[…] British Army, and, in particular, certain accounts of the period written by Colin Wallace, the authors demonstrate that the outlines of a series of ramified psychological and disinformation operations against the Wilson Government of 1974-76 are visible. Among the elements analysed are: the smear campaign against Labour Party figures during 1974 and 1975; the […]
[…] The Administration’s image of certainty of Soviet guilt began to develop flaws. It was soon revealed (and confirmed years later in Alvin Snyder’s 1995 book, Warriors of Disinformation), that the first official transcript of Soviet air-to-ground communications distributed by our National Security Agency (NSA) had been purged of the Soviet fighter pilot’s declaration to […]
[…] has not previously been the subject of a detailed study. The Terrorism Industry is in many ways a continuation of Herman’s previous books on the media and disinformation, the excellent Rise and Fall of the Bulgarian Connection and The Real Terror Network: Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda. The opening section of the book takes […]
[…] negatives survived and are now stored elsewhere.) Birds of a feather The situation deteriorated when I started to investigate the role of members of the intelligence and disinformation network, ‘the Aviary’ (see Lobster 25). Howard Blum of the New York Times, the author of Out There, warned me to be careful; others advised me […]
[…] Ford administration’s rush to settle with Olsen’s widow in 1975 was the link with Korean biowar experiments not ‘mind control’. Eric Olsen now regards the latter as disinformation. Illustrating the continuity in American national security circles is the fact that a declassified 1975 White House memorandum which suggested the settlement and compensation for Olsen’s […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] or ‘handled’ James Early Ray in the months leading up to the shooting. Pepper tracked him down.) Alarm bells began to ring reading that: surely this is disinformation; it’s just too neat and tidy. Even if the FBI man is telling the truth about squirrelling the document away for 30 years, he’s been concealing […]
[…] his programme. This section, roughly the second half of the book, is very instructive indeed, describing very clearly how the state co-opts the media to run its disinformation. Eventually McPhilemy sued the Sunday Express and won, costing the Express about £500,000.(4) In October this year he began libel proceedings against the Sunday Times. The […]
[…] partially financed through little-scrutinized CIA discretionary funds and/or U.S. Embassy Counterpart Funds transmitted through Ray Cline, CIA Chief of Station in Taiwan from 1958-62 and now a disinformation specialist at Georgetown University’s Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). See Anderson and Anderson, pp. 54-5. For more on CSIS see Landis. See, e.g., APACL […]
[…] area Pearce refuses to take on board. There is nothing on the Wilson plots and the fact that Healey’s wartime flirtation with communism loomed large in MI5’s disinformation strategy. The entire 1974-7 period of hysteria on the right, intense covert operations and widespread psyops against the Wilson government, the Liberals, the left and the […]
