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Was the Director of Central Intelligence a Soviet agent?

Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] CIA. Insofar as this view is perhaps not entirely consistent with the facts its propagation is a form of psychological warfare waged against the American people (‘ disinformation’ is the term of art), corrupting the processes of a democracy. Most thoroughly denied, minimized, shoved into a drawer while attention is directed elsewhere, are Helms’s […]

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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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The view from the bridge

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[…] Alder for editorial and proofreading assistance. *new* Disinfo So there was Ben Macintyre in The Times (18 April), regaling us again with the story of the Soviet disinformation in the 1980s about AIDS being a US Army germ warfare project. Macintyre sees this event as a forerunner of today’s Russian disinformation projects.1 What he […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

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[PDF file]: […] Alder for editorial and proofreading assistance. *new* Disinfo So there was Ben Macintyre in The Times (18 April), regaling us again with the story of the Soviet disinformation in the 1980s about AIDS being a US Army germ warfare project. Macintyre sees this event as a forerunner of today’s Russian disinformation projects.1 What he […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE

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[PDF file]: […] group or that, western corporations began subscribing to the services of organisations which claimed or 8 9 3 to be able to detect purveyors and amplifiers of disinformation. NewsGuard was the one I noticed first when Consortium News reported that it had run foul of the organisation’s disinformation detectors.10 Since when other commercial organisations […]

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[…] group or that, western corporations began subscribing to the services of organisations which claimed or 8 9 3 to be able to detect purveyors and amplifiers of disinformation. NewsGuard was the one I noticed first when Consortium News reported that it had run foul of the organisation’s disinformation detectors.10 Since when other commercial organisations […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

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[PDF file]: […] Book? When I first wrote about this, over 20 years ago,13 I had assumed that Sheehan being allowed to see the documents was a preamble to the disinformation games that were played on UFO researchers by AFOSI in the 1980s. Now I have to question that assumption; perhaps they were genuine. If so, why […]

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[…] Book? When I first wrote about this, over 20 years ago,13 I had assumed that Sheehan being allowed to see the documents was a preamble to the disinformation games that were played on UFO researchers by AFOSI in the 1980s. Now I have to question that assumption; perhaps they were genuine. If so, why […]

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[…] President Barack Obama made the decision to set the country on a new course. On Dec. 23, 2016, he signed into law the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act, which used the language of defending the homeland to launch an open-ended, offensive information war. The message from the U.S. defense establishment was clear: To […]