Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] Polish intelligence. The author’s evidence? Documents that he was shown, and allowed to copy, but not allowed to keep. In other words, the usual procedure for disseminating disinformation via credulous intermediaries. This will be a recurrent motif in the present work. 2 Rothberg died in 1992, well before Mr Speriglio released the memo that […]
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££
[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 […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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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 […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] hitherto. Did Sheehan really see the classified sections of Blue Book? It seems highly improbable to me. More likely, surely, that he was the object of a disinformation operation. I wonder if the long US military disinformation project in the 1980s on UFOs, which climaxed with the MJ-12 nonsense about US government-alien contact, began […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] that the Russians and/or Cubans were involved.’ 2 The authors of the piece – anonymously credited as being ‘WhoWhatWhy staff’ – declare that the Politico story is disinformation. In doing this they quote the Webster’s dictionary definition of ‘disinformation’: ‘false information deliberately and often covertly spread (as by the planting of rumors) in order […]