[…] 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 […]
[…] very good book. (An opinion Victorian shares, incidentally.) If this book (along with his Channel 4 TV programme on the same subject) is part of some CIA disinformation operation in tandem with the official disclosure (and official rubbishing) of the Remote Viewing program, it’s too clever for me. After interviewing most of the people […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Iraq and to Afghanistan, but still a major analytical leap that is not justified by the facts). Carefully placed warnings derived from torture-derived intelligence, or just downright disinformation, can then put Western security forces into a thorough tizzy. The French role It gets worse. Inside the West, there are the usual ‘you-never-listened-to-us’ factions from […]
[…] the CIA. Collins Radio was one of the many sources of ‘cover’ used by the CIA and the Reader’s Digest has been extensively used to run CIA disinformation. (63) David Pelham James — a Conservative M.P. for fourteen years, James was a Director of the Catholic publishing house, Hollis and Carter, the publishers 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 […]
[…] on first reading. Missing are: his failed Freedom Blue Cross venture; his role in James Goldsmith’s Now!; BOSS; James Angleton and his fantasies; his role in the disinformation put out in the early 1980s that the KGB was running world terrorism; the Israeli connection; Crozier’s financial funnel, the International Freedom Fund Establishment. The central […]
[…] in the 1970s. Was he, I thought, one of the correspondents recruited by MI5 in the big F branch expansion circa 1973-5? Did that explain all the disinformation run through the Sunday Times by James Adams, for example? Apparently not. I wrote to Mr Neil and he replied that he was ‘never approached’ by […]
[…] CIA. Insofar as this view is perhaps not entirely consistent with the facts its propagation is a form of psychological warfare waged against the American people (‘ disinformation’ is the term of art), corrupting the processes of a democracy. Most thoroughly denied, minimized, shoved into a drawer while attention is directed elsewhere, are Helms’s […]
[…] half a million dollars to Edward J. Epstein for his Legend, which tried, unsuccessfully, to attribute Lee Harvey Oswald to the KGB. On Legend, see my essay in Lobster 2. Frank Brodhead and Edward S. Herman, ‘The KGB Plot To Assassinate The Pope: A Case Study In Free World Disinformation’ in Covert Action No 19.
