Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££
[…] of large numbers of politically distorted, sensationalistic, and superficial publications dealing with terrorism, many of which appear to be the direct or indirect products of a loosely-coordinated disinformation campaign launched by hardline rightist elements with various Western intelligence services and disseminated through their media assets.(4) This ever-increasing flood of material portrays ‘international terrorism’ as […]
Lobster Issue 1 (1983) £££
[…] British Intelligence. These in turn recruited and controlled others who believed they were members of a genuine loyalist secret organisation.” (16) The gangs were designed to spread disinformation, dissension within the Loyalist ranks, and foment infighting. In the wake of the successful Ulster Worker Council’s strike in May, 1974, the British Government, under Prime […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] ‘Information Superhighway’ and its discontents Organised Crime Threatens the New World Order The Decline of American Journalism The 1960s and COINTELPRO: In Defense of Paranoia Infowar and Disinformation: From the Pentagon to the Net Mind Control and the Secret State Class Warfare: Wall Street vs Main Street. Highly recommended. Brandt is about as interesting […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] evidence that the allegations by North Korea and the Chinese that the US were using biological warfare during the Korean War were false – were in fact disinformation. Documents apparently from former Soviet archives seem to show that the Soviets knew in 1953 that the allegations were false and the ‘evidence’ had been fabricated. […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
Gordon Winter In Lobster 18, dated October 1989, under the headline: ‘Inside BOSS and After‘, you wrote the following: ‘Gordon Winter is an Englishman who was recruited by BOSS. His 1981 book Inside BOSS, was the first (and only) inside account of South Africa’s intelligence agency. We still think this is one of the most … Read more
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
[…] is worth having and the Pilger pieces, written in the weeks preceding the invasion, stand up pretty well. There are interesting snippets on the intelligence services and disinformation, psy-ops, US propaganda and media behaviour. The material which has survived best is the essays on the workings of the media and state propaganda; and of […]
Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££
[…] know that Gorbanifar was likely in contact with the Reagan Campaign and/or Reagan post-election Transition Team before Reagan’s January 20, 1981 inauguration because a key piece of disinformation for which Gorbanifar has been identified as the primary source – that Gadhafi was planning to assassinate Reagan in 1981 – was the key topic at […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] an organisation which no longer existed – and in a journal I’d never seen before, produced by a party I didn’t know still existed. The perils of disinformation Elsewhere in this issue a collection of essays edited by Wesley K. Wark gets pretty short shrift from me. However, in one of the more abstruse […]
Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££
[…] investigation because of his activities in Mexico City and those of other CIA officers there during his period of duty. In Mexico City there were five CIA disinformation agents, four of them run by Phillips: Dr Luis Conte Aguerro, Herman Portell-Villa, Angel Fernandez Varela, Nestor L. Carbonel and Eduardo Borrel Nouvarros. Phillips also had […]
Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££
James Adams Hutchinson, London, 1994. I first noticed James Adams when he began running some of the MOD’s disinformation lines about Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd in 19867. For a while I collected articles by him which seemed to show the traces of Whitehall briefings. Then I stopped: what was I going to do […]
