[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] now that some of the papers have been released after 50 years. There is almost nothing on specific operations. There is almost nothing on the use of disinformation: one reference to the existence of black propaganda; nothing, for example, on IRD’s use of forgeries in the early years of the Cold War, hyping-up the […]
[…] war crimes trials in Britain. ‘The British Government’, it concluded, ‘would be well advised not to allow British Justice to be perverted as part of a communist disinformation ploy’. (19) The notepaper on which the press release was issued gave the names of Western Goals (UK)’s vice presidents. Among them was the long standing […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] KGB station in Mexico City, offering us reams of information about CIA operations. But our station chief in Mexico City thought Agee was a CIA plant spreading disinformation, and rejected him. Agee then went to the Cubans, who welcomed him with open arms. As it turned out, Agee was absolutely genuine, divulging the names […]
[…] are various items of important information missing from it. It is difficult to say whether these flaws are the result of poor Intelligence or whether they are disinformation provided for our consumption. If we are to interest the press in this matter with a view to exposing what has been taking place and thereby […]
