driving force.

Eli, a whistleblower who says he spent two years as the Tate organisation's head of sales and marketing, told the BBC: "The War Room is all about you getting women that serve you in your life." Eli says he was "brainwashed" by the Tate group, which he describes as a "cult".

Eli also described the role of "Iggy Semmelweiss" within the War Room. Asked who was really in charge of the group, the whistleblower said: "Iggy is at the top."

"Iggy's" real name is Miles Sonkin. Born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1961, he is a former member of at least two alleged cults, he developed an interest in the far right in the 2000s and appears to have met Andrew Tate around 2018. Soon after, Mr Tate started selling his own courses and the War Room was established in 2019.