[…] INTELLIGENCE, FORMERLY IN MI6 HERVINE, PETER MI5 (C) 1985 PROJECT ARROW (INVESTIGATING ILLEGAL COMPUTER SALES TO USSR) HILLS, DENNIS 1937 EMPLOYED BY BALTIC INSTITUTE GDYNIA, POLISH NATIONALIST PROPAGANDA OUTFIT -45 ARMY OFFICER DP CAMPS EUROPE. ‘CAPT. A’ IN “THE LAST SECRET” -50 INTERROGATOR OF GERMAN RETURNEES FROM USSR CONCERNING SOVIET AIRFIELDS, INDUSTRY AND ROCKET […]
[…] industry. Break up Capitalist Concerns and establish British Workers Co-operatives’.(36) As if this wasn’t enough, by late 1985 it was declared in NF News that the ‘ propaganda of NF News will in future, more fully reflect our revolutionary stance’ (emphasis added).(37) So, in early 1986 it should have come as no surprise when […]
[…] Cultural Cold War was to be waged had grown directly out of their political activities during the late 1940s. Above all, the principle on which the American propaganda effort was founded, that is cultural freedom, was exactly the one they themselves had been defending ever since the 1930s.'(16) So while there were shared ideas […]
[…] 1947: We demand that the Home Secretary make full use of all powers he possesses under the existing law to prevent the spreading of Fascist and anti-semitic propaganda and we urge the Government to introduce legislation making such propaganda illegal in this country.(23) D. H. Snell, secretary of a branch of the Amalgamated Society […]
[…] about facilitating those circumstances, if any; ‘public relations’ could be seeking to persuade the public such circumstances had arisen even though this would be a lie; ‘ propaganda’ could be telling the public how to think. (Although both can be used concurrently, normally PR is used when there is sufficient time for persuasion to […]
[…] He is well versed in the intricacies of the Information Research Department, the Congress for Cultural Freedom and other agencies of the formal apparatus of Cold War propaganda and combines this with a detailed, analytical knowledge of the British and US film industries. The author has a fascinating chapter on the screening of George […]
Paul Lashmar and James Oliver Sutton Publishing, Stroud (UK) £25.00 hb This is a really interesting and important book – perhaps the most important book about the British secret state since Fitzgerald and Bloch’s British Intelligence and Covert Action in the early 1980s. The incremental uncovering of the Information Research Department (IRD) story has been … Read more
[…] of Herman’s previous books on the media and disinformation, the excellent Rise and Fall of the Bulgarian Connection and The Real Terror Network: Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda. The opening section of the book takes the statistical approach adopted in The Real Terror Network, to prove that state terrorism, particularly in Latin America, has […]
The price you pay In his ‘Ministers’ justification for the banning of an alleged terrorist group is based on propaganda and an outright untruth’ in The Guardian , 19 October 2005, former UK Uzbekistan ambassador Craig Murray, who seems bent on making serious trouble for HMG, gave an example of why the British state […]
Weapons of Mass Deception: The uses of propaganda in Bush’s war on Iraq Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber London: Robinson, 2003, p/b, £6.99 Regime Unchanged: Why the war on Iraq changed nothing Milan Rai London: Pluto, 2003, p/b, £10.99 The Rampton/Stauber book appeared about 6 weeks after the attack on Iraq ended and […]
