[…] ‘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 […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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).’ […]
[…] Communist Party after the war. But there’s the paradox: while I was protesting about US bases in Scotland, I was sucking down huge amounts of American cultural propaganda: books, music, films. Aged 16, dressed like Jack Kerouac, I dreamed of playing trumpet like Miles Davis and harmonica like Little Walter. Who destroyed the Soviet […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] the euro is, it has decided to enter the euro and is ‘playing a long game…. preparing for euro membership’. This preparation has included two ‘low intensity’ propaganda campaigns, substantial state expenditure already and decisions that ensure that in the referendum campaign the ‘Yes’ campaign can outspend their opponents, and that the EU itself […]
[…] that had happened the New Left would have emerged as the non-Labour Party power base for left socialism. It would been not only less open to rightest propaganda but the fact that its organization was amorphous would have made MI5 penetration within it far less significant than it was within the CP. (Incidentally, of […]
