[…] Alexandre de Marenches, one of the Circle and a friend of Franz Josef Strauss (7). In 1978 Le Monde alleged that ‘under Marenches’ leadership, terrorism and also disinformation – the influencing of public opinion – were extensively pursued (by the SDECE)’.(8). Was there a French connection to the mid-70’s destabilisations? Certainly, when Mitterrand finally […]
[…] print media and relevant websites. The book is remarkably up-to-date, featuring many events from 2005 and covers all the most obvious ‘conspiracies’ up to and including the disinformation surrounding the invasion of Iraq in 2003. There is a bias towards American material in the book; but the bulk of the extant material emanates from […]
As Steve Dorril shows in his essay on Permindex, the lack of a satisfactory resolution to the assassination of Kennedy allowed Soviet intelligence to use the event to their own ends. The French also had a go with the pseudonymous book Farewell America which made public considerable information about the CIA’s activities while pretending to … Read more
[…] reason for Britain’s reluctance to concentrate resources on psyops has been the publicity surrounding former Army information officer in Northern Ireland, Colin Wallace and allegations of a disinformation campaign.’ But I thought the MOD line was that Wallace was making it all up? Tara lives? Still in Wallace country, Roy Garland, former member of […]
[…] interview in the same series, in which he discusses his latest book and related topics.(21) A hidden hand We don’t often find out which state employees plant disinformation on the media but we have done with the US Navy-threatened-by-Iranian-speedboats nonsense of January this year. ‘Apparently due to an error by an AP reporter, the […]
[…] has become Amerika, many American radicals have been unable to acknowledge that the other Superpower was equally murderous, imperialistic, oppressive etc. Partly this is the result of disinformation. Having discovered that the U.S. state lied a lot, they assumed that everything that state says was a lie, including — and particularly — its reports […]
[…] was mistakenly hanged for the Christie murders; and wrote a best-selling book on the case, A Man On Your Conscience. Was Eddowes just muddying the water with disinformation on the assassination, or had he really uncovered evidence to confirm his theories? Strangely, although central to his theory on the assassination, Novotny is only briefly […]
[…] wrote to me asking me to disclose their names – with the promise of bringing criminal charges where appropriate. When I raised the issue of the forgers’ disinformation activities in New Mexico in the 1980s, and asked whether, in such circumstances, investigations would be proper or unbiased, he promptly back-tracked, adding ‘that casts a […]
[…] deal of what is known about the post-war Tory Party and its links with the secret state – in this case, almost exclusively MI5 – and various disinformation and smear campaigns against Labour Party politicians and union leaders. Some of this will be familiar to anyone who has read Smear!, say, but there is […]
With the decline of the revolutionary socialist Left the Right has turned to the anarchists for a law-and-order bogeyman – and a stick to beat the Left with. One journalist involved is Jamie Dettmer. Having worked for Tribune for a while, Dettmer migrated to the Sunday Telegraph (for whom his first article was an ‘expose’ […]
