ELF: from Mind Control to Mind Wars

Lobster Issue 19 (1990)

[…] was reported by the Baltimore Sun on October 20. The sources for this story do not give me confidence about its veracity. Radio Liberty is a CIA-funded propaganda station; and the Baltimore Sun has some kind of role in the Pinay Circle’s disinformation operations. (See Lobster 18 p. 22, column 2) It is entirely […]

Iraq misc.

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003)

[…] return. Immediate, positive results may be impossible to achieve.’ Why did it fail? Apart from the obvious point that few in the Middle East will believe American propaganda, a point which Collins cannot make, Collins notes: ‘The increase in the number of satellite television news services and internet connections makes it ever more difficult […]

Sources

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005)

[…] The BBC has been using these reports as if they were genuine news. In fact, the SSVC is entirely funded by the Ministry of Defence as a propaganda operation, which according to its own website makes a “considerable contribution” to the “morale” of the armed forces.’ On-line free sources There are two wonderful free […]

The Trouble With Harry: A memoire of Harry Newton, MI5 agent

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994)

[…] Heseltine, the Defence Secretary. Even she found no evidence to support this view. She also alleged that material gathered by MI5 was passed on to a counter propaganda unit, DS19, set up by Mr Heseltine in March 1983 to combat CND’s unilateral line. Those of us who remember the rabid speeches of Heseltine of […]

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. […]

One Boggis-Rolfe or two?: Philby: The Hidden Years

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Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999)

[…] Sorge,on a trip to England in 1929. He’d been on a mission to Los Angeles because Stalin thought the movies had a future as a means of propaganda and mass control. Sorge later gave the Soviets precise timings for the German attack on the Soviet Union and the Japanese attack in the Pacific. Philby […]

Perfidious Albion: an end to deceit

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003)

[…] – and, in turn, found an echo in a wider public. And that electorate is becoming harder to convince despite – now almost because of – the propaganda. This is not only because other information sources are now more widely and immediately available, but because the British electorate is now more well-travelled and diverse […]

UDA: Inside the heart of Loyalist terror

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Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005)

[…] thus its derision towards the British admin-istration for continuing to talk to and kow-tow to the terrorists, both Green and Orange, giving them state money, bankrolling IRA propaganda films and trying to nurture them as community representatives, because they see nothing beyond the now moribund Good Friday Agreement. Northern Ireland still needs a Labour […]

Directory of British Political Organisations, 1994

Lobster Issue 27 (1994)

[…] are included. Similarly useful are listings for now defunct but historically significant groups like Sir Oswald Mosley’s Union Movement, the British and Irish Communist Organisation (BICO), Popular Propaganda (a libertarian conservative group) and the Committee for a Free Britain. Entries attempt to provide current addresses, dates of establishment, names of leading lights and other […]

The Enemy Within (Whitehall)

Lobster Issue 27 (1994)

[…] 1971 version the IRA was actually trying to buy the arms. (7) The similarities lie in the way the British state used the arms find to make propaganda. Fig. 1 Illustration shows Colin Wallace posing, circa 1972, in a pile of British Army weapons, allegedly seized from the IRA (but actually British Army property) […]

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