[…] American Right) or because it is a moral imperative based on ideology (the neo-conservative and liberal internationalist impulse). Until now, this reification of the West was a propaganda tool by one side in the Cold War or the plaything of intellectuals and of a certain school of right-wing radicalism. Now it is a practical […]
[…] the basis for much of modern communication research.’ I would say: after the war the spooks and the military paid the academics to develop the techniques of propaganda with which to influence the perceptions of the American tax-payer and the subject populations of the informal American empire. (Alternatively, this shows how loyal American academics […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] substantially the same. Angleton believed that the Soviets have a ‘plan’, a blueprint for the take-over of the world. This ‘plan’ has become a feature of the propaganda of this New Cold War. It is in De Borchgrave and Moss’s The Spike, for example, and also in the less well known (but much better […]
[…] any other outside contacts in respect of it. If we are approached, we listen only.’ Elsewhere, without offering any evidence, West claims that the brilliant WWII black propaganda expert, Sefton Delmer, was a Soviet agent. In the mid-1950s Delmer was expelled from Egypt for being an SIS agent. President Abdel-Nasser, who played footsie with […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Martha Kunzel) certainly were. Nicholas Goodrich-Clarke, cited by Matthews, draws a clear distinction between the OTO and avowedly racist groups such as the ONT. Crowley did do propaganda work for Viereck (who had nothing to do with the OTO), but there’s a good argument to be made that A.C. also snitched on Viereck’s activity […]
[…] 10 August 1991. An anti-nazi, he came to Britain in 1938 where he attracted the attention of the intelligence services. Worked with Sefton Delmer and others on propaganda work. In 1948 worked for Reuters and then The Observer under former SOE operative David Astor. (The Independent 31 August 1991). Christopher Holme, Radio Three producer, […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] or ‘The Effort to Make Unions Disappear’ ever playing big on network news. Mainstream news outlets are turning out ever less news and ever more froth and propaganda, and it would be nice to have this trend reversed; that said, some stories are only ever going to appear in magazines with committed readerships. (Widely […]
