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 […]
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
[…] 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! […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] the loony James Angleton, came to believe that Prime Minister Harold Wilson was a Soviet agent; and CIA counter-intelligence was the ultimate source of much of the disinformation and smears about him and those around him in the middle 1970s. This may have been pay-back for Wilson’s temerity in refusing to bend. It is […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] 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 […]
