[…] from the woman they both loved. But Ellsberg vehemently denied that either Scotton or Conein had intervened on his behalf. Their stories, he said, were standard CIA disinformation, in this case designed to make him seem beholden to former CIA comrades, and thus cast doubt on his motives for leaking The Pentagon Papers. Be […]
[…] 1990 a meeting on the circles was held between reps from Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of the Environment at which the use of disinformation was discussed. (Information allegedly from a participant at the meeting.) It also reported the following: In September ’91 the newspaper Today carried the ‘confession’ of Doug […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] regard to fossil fuel consumption, if it were possible to transmit electrical power this way. Secondly, a full investigation of the extent (and effect) of the general disinformation about Tesla projects should be undertaken including a study of how and why the disinformation, rather than the facts, was kept so much in the public […]
[…] he chose to include this entry in his diary, he is giving his readers a hint that the story about him being in SIS is true. Does disinformation work? In Lobster 39 (p. 23) I commented on the disinformation project Operation Horseshoe, a purported Serb plan for the ethnic cleansing of Kosovo, which had […]
[…] at all to punish or deter agents of influence….’ because ‘it is not illegal to co-operate in peace-time with hostile intelligence agencies to feed Western media with disinformation’. So, now you know: once again the public sector shows itself to be incompetent (or infiltrated) and the private sector has to step into the breach. […]
[…] pub where “one of the bar staff gave an extremely accurate description of the man we had just left.” Either Horn is lying or a pretty sophisticated disinformation operation is being run here. The next day, December 6, Derek Brown chips in in The Guardian. His opening paragraph goes thus: “The search for the […]
[…] thus be Minister for Disarmament’. (Incidentally our use of ‘knighted’ is wrong: it should have been ‘enobled’.) McIntyre asks, ‘What precisely was the nature of the ‘Orwellian disinformation’ to which we were exposed during the Thatcher administrations?’ Our answer follows in the final paragraph of the book, immediately after our use of the phrase […]
[…] Sam Gardiner, Colonel, USAF (Retired).(3) This is by far the most important post Gulf War 2 document to date and a landmark in the analysis of state disinformation and perception management. Gardiner has done what I didn’t have the patience to do: he has logged and followed over 50 disinformation stories run by ‘the […]
