[PDF file]: […] put flesh on the biographical bones of John Melvin Liggett, a shadowy character whose apparent connections to the JFK assassination are discussed in my own ‘Doubles and Disinformation’ in this issue of Lobster. There is good news and bad news about this book. The bad news is that, despite the author’s first-hand research into […]
[PDF file]: […] trusted. Some in the KGB suspected that he (along with Blunt, Burgess and Cairncross) had been a British agent all along, providing the USSR with chickenfeed and disinformation. This went all the way back to the wartime period, when one analyst, Elena Modrzhinskaya, argued that it was incredible that SIS would recruit someone with […]
[PDF file]: […] Factor was brain damaged during military service; Estes was a convicted fraudster; Hunt’s claims were those a dying CIA officer whose role within the CIA had included disinformation; and McClellan’s ‘evidence’ was merely the statement of a third party buried in a book mixing fact with faction. But many of the witnesses in other […]
[…] Labour Cabinets of Harold Wilson (1974-76) had been under intense surveillance in the hunt for Soviet influence. Several members, notably Wilson himself, had been burgled. Smear and disinformation campaigns had been run against both Labour and Liberal politicians. In this context it is a very striking list of speakers. Major Alexander Greenwood had been […]
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[PDF file]: […] of chemtrailing. A Google search from 2008 yielded 1 million results for ‘chemtrails’. Today, the figure is 8 million. The growing public awareness is met with media disinformation and silence. For all the government/militarylinked pseudo-science on so-called ‘persistent contrails’, scientists, the media, and government bodies cannot argue against the simple fact that unmarked aeroplanes […]
[PDF file]: […] operation, and people being aware that life and death situations involving themselves and their family are possible at any time, is a fruitful breeding ground for both disinformation and fantastic rumours. There was a considerable amount of talk about UK-German contacts in Portugal (and Spain) in 1940-1941, including meetings with, among others, the Duke […]
[PDF file]: […] a labour of love from his Oxford doctorate. His investigative methods are a model combination of historical perspective, extensive archival research in an area ‘where information and disinformation are equally important’ and interviewing many of the key players in both countries. ‘I traced former ambassadors to desert kibbutzim and elderly South African Jewish émigrés […]
[PDF file]: […] August 2001, 2 Sally Pook, ‘Deadly flood blamed on RAF rainmakers’, Telegraph, 31 August 2001, 3 BBC News Online, ‘Rain-making link to killer floods’, 30 August 2001, disinformation because BBC radio reports confirm that the gliders were actually spraying over Lynmouth village itself.4 Concerning the seeding operations that caused the Lynmouth disaster, RAF Captain […]
[PDF file]: […] Research Group duo of Jacob Rees-Mogg and Mark Francois! Irony free zone While recently researching the bonkers Q-Anon theory, I discovered that the BBC has a ‘Specialist disinformation reporter’.20 I’m fairly sure that the actual job is not what it might appear to be at first glance. It’s what they don’t say. For an […]
