[…] 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 […]
[…] (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) […]
[…] 2005: when credible allegations as serious as this are made, they have to be the subject of independent investigation, irrespective of how they might be used as propaganda. What makes Jonty Brown’s book convincing is the fact that, like Fred Holroyd, he does not condemn the RUC (the Police Service of Northern Ireland in […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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
[…] home running MI6, was tested to destruction. In his final chapter, ‘The New Agenda’, dealing with MI6’s future, Dorril drops the minor bombshell that the old black propaganda functions of IRD are up-and-running again with MI6. He maintains that a former MI6 officer (Tomlinson?) has alleged that ‘the bread-and-butter work’ of the service’s psychological […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] home: when a foreign intelligence service collects and analyzes information about its own citizens, conducts operations at home (assassinations, the destruction of oppositional organizations, the distribution of propaganda) invented for use abroad, or employs at home without due deference to the Constitution other methods to which it has become habituated in the foreign alleys […]
[…] copy is available on request from Olivier Schmidt in Paris on tel/ fax 33 1 40.51.85.19. Exposed! The Mackenzie Institute for the Study of Terrorism, Revolution and Propaganda Watch – the Right Pamphlet Number One This is an anonymous, 40 page, A5 pamphlet which analyses the Mackenzie personnel, their affiliations and some of its […]
[…] action sure to short-circuit the Official IRA’s plan (of a take-over on the Cuban model) was Dublin intervention in Northern Ireland. When this seemed likely, a major propaganda campaign was mounted (by the OIRA), directed primarily against Blaney, Haughey and Boland, the three ministers who, in varying degrees, were seen as supporting some kind […]
