Customs losing propaganda battle as $4.6m message falls on deaf ears in Afghanistan THE federal government has spent $4.6 million on a "black ops"-style program to convince Hazaras in Afghanistan not to make the perilous boat journey to Australia -- but it has failed to win the propaganda battle on the streets of Kabul and Jalalabad. The money has been paid over the past two years to a Hong Kong-based consultancy that boasts of its "Neutrino" program to tackle immigration problems, using community infiltration methods, and has directly reached an estimated 10,000 Afghans on Australia's behalf.