The Ultranationalist Right in Turkey and the Attempted Assassination of Pope John Paul II

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] Warsaw Pact. These works, being designed primarily to manipulate public perceptions and thereby generate support for the adoption of certain desired policies, contain a considerable amount of disinformation and sometimes appear to constitute components of more extensive psychological operations. (5) This type of literature is by now quite common on both sides. On the […]

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Truth Twisting: notes on disinformation

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] we both saw bits and pieces we could add to it. Richard Deacon’s The Truth Twisters (McDonald, London 1987: Futura, London 1988) is a classic of Western disinformation purporting to describe Soviet disinformation. Deacon lines up all our favourite state and right-wing outlets to attack CND, ecologists, socially committed clergy etc. etc., and the […]

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Disinformation: From Euros to UFOs

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] servants and the media. At the core of this was his account of the revelation, via a libel suit in London, of an MI6 operation to plant disinformation in the Sunday Telegraph about the son of Colonel Gaddafi. (1) The story was written by Con Coughlin and attributed to a ‘British banking official’. As […]

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Miscellaneous: Cold war. Disinformation. Elite. Unclassified. G.K. Young, Unison

Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££

[…] in July 1981. And the magazine Forewarned was never published in Birmingham but from a box number in south London; its editor lives in Greenwich. Cold war, disinformation war In the 1980s the Second Cold War was fought partly by disinformation. The U.S. ran the ‘KGB terror network’ story, through Clare Sterling, with help […]

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Fiji coup update

Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££

[…] alleged US involvement in the coup, written by a USIS officer in Wellington. We reprint this here. The annotations and comments are by Wilkes. East/West Issues USIS DISINFORMATION AND THE FIJI MILITARY COUP On May 14, 1987, Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka seized power in a military coup in Fiji, displacing the elected government of Dr. […]

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Wallace on Pincher on Wallace

Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££

[…] himself admits, he has never met me and, therefore, has no idea what my personal view of the named politicians was. It is, therefore, nothing short of disinformation for him to claim otherwise. p. 171 ‘Evidence of Wallace’s state of mind is contained in an essay ‘Ulster — a State of Subversion’, which he […]

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Everything You Know is Wrong: the Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Lies

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Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

Russ Kick (ed.) New York: the Disinformation Company, 2002, pb, $24.95. Distributed in the UK by Turnaround () £17.99 in the UK   Another massive anthology from the Disinformation people. This is 11″ by 9″ – roughly A4 sized – 345 pages, weighing in at 2 lbs and 11 ounces. Picking it up probably […]

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Getting it right: the security agencies in modern society

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] the intelligence, security and surveillance services, MI6, MI5, GCHQ. Or should I say: I use the term security agencies to stand for the intelligence, security, surveillance and disinformation services? Because disinforming the British citizen is certainly a current aim of at last two of those bodies. Or should it be the intelligence, security, surveillance, […]

Abuse Your Illusions: the Disinformation guide to media mirages and establishment lies

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

Russ Kick (ed) New York, The Disinformation Company, 2003, 350pp, $24.95 / £17.99 (available in the UK from Counter Productions and Turnaround Distribution) ISBN 0-9713942-4-5   This is the third compilation of essays from Disinformation, and, unlike the first two, nearly all the essays in this anthology have been written specifically for this publication, […]

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UFOs and disinformation

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] (How would he – or we – be able to tell?) At this stage it seems much more likely to me that Sheehan was given access to disinformation; the ‘look but don’t take notes’ instruction is standard psy-ops, the same technique used much later with the film-maker Linda Howe, discussed in Lobster 40; and […]

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