With the decline of the revolutionary socialist Left the Right has turned to the anarchists for a law-and-order bogeyman – and a stick to beat the Left with. One journalist involved is Jamie Dettmer. Having worked for Tribune for a while, Dettmer migrated to the Sunday Telegraph (for whom his first article was an ‘expose’ […]
Politics and Paranoia I wrote this for Picnic Publishing’s website. Talks, 1986-2004 Robin Ramsay Picnic Publishing, 297 pages, index, £9.99, ISBN 9780955610547 There are a number of talks in Politics and Paranoia about Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd. (Holroyd had been in the British Army Special Military Intelligence Unit and Wallace had been a Senior … Read more
[…] of individuals in the UK. The obvious other examples which spring to mind are: Colin Wallace — framed on a manslaughter charge then the victim of a disinformation campaign by state sources. Dr. Hugh Thomas — on whom the state spent an estimated £3,000,000 in 1985/6 in a failed attempt to convict him of […]
[…] sniffing around the anti-nuclear groups. (One of whom wrote to us asking about his background) I haven’t done a search for Terry’s material but have an absolute disinformation whizzer of his, ‘Red Paras join in Namibia build-up’ in the Sunday Times of July 2 1978, predicting an attack by East German paratroops on Namibia! […]
[…] have been a Wilsonian joke. The real reason for the honour is thought to be Goldsmith’s legal actions against Private Eye which had been prominent in the disinformation campaigns being run in the 1970s against the Wilson government. 17 In the small print The Ecologist advocated a 50% reduction in the population of Britain. […]
[…] promised inside information by the senior members of the AVIARY in return for his obedience and service to them. He participated in the propagation and dissemination of disinformation fed to him by various members of the AVIARY. He also confessed how he was instructed to target one particular individual, an electronics expert, Dr Paul […]
[…] act alone. One to insist that the bulb was altered after it was unscrewed, three tramps to walk across the room an hour later, one to insist LBJ really screwed the bulb in, and one to accuse all the others of being disinformation specialists. One of 52 pages of light bulb jokes found at http://slalpha1.epfl.ch/light_bulb.html
[…] my local branch library. It didn’t take long to see why it caused him trouble: Dowling talks of Information Policy, describes Wallace and blows some of the disinformation projects Wallace was working on. And this was published in 1979, when the whole thing was still a secret, before Wallace was fitted-up. Wallace is ‘Major […]
[…] interview in the same series, in which he discusses his latest book and related topics.(21) A hidden hand We don’t often find out which state employees plant disinformation on the media but we have done with the US Navy-threatened-by-Iranian-speedboats nonsense of January this year. ‘Apparently due to an error by an AP reporter, the […]
[…] a Leader. Another Hitler: Last year’s ‘moderate’, now threatening our interests. Public diplomacy: The Reagan era name given to a large-scale government propaganda operation, which included massive disinformation and intimidation of the media, designed to manage public opinion. A part of this program was called Operation Truth. Privatisation: Disposing of public sector assets at […]
