Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] Northern Ireland, including the creation of the Information Policy Unit in 1971. (There is a slight misunderstanding of Inf Pol: Miller treats ‘psychological operations’ as synonymous with disinformation. Not so: only a small part of psy-ops is disinformation.) In chapter 3 he gives a good account of the mechanics of newspaper coverage; emphasises the […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
Alien baloney In Nexus vol 6 no 2 is another dollop of what seems to me to be obvious disinformation about UFOs and the US government. Another batch of MJ-12 documents have surfaced in America, given to a researcher called Timothy Cooper by a (now conveniently dead) source. Nexus prints some largish chunks from […]
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
[…] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££
[…] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££
[…] of large numbers of politically distorted, sensationalistic, and superficial publications dealing with terrorism, many of which appear to be the direct or indirect products of a loosely-coordinated disinformation campaign launched by hardline rightist elements with various Western intelligence services and disseminated through their media assets.(4) This ever-increasing flood of material portrays ‘international terrorism’ as […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] that might show the USA in a bad light. With sections including Conspiracy Theories (‘Did the US “create” Osama bin Laden?’), Military Misinformation (‘Depleted uranium’), and Deliberate Disinformation (‘Saddam’s disinformation’; ‘Soviet disinformation’), plus guidance on ‘How to identify misinformation’, it certainly puts paid to the theory that the US government has no sense of […]
Lobster Issue 1 (1983) £££
[…] British Intelligence. These in turn recruited and controlled others who believed they were members of a genuine loyalist secret organisation.” (16) The gangs were designed to spread disinformation, dissension within the Loyalist ranks, and foment infighting. In the wake of the successful Ulster Worker Council’s strike in May, 1974, the British Government, under Prime […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] ‘Information Superhighway’ and its discontents Organised Crime Threatens the New World Order The Decline of American Journalism The 1960s and COINTELPRO: In Defense of Paranoia Infowar and Disinformation: From the Pentagon to the Net Mind Control and the Secret State Class Warfare: Wall Street vs Main Street. Highly recommended. Brandt is about as interesting […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] evidence that the allegations by North Korea and the Chinese that the US were using biological warfare during the Korean War were false – were in fact disinformation. Documents apparently from former Soviet archives seem to show that the Soviets knew in 1953 that the allegations were false and the ‘evidence’ had been fabricated. […]
