[PDF file]: ‘Epistemic homicide’ On Disinformation How to fight for truth and protect democracy Lee McIntyre Cambridge (Mass.) and London: MIT Press, 2023, (p/b) $14.95/£10.99 Robin Ramsay This is a short book of about 24,000 words on a very important and complex subject from an American perspective. So much of it is quotable, what follows is […]
[…] some of the information seems to have been true, the way it was presented, and the distortion of the evidence suggest that this was a case of disinformation. (14) And this wasn’t the first time that IPS had disseminated half-truths. An earlier episode illustrates the international trade in disinformation and partly illuminates the Permindex […]
[…] Max Holland reexamined Jim Garrison’s investigation of the assassination of JFK and concluded that he was at least in part inspired to do so by some Soviet disinformation about the case. Yes, we are back with the story of Clay Shaw, Permindex, CMC et al, which has been running in the margins of the […]
[PDF file]: Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare Thomas Rid London: Profile Books, 2020, 513 pp, £10.99 Colin Challen The dissemination of disinformation is as old as the hills, and now, thanks to the Internet, its transformation from the analogue age to the digital has given it what Rid explains as a […]
[PDF file]: LBJ: doubles and disinformation Garrick Alder Lobster readers will be aware of the relationship between US President Lyndon Johnson and his alleged personal hitman Malcolm ‘Mac’ Wallace, who is linked by forensic evidence to the assassination of JFK. This article explores some of the circumstances of another convicted murderer with alleged links to the […]
[…] attempts to disinform the Germans about the state of French military development. In other words, false documents were leaked to the Germans; and the authenticity of the disinformation was bolstered by charging Dreyfus with the leak! A modern myth? In a piece about the arrest of Soviet agent in the CIA, Rick Ames, the […]
[…] result, the status of Winter and his book is still a matter of dispute. Among those who were libelled it is suspected of being, in part, a disinformation exercise. While we were putting this issue together one of those who were libelled began corresponding with us about it – this, it should be noted, […]
[…] 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 […]
Who Really Runs the World? The war between globalization and democracy Thom Burnett and Alex Games New York: The Disinformation Company, 2007, p/b, $13.95 Who’s Watching You? The chilling truth about the state, surveillance and personal freedom Mick Farren and John Gibb New York: The Disinformation Company, 2007, p/b, $13.95 Two more from […]
[…] late Claire Sterling and Paul Henze. Sterling was a CIA asset, and had attended the 1979 Jonathan Institute conference; Henze was a former CIA station chief. As disinformation projects went, this wasn’t subtle and it began to unravel as soon as people like Edward Herman began picking at it.(48) At which point reality and […]
