[…] – for wholly understandable reasons of his own – attempted to obscure his own Stasi career. He has achieved this by erecting a wall of lies and disinformation around his past, and by adopting a pseudonym: ‘Timmi Allen’. Part I: Tracking down ‘Timmi’ The key to identifying Neitsch was provided by a video called […]
[PDF file]: […] and suggested rebuttals. Taken aback, I mentioned the whistleblower Colin Wallace, who had been one of those PR officers working with Tugwell.’ ‘Wallace had admitted to peddling disinformation, but Tugwell quickly pointed out a major discrepancy between the highly professional man he and others once knew and the teller of lurid tales Wallace became […]
[PDF file]: […] idiocies of the 50s and 60s were not its only activity and the author presents accounts of IRD interfering in the local politics of British colonies, spreading disinformation. (Though how effective any of it was is unknown.) If you wonder why so many of the former British colonies turned out to be corrupt once […]
[PDF file]: […] – that is, direct control through ownership and participation, rather than the indirect control it has exerted traditionally via government and the state.’ 37 This was pure disinformation. Nothing in the C&CC proposals could honestly produce this interpretation. To the clearing banks the proposals meant ‘the end to ceilings’, government-imposed quantitative limits on lending.3 […]
[PDF file]: […] developed through ‘whisper’ campaigns, where the hand of the party was intentionally kept invisible. ‘He organised a countrywide network through which Promi could spread information – or disinformation – that was considered unsuitable to be mentioned publicly, or when the government did not wish to appear as the originator. This network was, of course, […]
[PDF file]: […] will point to the importance of English exceptionalism; the gradual acceleration of the freemarket nationalism espoused by Powell, Thatcher, and their followers, including those based off-shore; the disinformation spread by much of the UK media; and the simple lack of understanding amongst the political class about the options available, if you leave the largest […]
[…] media and political culture’ – is a case in point. Here, we discover, a litany of embedded journalists, an ‘award-winning reporter’, Pentagon operatives, propaganda, 141 Summer 2010 disinformation, reports with ‘no factual grounding,…no foundation even in CIA and other intelligence data’. Naked geopolitical objectives are uncovered at every turn in a long litany of […]
[…] would do that (almost certainly the latter). And no MI5 people had been involved in ‘any attempt to destabilise the government’. But burglary, leaking official material, planting disinformation and other conspiracy is not denied. At another level, was there an inquiry at all? Wallace, Holroyd and Wright were not interviewed by the Duff inquiry.2 […]
[PDF file]: […] Labour Cabinets of Harold Wilson (1974-76) had been under intense surveillance in the hunt for Soviet influence. Several members, notably Wilson himself, had been burgled. Smear and disinformation campaigns had been run against both Labour and Liberal politicians. In this context it is a very striking list of speakers. Major Alexander Greenwood had been […]
[PDF file]: […] Which leaves us with Trump’s election campaign. When its history is written it will be interesting to see whether or not Flynn brought his counterinsurgency expertise of disinformation and dirty tricks to it. Certainly he joined in chants of ‘Lock Her Up’ at Trump rallies, reposted and retweeted anti-Semitic and Islamophobic posts, and in […]
