[…] kept, but this was part of a fairly continuous change that had been going on from 1970 as far as I can remember.” (quoted in Covert British Propaganda: the Information Research Department 1947-77, Lyn Smith, in Millennium, Journal of International Studies Vol 9 No 1) But Owen may be telling us more than he […]
[…] Malaya. The sentiments expressed are a stark contrast to those in most discussions of ‘Terrorism’, academic and otherwise, which amount to little more than exercises in the propaganda war. With an established reputation as a counter-insurgency specialist, with the likes of Richard Clutterbuck singing his praises,(8) Kitson was given a one year defence fellowship […]
[…] that parts of the conspiracy talk appear to be generated by communist propagandists. Urge them to use their influence to discourage unfounded and irresponsible speculation. To employ propaganda assets to answer and refute the attacks on the critics. Book reviews and feature articles are particularly appropriate for this purpose. The unclassified attachments to this […]
[…] 2006); lock-in: Saudi Arabia will wait for Gordon Brown to become Prime Minister before signing the deal; name generation – always an important arm of political PR/ propaganda: Saudi Arabia’s missiles are called ‘Al Salaam’ – as obscene as America’s ‘Patriots’. The Guardian 16 and 17 January 2007 A ‘tip-off’ can also be of […]
[…] nondescript military clothing, without insignia….. and neither would we wear dog tags for identification. If we were killed, then the enemy would have a hard time making propaganda capital from our corpses. Our major task was reconnaissance, but we were conscious that our prime purpose was to set the pattern for more troops, both […]
[…] RENAMO atrocities, nothing on its origins in Rhodesian Intelligence; and so on. The only value this volume has is as a demonstration of how the right produces propaganda, and who it uses as sources. In the essay on the Ukraine, for example, all the key sources are from one journal, the emigre-controlled Ukrainian Quarterly […]
[…] CAIB is now at 1500 Massachusetts Avenue NW, room 732 Washington DC 20005. The Guardian (3 February 1992) reported on the discovery of yet another South African propaganda operation, the International Association for Co-operation and Development in Southern Africa (ACODA). The story was based on a 4-page briefing paper on Acoda. This can be […]
[…] American Right) or because it is a moral imperative based on ideology (the neo-conservative and liberal internationalist impulse). Until now, this reification of the West was a propaganda tool by one side in the Cold War or the plaything of intellectuals and of a certain school of right-wing radicalism. Now it is a practical […]
[…] is easily dismissed in the NED’s closed world. The ‘report’ is a seemingly interminable expression of faux surprise at other regimes’ xenophobic resentment towards foreign spies, black propaganda, heavily funded ‘protest groups’ and media, consultants and agent provocateurs fomenting civil unrest with the overthrow of the state as their aim. The Lugar Report’s sources […]
[…] as strictly military questions, and the North Atlantic Assembly works to influence the parliamentary members of individual countries. It falls within the brief of NATO to conduct propaganda and defend states the ‘infiltration of ideas’. Few citizens of NATO countries are aware of the whole apparatus to which membership commits them – e.g. Plans […]
