SUCCESS: The CIA in Guatemala, 1954

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[PDF file]: […] King, who remained head of the Western Hemisphere Division. Hans Tofte was the head of psychological and political areas and E. Howard Hunt was the Chief of Propaganda. The operations field headquarters, codenamed LINCOLN and headed by Al Haney, was established at Opa Locka, Florida. Dulles issued an initial budget of $3 million on […]

The Killing of Thomas Niedermayer by David Blake Knox

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] to take Mr Blake Knox’s word for it that he knows what he is talking about. Special Branch was, asserts Mr. Blake Knox, ‘the target of black propaganda from both republican and loyalist paramilitaries as well as the object of lurid fantasies on the part of some journalists’. (p. 208) On this basis, he […]

The UK and the coup in Chile, 1973

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] congenial external environment. Its outline became clear during the early 1970s, when a programme for international economic reform See Kevin John McEvoy, ‘Before the rubble: Britain’s secret propaganda offensive in Chile (1960-1973)’, Contemporary British History, Volume 35 (2021), p. 603. Historians of modern Chile and the covert operations of the British state have good […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] his blog Craig Murray refers to Bellingcat thus: ‘Unlike our adversaries including the Integrity Initiative, the 77th Brigade, Bellingcat, the Atlantic Council and hundreds of other warmongering propaganda operations. . .’ 15 One of their reports begins thus: ‘A sophisticated phishing campaign targeting Bellingcat and other Russia-focused journalists. . .’ (emphasis added) or 16 […]

Eliot Higgins and the Ukrainian hoax, redux

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[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 review: 1992 guide to intelligence periodics

Lobster Issue

[…] PROFESSIONALS QUARTERLY (NIPQ) ………………………………………………………………. 98 NMIA NEWSLETTER ………………………………………………………………… 101 THE NUMBERS FACTSHEET …………………………………………………… 102 PEfilSCO PE ………………………………………………………………………………..106 POLITICAL WARFARE (PW) Intelligence, Acti’e Measures & Terrorism Report ………………….108 PROPAGANDA – DISINFORMATION – PERSUASIO (PDP) ……………………………………………………………112 THE RIGHT TO KNOW & THE FREEDOM TO ACT CARL’s First An1endment Monitoring Service …………………….114 SECRECY & GOVERNMENT BULLETIN (S&GB) […]

GArrick Timmi text

Lobster Issue

[…] aware of his borough’s historic status, and he would no doubt have learned all about its glorious past during his formal education. Living alongside this flourishing pro-Soviet propaganda installation, and occasionally venturing inside it, can only have exercised a strong influence on Olaf’s developing mind. One might describe it as immersive indoctrination, and it […]

The devil has all the best songs: reflections on the life and times of Simon Dee

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] which was certainly convenient for reaching an audience behind the Iron Curtain, Radio Nord looks just as likely to have been an arms-length, privately funded operation broadcasting propaganda to Eastern Europe. Radio Nord broadcast until June 1962 when the difficulties caused by the Swedish government restricting supply of the vessel resulted in her Page […]

Failed Führers: A History of Britain’s Extreme Right by Graham Macklin

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] the victim of a Jewish plot. (p. 301) Joking aside, the volume provides a relentless chronicle of the role that the most vicious anti-Semitism played in the propaganda and activism of the British Far Right, at least until quite recently. Leese It is also worth drawing attention to an earlier book by Dan Stone, […]

What Did You Do During the War? The Last Throes of the British Pro-Nazi Right, 1940-45 by Richard Griffiths

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] the 1929 Wall Street Crash, and that the banks, publishing, the cinema, theatre and ‘a large part’ of the press were ‘virtually controlled’ by them. Following Nazi propaganda, Bryant claimed that the Jews were racially discriminating against Aryans, so that it was becoming progressively more difficult for a gentile German to hold any kind […]

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