[…] Claire Sterling (who recycled all the Bulgarians killed the Pope nonsense) and Herbert Romerstein, latterly of USIS. It was Mr. Romerstein who accused me of recycling Soviet disinformation, and who, I would guess, is the source of the rumours in US intelligence circles that the KGB were funding Lobster. Another SIS memoir SIS buffs […]
[…] wide scale. Unimpeachable documents concerning the alliance of British Intelligence and the BBC indicate that the respectable BBC is capable at any time of broadcasting the basest disinformation prepared by the Propaganda Section of the SPA. The SPA Propaganda Section maintains constant touch with the BBC concerning any materials prepared by the Special Operations […]
[…] orders and what happened inside the United Kingdom’. J. Bernard Hutton was a very minor Czech defector who made a living recycling the coarser products of the disinformation wizards at IRD. This 1972 book of his, for example, includes (p. 106) the all-time naff forgery ‘the text of a Special Division for Subversion directive, […]
[…] more serious aspects of psi-related weapons – some now categorised as non-lethal weapons – he wants to classify the research in this field.(45) Despite the campaign of disinformation by US military and intelligence, the US House of Representatives’ Committee on Science and Technology in June 1981 released a 530-page study, based on two years […]
[…] the limited circulation of his magazine and the coded language in which it was couched’ (p. 187). But how about the obvious: Pecorelli being paid to circulate disinformation, entangling in advance an enemy of the system with the very nefarious goings-on Pecorelli himself was so privy to? The persecution of Negri and the whole […]
[…] KGB station in Mexico City, offering us reams of information about CIA operations. But our station chief in Mexico City thought Agee was a CIA plant spreading disinformation, and rejected him. Agee then went to the Cubans, who welcomed him with open arms.’ This is interesting because Agee has always denied approaching the KGB. […]
It is impossible to make an omlette without breaking eggs. — James Anderton on anti-terrorism My anger in this case stemmed from the denial that things had gone wrong, that no eggs were broken even though the omlette was there to see. — John Stalker David Murphy, The Stalker Affair and the Press, Unwin Hyman, … Read more
[…] Pershing missiles in Western Europe. Ledeen was likewise part of the Neocon network that formed the Congressionally-funded National Endowment for Democracy in 1983. 3 Landis describes Ledeen’s disinformation themes in the few years between the first Jonathan conference and his involvement in Iran-Contra as follows: ‘The notion that the CIA was destroyed under Carter; […]
[…] David Shayler sat on MI5’s Libyan desk for a while and he saw material which persuaded him that the Libyans did Lockerbie. Which tells us that the disinformation prepared by the US to show Libya guilty was sufficiently convincing to persuade a professional intelligence officer. See Hollingsworth and Fielding, Defending the Realm (reviewed below), […]
[…] questionable indeed. This is not just due to bizarre fantasies, and guesswork and/or wish-fulfilment masquerading as fact, there is also what appears to be the passing of disinformation on behalf of MI5 and possibly others. Where possible, I have not relied on Searchlight’s analysis. That said, it always makes for amusing (and often informative) […]
