With the decline of the revolutionary socialist Left the Right has turned to the anarchists for a law-and-order bogeyman – and a stick to beat the Left with. One journalist involved is Jamie Dettmer. Having worked for Tribune for a while, Dettmer migrated to the Sunday Telegraph (for whom his first article was an ‘expose’ […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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! […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] methods of the psy-ops people in the state. The intimate relationship between a Peter Mandelson and certain journalists is a facsimile of the relationship that the state’s disinformation people IRD most notably had with journalists all the way through the Cold War. Oborne tells us that New Labour’s mendacity amounts to a […]
