[…] the Gulf (pp. 45-46). Reading between those particular lines is not easy. There is no hint of guilty knowledge, but there is a hint of ignorance (or disinformation) in the reference to the August 4 ‘clash’ which likely never occurred. The degree of reticence shown by Annex A could be construed as ominous, but […]
[…] the loony James Angleton, came to believe that Prime Minister Harold Wilson was a Soviet agent; and CIA counter-intelligence was the ultimate source of much of the disinformation and smears about him and those around him in the middle 1970s. This may have been pay-back for Wilson’s temerity in refusing to bend. It is […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] hysteria on the British right in the 1970s about the threat from the left and the belief of Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson that there was a disinformation campaign against him and his government. He was right: the hysteria and the campaign were largely the work of serving or former intelligence officers. We had […]
[…] 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 […]
Politics and Paranoia I wrote this for Picnic Publishing’s website. Talks, 1986-2004 Robin Ramsay Picnic Publishing, 297 pages, index, £9.99, ISBN 9780955610547 There are a number of talks in Politics and Paranoia about Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd. (Holroyd had been in the British Army Special Military Intelligence Unit and Wallace had been a Senior … Read more
[…] very good book. (An opinion Victorian shares, incidentally.) If this book (along with his Channel 4 TV programme on the same subject) is part of some CIA disinformation operation in tandem with the official disclosure (and official rubbishing) of the Remote Viewing program, it’s too clever for me. After interviewing most of the people […]
[…] then ex-Prime Minister. (p. 320 ) In the House of Commons on 14 December 1977 Stephen Hastings MP, a former MI6 officer, using Parliamentary privilege, ran the disinformation attributed to the former Czech intelligence officer Joseph Frolik that a group of British trade unions leaders were ‘agents’ of Soviet intelligence. Frolik was being run […]
[…] on first reading. Missing are: his failed Freedom Blue Cross venture; his role in James Goldsmith’s Now!; BOSS; James Angleton and his fantasies; his role in the disinformation put out in the early 1980s that the KGB was running world terrorism; the Israeli connection; Crozier’s financial funnel, the International Freedom Fund Establishment. The central […]
[…] CIA. Insofar as this view is perhaps not entirely consistent with the facts its propagation is a form of psychological warfare waged against the American people (‘ disinformation’ is the term of art), corrupting the processes of a democracy. Most thoroughly denied, minimized, shoved into a drawer while attention is directed elsewhere, are Helms’s […]
