[…] 1971 version the IRA was actually trying to buy the arms. (7) The similarities lie in the way the British state used the arms find to make propaganda. Fig. 1 Illustration shows Colin Wallace posing, circa 1972, in a pile of British Army weapons, allegedly seized from the IRA (but actually British Army property) […]
[…] close connections with the Italian secret service (SISMI) when living in Rome in the mid-1970s, in part through his associate Francesco Pazienza and his links to the Propaganda Due (P2) masonic network and its connections with the NATO – and intelligence-linked Gladio operation. At the time Ledeen was writing for The Daily American, for […]
[…] we have our methods.’ He was promoted local (unpaid) captain. After the surrender of the last Italian garrison at Gendar he spent 1942 running cross-frontier intelligence and propaganda against French Somaliland which was still in Vichy hands. By then he had probably more practical experience of all aspects of field work than any other […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] research and flights to and fro between Moscow, London and the United States. Who is reading this stuff? Well, there is a group of a few dozen Anglo-American scholars of espionage history, many of them witting or unwitting carriers of state propaganda — the “useful idiots’ of NATO. Apart from them, I have no idea.
[…] has written for the new Encounter magazine. Michael Scammel, who has just published a massive biography of Solzhenitsyn, is turning to a study of the CIA-funded anti-communist propaganda operations of the 1950s. No doubt this will include Encounter ….. September should see the publication of Henry Hurt’s Reasonable Doubt: the assassination of John F. […]
[…] 14 March 1982, p. 14. Wallace whoppers. the trail of trouble from the Kincora smear king. — John Carey, Sunday World, 7 July 1985, p. 24. Black propaganda and bloody murder — Frank Doherty, Magill, December 1986, pp. 24-28. MI5 — the Irish File — Phoenix 19 December 1986 pp. 3 and 11. Wallace […]
[…] ‘dossiers’ were run past the JIC is one of the interesting unanswered questions. 8 Gaby Hinsliff, Martin Bright, Peter Beaumont and Ed Vulliamy, ‘First casualties in the propaganda firefight’, The Observer, 9 February 2003. 9 ‘It was the refusal of Britain’s spies to disclose what they knew about their Iraqi counterparts that led to […]
[…] 49-50); and, most amazing of all, for an outfit so concerned with intelligence and dirty tricks, there were shortages of everything from photo-interpretation equipment to transmitters for propaganda broadcasts (pp. 83-84 and 86). Indeed, the American contingent of SOG numbered just 132 military personnel and 14 civilians at the start of 1965 (p. 70).’ […]
[…] was for Gelli to foment the use of political violence – bombings, murder and kidnappings – and then, when he had created sufficient chaos, make use of propaganda designed to prepare Italians psychologically for the new era of Fascism. (All this 20 years ago! I couldn’t think of a more effective explanation of what […]
