[…] or ‘handled’ James Early Ray in the months leading up to the shooting. Pepper tracked him down.) Alarm bells began to ring reading that: surely this is disinformation; it’s just too neat and tidy. Even if the FBI man is telling the truth about squirrelling the document away for 30 years, he’s been concealing […]
[…] negatives survived and are now stored elsewhere.) Birds of a feather The situation deteriorated when I started to investigate the role of members of the intelligence and disinformation network, ‘the Aviary’ (see Lobster 25). Howard Blum of the New York Times, the author of Out There, warned me to be careful; others advised me […]
[…] obsession on Italian politics and what stemmed from it: corruption of all institutions, including the Catholic Church; drugs, violence, terrorism and assassination; conspiracy, literally, as normal politics; disinformation by the barrow-load. This book is full of incredible stories, leads, hints and allegations across 30 years of post-WW2 history. No book I have read recently […]
[…] area Pearce refuses to take on board. There is nothing on the Wilson plots and the fact that Healey’s wartime flirtation with communism loomed large in MI5’s disinformation strategy. The entire 1974-7 period of hysteria on the right, intense covert operations and widespread psyops against the Wilson government, the Liberals, the left and the […]
[…] obviously controversial, there is a huge body of literature, just on the Balfour Declaration alone. What follows (Section 2) deals mainly with the British imperialist conspiracy. Much disinformation still persists, such as Lloyd Georges story that it was a reward to Weizmann for his acetone production process as a contribution to the war effort. […]
[…] his programme. This section, roughly the second half of the book, is very instructive indeed, describing very clearly how the state co-opts the media to run its disinformation. Eventually McPhilemy sued the Sunday Express and won, costing the Express about £500,000.(4) In October this year he began libel proceedings against the Sunday Times. The […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] partially financed through little-scrutinized CIA discretionary funds and/or U.S. Embassy Counterpart Funds transmitted through Ray Cline, CIA Chief of Station in Taiwan from 1958-62 and now a disinformation specialist at Georgetown University’s Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). See Anderson and Anderson, pp. 54-5. For more on CSIS see Landis. See, e.g., APACL […]
[…] and probably sincere position on alleged racial differences. The entry for Searchlight summarises extensively the growing recognition on the ‘left’ of that journal’s involvement in dirty tricks, disinformation and role as an agency of the British intelligence services. But Mercer is surprisingly gentle with them, and should have commented upon and documented some of […]
[…] the Round Robin suggested that. He wanted MPs to feel that the party was behind Thatcher. I believe that much of what GKY said and did was disinformation. He wanted to create the impression he led a large, powerful group in the Tory Party, which wasn’t true. Until ‘New Labour’, the Tory Party dominated […]
