Historical Notes: MI5 and the Wilson Plot. USA and Chile. Hess

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)

[…] well not be the whole story. How many were ‘a few, a very few’, especially when ‘a lot’ of these had extreme opinions and were leaking black propaganda about their own government to the press? But despite the uncertainties still left in the wake of Hunt’s admission (what the American call a ‘limited hang-out’), […]

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003)

[…] the mark to earn him the cigar). He also knew enough to be sure in himself that letting actual or potential Soviet agents into a government anti-Soviet propaganda outfit (as he saw it) would be to allow enemy agents to reconnoitre and possibly subvert UK defences. The month’s gap between the first list (of […]

Rebranding SIS

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)

[…] nearly 1000 government fraud officers on a Professionalism in Security (PINS) course accredited by Portsmouth university…….’ (1) Abroad, conscious of its poor image, HMG beefs up its propaganda machine. So it is announced that the Medialink Consultancy has been appointed to run the London Radio Service, an international English Language news service. ‘The Foreign […]

Miscellaneous: Gemstone. Workers’ Revolutionary Party, MI5 and Libya

Lobster Issue 20 (1990)

[…] 3 Harry Irwin NOW! Gregory Voysey writes: In Lobster 17 (pp14-16) you note that Now!, a magazine owned by Sir James Goldsmith, was used to further the propaganda aims of the Pinay Circle. Now! was also involved in a scheme to discredit President Carter during the 1980 presidential campaign. This involved luring his brother, […]

Lobbying

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)

[…] 2006); lock-in: Saudi Arabia will wait for Gordon Brown to become Prime Minister before signing the deal; name generation – always an important arm of political PR/ propaganda: Saudi Arabia’s missiles are called ‘Al Salaam’ – as obscene as America’s ‘Patriots’. The Guardian 16 and 17 January 2007 A ‘tip-off’ can also be of […]

The Rhodes-Milner Group

Lobster Issue 13 (1987)

[…] the list of some 70 prominent figures who contributed statements advocating Anglo-American ‘reunion’ to the June 1898 issue of Stead’s Review of Reviews, an issue devoted to propaganda for “an informal Association of Friendly Fellowship” for promoting common action throughout the English-speaking world. On the list are many figures who were members of the […]

Philanthropic imperialism

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)

[…] is easily dismissed in the NED’s closed world. The ‘report’ is a seemingly interminable expression of faux surprise at other regimes’ xenophobic resentment towards foreign spies, black propaganda, heavily funded ‘protest groups’ and media, consultants and agent provocateurs fomenting civil unrest with the overthrow of the state as their aim. The Lugar Report’s sources […]

More Book Reviews

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994)

[…] details tells us, is based in Cuba, the book’s subtitle is ‘Cuba Opens Secret Files’, and the conclusion seems to be that this is a piece of propaganda by the Cuban Government. And it is crap. The book is in two sections. The first 126 pages consist of Ms Furiati’s account of the assassination. […]

ELF: from Mind Control to Mind Wars

Lobster Issue 19 (1990)

[…] was reported by the Baltimore Sun on October 20. The sources for this story do not give me confidence about its veracity. Radio Liberty is a CIA-funded propaganda station; and the Baltimore Sun has some kind of role in the Pinay Circle’s disinformation operations. (See Lobster 18 p. 22, column 2) It is entirely […]

Outlaws of America: The Weather Undergound and the Politics of Solidarity

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7)

[…] American state and media. Here is one of the oddities of the group: they went from demos to bombs, almost missing out on the reading, writing and propaganda stage of the ‘normal’ left group’s development. Their major publications appeared while some of them they were on the FBI’s ‘most wanted’ list. Outlaws indeed. This […]

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