The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)

[…] all probability, an attempt by an informed person(s) to reconstruct for researchers a historical narrative based on non-existent and authentic documents supported by published facts with classic disinformation techniques in what is termed in counter-intelligence parlance as “gray” intelligence. The question of whether they are genuine, authentic or real is not the issue here. […]

Right-wing Terrorists and the Extraparliamentary Left in Post-World War 2 Europe: Collusion or Manipulation?

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 […]

Re:

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 […]

Kincoragate

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 […]

Sources. Publications etc

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 […]

Sources

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. […]

Obituaries: Donald Allen & Reuben Falber

Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7)

[…] 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 […]

Vindication is a dish still edible when cold

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)

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

US involvement in the Fiji coup d’etat

Lobster Issue 14 (1987)

[…] probably much more relevant to the coup. He visited Australia, Papua New Guinea, Solomons, Western Samoa and Tonga on the way to Fiji, spreading a trail of disinformation about Libyan activity in the Pacific. His visit to Australia probably prompted Foreign Minister Bill Hayden to make a highly publicised “secret” dash, a few days […]

If Truth be Told

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Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)

[…] forth. After WW2 we get the CIA in Europe, IRD, and the Korean war (US biological warfare). From the 1950s we skip to the 1980s and Reagan-era disinformation about the Soviets (shooting the Pope etc); and finally we arrive at the two assaults on Iraq and a long list of countries which the US […]

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