[…] Kennedy and then turn up in the Watergate ‘plumbers’. Even if we believe her account of what Sturgis told her, Sturgis’s claim might be a lie — disinformation, perhaps for the Agency; water muddying. Many other false trails have turned up over the years. Either way, along with most of the serious Kennedy researchers, […]
[…] reasons. Reprinting costs for one: they were A5 format and rather poorly produced by current standards; and some of them contain material which we learned subsequently was disinformation. At some point we will produce a “Best of early Lobster …’ but in the meantime Lobster is being included in the on-going micro-fiche collection from […]
[…] late Claire Sterling and Paul Henze. Sterling was a CIA asset, and had attended the 1979 Jonathan Institute conference; Henze was a former CIA station chief. As disinformation projects went, this wasn’t subtle and it began to unravel as soon as people like Edward Herman began picking at it.(48) At which point reality and […]
[…] (ESPAC) in London. Whether or not slavery is being practised in southern Sudan, these rebuttal efforts by ESPAC have exposed the Telegraph group’s role in yet more disinformation. At the ESPAC website < www.espac.org > there is a mass of documentation on this, the centrepiece of which is ‘Recycling lies: the strange case of […]
Russ Kick (ed.), Disinformation, 2001, $19.95, ISBN 0-9664100-7-6. Available from http://store.disinfo.com. I once sat in on an interesting conversation between two well known writers on the underside of politics. At one point, one of them alluded disparagingly to one of the scruffier areas of the conspiracy fringe – UFOs, maybe. The other reacted immediately: […]
[…] or Valentine’s can talk me out of the perhaps silly theory I’m starting to form……. I have to congratulate you on your brilliant catch regarding that great disinformation ploy, ‘You can see these documents, but cannot photocopy them.’ I wish to hell more American ufologists could see your piece. Hell, I wish someone would […]
[…] trail from the CIA leads to the village of Ickham, near Canterbury, from whence issues a magazine called Counterpoint, devoted to the exposure and analysis of Soviet disinformation. The trail began with the defection of Stanislas Levchenko, a Major in the KGB. He went over to the Americans in 1979, spent a year working […]
[…] author of the KGB ‘monster plot’ believed by Angleton, which claimed that everything, up to and including the Sino-Soviet conflict and Gorbachev’s perestroika and glasnost, were KGB disinformation projects and (b) that Goleniewski claimed to be a Romanov and heir to the throne of Russia. Fantasists – or disinformers – such as these were […]
[…] which read ‘Captain Colin Wallace, one of a team of parachutists who jumped in with birthday greetings…’ The whisper down the phone was dismissed by us as disinformation, a smear. I had been expecting something of the sort, though had not thought of the parachuting aspect as the likely area. (There were others that […]
[…] Northern Ireland, including the creation of the Information Policy Unit in 1971. (There is a slight misunderstanding of Inf Pol: Miller treats ‘psychological operations’ as synonymous with disinformation. Not so: only a small part of psy-ops is disinformation.) In chapter 3 he gives a good account of the mechanics of newspaper coverage; emphasises the […]
