Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] Ukrainian neo-Nazis, and were defending Mariupol against Russian forces at the time of their tweet, it is conceivable that they might have been tempted to promote untrue propaganda stories. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was therefore approached for comment on the alleged destruction of its offices. Although the situation in the […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: […] influence the Communist Party contributed by occasionally boasting of its influence on the Labour Party left; 9 On IRD see Paul Lasmar and James Oliver, Britain’s Secret Propaganda War 1948-77 (Stroud, Gloucester: Sutton, 1998). On some of the American influences see Hugh Wilford, The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War (London: Frank […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] remonstrated with him only for Blair to insist that ‘the powerful were also deserving of our political sympathy’. It seems fair to say that while, for purely propaganda reasons, New Labour sometimes tried to dress its interventionism up in the clothes of the Good Samaritan, it was actually playing the part of the governor […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] general’s communications were accessed in real time in Washington, when he was on a flight in any part of the world, courtesy of the cipher CX-52 machine.2 Propaganda and covert influence operations formed a thick web, 2 Nick Must commented: The CX-52 was an early product of Crypto AG, the Swiss cryptological machine manufacturer […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] had to decisively crush opposition from the Left to its pro-American stance. The Conservatives faced no such problem. The government was very much concerned to counter anti-British propaganda, much of it communist-inspired; and to this end established the Information Research Department. This was intended to covertly advocate a ‘Third Force’ approach, portraying Britain as […]