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 […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
[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 […]
Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986)
[PDF file]: […] medicine, book reviews, and other subjects of a general nature. In its first two years FWF has provided the US with a significant means to counter communist propaganda and has become a respected feature service on the way to a position of prestige in the journalism world.” A hand-written note on the report added: […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
[PDF file]: […] the Information Research Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. IRD had been set up at the onset of the Cold War to counter Soviet Communist Bloc propaganda, by monitoring, conducting research and providing unattributable briefings to journalists and others. 3. By the time I joined, IRD’s terms of reference had widened to include […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
[PDF file]: Business, propaganda and terror The Phoenix Program: America’s Use of Terror in Vietnam Douglas Valentine 1990 Reissued by Open Roads as e-book in the new series ‘Forbidden Bookshelf’ curated by Mark Crispin Miller, 2014. Dr. T. P. Wilkinson D ouglas Valentine explained the purpose or at least the subject of his study of the […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
[PDF file]: […] which also had seemingly-limitless reserves of youthful energy. The DRE had been established by the CIA in 1960, originally as a combined outlet and amplifier for anti-Castro propaganda and other psychological operations. There was direct liaison with the CIA via JMWAVE, the Agency’s sprawling Miami station, which was effectively the general headquarters of nearly […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
[PDF file]: […] . Barry Zorthian (1920-2010) was head of USIA/JUSPOA (Joint United States Public Affairs Office) in Saigon from 1964 until 1968. JUSPOA was the central office for press, propaganda and psychological operations in the US mission in Vietnam. The conference was ‘The American Experience in Southeast Asia 1946-1975’, Washington, DC 29-30 September 2010. See . […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
[PDF file]: […] two prominent South Carolina banksters (the other being James Byrnes) introduced the term into American political discourse with, inter alia, the aid of the dean of political propaganda, Walter Lippmann, as the US Empire was mobilising to absorb the remains of European empires after the defeat of Japan.1 The subsequent 50 years of US […]