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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] likely candidate seems to be Vladimir Chuchuken, a KGB agent at the UN in New York from 1962 to 1977’ (p609). Chuchukin is named as a KGB disinformation officer in Barron’s previous book The KGB (1974) (p212). Surely the FBI had more sense than to recruit a disinformation expert… Just to point out that […]
[…] lobbyist for Haiti, a country where de Morenschildt was actively pursuing business deals and intelligence missions. (29) In short, the McDonald/Kimsey/Capell network appears to have been a disinformation clique centred around the SOJ, and aiming to smear the Soviets (and Goldwater opponent Lyndon Johnson) with responsibility for one of the great political crimes in […]
