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Misleading Parliament – a case to answer

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[PDF file]: […] the ‘Bloody Sunday Inquiry’ shows that Major General Leng was the ‘Director of Psychological Operations’ and that ‘all operations will normally be approved by him’. However, political disinformation was normally carried out by the Information Research Department (IRD) – part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office – and approval for such activities was given […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] see or ; and or ; and or . 145 See and the detailed chronology of events at or . 146 45 comrades.’ The second, ‘Tainted Leaks: Disinformation and Phishing With a Russian Nexus’, shows how complex the analysis of data disinformation campaigns is becoming. It’s summary is this: ‘This report describes an extensive […]

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[…] European Union’s 2nd EEAS Report on Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference Threats: A Framework for Networked Defence.4 In other words, how do we cope with (mostly Russian) disinformation? This is not an easy read. Here’s a paragraph on p. 7. (Bold in the original.) In 2023, the defender community made significant progress towards a […]

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[…] presume that this MI5 faction was feeding the derogatory material to Information Policy. There is no information on how high within MI5 knowledge or approval of this disinformation operation went. Why did MI5 want the file in 1977? My guess would be that it was not, as some are fantasising, that there was a […]

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[…] to be foot-dragging in its inquiries: they’re trying to protect an older operation of theirs which penetrated the Russian Mob in the USA.147 The second, ‘Tainted Leaks: Disinformation and Phishing With a Russian Nexus’, shows how complex the analysis of data disinformation campaigns is becoming. It’s summary is this: ‘This report describes an extensive […]

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[…] these columns more than twenty years ago, when I began paddling in the murky pool of a US military operation to disinform some American UFO buffs.5 That disinformation campaign climaxed with the production and distribution of the MJ-12 papers – a pretty sophisticated forgery.6 At the centre of this was Sergeant Richard Doty of […]

Back to the future: the 1970s reconsidered

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[PDF file]: […] of the paranoid right’s conspiracy fantasies, the Labour Cabinet was regarded with suspicion and many of its members, notably Wilson himself, were subjected to surveillance, burglaries and disinformation in this period. The anti-communist hysteria encompassed the formation of private militias – the so-called private armies – by former intelligence and military personnel, media speculation […]

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[PDF file]: […] the still-classified archives of the government. But I seriously doubt it. I can tell you for a fact that our democracy is suffocating under an avalanche of disinformation. Trump won the 2020 election! Covid vaccines are seeded with microchips! Democrats are blood-sucking pedophile communists! 9/11 was an inside job! Our body politic is being […]

The Clandestine Caucus

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[PDF file]: […] extracted from the Foreign Office the information that the source of this allegation had been a tiny local paper in Southern Germany. Here is a recognisable IRD disinformation operation: not white, not grey, but black propaganda. IRD source plants false story in small outlet – perhaps using a press agency of some kind; perhaps […]

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[…] yes, there are reports of these kinds of atrocities, but they all come from Russian sources. And the price the Russian state pays for its torrent of disinformation is that nothing it says is believable. So: until Murray (or someone else) offers a reliable source, I think or 16 Jefferson Morley takes this nonsense […]