[…] 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 […]
[…] the 1980s, ally of Brian Crozier, propagandist on behalf of Pinochet’s Chile, international hunter of subversion, and author of The Death of Democracy and The Spike, spreading disinformation about the British and American Left, is now a leading figure in the American world of dreams, dream interpretation, dream therapy, shamen etc. Check out or […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Hussein; the Office of Special Plans, Curveball, ‘stove-piping’ evidence – the whole ramshackle apparatus of conning the American public into supporting the war. Why didn’t the equivalent disinformation operations a decade earlier get exposed? The answer appears to be that the Yugoslav events were the last European war before the Internet, the last war […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] by some of G’s intelligence supporters, like Peter Wright – he has, to date, neither accepted nor rejected G’s claims of the SinoSoviet split et al being disinformation exercises. In that review Clive reports Pincher as claiming that the famous Anglo-American tunnel dug under Berlin which allowed Nato intelligence to tap into Soviet communications […]
Dan Hind London: Verso, 2007, h/b, £24.99 Hind’s ‘concern is to examine how ideas from the historical Enlightenment function in contemporary society.’(p. 6) His starting point is the aftermath of 9/11 and the outbreak of loose talk of there being a conflict between radical Islam and ‘the enlightenment’. (12) Some of this came from … Read more
