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... editor had seen fit to pull. Not having looked at it for about a decade, I thought it would be interesting to see the items, other than the two about Bilderberg cited by Peters, which the editor had baulked at. The largest group of articles are those commenting on or opposing Britain's mem-bership of the then EEC and the propaganda being put out in favour of it. The second biggest group is articles criticising the City of London. In the Financial Times? The last sighting I have of Mr Tether was at least a decade ago writing something for the US far-right magazine The Spotlight. Stuck in the grooves of academe At the beginning of January Professor Peter Hennessy ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 17 - 01 Jun 1997 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue33/lob33-06.htm
92. Re: [Lobster #47 (Summer 2004)]
... 2004 Last| Contents| Next Issue 47 Re: Terry Hanstock Radio Enoch: the station you love to hate Radio Enoch (see Lobster 46) was one of a number of Free Radio stations operating illegally during the 1960s and 1970s. Unlike its more pop music oriented contemporaries, however, Radio Enoch's output consisted solely of right wing political propaganda, albeit with a musical background. (1) Its origins lie with a group called People Against Marxism, which, in July 1978, set up Two Spires Radio, rejoicing in the slogan 'The Station You Love to Hate'. Based at Leamington Spa, the station's signal only covered the West Midlands. Over the next few ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 17 - 01 Jun 2004 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue47/lob47-31.htm
... be about facilitating those circumstances, if any; 'public relations' could be seeking to persuade the public such circumstances had arisen even though this would be a lie; 'propaganda' could be telling the public how to think. (Although both can be used concurrently, normally PR is used when there is sufficient time for persuasion to work; propaganda when there is none. In either case, the truth is immaterial.) Something similar is what seems to have happened to SIS vis-à-vis Iraq. Because there was a predetermined objective to invade, the intelligence 'product' favoured by government was not completion of weapons inspection, nor societal knowledge, but WMD information with its caveats removed, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 17 - 01 Dec 2004 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue48/lob48-14.htm
94. Sources [Lobster #29 (Jun 1995)]
... . Maybe it's just me, but I can't take anonymous material very seriously. Anyway, it is now available as an on-line service, and a free sample of the hard copy is available on request from Olivier Schmidt in Paris on tel/ fax 33 1 40.51.85.19. Exposed! The Mackenzie Institute for the Study of Terrorism, Revolution and Propaganda Watch- the Right Pamphlet Number One This is an anonymous, 40 page, A5 pamphlet which analyses the Mackenzie personnel, their affiliations and some of its work. Mackenzie is a sort of Canadian version of the British Research Institute for the Study of Conflict- in other words, a psy-war outfit in light drag as a quasi-academic institute ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 17 - 01 Jun 1995 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue29/lob29-14.htm
... are being taught how to use surveillance techniques by former SAS and MI6 officers. The company, AMA Associates, a security agency, has coached nearly 1000 government fraud officers on a Professionalism in Security (PINS) course accredited by Portsmouth university...' (1) Abroad, conscious of its poor image, HMG beefs up its propaganda machine. So it is announced that the Medialink Consultancy has been appointed to run the London Radio Service, an international English Language news service. 'The Foreign Office's purpose is to project a realistic and proactive image of the UK around the world on a sustained basis.' (2) Simultaneously, World Television wins a three year contract ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 16 - 01 Dec 2000 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue40/lob40-01.htm
... chapter would provoke laughter, derision or anger from many. For some, since 1956 the CPGB has been a declining, bureaucratic relic, hardly a 'threat' to anybody.(149) For others merely asking the question gives credibility to disinformation from the right. But the fact remains that significant sections of the British Right, in the propaganda organisations of capital, the state and the Conservative Party, believed that the CPGB was part of a global conspiracy, directed and financed by Moscow, which was working in the union movement and wider society to undermine capitalist democracy in Britain. And it is no longer self-evident that this was complete nonsense. Orders from Moscow? We now ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 16 - 01 Jun 1996 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/caucus/lobcc-09.htm
... p. 44 28 Allen Dulles personally oversaw the operation, putting Frank Wisner at its head. Richard Bissell was Dulles' special assistant, co- ordinating with J. C. King, who remained head of the Western Hemisphere Division. Hans Tofte was the head of psychological and political areas and E. Howard Hunt was the Chief of Propaganda. The operations field headquarters, codenamed LINCOLN and headed by Al Haney, was established at Opa Locka, Florida. Dulles issued an initial budget of $3 million on 9 December 1953. A diplomatic team was also in place, headed by Bedell Smith. It contained John Peurifoy, the Guatemalan ambassador, William Willauer ambassador to Honduras ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 16 - 06 Apr 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster60/lob60-015.pdf
... the locals and gather intelligence. A number of the Americans could speak Thai as well. We would not be identifiably British or American, and we would wear nondescript military clothing, without insignia.... and neither would we wear dog tags for identification. If we were killed, then the enemy would have a hard time making propaganda capital from our corpses. Our major task was reconnaissance, but we were conscious that our prime purpose was to set the pattern for more troops, both American and British to be committed later on.... I was in Thailand for eleven months altogether, but politically so far as Britain was concerned, it is certain that ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Dec 1996 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue32/lob32-02.htm
... .... Effective public diplomacy takes a sustained effort and a long-term view....Within the Islamic world, US public-diplomacy activities have to date failed to generate much return. Immediate, positive results may be impossible to achieve.' Why did it fail? Apart from the obvious point that few in the Middle East will believe American propaganda, a point which Collins cannot make, Collins notes: 'The increase in the number of satellite television news services and internet connections makes it ever more difficult to influence opinions globally.' It is hard to manage perceptions when people are watching stations not under US control! Or, as Collins puts it: 'The explosion in the number ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Dec 2003 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue46/lob46-14.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 46) Winter 2003 Last| Contents| Next Issue 46 A guided democracy The following appeared in the Daily Telegraph 23 June 2003. 'Edward Heath created a secret government propaganda unit to persuade the British people to accept the Common Market. Civil servants were engaged in a dirty tricks department of the Foreign Office to cover up the threat to sovereignty and provide rapid rebuttal of anti-Common Market arguments. The European Community Information Unit operated from 1970 to 1972 as Mr Heath negotiated our way into Europe. But when his No 10 files on the topic were released after 30 years, the ECIU's work was kept secret. A list of 200 files has been ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Dec 2003 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue46/lob46-15.htm
