[…] Senate hearings document. Wick was also the organiser of the 1983 White House meeting (Lobsters passim) at which Rupert Murdoch and James Goldsmith became part of this propaganda effort. High on Wick’s agenda during his European trips was the building up of what the White House called a ‘successor generation’ of sympathetic European leaders. […]
[…] kept, but this was part of a fairly continuous change that had been going on from 1970 as far as I can remember.” (quoted in Covert British Propaganda: the Information Research Department 1947-77, Lyn Smith, in Millennium, Journal of International Studies Vol 9 No 1) But Owen may be telling us more than he […]
[…] have been mentioned before now. CCF was one of the CIA’s most successful operations. Running virtually world-wide, undetected for almost 20 years, the CCF was both a propaganda operation and a rich source of recruitment access to a wide range of the political and cultural elites of other countries (This latter point is generally […]
[…] thus its derision towards the British admin-istration for continuing to talk to and kow-tow to the terrorists, both Green and Orange, giving them state money, bankrolling IRA propaganda films and trying to nurture them as community representatives, because they see nothing beyond the now moribund Good Friday Agreement. Northern Ireland still needs a Labour […]
[…] 5th January 1984). Wicks asked Baker to arrange for President Reagan to meet a group of businessmen he had put together under the banner ‘Project Democracy’, a propaganda effort to ‘support democratic institutions abroad’. They were to contribute $300,000, and the group included Sir James Goldsmith, Rupert Murdoch and a representative of Axel Springer […]
[…] that parts of the conspiracy talk appear to be generated by communist propagandists. Urge them to use their influence to discourage unfounded and irresponsible speculation. To employ propaganda assets to answer and refute the attacks on the critics. Book reviews and feature articles are particularly appropriate for this purpose. The unclassified attachments to this […]
[…] nondescript military clothing, without insignia….. and neither would we wear dog tags for identification. If we were killed, then the enemy would have a hard time making propaganda capital from our corpses. Our major task was reconnaissance, but we were conscious that our prime purpose was to set the pattern for more troops, both […]
[…] tin – it aims to run the world.’ (p. 81) About half the book is on Britain. There is a chapter on ‘The Hidden History of Corporate Propaganda’, on the Economic League and its forebears, such as the British Commonwealth Union. (But this section omits the fact that these groups were initially formed not […]
[…] RENAMO atrocities, nothing on its origins in Rhodesian Intelligence; and so on. The only value this volume has is as a demonstration of how the right produces propaganda, and who it uses as sources. In the essay on the Ukraine, for example, all the key sources are from one journal, the emigre-controlled Ukrainian Quarterly […]
[…] CAIB is now at 1500 Massachusetts Avenue NW, room 732 Washington DC 20005. The Guardian (3 February 1992) reported on the discovery of yet another South African propaganda operation, the International Association for Co-operation and Development in Southern Africa (ACODA). The story was based on a 4-page briefing paper on Acoda. This can be […]
