Enemies of the state

Lobster Issue 25 (1993)

[…] of individuals in the UK. The obvious other examples which spring to mind are: Colin Wallace — framed on a manslaughter charge then the victim of a disinformation campaign by state sources. Dr. Hugh Thomas — on whom the state spent an estimated £3,000,000 in 1985/6 in a failed attempt to convict him of […]

Brian Crozier, the Pinay Circle and James Goldsmith

Lobster Issue 17 (1988)

[…] sniffing around the anti-nuclear groups. (One of whom wrote to us asking about his background) I haven’t done a search for Terry’s material but have an absolute disinformation whizzer of his, ‘Red Paras join in Namibia build-up’ in the Sunday Times of July 2 1978, predicting an attack by East German paratroops on Namibia! […]

Non-lethality: John B. Alexander, the Pentagon’s Penguin

Lobster Issue 25 (1993)

[…] promised inside information by the senior members of the AVIARY in return for his obedience and service to them. He participated in the propagation and dissemination of disinformation fed to him by various members of the AVIARY. He also confessed how he was instructed to target one particular individual, an electronics expert, Dr Paul […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996)

[…] act alone. One to insist that the bulb was altered after it was unscrewed, three tramps to walk across the room an hour later, one to insist LBJ really screwed the bulb in, and one to accuse all the others of being disinformation specialists. One of 52 pages of light bulb jokes found at http://slalpha1.epfl.ch/light_bulb.html

Wallace: Information Policy in fiction

Lobster Issue 17 (1988)

[…] my local branch library. It didn’t take long to see why it caused him trouble: Dowling talks of Information Policy, describes Wallace and blows some of the disinformation projects Wallace was working on. And this was published in 1979, when the whole thing was still a secret, before Wallace was fitted-up. Wallace is ‘Major […]

Pissing in or pissing out? The ‘big tent’ of Green Alliance

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2)

[…] have been a Wilsonian joke. The real reason for the honour is thought to be Goldsmith’s legal actions against Private Eye which had been prominent in the disinformation campaigns being run in the 1970s against the Wilson government. 17 In the small print The Ecologist advocated a 50% reduction in the population of Britain. […]

Beyond Hypocrisy: Decoding the news in an age of propaganda

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Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992)

[…] a Leader. Another Hitler: Last year’s ‘moderate’, now threatening our interests. Public diplomacy: The Reagan era name given to a large-scale government propaganda operation, which included massive disinformation and intimidation of the media, designed to manage public opinion. A part of this program was called Operation Truth. Privatisation: Disposing of public sector assets at […]

The Gospel according to Saint Jim

Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992)

[…] of Jim Garrison’s investigation of the murdur of the President, the most up-to-date and detailed review of every aspect of the Garrison case ever published, including the disinformation campaigns against both Garrison and, more recently, Oliver Stone. Based on extensive research, including interviews with many of the surviving cast of characters, many documents and […]

Spies, Lies and Whistleblowers

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Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005)

[…] by someone else. There are several pages of MI6’s I(Information)/Ops, focusing on the role of The Sunday Telegraph, a useful and quotable section for anyone interested in disinformation and the media. And there is a section on the death of Princess Diana in which the authors express the opinion that MI6 was involved in […]

Loose cuts and short ends

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996)

[…] communist agent. I wrote to Mr Smythe who kindly supplied me with part of the document. The document looks like a pretty obvious bit of state (IRD?) disinformation, doctored with some clumsy spelling errors and typos to make it appear non-official: for example ‘legitimate’ for legitimate, ‘described’ for described and ‘conscious objector’ for conscientious […]

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