The CIA and Mountbatten

Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££

[…] to obtain intelligence but even more to demoralise the West by making revelations of such infiltration as soon as they have ceased to be of any value. Disinformation was cunningly fed to Mountbatten who was well known to be vulnerable to flattery.” It is true that Mountbatten had had a close friendship with Tom […]

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Knee Deep in Dishonour: The Scott Report and its aftermath

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[…] simply and clearly written. At this distance from the events two things in particular struck me. One is the account of the campaign of leaks, smears and disinformation organised against Scott himself by Whitehall. Some day somebody might go back and re-examine all those stories in detail: a better documented Whitehall disinformation campaign does […]

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Notes from the Underground, part 4: British Fascism 1983-6 (II)

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] 1980s’ (p. 258). This assertion, and the associated fantasies about the role of Colin Jordan are so wide of the mark as to be verging on intentional disinformation. Webster, pouting on the sidelines, was perhaps unconsciously projecting his own concerns when he said of the NF in early 1986 that the ‘development they are […]

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Maury Island UFO: the Crisman Conspiracy

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Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] The Torbitt Memorandum. None of this was terribly clear to begin with and Thomas gleefully muddies the water by chucking into the story some of the information, disinformation and speculation which have accreted to both the Maury Island event and the Crisman/ Crismon/tramps episode. So we get a fair bit about Torbitt,(2) even though […]

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No one ever suddenly became depraved

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] journalism avoid that? () He is in a world of his own here, seeing demons and angels. () Real analysis has shown up the neo-con’s need for disinformation. Clinging to their paradigm, Lloyd can only disinform his readers. What has happened in Iraq reveals journalists like him, and those he uncritically defends, as part […]

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The SAS, their early days in Ireland and the Wilson Plot

Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££

[…] anonymous SAS officer who told The Guardian in late 1976: ‘We were all very enthusiastic about going and wasting a few of the IRA.'(43) After a protracted disinformation campaign against him, Harold Wilson resigned in March 1976. His departure brought new faces to the top military and political positions in Northern Ireland. Merlyn Rees […]

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I am being slagged off, therefore I am

Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££

[…] the British secret state, tracing the career of one Tim Hepple in and out various groups on the British right and left, and analysing various recent Searchight disinformation campaigns. This has been written and produced very quickly and the result is an extremely complex narrative which is clumsily written and difficult to follow in […]

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The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] there. Hey Joe In September the US State Department put out a briefing, ‘How to Identify Misinformation’. Before 1990 such a document would have been about Soviet disinformation campaigns; and this one begins with some well known examples of Soviet disinformation before proceeding to attack conspiracy theories. It names only three current sources of […]

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The big one? 9:11 Revealed. Challenging the facts behind the War on Terror

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Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

9:11 Revealed. Challenging the facts behind the War on Terror Ian Henshall and Rowland Morgan London: Robinson, 2005; £8.99, p/b   A declaration of a kind of interest: one of the authors of this book, Ian Henshall, is the Chair of INK, the Independent News Collective, to which Lobster belongs and whose leaflets Lobster has […]

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9/11’s Trainer in Terrorism Was an FBI Informant

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[…] 117). Others allegedly admitted, despite being on the State Department watch list, were Mohamed Atta and possibly Ayman al-Zawahiri (Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, The War on Truth: 9/11, Disinformation, and the Anatomy of Terrorism , 205, 46). Wright, The Looming Tower, 177. Lance, 1000 Years, 34. Lance, 1000 Years, 31; Peter Lance, Cover Up: What […]

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