[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
Gordon Winter In Lobster 18, dated October 1989, under the headline: ‘Inside BOSS and After‘, you wrote the following: ‘Gordon Winter is an Englishman who was recruited by BOSS. His 1981 book Inside BOSS, was the first (and only) inside account of South Africa’s intelligence agency. We still think this is one of the most … Read more
[…] is worth having and the Pilger pieces, written in the weeks preceding the invasion, stand up pretty well. There are interesting snippets on the intelligence services and disinformation, psy-ops, US propaganda and media behaviour. The material which has survived best is the essays on the workings of the media and state propaganda; and of […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] plots’ story, Colin Wallace, the only public source on the story at the time, was working with a Channel 4 journalist called Robert Parker. At one point disinformation about Wallace was being fed to Parker, through another journalist, from a former colleague of Wallace’s in Northern Ireland. (I know this man’s name but cannot […]
