Ukrainian Psyops

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] had been included in the list or had criticised the events of Maidan. The UN OHCHR also noted an increase in the online attacks of “trolls” and disinformation campaigns in social media against activists and media professionals involved in investigative journalism and transparency issues. Physical and online attacks are not investigated, or investigations are […]

Ukrainian psyops

Lobster Issue

[…] had been included in the list or had criticised the events of Maidan. The UN OHCHR also noted an increase in the online attacks of “trolls” and disinformation campaigns in social media against activists and media professionals involved in investigative journalism and transparency issues. Physical and online attacks are not investigated, or investigations are […]

Reading between the lies: Edward Jay Epstein and Lee Harvey Oswald’s ‘Historic Diary’

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] to appreciate the audacity with which the CIA manoeuvred Mr Epstein into being duped by a CIA employee, who helpfully fed him what appears to be outright disinformation to bolster the author’s emerging theories about the KGB. Effectively, Mr Epstein was simply passed from one hand of the Agency to the other. Mr Epstein’s […]

Tokyo legend? Lee Harvey Oswald and Japan

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] was understandably sensitive about claims that the Agency had anything to do with Kennedy’s assassination, claims that the CIA saw as deliberately fuelled in part by KGB disinformation operations against its chief intelligence rival. Showing its intention to cooperate with the new Reader’s Digest project, the CIA gave Epstein access to a controversial former […]

A fly’s eye view of the American war against Vietnam 40 years later: who won which war?

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] of appeals, argument or facts, even from people like Kwame Nkrumah or Ho Chi Minh, who had lived in the US and admired it, could overcome the disinformation used by the US government and US corporations to depict any 14 Philip Agee pointed out that in Latin America the CIA station were passing money […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] of UFOs, he quotes Steven Greer, front man of the Disclosure Project for twenty years. There has been a deliberate comingling of information with 25 26 10 disinformation, including amateur researchers who rubber-stamp abductions, mutilations and other things that we can prove have been and are covert psy-ops, all human. Yes, people have had […]

Conspiracy theories in the time of Covid-19, by Clare Birchall and Peter Knight

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] programmes. But most important is the technological factor – the Net, without which none of this would have happened; specifically social media, what has been called ‘” disinformation capitalism” . . . the contentagnostic monetisation techniques that help platforms retain user attention and accumulate their data’. (p. 23) But at this point we really […]

Thatcher’s Secret War Subversion, Coercion, Secrecy and Government, 1974-90

Lobster Issue

[…] Neave. Taken literally, this statement by the author is nonsense: the Soviets and unions did not supply gunmen. Bloom is clumsily compressing a great of deal of disinformation material about Soviet activity in Ireland and the UK: essentially the beliefs that the Soviets were subverting Britain through the CPGB’s role in trade unions and […]

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