[…] Crozier thinks he is making fails. For the information Ramparts published about CCF was true, and the origins of true information are of no consequence. It is disinformation whose origins are interesting. That conspiracy mentality In his essay Pipes has a stab at pinning down what distinguishes ‘the conspiracy mentality’ from ‘more conventional patterns […]
[…] the other side of Kiev. It is also a dominant factor in the Europeanisation of the Balkans. Parapolitical analysts are, as always, faced with an abyss of disinformation and lack of information. Nevertheless the stealth role of conservative catholic and evangelical forces in the creation and extension of the European project has been a […]
[…] who disagrees with it as Nazis. To suggest Open Eye is anything but anti-racist…is ridiculous.’ Other sections of the Jewish community, which did not rely on Searchlight’s disinformation about us, were willing to meet us and we have since been published on Icke and anti-semitism in the New Age movement in the London-based Jewish […]
[…] to any devilry. It is even designed to give the I.R.A. leadership an excuse to blame Britain when one of its own weapons accidentally blows up and kills the user. I imagine that the professional fakers at the Disinformation Centre in Moscow are quite envious – that is unless they had a hand in it.
[…] Claire Sterling (who recycled all the Bulgarians killed the Pope nonsense) and Herbert Romerstein, latterly of USIS. It was Mr. Romerstein who accused me of recycling Soviet disinformation, and who, I would guess, is the source of the rumours in US intelligence circles that the KGB were funding Lobster. Another SIS memoir SIS buffs […]
[…] wide scale. Unimpeachable documents concerning the alliance of British Intelligence and the BBC indicate that the respectable BBC is capable at any time of broadcasting the basest disinformation prepared by the Propaganda Section of the SPA. The SPA Propaganda Section maintains constant touch with the BBC concerning any materials prepared by the Special Operations […]
[…] of the US’s leading purveyors and students of conspiracy theories. Mark Pilkington of FT introduces the conversation with the comment that ‘Adrift amongst seas of information and disinformation, claim and counter-claim, a detached, more fortean approach to conspiracy research appears increasingly relevant‘ (emphasis added). For which, apparently, read: give up worrying if it’s true […]
[…] more serious aspects of psi-related weapons – some now categorised as non-lethal weapons – he wants to classify the research in this field.(45) Despite the campaign of disinformation by US military and intelligence, the US House of Representatives’ Committee on Science and Technology in June 1981 released a 530-page study, based on two years […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] orders and what happened inside the United Kingdom’. J. Bernard Hutton was a very minor Czech defector who made a living recycling the coarser products of the disinformation wizards at IRD. This 1972 book of his, for example, includes (p. 106) the all-time naff forgery ‘the text of a Special Division for Subversion directive, […]
