[…] of sinister forces may be discerned.’ But ‘nexus’ and ‘matrix’ are like synchronicity, implying causality without demonstrating it. Take another example. The author discusses the wartime OSS propaganda career of the writer Hans Habe and links this to the murder in 1968 of Habe’s daughter, Marina. He writes: ‘Marina had been known to the […]
[…] in court they either might or might not be prepared to give evidence.’ I never decided whether I believed this or not. The high point of his propaganda activities was probably the publication in 1974 and 1979 of The Hidden Face of the Labour Party, a large tabloid-style pamphlet warning of the penetration of […]
[…] which included Special Branch, military intelligence, MI5 and MI6, was uncoordinated, Much has been written about that period, some of it honest journalism, but most of it propaganda inspired by the terrorists and their supporters….’ (emphasis added) Boy, has Dillon changed his tune! As usual with British authors working this field, most of his […]
[…] creating justifications for enacting those plans. Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld created their own intelligence apparatus, not only to produce the desired results, but also to wage a propaganda war on their own population. Of course, this material has been out there for years, but what is interesting in this new look at it is […]
[…] statements, and threats – were genuine, Inf Pol was stirring the pot with unattributable briefings to the media trying to exploit themes suggested by the UCA’s own propaganda. It is also possible to argue that this Inf Pol briefing on the UCA is itself also a phoney. But then it is possible, in principle, […]
[…] funding bodies (with political targets) and other think tanks (including Peter Mandelson’s) which were created by or modified specifically to aid the government and its private agencies, propaganda outlets and front organisations. This was well underway when Lloyd decided to throw in his lot with the FPC, which: ‘…accepted more than £100,000 from an […]
[…] said that Plimpton was ‘very close to the Congress of Cultural Freedom and very involved with their activities’. This was all part of Eisenhower’s scheme to ‘privatize’ propaganda. The Congress of Cultural Freedom, one of whose original members was Tennessee Williams, played an important role in all of this. Notes 1 It’s cited by […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
