The DRE newsletter (June – August 1963)

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[PDF file]: […] which also had seemingly-limitless reserves of youthful energy. The DRE had been established by the CIA in 1960, originally as a combined outlet and amplifier for anti-Castro propaganda and other psychological operations. There was direct liaison with the CIA via JMWAVE, the Agency’s sprawling Miami station, which was effectively the general headquarters of nearly […]

A fly’s eye view of the American war against Vietnam 40 years later: who won which war?

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[PDF file]: […] . Barry Zorthian (1920-2010) was head of USIA/JUSPOA (Joint United States Public Affairs Office) in Saigon from 1964 until 1968. JUSPOA was the central office for press, propaganda and psychological operations in the US mission in Vietnam. The conference was ‘The American Experience in Southeast Asia 1946-1975’, Washington, DC 29-30 September 2010. See . […]

Is a new ‘cold war’ coming?

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] two prominent South Carolina banksters (the other being James Byrnes) introduced the term into American political discourse with, inter alia, the aid of the dean of political propaganda, Walter Lippmann, as the US Empire was mobilising to absorb the remains of European empires after the defeat of Japan.1 The subsequent 50 years of US […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] warfare – the covert intervention by one country in the internal politics of another. The roots of this tradition are traced to the beginnings of modern mass propaganda in the context of the First World War and the Russian David Leigh’s 1978 Guardian account of the demise of IRD is archived at . 5 […]

To the halls of Montezuma, from the shores of Tripoli: Donald Trump as ‘anti-Wilson’

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] came to dominate the mass media; and whose descendants dominate it today. In 2017, a real estate mogul from New York City, the original headquarters of the propaganda machine that created Woodrow Wilson, became the 45th president of the United States. The country has been waging war almost continuously since 1945, most recently its […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] 8 2 Oh, really? I had a look at Crozier’s memoir, Free Agent (HarperCollins, 1993). There is nothing in it about such an operation involving Agee.5 mass propaganda in the context of the First World War and the Russian Revolution. The Comintern developed as a centre of expertise in the field before fracturing in […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] down the search results we find a copy of his newsletter from 1974 released by the CIA.7 This is a rather impressive if bizarre piece of right-wing propaganda on behalf of the colonial powers in Africa then beginning to experience serious local resistance. There is this paragraph, for example. The CIA’s Irving Brown as […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] which we could certainly say this: thanks to the barely regulated funding of political parties16 and campaigns – and the entirely unpoliced use of the Net for propaganda – Cummings and Cambridge Analytica did a competent job of flooding peoples’ electronic devices with anti-EU messages. Many of them lies. Was this critical to the […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] which we could certainly say this: thanks to the barely regulated funding of political parties16 and campaigns – and the entirely unpoliced use of the Net for propaganda – Cummings and Cambridge Analytica did a competent job of flooding peoples’ electronic devices with anti-EU messages. Many of them lies. Was this critical to the […]

Disrupt and Deny: Spies, Special Forces, and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy by Rory Cormac

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] same page without needing to state it? Or is it simply that none of this got put down on paper? The most frequently used techniques were bribery, propaganda and manipulation. Phoney political movements and parties were created. This continued into the 1980s when the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) – allegedly, says the author – […]

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