Lobster Issue 3 (1984) £££
[…] potential impact should be cause for concern. They are the churches, the ‘loyalist opposition’ and, perhaps most important, the unpoliticised public”. He followed this by organising the propaganda campaign against the American Peace Movement’s ‘Ground Zero Week’. (1) Rostow was equally concerned about the growing unilateralist movement and so helped initiate a similar propaganda […]
Lobster Issue 1 (1983) £££
[…] been part of the cover-up. That may well be the case, but a closer examination suggests that Kincora is the link to a murky world of black propaganda, blackmail and assassination. A second report on the affair has been prepared by Sir George Terry who retired as Chief Constable of Sussex this year. (2) […]
Lobster Issue 20 (1990) £££
[…] downplays the Army’s role in arming and inciting the civilian murder bands, concludes that, whatever the strength of popular anti-PKI hatred and fear, ‘without the Army’s anti-PKI propaganda the massacre might not have happened.’ (26) I shall go further and argue that Gestapu, Suharto’s response, and the bloodbath were part of a single coherent […]
Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££
[…] reference to the Third World, a Leader. Another Hitler: Last year’s ‘moderate’, now threatening our interests. Public diplomacy: The Reagan era name given to a large-scale government propaganda operation, which included massive disinformation and intimidation of the media, designed to manage public opinion. A part of this program was called Operation Truth. Privatisation: Disposing […]
Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££
[…] the Soviet Committee for Cultural Relations With Compatriots Abroad. “Kodumaa” is published in Tallinn, Estonia. The Soviet Committee For Cultural Relations With Compatriots Abroad is a Soviet propaganda organization founded in East Berlin, Germany, in 1955; and since that time has been edited by various Soviet officials. The Committee publishes a magazine entitled “Homeland” […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] the introduction the author (or authors) states: ‘Its creation was prompted by the desire of Ministers in Mr Atlee’s Labour government to devise means to combat Communist propaganda’. But ten lines later we find this. ‘Within the Foreign Office…..IRD evolved from plans drawn up in 1946. It took some time, however, for officials to […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] through to more recent furores about the TV programmes Real Lives and Death on the Rock, about the Gibraltar shootings. He moves into the development of the propaganda role of the state in the early 1970s in Northern Ireland, including the creation of the Information Policy Unit in 1971. (There is a slight misunderstanding […]
Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££
In Lobster 17 we published two German intelligence reports on a covert propaganda group called the Pinay Circle. In this article we give background and investigate the Pinay Circle’s activities. Member of Parliament ‘G’: I don’t know if it (the Pinay Circle) has any political significance, but, in any case, it has little impact. […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
Feedback From Ernest Wistrich Dear Sir, I have read the article ‘Spinning the European Union: pro-European propaganda campaigns in the British media’ by Andy Mullen in your Winter 2002 issue. Whilst it contains a number of minor inaccuracies it includes one major misrepresentation, namely that the European Movement, of which I was director between […]
