[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] versions to produce a new synthesis — giving four, perhaps five versions in all. Authorless, drifting around the fringes of our culture, Gemstone has become a wonderful disinformation vehicle, available to anyone to add to, modify, reprint, recirculate. The last version I saw was still about 95% Roberts, but I expect that one day, […]
[…] groups, all for £1.00 (in the U.K.), from TW, Box NDF, 72 Radford Rd., Hyson Green, Nottingham NG7. Shot by both sides: a response to paranoia and disinformation, by Paul Cox Cox was in the BNP when young, changed his mind and has since been researching the British right for a book. He contacted […]
[…] the 1980s, ally of Brian Crozier, propagandist on behalf of Pinochet’s Chile, international hunter of subversion, and author of The Death of Democracy and The Spike, spreading disinformation about the British and American Left, is now a leading figure in the American world of dreams, dream interpretation, dream therapy, shamen etc. Check out or […]
[…] Cecil, who worked with SIS in the 1940s, is short and uncontroversial until the end, when it states that his autobiography, My Silent War (1968) ‘contains much disinformation’, and fingers for special criticism Philby’s ‘untrue’ claim that the Foreign Office and SIS ‘began, as early as 1943’ to divert efforts from defeating the Nazis […]
[…] the Gulf (pp. 45-46). Reading between those particular lines is not easy. There is no hint of guilty knowledge, but there is a hint of ignorance (or disinformation) in the reference to the August 4 ‘clash’ which likely never occurred. The degree of reticence shown by Annex A could be construed as ominous, but […]
[…] Hussein; the Office of Special Plans, Curveball, ‘stove-piping’ evidence – the whole ramshackle apparatus of conning the American public into supporting the war. Why didn’t the equivalent disinformation operations a decade earlier get exposed? The answer appears to be that the Yugoslav events were the last European war before the Internet, the last war […]
[…] take a bow Bruce Kent, Tony Benn and Alan Plater. Same old same old With material running from the IMF 1976 incident through to (a snippet on) disinformation in the British UFO world, here’s another pretty normal issue of Lobster. If there are those who don’t find the economic politics of the 1970s of […]
[…] then ex-Prime Minister. (p. 320 ) In the House of Commons on 14 December 1977 Stephen Hastings MP, a former MI6 officer, using Parliamentary privilege, ran the disinformation attributed to the former Czech intelligence officer Joseph Frolik that a group of British trade unions leaders were ‘agents’ of Soviet intelligence. Frolik was being run […]
