US involvement in the Fiji coup d’etat

Lobster Issue 14 (1987)

[…] was in fact forged by Leonard (now Sir Leonard) Usher, former mayor of Suva and editor of the Fiji Times, widely involved in production of Alliance Party propaganda. A Royal Commission of Inquiry was set up after the election to investigate Mara’s claim. It also looked at more substantive complaints from the opposition. Mara […]

Spooks

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

[…] 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 […]

Anglo-America and the Third Reich

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7)

[…] of Trotsky and key mediator between the Kaiser and the Bolsheviks who arranged, starting in 1915, for the flow of German gold into Russia that funded the propaganda campaign of Lenin’s little band of anti-war Marxists. Some Russian revolutionaries grew to distrust this erratic and ‘Falstaffian’ figure, with his ‘fat, fleshy, bulldog-like head’; () […]

The Myth of the SAS

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)

[…] Clearly the dead man had been a member of the IRA; but he was only sixteen, and probably a low-grade operator. The IRA opened up a vociferous propaganda barrage, producing pictures taken seven or eight years earlier, when the youth was singing in a choir, and presenting us as having killed a choirboy (p. […]

American PR and Iraq

Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)

[…] with a world-wide community of other nationals, hold allegiance to each other rather than governments. More importantly, global populations were refusing to be fooled by Brand America propaganda. (Was Afghanistan under the Americans better off than it was under the Soviets?) America’s greatest ‘outreach PR’ failure, however, was among: a) the urban, often metropolitan, […]

Groupings on the British Right

Lobster Issue 13 (1987)

[…] contributions by Chalfont and Becker at the 1984 Jonathan Institute conference on terrorism (see book reviews in this issue) its purpose will be to spread misinformation and propaganda. The name reminds me of the Institute for the Study of Conflict and this may turn out to be another in the evolving sequence of intelligence […]

Disinformation: From Euros to UFOs

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)

[…] (9) (See review in Lobster 30) On the 1970s there are two sources worth a look. The major one is Paul Lashmar and James Oliver’s Britain’s Secret Propaganda War 1948-1977 (10) (See review in Lobster 37) chapter 16. The other is a section of chapter 10 of Alistair McAlpine’s memoir Once a Jolly Bagman.(11) […]

Wallace on Pincher on Wallace

Lobster Issue 21 (1991)

[…] Civil Servants show, the Board was told that I did have a job description which was classified ‘secret’ and that I was involved in disinformation or ‘black propaganda’. The members of the Board, as former senior civil servants, were cleared to receive classified information, but the MOD denied that any second classified job description […]

A ‘great venture’: overthrowing the government of Iran

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)

[…] the position of Mr. Moussadek’ and that the ‘ideal man to do it would be Dr. Zaehner’, an Oxford lecturer who had been ‘extremely successful in covert propaganda in 1944’ in Iran.(31) Zaehner was swiftly dispatched to Iran by the Labour government to aid the fall of Musaddiq, for which he was provided with […]

What is Opus Dei?

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Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)

[…] promoting their particular reactionary policies? The book has certain problems which will make it difficult for some to read, not the least the constant repetition of Francoist propaganda regarding the Spanish Civil War; and it contains the following statement regarding the war in the former Yugoslavia, on p. 201 ‘Naturally, the Vatican feared Serbia […]

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