[…] 117). Others allegedly admitted, despite being on the State Department watch list, were Mohamed Atta and possibly Ayman al-Zawahiri (Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, The War on Truth: 9/11, Disinformation, and the Anatomy of Terrorism , 205, 46). Wright, The Looming Tower, 177. Lance, 1000 Years, 34. Lance, 1000 Years, 31; Peter Lance, Cover Up: What […]
[…] you check the source given it doesn’t actually substantiate the claim made by ‘Torbitt’ for which it is offered as evidence. I’m reasonably certain that ‘Torbitt’ is disinformation, probably produced by the CIA in the wake of the Garrison inquiry. It may even have been a response to the French disinformation production, Farewell America, […]
[…] not only about the information being provided to us but how it is presented psychological and political manipulation is not only about Goebbels and Soviet era disinformation. We need to go back and look at the ‘silences, lacunae and absences’. Manipulation is about the somewhat school-boyish but influential techniques of the vaguely psychopathic […]
[…] be true; some of it, anyway.(6) Most of the stuff I’ve seen is from the right with axes to grind and large appetites for recycling anti-Democratic Party disinformation. (They’ve got Watergate-Nixon-the CIA horrors-Iran-contra and the October Surprise to make up for.) Though there does appear to be evidence for much of this, when someone […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
