The View from the Bridge. Psy-ops. Common Cause. Larry Flynt. Hepple/Matthews. John Ware

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££

A stranger harvest The best single volume on the alien abduction connundrum I have come across is C.D. B. Bryan’s Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London 1995). In it Linda Moulton Howe, the American film-maker who made A Strange Harvest about the ‘cattle mutilation’ phenomenon in the United States, describes to … Read more

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Miscellaneous: James Angleton. British democracy. Nazis

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[…] controlled large sections of the press, just as they may do today, for all I know, they made their fury felt.’ Angleton’s ghost A wonderful piece of disinformation appeared in a New York Times editorial (7 January ’90) speculating on what we might learn from the Soviet Union now that the Cold War is […]

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The view from the bridge

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[…] Alder for editorial and proofreading assistance. *new* Disinfo So there was Ben Macintyre in The Times (18 April), regaling us again with the story of the Soviet disinformation in the 1980s about AIDS being a US Army germ warfare project. Macintyre sees this event as a forerunner of today’s Russian disinformation projects.1 What he […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] Alder for editorial and proofreading assistance. *new* Disinfo So there was Ben Macintyre in The Times (18 April), regaling us again with the story of the Soviet disinformation in the 1980s about AIDS being a US Army germ warfare project. Macintyre sees this event as a forerunner of today’s Russian disinformation projects.1 What he […]

ViewfromtheBridge

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[…] Book? When I first wrote about this, over 20 years ago,13 I had assumed that Sheehan being allowed to see the documents was a preamble to the disinformation games that were played on UFO researchers by AFOSI in the 1980s. Now I have to question that assumption; perhaps they were genuine. If so, why […]

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[…] Book? When I first wrote about this, over 20 years ago,13 I had assumed that Sheehan being allowed to see the documents was a preamble to the disinformation games that were played on UFO researchers by AFOSI in the 1980s. Now I have to question that assumption; perhaps they were genuine. If so, why […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] group or that, western corporations began subscribing to the services of organisations which claimed or 8 9 3 to be able to detect purveyors and amplifiers of disinformation. NewsGuard was the one I noticed first when Consortium News reported that it had run foul of the organisation’s disinformation detectors.10 Since when other commercial organisations […]

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[…] group or that, western corporations began subscribing to the services of organisations which claimed or 8 9 3 to be able to detect purveyors and amplifiers of disinformation. NewsGuard was the one I noticed first when Consortium News reported that it had run foul of the organisation’s disinformation detectors.10 Since when other commercial organisations […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] Book? When I first wrote about this, over 20 years ago,13 I had assumed that Sheehan being allowed to see the documents was a preamble to the disinformation games that were played on UFO researchers by AFOSI in the 1980s. Now I have to question that assumption; perhaps they were genuine. If so, why […]

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[…] President Barack Obama made the decision to set the country on a new course. On Dec. 23, 2016, he signed into law the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act, which used the language of defending the homeland to launch an open-ended, offensive information war. The message from the U.S. defense establishment was clear: To […]

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