[…] the other side of Kiev. It is also a dominant factor in the Europeanisation of the Balkans. Parapolitical analysts are, as always, faced with an abyss of disinformation and lack of information. Nevertheless the stealth role of conservative catholic and evangelical forces in the creation and extension of the European project has been a […]
[…] Claire Sterling (who recycled all the Bulgarians killed the Pope nonsense) and Herbert Romerstein, latterly of USIS. It was Mr. Romerstein who accused me of recycling Soviet disinformation, and who, I would guess, is the source of the rumours in US intelligence circles that the KGB were funding Lobster. Another SIS memoir SIS buffs […]
[…] of the US’s leading purveyors and students of conspiracy theories. Mark Pilkington of FT introduces the conversation with the comment that ‘Adrift amongst seas of information and disinformation, claim and counter-claim, a detached, more fortean approach to conspiracy research appears increasingly relevant‘ (emphasis added). For which, apparently, read: give up worrying if it’s true […]
[…] orders and what happened inside the United Kingdom’. J. Bernard Hutton was a very minor Czech defector who made a living recycling the coarser products of the disinformation wizards at IRD. This 1972 book of his, for example, includes (p. 106) the all-time naff forgery ‘the text of a Special Division for Subversion directive, […]
[…] more serious aspects of psi-related weapons – some now categorised as non-lethal weapons – he wants to classify the research in this field.(45) Despite the campaign of disinformation by US military and intelligence, the US House of Representatives’ Committee on Science and Technology in June 1981 released a 530-page study, based on two years […]
[…] number in case of urgent need at evenings and weekends.’ This relationship climaxed with Rose – to his ‘everlasting regret’ – putting his name to the key disinformation about the Iraqi regime’s links to Al Qaeda and the existence of WMDs. Why did he believe claims which a large chunk of his colleagues and […]
[…] the limited circulation of his magazine and the coded language in which it was couched’ (p. 187). But how about the obvious: Pecorelli being paid to circulate disinformation, entangling in advance an enemy of the system with the very nefarious goings-on Pecorelli himself was so privy to? The persecution of Negri and the whole […]
[…] KGB station in Mexico City, offering us reams of information about CIA operations. But our station chief in Mexico City thought Agee was a CIA plant spreading disinformation, and rejected him. Agee then went to the Cubans, who welcomed him with open arms.’ This is interesting because Agee has always denied approaching the KGB. […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] obsession on Italian politics and what stemmed from it: corruption of all institutions, including the Catholic Church; drugs, violence, terrorism and assassination; conspiracy, literally, as normal politics; disinformation by the barrow-load. This book is full of incredible stories, leads, hints and allegations across 30 years of post-WW2 history. No book I have read recently […]
