[…] creating justifications for enacting those plans. Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld created their own intelligence apparatus, not only to produce the desired results, but also to wage a propaganda war on their own population. Of course, this material has been out there for years, but what is interesting in this new look at it is […]
[…] Elsewhere the proceedings of a RUSI conference (British and American Approaches to Intelligence edited by Ken Robertson) gets praise, and Bob Woodward’s Veil gets slagged. This is propaganda. Our (ie US, NATO) intelligence services are good things; the Soviet version is a bad thing. Story ends. But it is nicely done and by the […]
[…] with stories about about Saddam Hussein, Iraq, its weapons and its weapons potential. Some of these might have been true but there is so much disinformation and propaganda being generated by the US and UK intelligence services there is no way of telling with most of it. Three spectacular examples of fakery are worth […]
[…] funding bodies (with political targets) and other think tanks (including Peter Mandelson’s) which were created by or modified specifically to aid the government and its private agencies, propaganda outlets and front organisations. This was well underway when Lloyd decided to throw in his lot with the FPC, which: ‘…accepted more than £100,000 from an […]
[…] of the Hilton, and at a travel agents’ convention which appears more like an international gathering of secret agents all getting pissed together. CIA stations carry our propaganda and study the Russian Intelligence Service (RIS) and local left activity. But Beck learns that by the 1960s RIS had long since ceased using foreign Communist […]
[…] in direct interference in the politics of that region. After their first victory in November 1952, in Egypt, the two services realised that their combined efforts would produce results: hence it was followed by the Iranian coup. Contrary to the CIA’s propaganda the Iranian coup was not an American operation but a joint MI6-CIA operation.
[…] CP member knew nothing of the Soviet money, and to most of them ‘Moscow Gold’ was a joke, at best; at worst just another piece of crude propaganda from the Right. (2) No wonder the remaining CP members were so shocked in 1991 when they discovered that the right’s view of the CPGB as […]
[…] film rights to the book and then hired Louis de Rochemont as producer. Cohen also wrote a lengthy article on the film for Animation World Magazine. ‘Animated propaganda during the Cold War’ in the issue dated 21 February 2003. (Also available at ). An edited version was published in The Guardian 7 March 2003 […]
[…] There it was, in the middle of Washington, full of lefties, talking openly with Soviet embassy personnel, supporting Cuba and the Sandinistas, quite unimpressed by the anti-Soviet propaganda offensive of the late 1970s and 80s. The Crozier research team showed, without great difficulty, that the IPS was funded by American lefties, some of them […]
[…] Communist Party after the war. But there’s the paradox: while I was protesting about US bases in Scotland, I was sucking down huge amounts of American cultural propaganda: books, music, films. Aged 16, dressed like Jack Kerouac, I dreamed of playing trumpet like Miles Davis and harmonica like Little Walter. Who destroyed the Soviet […]
