[…] 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 […]
[…] more clearly than Carroll Quigley managed with his much wider focus. The sewer and the sewage The Sunday Times has been one of the secret state’s major disinformation tools for over a decade now – and maybe longer; I haven’t looked any further back. In my ‘Miscellaneous cuttings’ file I noticed an absolute classic […]
Gemstone In Lobster 19, I noted the incremental addition of disinformation to the original Skeleton Key to the Gemstone File. As it turned out, the process was further down that road than I had imagined. From Owen Wilkes, New Zealand’s leading parapolitics researcher, comes the news that a version is in circulation there. Now […]
[…] early in the JFK assassination field as a journalist in Philadelphia, was hired in 1976 to work for Senator Schweiker’s assassination sub-committee of the Church Committee. The disinformation mills set to work and Fonzi began to work through false trails from Clare Booth Luce, Frank Sturgis, Marita Lorenz, and Mitch Werbell. Then he met […]
[…] agent provocateur, Tim Hepple, is now cruising the British UFO world under the guise of ‘Tim Matthews’ of the ‘Lancashire UFO Society’. A major attempt to spread disinformation through the British UFO magazines is underway. Kevin McClure wrote about this in the second editon of his new newsletter Abduction Watch. Although the content of […]
[…] was saturated with stories about about Saddam Hussein, Iraq, its weapons and its weapons potential. Some of these might have been true but there is so much disinformation and propaganda being generated by the US and UK intelligence services there is no way of telling with most of it. Three spectacular examples of fakery […]
[…] the American Ambassador in Mexico City who believed that “Castro was somehow involved in a plot to assassinate President Kennedy.” The story turned out to be a disinformation exercise – Alvarado was a Nicaraguan intelligence officer (9) – though the real reason it was dropped was probably because the Nicaraguan was too close to […]
