[…] 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 […]
[…] author of the KGB ‘monster plot’ believed by Angleton, which claimed that everything, up to and including the Sino-Soviet conflict and Gorbachev’s perestroika and glasnost, were KGB disinformation projects and (b) that Goleniewski claimed to be a Romanov and heir to the throne of Russia. Fantasists – or disinformers – such as these were […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] or Valentine’s can talk me out of the perhaps silly theory I’m starting to form……. I have to congratulate you on your brilliant catch regarding that great disinformation ploy, ‘You can see these documents, but cannot photocopy them.’ I wish to hell more American ufologists could see your piece. Hell, I wish someone would […]
[…] know that Gorbanifar was likely in contact with the Reagan Campaign and/or Reagan post-election Transition Team before Reagan’s January 20, 1981 inauguration because a key piece of disinformation for which Gorbanifar has been identified as the primary source – that Gadhafi was planning to assassinate Reagan in 1981 – was the key topic at […]
[…] an organisation which no longer existed – and in a journal I’d never seen before, produced by a party I didn’t know still existed. The perils of disinformation Elsewhere in this issue a collection of essays edited by Wesley K. Wark gets pretty short shrift from me. However, in one of the more abstruse […]
[…] investigation because of his activities in Mexico City and those of other CIA officers there during his period of duty. In Mexico City there were five CIA disinformation agents, four of them run by Phillips: Dr Luis Conte Aguerro, Herman Portell-Villa, Angel Fernandez Varela, Nestor L. Carbonel and Eduardo Borrel Nouvarros. Phillips also had […]
James Adams Hutchinson, London, 1994. I first noticed James Adams when he began running some of the MOD’s disinformation lines about Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd in 19867. For a while I collected articles by him which seemed to show the traces of Whitehall briefings. Then I stopped: what was I going to do […]
[…] turn and considers them as they apply to the actual activities of agencies in the countries under consideration. Penetration covers intelligence-gathering and the dissemination of information and disinformation, as well as ‘countering’ activities; autonomy covers the internal organisation of agencies and questions of oversight and control. The results of this comparison are detailed and […]
