[…] 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 […]
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
[…] 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 (emphasis added) propaganda inspired by the terrorists and their supporters…. One area of the dirty war which I was obliged to confront was the use of black propaganda by […]
A guided democracy The following appeared in the Daily Telegraph 23 June 2003. ‘Edward Heath created a secret government propaganda unit to persuade the British people to accept the Common Market. Civil servants were engaged in a dirty tricks department of the Foreign Office to cover up the threat to sovereignty and provide rapid […]
[…] 1999, £8.95 These three books dovetail together rather nicely. The Lucas book is the first attempt I am aware of to try and describe the massive anti-communist propaganda effort made the US during the first decade of the Cold War. Lucas’ particular emphasis is on the private-public partnership this entailed: Mr Corporate Director and […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] career as an author only as cover for his intelligence activities.() Gallagher commented: ‘It is true. The Paris Review was a hoax, part of the CIA world-wide propaganda effort.’ Through a friend, Gallagher located James Rentchler, who at first was identified only as a retired Foreign Service officer. Gallagher agreed to approach him on […]
[…] he was declared persona non grata for suspected espionage activities. Kicked out of the Soviet Union, he went to work for Radio Liberty, a CIA-created and financed propaganda network based in Munich. There, he was Deputy Director of the Soviet Analysis and Broadcasting Section.(52) More recently, Lodeesen was recommended for work with a CIA […]
[…] policy that John Stalker investigated. Covert operations began in Northern Ireland following the failure of internment to suppress the IRA. Psychological warfare, including the use of black propaganda, an integral part of counter-insurgency operations, emerged in 1971 with the creation of Information Policy. In early 1972 the Military Reconnaissance Force (MRF) was created. Military […]
[…] £7.99 This is well written, detailed and documented. The authors describe how American business funds the American right and how that right operates: its think-tanks, its propaganda outfits, its hired hack journalists, its PR firms; and how it commissions and disseminates phoney research, runs smear campaigns and psy-ops, gerrymanders electoral districts, and steals […]
