[…] simply and clearly written. At this distance from the events two things in particular struck me. One is the account of the campaign of leaks, smears and disinformation organised against Scott himself by Whitehall. Some day somebody might go back and re-examine all those stories in detail: a better documented Whitehall disinformation campaign does […]
[…] 1980s’ (p. 258). This assertion, and the associated fantasies about the role of Colin Jordan are so wide of the mark as to be verging on intentional disinformation. Webster, pouting on the sidelines, was perhaps unconsciously projecting his own concerns when he said of the NF in early 1986 that the ‘development they are […]
[…] anonymous SAS officer who told The Guardian in late 1976: ‘We were all very enthusiastic about going and wasting a few of the IRA.'(43) After a protracted disinformation campaign against him, Harold Wilson resigned in March 1976. His departure brought new faces to the top military and political positions in Northern Ireland. Merlyn Rees […]
[…] The Torbitt Memorandum. None of this was terribly clear to begin with and Thomas gleefully muddies the water by chucking into the story some of the information, disinformation and speculation which have accreted to both the Maury Island event and the Crisman/ Crismon/tramps episode. So we get a fair bit about Torbitt,(2) even though […]
[…] the British secret state, tracing the career of one Tim Hepple in and out various groups on the British right and left, and analysing various recent Searchight disinformation campaigns. This has been written and produced very quickly and the result is an extremely complex narrative which is clumsily written and difficult to follow in […]
[…] journalism avoid that? () He is in a world of his own here, seeing demons and angels. () Real analysis has shown up the neo-con’s need for disinformation. Clinging to their paradigm, Lloyd can only disinform his readers. What has happened in Iraq reveals journalists like him, and those he uncritically defends, as part […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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, […]
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 […]
