[…] in education since this nonsense was introduced there. Tomlinson notes after this section that his immediate superior was passing as genuine CX what Tomlinson knew to be propaganda from one faction in the Balkans war: ‘ was blatantly ignoring my judgements as the officer on the ground so as to satisfy targets imposed by […]
[…] was used in 1961 when, in one of the dirtiest political campaigns in post-war Germany, the conservative CDU/CSU parties called Brandt “a traitor to the fatherland”. Nazi propaganda that emigres were untrustworthy had a lasting effect. This unease even extended into the West’s security agencies. In 1967 the first of the CANZAB (Canada, New […]
[…] David Floyd, the Telegraph‘s correspondent on Soviet Affairs. Floyd was on the books of the IRD. (21) IRD, run by the Foreign Office, was a Cold War propaganda outfit which had a close relationship with MI6; and especially with section IX, which dealt with the Soviet Union. Was the meeting set up by the […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] in court they either might or might not be prepared to give evidence.’ I never decided whether I believed this or not. The high point of his propaganda activities was probably the publication in 1974 and 1979 of The Hidden Face of the Labour Party, a large tabloid-style pamphlet warning of the penetration of […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] statements, and threats – were genuine, Inf Pol was stirring the pot with unattributable briefings to the media trying to exploit themes suggested by the UCA’s own propaganda. It is also possible to argue that this Inf Pol briefing on the UCA is itself also a phoney. But then it is possible, in principle, […]
[…] 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 […]
