[…] be presented with the drama of a showdown between democracy and totalitarianism which used the categories of individualism and collectivism in a slightly different way. The cultural propaganda developed for use in Western Europe took a shape not so different from that of Cold War Christianity, although the details were strikingly different. The early […]
[…] cited the visit to Fiji by Ambassador Vernon Walters, U.S. pressure on New Zealand over ship visit bans, and what they termed “the recent barrage of U.S. propaganda on growing Libyan interest in the South Pacific.” Other newspapers from across the political spectrum which carried or repeated similar articles on the Fiji coup included […]
[…] this? Because Harris told them. Harris has a wonderful tale of Bollier’s role in Radio North Sea, a ‘pirate’ radio station which in 1970 was running anti-Labour propaganda. ‘It came on the air on January 23 1970. Its conventional medium wave transmitter was more powerful than any other pirate radio ship, and most European […]
[…] said that Plimpton was ‘very close to the Congress of Cultural Freedom and very involved with their activities’. This was all part of Eisenhower’s scheme to ‘privatize’ propaganda. The Congress of Cultural Freedom, one of whose original members was Tennessee Williams, played an important role in all of this. Notes 1 It’s cited by […]
[…] Head of SA Security Police, Coetzee, visited British intelligence in March. Believed SA established a new London burglary team in April (G. 27th June 1983). 7. SA propaganda links to Tory rightwingers and funding of Foreign Affairs Research Institute (FARI) (G. 11th February 1983). In recent years FARI’s members have included Cons. MP’s Julian […]
[…] and 1986, 14, mostly politicians, appear in the not very extensive index to Kelsey’s book, but Kelsey doesn’t mention this programme. How important this and the other propaganda operations carried out by CIA and State Department fronts are, I don’t know. But it all helps. In a way it would be reassuring to know […]
[…] home: when a foreign intelligence service collects and analyzes information about its own citizens, conducts operations at home (assassinations, the destruction of oppositional organizations, the distribution of propaganda) invented for use abroad, or employs at home without due deference to the Constitution other methods to which it has become habituated in the foreign alleys […]
[…] Despite having read Paul Foot’s book on Wallace, on p. 70 he states that Wallace ‘seems’ — seems! — ‘to have worked on intelligence matters and ‘black propaganda’ ‘, and then provides an inaccurate account of the Ulster Citizens Army (UCA) story. (On which see my piece in Lobster 14). Bruce has problems with […]
[…] which included Special Branch, military intelligence, MI5 and MI6, was uncoordinated, Much has been written about that period, some of it honest journalism, but most of it propaganda inspired by the terrorists and their supporters….’ (emphasis added) Boy, has Dillon changed his tune! As usual with British authors working this field, most of his […]
[…] of sinister forces may be discerned.’ But ‘nexus’ and ‘matrix’ are like synchronicity, implying causality without demonstrating it. Take another example. The author discusses the wartime OSS propaganda career of the writer Hans Habe and links this to the murder in 1968 of Habe’s daughter, Marina. He writes: ‘Marina had been known to the […]
