Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] were being interviewed by Asil Nadir at his headquarters in Istanbul for posts in his security team. The couple found themselves in a web of lies and disinformation generated by a long-running feud between the British spooks, the Serious Fraud Office and the investigative reporters David Alford and Peter Salkeld from Central Television’s Cook […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

Lobster Issue

[PDF file]: […] were being interviewed by Asil Nadir at his headquarters in Istanbul for posts in his security team. The couple found themselves in a web of lies and disinformation generated by a long-running feud between the British spooks, the Serious Fraud Office and the investigative reporters David Alford and Peter Salkeld from Central Television’s Cook […]

Roswell, the CIA and Dr Edgar Mitchell

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)

[PDF file]: […] US Government was mounting a sustained cover-up about its secret contact with aliens. He was encouraged in that belief by US Government officials who fed him further disinformation. In 1976, US Admiral Bobby Ray Inman approached the CIA on behalf of Dr Mitchell. Today Admiral Inman says that he was told ‘my authority was […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[PDF file]: Robin Ramsay Big stuff or disinformation? The most interesting and important collection of new information that I have seen this year is at . The jancom bit of the URL refers to the Justice for Asil Nadir Committee and there is pretty convincing evidence there that he got screwed. But I was most struck […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] The Consortium on Facebook to be told by that site that this was a ‘fake news’ source. Add that to the US government’s Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act and we can see the totalitarian, information-management future. That act: ‘…. mandates the U.S. Secretary of State to collaborate with the Secretary of Defense, Director […]

View from Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] European Union’s 2nd EEAS Report on Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference Threats: A Framework for Networked Defence.16 In other words, how do we cope with (mostly Russian) disinformation? This is not an easy read. Here’s a paragraph on p. 7. (Bold in the original.) In 2023, the defender community made significant ‘Finance firms gave […]

The Story of British Propaganda Film by Scott Anthony

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] is applied, covering documentary films, wartime dramas and even ‘swinging 60s’ material. Toward the end of the narrative, it expands to include the struggle against radicalisation and disinformation on the internet. But what do we mean by ‘propaganda’? According to the 1912 Concise Oxford Dictionary it was ‘efforts, schemes, principles of propagation (which is […]

The Perennial Conspiracy Theory, and, The Hitler Conspiracies

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] about Energy, Global Warming and Climate Change: Exposing Climate Lies in an Age of Disinformation.7 Evans ends by hoping that his book might contribute to helping combat ‘disinformation’. Good luck with that! * John Newsinger is a retired academic. His latest book is Chosen by God: Donald Trump, the Christian Right and American Capitalism, […]

Lobster review: 1992 guide to intelligence periodics

Lobster Issue

[…] review, Richard Deacon’s book, T1ze Truth Twisters is taken to task, rather unfairly, to put it mildly, “as a classic of Western disi11formation purporting to describe Soviet disinformation.” 109 In short, LOBSTER’ s reviews are not just descriptive of content. They are to the point, analytical, and reflect the political position of the authors. […]

JFK’s assassination: a big new book and a strange memoir

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)

[PDF file]: […] frequently. For a JFK buff the oddity of Mackenzie’s account is the way he brings together a collection of minor trails – many presumed previously to be disinformation – and offers them as true. Here’s a quote from the interview cited in footnote 2 above which conveys this better than any single quote in […]

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