[…] to obtain intelligence but even more to demoralise the West by making revelations of such infiltration as soon as they have ceased to be of any value. Disinformation was cunningly fed to Mountbatten who was well known to be vulnerable to flattery.” It is true that Mountbatten had had a close friendship with Tom […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] was this: it was being surveilled by Special Branches, the US state department, the Foreign Office’s IRD and various private organisations like the Economic League. Information and disinformation on the left was being distributed by Common Cause and IRIS both funded in my opinion, by the CIA and by the secret Foreign Office propaganda […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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, […]
