US involvement in the Fiji coup d’etat

Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££

[…] probably much more relevant to the coup. He visited Australia, Papua New Guinea, Solomons, Western Samoa and Tonga on the way to Fiji, spreading a trail of disinformation about Libyan activity in the Pacific. His visit to Australia probably prompted Foreign Minister Bill Hayden to make a highly publicised “secret” dash, a few days […]

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Defector Politics: or, grooving with Mr G.

Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££

[…] at all to punish or deter agents of influence….’ because ‘it is not illegal to co-operate in peace-time with hostile intelligence agencies to feed Western media with disinformation’. So, now you know: once again the public sector shows itself to be incompetent (or infiltrated) and the private sector has to step into the breach. […]

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The Ulster Citizen Army smear

Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££

[…] pub where “one of the bar staff gave an extremely accurate description of the man we had just left.” Either Horn is lying or a pretty sophisticated disinformation operation is being run here. The next day, December 6, Derek Brown chips in in The Guardian. His opening paragraph goes thus: “The search for the […]

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A review of the (bad) reviews of Smear! Wilson and the Secret State

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

[…] thus be Minister for Disarmament’. (Incidentally our use of ‘knighted’ is wrong: it should have been ‘enobled’.) McIntyre asks, ‘What precisely was the nature of the ‘Orwellian disinformation’ to which we were exposed during the Thatcher administrations?’ Our answer follows in the final paragraph of the book, immediately after our use of the phrase […]

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Iraq misc.

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] Gardiner, Colonel, USAF (Retired). (3) This is by far the most important post Gulf War 2 document to date and a landmark in the analysis of state disinformation and perception management. Gardiner has done what I didn’t have the patience to do: he has logged and followed over 50 disinformation stories run by ‘the […]

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Web Update

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] is happening’. A mixture of materials on intelligence, parapsychology, UFOs, eg remote viewing expts, psychotropic drug expts at Edgewood, CIA attempts at using hypnotism in covert ops. Disinformation http://www.disinfo.com/ ‘Disinformation was designed to be the search service of choice for individuals looking for information on current affairs, politics, new science and the “hidden information” […]

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Western Goals (UK)

Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££

[…] war crimes trials in Britain. ‘The British Government’, it concluded, ‘would be well advised not to allow British Justice to be perverted as part of a communist disinformation ploy’. (19) The notepaper on which the press release was issued gave the names of Western Goals (UK)’s vice presidents. Among them was the long standing […]

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Kitson, Kincora and counter-insurgency in Northern Ireland

Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££

[…] are various items of important information missing from it. It is difficult to say whether these flaws are the result of poor Intelligence or whether they are disinformation provided for our consumption. If we are to interest the press in this matter with a view to exposing what has been taking place and thereby […]

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Agca: true confessions

Lobster Issue 9 (1985) £££

[…] German officials, who had extensive knowledge of the Grey Wolves, expressed doubts about “the reputation and efficiency of the Italian security services and referred to an ‘intentional disinformation campaign by the Italian authorities’ “.(Guardian 5 January 1983). On one level it was to publicise the ‘all terrorism is KGB-inspired’ line of Crozier and his […]

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Book reviews

Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££

[…] likely candidate seems to be Vladimir Chuchuken, a KGB agent at the UN in New York from 1962 to 1977’ (p609). Chuchukin is named as a KGB disinformation officer in Barron’s previous book The KGB (1974) (p212). Surely the FBI had more sense than to recruit a disinformation expert… Just to point out that […]

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