Science of Coercion: Communication Research and Psychological Warfare 1945-60

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Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] the basis for much of modern communication research.’ I would say: after the war the spooks and the military paid the academics to develop the techniques of propaganda with which to influence the perceptions of the American tax-payer and the subject populations of the informal American empire. (Alternatively, this shows how loyal American academics […]

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What is Opus Dei?

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Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] promoting their particular reactionary policies? The book has certain problems which will make it difficult for some to read, not the least the constant repetition of Francoist propaganda regarding the Spanish Civil War; and it contains the following statement regarding the war in the former Yugoslavia, on p. 201 ‘Naturally, the Vatican feared Serbia […]

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Feedback

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] Martha Kunzel) certainly were. Nicholas Goodrich-Clarke, cited by Matthews, draws a clear distinction between the OTO and avowedly racist groups such as the ONT. Crowley did do propaganda work for Viereck (who had nothing to do with the OTO), but there’s a good argument to be made that A.C. also snitched on Viereck’s activity […]

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Book reviews

Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££

[…] not me that has to read her appalling books. RR Available in this country from The Alternative Bookshop, 3 Langley Court, Covent Garden, London. Ireland and the Propaganda War Liz Curtis, Pluto Press, 1984 I used to hate picking up Pluto Books, badly written garbage; but thankfully things have changed and we have recently […]

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The Big Breach

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Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] in education since this nonsense was introduced there. Tomlinson notes after this section that his immediate superior was passing as genuine CX what Tomlinson knew to be propaganda from one faction in the Balkans war: ‘ was blatantly ignoring my judgements as the officer on the ground so as to satisfy targets imposed by […]

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In Brief

Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££

[…] Industry, Centre for Policy Studies, Coalition for Peace Through Security, Common Cause, Economic League, The Freedom Association, Institute of Economic Affairs, Social Affairs Unit. ‘Ernest Bevin’s Black Propaganda Unit’ and ‘Here Is The News – Courtesy of MI6’ Richard Fletcher, Tribune 2nd September and 9th September 1983 Two large pieces. The first is on […]

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Spy Master: The Betrayal of MI5

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] any other outside contacts in respect of it. If we are approached, we listen only.’ Elsewhere, without offering any evidence, West claims that the brilliant WWII black propaganda expert, Sefton Delmer, was a Soviet agent. In the mid-1950s Delmer was expelled from Egypt for being an SIS agent. President Abdel-Nasser, who played footsie with […]

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Out of the blue and into the black

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Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] 2005: when credible allegations as serious as this are made, they have to be the subject of independent investigation, irrespective of how they might be used as propaganda. What makes Jonty Brown’s book convincing is the fact that, like Fred Holroyd, he does not condemn the RUC (the Police Service of Northern Ireland in […]

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Spooks

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

[…] 10 August 1991. An anti-nazi, he came to Britain in 1938 where he attracted the attention of the intelligence services. Worked with Sefton Delmer and others on propaganda work. In 1948 worked for Reuters and then The Observer under former SOE operative David Astor. (The Independent 31 August 1991). Christopher Holme, Radio Three producer, […]

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The Anti-CND Groups. Ingrams

Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££

[…] 5th January 1984). Wicks asked Baker to arrange for President Reagan to meet a group of businessmen he had put together under the banner ‘Project Democracy’, a propaganda effort to ‘support democratic institutions abroad’. They were to contribute $300,000, and the group included Sir James Goldsmith, Rupert Murdoch and a representative of Axel Springer […]

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