[…] in the covert manipulation of the British left by the state. For the first time I can think of on the mainland UK, a state infiltration and disinformation operation has been sussed and spiked while it was happening. This one will run and run. Available from BM Box 4769, London WC1N 3XX for 2.00 […]
[…] was mistakenly hanged for the Christie murders; and wrote a best-selling book on the case, A Man On Your Conscience. Was Eddowes just muddying the water with disinformation on the assassination, or had he really uncovered evidence to confirm his theories? Strangely, although central to his theory on the assassination, Novotny is only briefly […]
[…] wrote to me asking me to disclose their names – with the promise of bringing criminal charges where appropriate. When I raised the issue of the forgers’ disinformation activities in New Mexico in the 1980s, and asked whether, in such circumstances, investigations would be proper or unbiased, he promptly back-tracked, adding ‘that casts a […]
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’ […]
[…] of individuals in the UK. The obvious other examples which spring to mind are: Colin Wallace — framed on a manslaughter charge then the victim of a disinformation campaign by state sources. Dr. Hugh Thomas — on whom the state spent an estimated £3,000,000 in 1985/6 in a failed attempt to convict him of […]
David Aaronovitch London: Jonathan Cape, £17.99, h/b In his introduction Aaronovitch tells us he became interested in conspiracy theories when someone he was working with introduced him to the they-didn’t-go-to-the-moon theory; and this offended his ‘sense of plausibility’ He’s right: we all have a kind of plausibility threshold, beyond which a proposition about the world … Read more
[…] deal of what is known about the post-war Tory Party and its links with the secret state – in this case, almost exclusively MI5 – and various disinformation and smear campaigns against Labour Party politicians and union leaders. Some of this will be familiar to anyone who has read Smear!, say, but there is […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] 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 […]
