A stranger harvest The best single volume on the alien abduction connundrum I have come across is C.D. B. Bryan’s Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London 1995). In it Linda Moulton Howe, the American film-maker who made A Strange Harvest about the ‘cattle mutilation’ phenomenon in the United States, describes to … Read more
[…] and his reputation smeared by the British press.’ (Hansard, 17 December, 1993, column 1466) The Minister of State for Northern Ireland, Sir John Wheeler, replied, adding new disinformation. ‘The Hon. Gentleman referred to the allegations of a Mr Fred Holroyd. Her Majesty’s Government had 48 hours notice, not a week, of Mr Holroyd’s appearance […]
[…] of the US ruling elite, who would like to remake the world in a way that best suits their purposes.” This is defamatory? In their section on disinformation – ‘active measures’ is the new buzz word – all the authors can find to terrify us with is the dear old World Peace Council (which […]
[…] temporary duty as Commander Air Group during the same time-frame. For a variety of reasons, I now suspect that this latter information may have been planted as disinformation in order to discredit this story. The identity of the senior team member, employed by the CIA and Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), is known to […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] evidence that the allegations by North Korea and the Chinese that the US were using biological warfare during the Korean War were false – were in fact disinformation.’ This has now been challenged. In a paper, ‘Twelve Newly Released Soviet-era Documents and allegations of U. S. germ warfare during the Korean War'(9) Stephen Endicott […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
