Who’s afraid of the KGB

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

[…] of the US ruling elite, who would like to remake the world in a way that best suits their purposes.” This is defamatory? In their section on disinformation – ‘active measures’ is the new buzz word – all the authors can find to terrify us with is the dear old World Peace Council (which […]

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Are spies useless? A Hack’s Progress

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Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££

[…] where the spooks were concerned. MI5 had it in for Mountbatten and I suspect it was they who relaunched the defunct International Times circa 1981 to run disinformation through it, including the Mountbatten-is-gay story. I have to write ‘circa’ because there is no date on these suspect editions. William Blum’s The CIA: a forgotten […]

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Conspiracy, Conspiracy Theories and Conspiracy Research

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] versions to produce a new synthesis — giving four, perhaps five versions in all. Authorless, drifting around the fringes of our culture, Gemstone has become a wonderful disinformation vehicle, available to anyone to add to, modify, reprint, recirculate. The last version I saw was still about 95% Roberts, but I expect that one day, […]

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Sources

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] groups, all for £1.00 (in the U.K.), from TW, Box NDF, 72 Radford Rd., Hyson Green, Nottingham NG7. Shot by both sides: a response to paranoia and disinformation, by Paul Cox Cox was in the BNP when young, changed his mind and has since been researching the British right for a book. He contacted […]

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Historical Notes

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

[…] Cecil, who worked with SIS in the 1940s, is short and uncontroversial until the end, when it states that his autobiography, My Silent War (1968) ‘contains much disinformation’, and fingers for special criticism Philby’s ‘untrue’ claim that the Foreign Office and SIS ‘began, as early as 1943’ to divert efforts from defeating the Nazis […]

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MacV-Sog Command History: Annexes A, N, and M (1964-66)

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] the Gulf (pp. 45-46). Reading between those particular lines is not easy. There is no hint of guilty knowledge, but there is a hint of ignorance (or disinformation) in the reference to the August 4 ‘clash’ which likely never occurred. The degree of reticence shown by Annex A could be construed as ominous, but […]

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Lobster Issue 34: Contents

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££

[…] take a bow Bruce Kent, Tony Benn and Alan Plater. Same old same old With material running from the IMF 1976 incident through to (a snippet on) disinformation in the British UFO world, here’s another pretty normal issue of Lobster. If there are those who don’t find the economic politics of the 1970s of […]

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Public Servant, Secret Agent: The Elusive Life and Violent Death of Airey Neave

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Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

[…] then ex-Prime Minister. (p. 320 ) In the House of Commons on 14 December 1977 Stephen Hastings MP, a former MI6 officer, using Parliamentary privilege, ran the disinformation attributed to the former Czech intelligence officer Joseph Frolik that a group of British trade unions leaders were ‘agents’ of Soviet intelligence. Frolik was being run […]

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Remote Viewers, and, Psychic Warrior

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Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[…] very good book. (An opinion Victorian shares, incidentally.) If this book (along with his Channel 4 TV programme on the same subject) is part of some CIA disinformation operation in tandem with the official disclosure (and official rubbishing) of the Remote Viewing program, it’s too clever for me. After interviewing most of the people […]

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In a Common Cause: the Anti-Communist Crusade in Britain 1945-60

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] the CIA. Collins Radio was one of the many sources of ‘cover’ used by the CIA and the Reader’s Digest has been extensively used to run CIA disinformation. (63) David Pelham James — a Conservative M.P. for fourteen years, James was a Director of the Catholic publishing house, Hollis and Carter, the publishers of […]

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