[…] 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.
[…] 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 […]
[…] to scab together a televised tape of the exchanges that an apparently unwitting Jean Kirkpatrick was to show the UN’s Security Council. The reaction to the Administration’s propaganda initiative were immediate. The political strength of the peace movements in both England and Germany, muscular enough to have kept the U. S.’s Pershing II and […]
[…] input did it have from the new Research Information and Communication Unit, , set up last year by the then Home Secretary, John Reid, ‘to counter al-Qaida propaganda at home and overseas’?(8) RICU, one report told us, was tasked to degrade al-Qaida ‘as a brand’. If the notion of al-Qaida as a brand sounds […]
[…] ‘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).’ […]
[…] of the Hilton, and at a travel agents’ convention which appears more like an international gathering of secret agents all getting pissed together. CIA stations carry our propaganda and study the Russian Intelligence Service (RIS) and local left activity. But Beck learns that by the 1960s RIS had long since ceased using foreign Communist […]
[…] The BBC has been using these reports as if they were genuine news. In fact, the SSVC is entirely funded by the Ministry of Defence as a propaganda operation, which according to its own website makes a “considerable contribution” to the “morale” of the armed forces.’ On-line free sources There are two wonderful free […]
[…] was an historic choice because Halifax would certainly have made peace. Nevertheless Labour’s crucial role has been forgotten. Once installed in power, Churchill ensured that all the propaganda resources of the state were devoted to making him synonymous with the British war effort, an exercise that was often bitterly contested at the time, but […]
[…] 1988 has a detailed account of the network of support in Canada for UNITA; that of February 1989 has a long account of the South African government’s propaganda effort in Canada. (Both appear to have been reprinted in issue two of Top Secret which arrived as this was being type-set and which I have […]
