Russ Kick (ed.), Disinformation, 2001, $19.95, ISBN 0-9664100-7-6. Available from http://store.disinfo.com. I once sat in on an interesting conversation between two well known writers on the underside of politics. At one point, one of them alluded disparagingly to one of the scruffier areas of the conspiracy fringe – UFOs, maybe. The other reacted immediately: […]
[…] has begun to resemble the literature of parapolitics. Increasingly the story is of the activities of putative agents of state, the intelligence and security agencies, and alleged disinformation and smear campaigns. (On this see Jacques Vallee’s Revelations: Alien Contact and Human Deception, London, Souvenir Press, 1992.) A recent re-examination of the notorious Rosewell incident […]
[…] Kennedy and then turn up in the Watergate ‘plumbers’. Even if we believe her account of what Sturgis told her, Sturgis’s claim might be a lie — disinformation, perhaps for the Agency; water muddying. Many other false trails have turned up over the years. Either way, along with most of the serious Kennedy researchers, […]
[…] reasons. Reprinting costs for one: they were A5 format and rather poorly produced by current standards; and some of them contain material which we learned subsequently was disinformation. At some point we will produce a “Best of early Lobster …’ but in the meantime Lobster is being included in the on-going micro-fiche collection from […]
[…] late Claire Sterling and Paul Henze. Sterling was a CIA asset, and had attended the 1979 Jonathan Institute conference; Henze was a former CIA station chief. As disinformation projects went, this wasn’t subtle and it began to unravel as soon as people like Edward Herman began picking at it.(48) At which point reality and […]
[…] 18 March ’90) Mooney confirmed some of Wallace’s allegations — notably that he had been agitating about Kincora while in Ireland — and ran one of the disinformation lines, ‘Wallace-as-rogue-elephant’: ‘Wallace was exceeding his authority……leaking stuff to journalists he had no right to do….this “nutter” in press relations.’ Of Mooney, Maurice Tugwell said: ‘Mooney […]
[…] opponents on the Left. (That last bit about the Left is a joke, by the way.) Like Crozier, Goldsmith was then obsessed with an alleged enormous Soviet disinformation offensive against the West. In this book Crozier reworks in much greater detail some of the sections of his memoir, Free Agent, describing three lawsuits in […]
[…] citizen (and an Air Force supplier) he took his discoveries to the base authorities. The US Air Force responded by pretending to believe him and feeding him disinformation about UFOs and the US government’s alleged dealing with aliens – disinformation which was then circulated among the UFO buffs in the US with the deadly […]
[…] may be embellishment or downright lying involved, but insists that there is a kernel of truth in all of them. He maintains that even if they are disinformation they contain some useful data and his guiding principle is that there is no smoke without fire. Smoke and fire go together in the ordinary world […]
[…] trail from the CIA leads to the village of Ickham, near Canterbury, from whence issues a magazine called Counterpoint, devoted to the exposure and analysis of Soviet disinformation. The trail began with the defection of Stanislas Levchenko, a Major in the KGB. He went over to the Americans in 1979, spent a year working […]
