Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
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[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, […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[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 […]