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... With Dick Russell's The Man Who Knew Too Much, reviewed above by Alex Cox, these books are the best of the post Oliver Stone wave that I am aware of. Fonzi, early in the JFK assassination field as a journalist in Philadelphia, was hired in 1976 to work for Senator Schweiker's assassination sub-committtee of the Church Committee. The disinformation mills set to work and Fonzi began to work through false trails from Clare Booth Luce, Frank Sturgis, Marita Lorenz, and Mitch Werbell. Then he met Syliva Odio; and from her the anti-Castro Cuban leader of Alpha 66, Antonio Veciana-- and from Veciana he heard of the CIA officer Veciana worked with, 'Maurice Bishop ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 29 - 01 Jun 1994 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue27/lob27-15.htm
... we, a conservative superpower (USSR), were reluctant to take. A perfect example occurred shortly after I became head of Foreign Counterintelligence in 1973. CIA officer Philip Agee approached our KGB station in Mexico City, offering us reams of information about CIA operations. But our station chief in Mexico City thought Agee was a CIA plant spreading disinformation, and rejected him. Agee then went to the Cubans, who welcomed him with open arms. As it turned out, Agee was absolutely genuine, divulging the names of hundreds of CIA agents and informants, and providing the Cubans with mounds of information about US Intelligence. Agee proved to be one of the most damaging CIA turncoats ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 27 - 01 Jun 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue55/lob55-29.htm
... in friendly Nato(3) countries, in order to counter subversive propagandists in peace time.' They had to do this because 'MI5 has a policy of doing nothing at all to punish or deter agents of influence....' because 'it is not illegal to co-operate in peace-time with hostile intelligence agencies to feed Western media with disinformation'. So, now you know: once again the public sector shows itself to be incompetent (or infiltrated) and the private sector has to step into the breach. The group was the Coalition for Peace Through Strength, UK counterpart of the US group with the same name. (In the US group was a US General ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 27 - 01 Jun 1995 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue29/lob29-07.htm
... of the British security and intelligence system. It isn't that they aren't critical; it's just that they don't want to, or are unable to, deal with the reality of that system. In their view of this country's recent history there were no Wilson plots; Northern Ireland is ignored; Cathy Massiter was guilty of 'moralising misrepresentations'; disinformation, I-ops and bureaucratic rivalries are ignored. Intelligence and security organisations are no more or less likely to break the law than any other public bodies, they tell us. (Though how do they know?) All the tales of 'rogue elephants' told in the last twenty years are spurious. Their account of the CIA is wilfully ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 27 - 01 Dec 2006 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue52/lob52-43b.htm
... . Golitsyn's thesis is simple. The Soviet Union's ruling elite are totally clever, in control, and totally devious. Nothing is what it seems. Anti-party group are really disguised party group. The 'Prague Spring' was organised by the Soviet party: the Sino-Soviet, Yugoslav-Soviet, Albania-Soviet, Rumanian-Soviet splits are all phoneys, part of some long-range disinformation strategy to con the West. And so on. As soon as you get Golitsyn 's drift the book becomes immensely wearisome and predictable. Here's a beautiful example of his 'methodology' (his word), from the Sunday Times extract 11th March 1984. Solidarity, Golitsyn says, "while carefully controlled by the Government, had to ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 26 - 01 Aug 1984 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue05/lob05-07.htm
... Contents| Cover Image Spinning the European Union: pro-European propaganda campaigns in the British media Mob Rule. The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America 1947-2000 (Book review) Spook PR New Labour Notes Historical Notes A note on Arthur Andersen and Co. The View from the Bridge Sudan and slavery: disinformation and the Telegraph group Updates Sources How many divisions does the Pope have? Obituaries The Party of Business and the B usiness of Parties Books The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays and the Birth of Public Relations Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper Five Days in London- May 1940s Bacardi – The Hidden War British ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 26 - 01 Dec 2002 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue44/index.htm
... with the rest of Whitehall especially the various other state information functions and its external relations, notably with American equivalents. This is an account of what you find in the official paper record now that some of the papers have been released after 50 years. There is almost nothing on specific operations. There is almost nothing on the use of disinformation: one reference to the existence of black propaganda; nothing, for example, on IRD's use of forgeries in the early years of the Cold War, hyping-up the Soviet menace, about which there has been the occasional hint. If IRD officials in this period wrote and filed papers describing their disinformation operations, they have apparently been 'weeded ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 26 - 01 Jun 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue55/lob55-50.htm
... soon as you begin trying to check it out you find that the allegations are mostly unsubstantiated and uncheckable; and much of the purported documentation is a fraud. That is, if you check the source given it doesn't actually substantiate the claim made by 'Torbitt' for which it is offered as evidence. I'm reasonably certain that 'Torbitt' is disinformation, probably produced by the CIA in the wake of the Garrison inquiry. It may even have been a response to the French disinformation production, Farewell America, a couple of years before. For 'Torbitt' lays the blame not at the CIA's door, but jointly on the FBI and something called the Defence Industries Security Command. ( ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 26 - 01 Dec 1996 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue32/lob32-18.htm
... LBJ, 'Mac' Wallace....but not, apparently, the CIA. The CIA are almost entirely missing from this story. It's the DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) Mackenzie writes about frequently. For a JFK buff the oddity of Mackenzie's account is the way he brings together a collection of minor trails – many presumed previously to be disinformation – and offers them as true. Here's a quote from the interview cited in footnote 2 above which conveys this better than any single quote in the manuscript. The bits in parenthesis are mine. 'The bunch at the Holland Ave safe house were from Rubenstein [Jack Ruby]. The other Mob people and Jake Miranda, who was ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 26 - 05 May 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster61/lob61-lbj-jfk-book.pdf
... diplomats, some of whom were intelligence officers under cover, and had not reported the contacts to his departmental MI5 officer.(57) But while Benn was the chief focus of the paranoid right's conspiracy fantasies, the Labour Cabinet was regarded with suspicion and many of its members, notably Wilson himself, were subjected to surveillance, burglaries and disinformation in this period. The anti-communist hysteria encompassed the formation of private militias- the so-called private armies- by former intelligence and military personnel, media speculation on the right circumstances for Army intervention in Britain, and a wide range of psy-ops, black bag jobs and disinformation projects running beyond the referendum on Britain's membership of the European Economic Community ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 26 - 01 Dec 1997 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue34/lob34-07.htm
