[…] Sorge,on a trip to England in 1929. He’d been on a mission to Los Angeles because Stalin thought the movies had a future as a means of propaganda and mass control. Sorge later gave the Soviets precise timings for the German attack on the Soviet Union and the Japanese attack in the Pacific. Philby […]
[…] was reported by the Baltimore Sun on October 20. The sources for this story do not give me confidence about its veracity. Radio Liberty is a CIA-funded propaganda station; and the Baltimore Sun has some kind of role in the Pinay Circle’s disinformation operations. (See Lobster 18 p. 22, column 2) It is entirely […]
[…] – and, in turn, found an echo in a wider public. And that electorate is becoming harder to convince despite – now almost because of – the propaganda. This is not only because other information sources are now more widely and immediately available, but because the British electorate is now more well-travelled and diverse […]
[…] Heseltine, the Defence Secretary. Even she found no evidence to support this view. She also alleged that material gathered by MI5 was passed on to a counter propaganda unit, DS19, set up by Mr Heseltine in March 1983 to combat CND’s unilateral line. Those of us who remember the rabid speeches of Heseltine of […]
[…] are included. Similarly useful are listings for now defunct but historically significant groups like Sir Oswald Mosley’s Union Movement, the British and Irish Communist Organisation (BICO), Popular Propaganda (a libertarian conservative group) and the Committee for a Free Britain. Entries attempt to provide current addresses, dates of establishment, names of leading lights and other […]
[…] promoting their particular reactionary policies? The book has certain problems which will make it difficult for some to read, not the least the constant repetition of Francoist propaganda regarding the Spanish Civil War; and it contains the following statement regarding the war in the former Yugoslavia, on p. 201 ‘Naturally, the Vatican feared Serbia […]
[…] Conservative Students detested socialism and communism and shared the Reagan administration’s view of the Soviet Union as ‘the evil empire’. They thus became useful, minor foreign policy propaganda assets for the Reagan administration. Supporting any movement which was perceived as anti-socialist/communist, the FCS became cheerleaders for whichever bunch of murderous thugs happened to be […]
[…] 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) […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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.
