[…] 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. Documentsapparently from former Soviet archives seem to show that the Soviets knew in 1953 that the allegations were false and the ‘evidence’ had been fabricated. The […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] plots’ story, Colin Wallace, the only public source on the story at the time, was working with a Channel 4 journalist called Robert Parker. At one point disinformation about Wallace was being fed to Parker, through another journalist, from a former colleague of Wallace’s in Northern Ireland. (I know this man’s name but cannot […]
[…] of source and detail in Matthew Smith’s speculation here, () it seems more likely that the story of Sirhan and the PLO training camps was simply Israeli disinformation. Kennedy apparently being killed by a Palestinian presented an opening too good to miss. It is, though, of at least passing interest that this potentially juicy […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
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 […]
[…] turn and considers them as they apply to the actual activities of agencies in the countries under consideration. Penetration covers intelligence-gathering and the dissemination of information and disinformation, as well as ‘countering’ activities; autonomy covers the internal organisation of agencies and questions of oversight and control. The results of this comparison are detailed and […]
[…] more clearly than Carroll Quigley managed with his much wider focus. The sewer and the sewage The Sunday Times has been one of the secret state’s major disinformation tools for over a decade now – and maybe longer; I haven’t looked any further back. In my ‘Miscellaneous cuttings’ file I noticed an absolute classic […]
