[…] (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 […]
[…] hysteria on the British right in the 1970s about the threat from the left and the belief of Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson that there was a disinformation campaign against him and his government. He was right: the hysteria and the campaign were largely the work of serving or former intelligence officers. We had […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] the major media – there or here – won’t go that far yet. Bits of it may know that the Bush and Blair administrations have run full-scale disinformation campaigns around the war but they apparently cannot acknowledge it. That was Borger on the 4th. On the 7th the wind had shifted and Borger now […]
[…] the secret state is playing silly buggers with the British political fringes. In recent years there have been some odd goings-on in Welsh Nationalism, with allegations of disinformation and agents provocateurs in Wales; (2) and even the seriously unimportant Scottish Nationalist activist fringe got a double page spread in the Sunday Telegraph of August […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] any claim the authors have to writing a serious historical work. Have they never heard of St. Elmo’s Fire? Or could a simple explanation just be legitimate disinformation from Allied intelligence agencies? And what about the Germans’ known experiments with TV and radio-controlled anti-aircraft missiles? A top secret Nazi project is probably the least […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
