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... then refers to SIS as the 'Special Intelligence Service', merging as perhaps they do in his memory his time in the Special Boat Service with that in the Secret Intelligence Service. Since he chose to include this entry in his diary, he is giving his readers a hint that the story about him being in SIS is true. Does disinformation work?In Lobster 39 (p . 23) I commented on the disinformation project Operation Horseshoe, a purported Serb plan for the ethnic cleansing of Kosovo, which had been recycled in Andrew Rawnsley's book, Servants of the People. The Serbs may have intended doing this, but the 'plan' shown to the western media, complete ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 32 - 01 Jun 2004 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue47/lob47-26.htm
... material in this country on the entire Wilson-MI5 plots story to date. We also discovered that there was a sustained attempt by the British state to discredit Wallace, a campaign of whispers and rumours which reached its climax with the full-page attack on Wallace and Holroyd in The Independent. However, while we were researching Wallace, disinformation was run into the Channel 4 News office by Andy Tyrie of the UDA Wallace's former colleague at Inf Pol, Gordon Shepperd and Paul Wilkinson. In July 1987 Wilkinson, in his capacity as a consultant to ITN (of which Channel 4 is a part), sent a copy of an anonymous letter about Wallace. The text of ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 30 - 01 Jun 1988 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue16/lob16-07.htm
... p.a . for ISC.(128) ISC commissioned and published reports and began briefing the UK military and police establishments on the Crozier view of the Soviet threat to Britain.(129) Crozier became a founder member of the National Association for Freedom (NAFF), whose launch was timed to coincide with publication of the dystopian disinformation in The Collapse of Democracy by his ally and colleague at ISC, Robert Moss. The unfortunately acronymed NAFF was a gathering of the anti-subversive and pro-capital propaganda groups such as Aims of Industry, and, almost immediately became the major focus of the British Right. It absorbed the remnants of the 1974/5 civilian ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 29 - 01 Jun 1996 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/caucus/lobcc-08.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 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 28 - 01 Dec 2006 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue52/lob52-43b.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
... 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
... 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
... 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 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 26 - 01 Jun 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue55/lob55-50.htm
... up to A4 pages. Issue 10 was a turning-point. We had been contacted by a retired British Army officer, Captain Fred Holroyd, with a strange and complicated story about a former Information Officer for the British Army, Colin Wallace. Wallace was then in prison, framed for manslaughter, and a witness to dirty tricks and disinformation in Northern Ireland. Issue 10 contained a piece by Holroyd about Wallace . After its publication Dorril visited Wallace in prison and returned with an amazing -- and amazingly complicated -- story of covert operations by the British state in Northern Ireland. We headed for our respective libraries to try and make sense of this material and discovered that ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 26 - 27 Jan 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/about.htm
... '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
