Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] the secret state is playing silly buggers with the British political fringes. In recent years there have been some odd goings-on in Welsh Nationalism, with allegations of disinformation and agents provocateurs in Wales; (2) and even the seriously unimportant Scottish Nationalist activist fringe got a double page spread in the Sunday Telegraph of August […]
Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££
[…] British Army, and, in particular, certain accounts of the period written by Colin Wallace, the authors demonstrate that the outlines of a series of ramified psychological and disinformation operations against the Wilson Government of 1974-76 are visible. Among the elements analysed are: the smear campaign against Labour Party figures during 1974 and 1975; the […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] number in case of urgent need at evenings and weekends.’ This relationship climaxed with Rose – to his ‘everlasting regret’ – putting his name to the key disinformation about the Iraqi regime’s links to Al Qaeda and the existence of WMDs. Why did he believe claims which a large chunk of his colleagues and […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
[…] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££
[…] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] 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. […]
