[…] Hussein; the Office of Special Plans, Curveball, ‘stove-piping’ evidence – the whole ramshackle apparatus of conning the American public into supporting the war. Why didn’t the equivalent disinformation operations a decade earlier get exposed? The answer appears to be that the Yugoslav events were the last European war before the Internet, the last war […]
[…] where the spooks were concerned. MI5 had it in for Mountbatten and I suspect it was they who relaunched the defunct International Times circa 1981 to run disinformation through it, including the Mountbatten-is-gay story. I have to write ‘circa’ because there is no date on these suspect editions. William Blum’s The CIA: a forgotten […]
[…] and his reputation smeared by the British press.’ (Hansard, 17 December, 1993, column 1466) The Minister of State for Northern Ireland, Sir John Wheeler, replied, adding new disinformation. ‘The Hon. Gentleman referred to the allegations of a Mr Fred Holroyd. Her Majesty’s Government had 48 hours notice, not a week, of Mr Holroyd’s appearance […]
[…] of the BBC, had worked for CBS news in New York and Agence France Presse in Paris as a specialist in African affairs.” (pp431-2) There were stories, disinformation, linking Oswald to the Miami area and to its Fair Play for Cuba Committee. They came mainly from the Frank Sturgis crowd, so it would be […]
Dan Hind London: Verso, 2007, h/b, £24.99 Hind’s ‘concern is to examine how ideas from the historical Enlightenment function in contemporary society.’(p. 6) His starting point is the aftermath of 9/11 and the outbreak of loose talk of there being a conflict between radical Islam and ‘the enlightenment’. (12) Some of this came from … Read more
[…] of the US ruling elite, who would like to remake the world in a way that best suits their purposes.” This is defamatory? In their section on disinformation – ‘active measures’ is the new buzz word – all the authors can find to terrify us with is the dear old World Peace Council (which […]
[…] versions to produce a new synthesis — giving four, perhaps five versions in all. Authorless, drifting around the fringes of our culture, Gemstone has become a wonderful disinformation vehicle, available to anyone to add to, modify, reprint, recirculate. The last version I saw was still about 95% Roberts, but I expect that one day, […]
[…] Cecil, who worked with SIS in the 1940s, is short and uncontroversial until the end, when it states that his autobiography, My Silent War (1968) ‘contains much disinformation’, and fingers for special criticism Philby’s ‘untrue’ claim that the Foreign Office and SIS ‘began, as early as 1943’ to divert efforts from defeating the Nazis […]
[…] groups, all for £1.00 (in the U.K.), from TW, Box NDF, 72 Radford Rd., Hyson Green, Nottingham NG7. Shot by both sides: a response to paranoia and disinformation, by Paul Cox Cox was in the BNP when young, changed his mind and has since been researching the British right for a book. He contacted […]
[…] take a bow Bruce Kent, Tony Benn and Alan Plater. Same old same old With material running from the IMF 1976 incident through to (a snippet on) disinformation in the British UFO world, here’s another pretty normal issue of Lobster. If there are those who don’t find the economic politics of the 1970s of […]
