[…] 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 […]
[…] the parameters to US foreign aid in the Middle East. The overseas networks play a major role in shaping the internal debate on US policy toward Israel. Propaganda associating Israeli repression of Palestinians as the righteous response of the victims of the Holocaust has been repeated throughout the mass media. President Ahmadinejad’s suggestion that […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] said that Plimpton was ‘very close to the Congress of Cultural Freedom and very involved with their activities’. This was all part of Eisenhower’s scheme to ‘privatize’ propaganda. The Congress of Cultural Freedom, one of whose original members was Tennessee Williams, played an important role in all of this. Notes 1 It’s cited by […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] Clearly the dead man had been a member of the IRA; but he was only sixteen, and probably a low-grade operator. The IRA opened up a vociferous propaganda barrage, producing pictures taken seven or eight years earlier, when the youth was singing in a choir, and presenting us as having killed a choirboy (p. […]
