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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)