Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££
[…] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££
[…] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
[…] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££
[…] and probably sincere position on alleged racial differences. The entry for Searchlight summarises extensively the growing recognition on the ‘left’ of that journal’s involvement in dirty tricks, disinformation and role as an agency of the British intelligence services. But Mercer is surprisingly gentle with them, and should have commented upon and documented some of […]
