[…] 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 […]
[…] a long analysis of NYT’s handling of El Salvador and Nicaragua by Edward Herman (whose book is reviewed in this issue); and a very acute analysis, Covert Propaganda in Time and Newsweek, by Howard Friel. But perhaps most useful of all is a long piece by CAIB co-founder Louis Woolf on the right-wing organisation, […]
[…] in direct interference in the politics of that region. After their first victory in November 1952, in Egypt, the two services realised that their combined efforts would produce results: hence it was followed by the Iranian coup. Contrary to the CIA’s propaganda the Iranian coup was not an American operation but a joint MI6-CIA operation.
[…] (according to the blurb) how and why peace with freedom is threatened the real meaning of perestroika, glasnost, and the ‘new thinking’ in terms of the Soviet propaganda machine the role of the mainstream peace movements and the Churches in Canada the crucial role of deterrence in maintaining peace with freedom the one-sided and […]
[…] funding bodies (with political targets) and other think tanks (including Peter Mandelson’s) which were created by or modified specifically to aid the government and its private agencies, propaganda outlets and front organisations. This was well underway when Lloyd decided to throw in his lot with the FPC, which: ‘…accepted more than £100,000 from an […]
[…] creating justifications for enacting those plans. Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld created their own intelligence apparatus, not only to produce the desired results, but also to wage a propaganda war on their own population. Of course, this material has been out there for years, but what is interesting in this new look at it is […]
[…] December 1981 Time 8th June 1981 New York Times 17th November 1981; Searchlight October 1981 Panorama (Milan) 10th August 1981 French masons, part of a so-called ‘ propaganda’ cell, conspired against Louis XVI in the name of the memory of Jacques De Molay. (Michael Baigent et al, Holy Blood, Holy Grail. (1983) pp52/53Here it […]
[…] There it was, in the middle of Washington, full of lefties, talking openly with Soviet embassy personnel, supporting Cuba and the Sandinistas, quite unimpressed by the anti-Soviet propaganda offensive of the late 1970s and 80s. The Crozier research team showed, without great difficulty, that the IPS was funded by American lefties, some of them […]
[…] a campaign of rehabilitation. Goldsmith himself joined in this campaign. In January 1981 he addressed the Conservative Media Committee in the House of Commons on ‘The Communist Propaganda Apparatus and Other Threats in the Media’. In his speech he quoted the Czech defector Major-General Jan Sejna who ‘admitted that the campaign by the German […]
[…] film rights to the book and then hired Louis de Rochemont as producer. Cohen also wrote a lengthy article on the film for Animation World Magazine. ‘Animated propaganda during the Cold War’ in the issue dated 21 February 2003. (Also available at ). An edited version was published in The Guardian 7 March 2003 […]
