The Enemy Within; the IRA’s War Against the British

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

[…] which included Special Branch, military intelligence, MI5 and MI6, was uncoordinated, Much has been written about that period, some of it honest journalism, but most of it propaganda inspired by the terrorists and their supporters….’ (emphasis added) Boy, has Dillon changed his tune! As usual with British authors working this field, most of his […]

The Ulster Citizen Army smear

Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££

[…] statements, and threats – were genuine, Inf Pol was stirring the pot with unattributable briefings to the media trying to exploit themes suggested by the UCA’s own propaganda. It is also possible to argue that this Inf Pol briefing on the UCA is itself also a phoney. But then it is possible, in principle, […]

RE:

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] (CPNI) glossary: . Clive Walker, ‘Governance of the critical national infrastructure’, Public Law, Summer 2008, pp. 323-352. All 867 pages are available here: Public Administration Review; 68(3), May 2008, pp. 420-427. Linda Kaye, ‘Reconciling policy and propaganda: the British Overseas Television Service, 1954-1964’, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 27(2), June 2007, pp. 215-236

The Myth of the SAS

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

[…] Clearly the dead man had been a member of the IRA; but he was only sixteen, and probably a low-grade operator. The IRA opened up a vociferous propaganda barrage, producing pictures taken seven or eight years earlier, when the youth was singing in a choir, and presenting us as having killed a choirboy (p. […]

American PR and Iraq

Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

[…] with a world-wide community of other nationals, hold allegiance to each other rather than governments. More importantly, global populations were refusing to be fooled by Brand America propaganda. (Was Afghanistan under the Americans better off than it was under the Soviets?) America’s greatest ‘outreach PR’ failure, however, was among: a) the urban, often metropolitan, […]

Groupings on the British Right

Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££

[…] contributions by Chalfont and Becker at the 1984 Jonathan Institute conference on terrorism (see book reviews in this issue) its purpose will be to spread misinformation and propaganda. The name reminds me of the Institute for the Study of Conflict and this may turn out to be another in the evolving sequence of intelligence […]

Disinformation: From Euros to UFOs

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] (9) (See review in Lobster 30) On the 1970s there are two sources worth a look. The major one is Paul Lashmar and James Oliver’s Britain’s Secret Propaganda War 1948-1977 (10) (See review in Lobster 37) chapter 16. The other is a section of chapter 10 of Alistair McAlpine’s memoir Once a Jolly Bagman.(11) […]

Wallace on Pincher on Wallace

Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££

[…] Civil Servants show, the Board was told that I did have a job description which was classified ‘secret’ and that I was involved in disinformation or ‘black propaganda’. The members of the Board, as former senior civil servants, were cleared to receive classified information, but the MOD denied that any second classified job description […]

A ‘great venture’: overthrowing the government of Iran

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

[…] the position of Mr. Moussadek’ and that the ‘ideal man to do it would be Dr. Zaehner’, an Oxford lecturer who had been ‘extremely successful in covert propaganda in 1944’ in Iran.(31) Zaehner was swiftly dispatched to Iran by the Labour government to aid the fall of Musaddiq, for which he was provided with […]

Parliamentary Questions; Anti-Labour leaflet

Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££

[…] win any important section of the working class to anti-imperialist positions, even where it is subjectively anti-capitalist. The situation in Northern Ireland highlights the urgency of doing so. If effective solidarity action is to be achieved, a considerable work of propaganda and demystification in Britain will be needed. VOTE LABOUR 7 Carlisle Street, London, W1

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