SISies: MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations and A Life: A. J. Ayer

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Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] home running MI6, was tested to destruction. In his final chapter, ‘The New Agenda’, dealing with MI6’s future, Dorril drops the minor bombshell that the old black propaganda functions of IRD are up-and-running again with MI6. He maintains that a former MI6 officer (Tomlinson?) has alleged that ‘the bread-and-butter work’ of the service’s psychological […]

Wallace on Pincher on Wallace

Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££

[…] Civil Servants show, the Board was told that I did have a job description which was classified ‘secret’ and that I was involved in disinformation or ‘black propaganda’. The members of the Board, as former senior civil servants, were cleared to receive classified information, but the MOD denied that any second classified job description […]

A ‘great venture’: overthrowing the government of Iran

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

[…] the position of Mr. Moussadek’ and that the ‘ideal man to do it would be Dr. Zaehner’, an Oxford lecturer who had been ‘extremely successful in covert propaganda in 1944’ in Iran.(31) Zaehner was swiftly dispatched to Iran by the Labour government to aid the fall of Musaddiq, for which he was provided with […]

Two Sides of Ireland (Book reviews)

Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££

[…] action sure to short-circuit the Official IRA’s plan (of a take-over on the Cuban model) was Dublin intervention in Northern Ireland. When this seemed likely, a major propaganda campaign was mounted (by the OIRA), directed primarily against Blaney, Haughey and Boland, the three ministers who, in varying degrees, were seen as supporting some kind […]

Hacks, pols and PR

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] laptop’s twelve-inch screen we stand as high as Punch Sulzberger, or Rupert Murdoch.’ Neither predicts the demise of newspapers, ‘but it’s a world in decline, and a propaganda system in decline……We can get a news story from a CounterPuncher in Gaza or Ramallah or Oaxaca or Vidharba and have it out to a world […]

Gaian Democracies: Redefining globalisation and people-power

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] of a purposeful human system we have called the “Global Monetocracy” …… The elites of the Global Monetocracy use the power of property, personality, tradition, technology, myth, propaganda, the media, government, professional and technical expertise, the judiciary, and the police, patronage and, crucially, the power of ideology.’ (pp. 11 and 12) Which is what […]

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Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££

[…] copy is available on request from Olivier Schmidt in Paris on tel/ fax 33 1 40.51.85.19. Exposed! The Mackenzie Institute for the Study of Terrorism, Revolution and Propaganda Watch – the Right Pamphlet Number One This is an anonymous, 40 page, A5 pamphlet which analyses the Mackenzie personnel, their affiliations and some of its […]

The Clandestine Caucus

Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)

[PDF file]: […] Party and British industrial capital; and even among the corporatists there were divisions.8 Frank Longstreth called this network – of BCU, Industrial Group, FBI and other employer propaganda groups of the period, such as the Economic League – the Preference Imperialists, and noted their links to the earlier Midlands manufacturing-based Tariff Reform League.9 As […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986) £££

[PDF file]: […] to try to ensure the return of a Conservative Government with a right-wing leader. As a footnote to these events they examine the role of the “black” propaganda unit in Northern Ireland during the period leading to the downfall of the Power Sharing Executive. They make sense of Harold Wilson’s complaints when he resigned […]

The Lincoln-Kennedy Psyop

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] later wrote: ‘Since the war, Luce, the eternal seeker of power, had achieved it more and more by the cleverness of his concealment of increasing amounts of propaganda in his publications, which were not generally known to be propagandist. The manipulative corruption of the Lucepress7 worked on two levels – the readership which was […]

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