[…] David Shayler sat on MI5’s Libyan desk for a while and he saw material which persuaded him that the Libyans did Lockerbie. Which tells us that the disinformation prepared by the US to show Libya guilty was sufficiently convincing to persuade a professional intelligence officer. See Hollingsworth and Fielding, Defending the Realm (reviewed below), […]
[…] and Pershing missiles in Western Europe. Ledeen was likewise part of the Neocon network that formed the Congressionally-funded National Endowment for Democracy in 1983.(3) Landis describes Ledeen’s disinformation themes in the few years between the first Jonathan conference and his involvement in Iran-Contra as follows: ‘The notion that the CIA was destroyed under Carter; […]
[…] Ireland say that the UDA and parts of the IRA are jointly controlling some of their criminal activities and use the same drug traffickers.’ This is classic disinformation (see also ‘IRA Godfathers’ et al, ad nauseam) that the British state has been running since about 1971. The story continued: ‘Now they are exporting their […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] were responsible for millions of deaths from starvation in a terror-bombed economy. This time Herman, with Brodhead, targets ‘the Bulgarian connection’, and in particular a clique of disinformation agents starring the ‘Big Three’ – Claire Sterling, Paul Henze and Michael Ledeen. Not only did these three have access to the most widely viewed TV […]
[…] unclear. Wright offered at least four versions of his role in the so-called ‘Wilson plots’. Livingstone states that: ‘ Neave himself privately employed Colin Wallace to spread disinformation and black propaganda.’ Colin Wallace did no work for Airey Neave. However, he did send him an article he had written, ‘Ulster, a state of subversion’, […]
Dan Hind London: Verso, 2007, h/b, £24.99 Hind’s ‘concern is to examine how ideas from the historical Enlightenment function in contemporary society.’(p. 6) His starting point is the aftermath of 9/11 and the outbreak of loose talk of there being a conflict between radical Islam and ‘the enlightenment’. (12) Some of this came from … Read more
[…] (notice the “it can be shown” again). This, I presume, is a reference to the “5th man” story which surfaced in 1986 during the early fall-out and disinformation coming from the Peter Wright case in Australia and must be related, based upon Mr Heath’s appointment of Rothschild to head of the Central Policy Review […]
[…] unclassifiable mixture: some new research on the bombing of Earth First’s Judi Bari; Kenn Thomas on attempts to get Timothy Leary’s FBI file via the FOIA; a disinformation operation by South African intelligence (the non-existent FAPLA); a memoir of radical politics in the mid-West of the 1930s; interview with Flatland editor Jim Martin; plus […]
[…] the intelligence world’s use of defectors, Lundy used informers. But this is a notoriously difficult game. Defectors can be false; sometimes, drained of useful information, they peddle disinformation for profit. In this hothouse atmosphere paranoia develops and conspiracies are everywhere, often inspired by supposed colleagues. Just as James Angleton was accused of being a […]
