[…] there. Hey Joe In September the US State Department put out a briefing, ‘How to Identify Misinformation’. Before 1990 such a document would have been about Soviet disinformation campaigns; and this one begins with some well known examples of Soviet disinformation before proceeding to attack conspiracy theories. It names only three current sources of […]
9:11 Revealed. Challenging the facts behind the War on Terror Ian Henshall and Rowland Morgan London: Robinson, 2005; £8.99, p/b A declaration of a kind of interest: one of the authors of this book, Ian Henshall, is the Chair of INK, the Independent News Collective, to which Lobster belongs and whose leaflets Lobster has […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] of that system. In their view of this country’s recent history there were no Wilson plots; Northern Ireland is ignored; Cathy Massiter was guilty of ‘moralising misrepresentations’; disinformation, I-ops and bureaucratic rivalries are ignored. Intelligence and security organisations are no more or less likely to break the law than any other public bodies, they […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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. […]
