Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)
Politics and Paranoia I wrote this for Picnic Publishing’s website. Talks, 1986-2004 Robin Ramsay Picnic Publishing, 297 pages, index, £9.99, ISBN 9780955610547 There are a number of talks in Politics and Paranoia about Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd. (Holroyd had been in the British Army Special Military Intelligence Unit and Wallace had been a Senior … Read more
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 […]
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
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. […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)
[…] interview in the same series, in which he discusses his latest book and related topics.(21) A hidden hand We don’t often find out which state employees plant disinformation on the media but we have done with the US Navy-threatened-by-Iranian-speedboats nonsense of January this year. ‘Apparently due to an error by an AP reporter, the […]
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 […]
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 […]