Secret Contenders

Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££

[…] of the Hilton, and at a travel agents’ convention which appears more like an international gathering of secret agents all getting pissed together. CIA stations carry our propaganda and study the Russian Intelligence Service (RIS) and local left activity. But Beck learns that by the 1960s RIS had long since ceased using foreign Communist […]

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The Making of New Labour’s European Policy

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Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

[…] currency, fearing another ERM-style debacle. (2) ‘New Labour’ is stuck in precisely the same way that the Conservative Party was stuck and it is entirely unclear whether or not a pro-single currency propaganda campaign like those described in Andy Mullen’s piece above would work with so much of the printed media being hostile to it.

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MI5 and the threat from the left in the 1970s

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] and the armed forces.’ Burns adds: `Together with a corresponding increase in the popularity of British fascists and quasi-fascist organisations, the paper predicts an increase of “enemy propaganda” by the “subversive” left targeting universities, the civil service, and the armed forces. This would be followed by incidents of sabotage “complicated by a revival of […]

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MISC.: Wapping. Gordiefsky. October Surprise. Stone’s JFK. Martin Luther King

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] what is known as a ‘personal chair’ at Cambridge University, wrote KGB:The Inside Story (Hodder and Stoughton, 1990). The book is part of the British secret state’s propaganda campaign around the KGB defector Oleg Gordiefsky. Gordiefsky’s public role, the quid pro quo for the pension he is now receiving, is to bolster the key […]

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Bacardi — The Hidden War

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Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

[…] many Cuban exiles. Throughout the period following Castro’s seizure of power, there has been a bloody war being fought clandestinely and more openly in the form of propaganda pumped from the USA seeking to undermine the government of Cuba. Bacardi have been at the forefront of these attempts, being linked to convicted terrorists and […]

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Lobbying

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] 2006); lock-in: Saudi Arabia will wait for Gordon Brown to become Prime Minister before signing the deal; name generation – always an important arm of political PR/ propaganda: Saudi Arabia’s missiles are called ‘Al Salaam’ – as obscene as America’s ‘Patriots’. The Guardian 16 and 17 January 2007 A ‘tip-off’ can also be of […]

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Publications and Book Reviews

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

[…] most striking example concerns Joseph Ball, who founded the Conservative Research Department back in the 1930s, which was then, and may still be, the Tories’ covert ops./black propaganda operation. Ball is an interesting figure in the clandestine history of this country whose significance can be measured by the infrequency with which his name appears […]

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The view from the bridge. Hidden Agendas. Jack Hill. Ghandi. Sinn Fein. Oswald

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] any future referendums, ‘the government should remain neutral’. Cue apoplexy among the pro single currency groups at the prospect of not being able to use the state’s propaganda assets in the promised referendum on entry into the single currency. Hugo Young, a man who rarely if ever saw a Foreign Office line he couldn’t […]

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Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper

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Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

[…] to this test, millions of volumes were at risk of turning into dust; but if the dust didn’t get them they might spontaneously combust, claimed the 1987 propaganda film Slow Fires. By repeatedly presenting such untruths library administrators attracted millions of dollars of public money which was used to dispose of the very material […]

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Cyberspace Wars: Microprocessing vs. Big Brother

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] PRA with the left. But by using the same methods of collecting information — garbage surveillance, infiltration of target groups, and the use of guilt-by-association in their propaganda — each of these three groups has perverted itself with clandestinism and denunciation for its own sake. This opinion of mine is based on statements from […]

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