[…] pub where “one of the bar staff gave an extremely accurate description of the man we had just left.” Either Horn is lying or a pretty sophisticated disinformation operation is being run here. The next day, December 6, Derek Brown chips in in The Guardian. His opening paragraph goes thus: “The search for the […]
[…] thus be Minister for Disarmament’. (Incidentally our use of ‘knighted’ is wrong: it should have been ‘enobled’.) McIntyre asks, ‘What precisely was the nature of the ‘Orwellian disinformation’ to which we were exposed during the Thatcher administrations?’ Our answer follows in the final paragraph of the book, immediately after our use of the phrase […]
[…] on the lives of some 40 foreign political leaders. Crude interference in dozens of foreign democratic elections. Gross manipulation of labour movements. Shameless manufacture of ‘news’, the disinformation effect of which is multiplied when CIA assets in other countries pick up the same stories. Providing handbooks, materials and encouragement for the practice of torture. […]
[…] Ireland say that the UDA and parts of the IRA are jointly controlling some of their criminal activities and use the same drug traffickers.’ This is classic disinformation (see also ‘IRA Godfathers’ et al, ad nauseam) that the British state has been running since about 1971. The story continued: ‘Now they are exporting their […]
[…] were responsible for millions of deaths from starvation in a terror-bombed economy. This time Herman, with Brodhead, targets ‘the Bulgarian connection’, and in particular a clique of disinformation agents starring the ‘Big Three’ – Claire Sterling, Paul Henze and Michael Ledeen. Not only did these three have access to the most widely viewed TV […]
[…] unclassifiable mixture: some new research on the bombing of Earth First’s Judi Bari; Kenn Thomas on attempts to get Timothy Leary’s FBI file via the FOIA; a disinformation operation by South African intelligence (the non-existent FAPLA); a memoir of radical politics in the mid-West of the 1930s; interview with Flatland editor Jim Martin; plus […]
[…] the intelligence world’s use of defectors, Lundy used informers. But this is a notoriously difficult game. Defectors can be false; sometimes, drained of useful information, they peddle disinformation for profit. In this hothouse atmosphere paranoia develops and conspiracies are everywhere, often inspired by supposed colleagues. Just as James Angleton was accused of being a […]
[…] the major media – there or here – won’t go that far yet. Bits of it may know that the Bush and Blair administrations have run full-scale disinformation campaigns around the war but they apparently cannot acknowledge it. That was Borger on the 4th. On the 7th the wind had shifted and Borger now […]
[…] (notice the “it can be shown” again). This, I presume, is a reference to the “5th man” story which surfaced in 1986 during the early fall-out and disinformation coming from the Peter Wright case in Australia and must be related, based upon Mr Heath’s appointment of Rothschild to head of the Central Policy Review […]
[…] any claim the authors have to writing a serious historical work. Have they never heard of St. Elmo’s Fire? Or could a simple explanation just be legitimate disinformation from Allied intelligence agencies? And what about the Germans’ known experiments with TV and radio-controlled anti-aircraft missiles? A top secret Nazi project is probably the least […]
