Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)

[…] Senate hearings document. Wick was also the organiser of the 1983 White House meeting (Lobsters passim) at which Rupert Murdoch and James Goldsmith became part of this propaganda effort. High on Wick’s agenda during his European trips was the building up of what the White House called a ‘successor generation’ of sympathetic European leaders. […]

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Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

[…] Martha Kunzel) certainly were. Nicholas Goodrich-Clarke, cited by Matthews, draws a clear distinction between the OTO and avowedly racist groups such as the ONT. Crowley did do propaganda work for Viereck (who had nothing to do with the OTO), but there’s a good argument to be made that A.C. also snitched on Viereck’s activity […]

Spooks

Lobster Issue 22 (1991)

[…] 10 August 1991. An anti-nazi, he came to Britain in 1938 where he attracted the attention of the intelligence services. Worked with Sefton Delmer and others on propaganda work. In 1948 worked for Reuters and then The Observer under former SOE operative David Astor. (The Independent 31 August 1991). Christopher Holme, Radio Three producer, […]

Maria Novotny: From Prague With Love

Lobster Issue 2 (1983)

[…] David Floyd, the Telegraph‘s correspondent on Soviet Affairs. Floyd was on the books of the IRD. (21) IRD, run by the Foreign Office, was a Cold War propaganda outfit which had a close relationship with MI6; and especially with section IX, which dealt with the Soviet Union. Was the meeting set up by the […]

The Big Breach

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Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

[…] in education since this nonsense was introduced there. Tomlinson notes after this section that his immediate superior was passing as genuine CX what Tomlinson knew to be propaganda from one faction in the Balkans war: ‘ was blatantly ignoring my judgements as the officer on the ground so as to satisfy targets imposed by […]

Willy Brandt: the “Good German”

Lobster Issue 22 (1991)

[…] was used in 1961 when, in one of the dirtiest political campaigns in post-war Germany, the conservative CDU/CSU parties called Brandt “a traitor to the fatherland”. Nazi propaganda that emigres were untrustworthy had a lasting effect. This unease even extended into the West’s security agencies. In 1967 the first of the CANZAB (Canada, New […]

Michael Ledeen again

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005)

[…] close connections with the Italian secret service (SISMI) when living in Rome in the mid-1970s, in part through his associate Francesco Pazienza and his links to the Propaganda Due (P2) masonic network and its connections with the NATO – and intelligence-linked Gladio operation. At the time Ledeen was writing for The Daily American, for […]

South African Connections

Lobster Issue 1 (1983)

[…] Head of SA Security Police, Coetzee, visited British intelligence in March. Believed SA established a new London burglary team in April (G. 27th June 1983). 7. SA propaganda links to Tory rightwingers and funding of Foreign Affairs Research Institute (FARI) (G. 11th February 1983). In recent years FARI’s members have included Cons. MP’s Julian […]

Economic Fundamentalism: a Laboratory Experiment

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Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996)

[…] and 1986, 14, mostly politicians, appear in the not very extensive index to Kelsey’s book, but Kelsey doesn’t mention this programme. How important this and the other propaganda operations carried out by CIA and State Department fronts are, I don’t know. But it all helps. In a way it would be reassuring to know […]

A Century of Spin

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Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)

[…] tin – it aims to run the world.’ (p. 81) About half the book is on Britain. There is a chapter on ‘The Hidden History of Corporate Propaganda’, on the Economic League and its forebears, such as the British Commonwealth Union. (But this section omits the fact that these groups were initially formed not […]

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