British Writers and MI5 Surveillance 1930-1960 by James Smith

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] certainly not the naïve literateur, taken advantage of by Cold Warriors, that he presented himself as. Spender was, in fact, ‘well integrated with the British Cold War propaganda effort’. Which brings us to MacColl, Littlewood and the Theatre Workshop. The released Theatre Workshop file, covering the years from 1951 to 1960, has some 250 […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] for a new intelligence assignment in Europe, Oswald provided information that Check the material on this Twitter stream from Piers Robinson from the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media at . 57 With everybody and their cousin trying to disinform us, this is about as ‘sticky’ an area as exists at the moment. […]

Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] exactly one week before the start of the new financial year? On the other hand, one might consider that MI5’s strategic use of AP to get its propaganda broadcast into as many newsrooms as possible represents shrewd economic thinking, only having to pay for one journalistic lunch instead of several. More serious than MI5’s […]

General Władysław Sikorski and the B-24

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] a Polish historian’s conclusion in 2013. 13 ‘The assassination theory was made up by Germany to drive a wedge between the Poles and their Western Allies. Goebbels’s propaganda claimed that the Soviets killed Sikorski with the approval of the British, because he dared to denounce the Katyn massacre and turned to the Red Cross […]

The Cuntocracy

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] page just does not convey it. But of course quite a bit of Nixon’s activities were supposedly secret. Surely a cuntocracy is dependent on a vast hidden propaganda apparatus? But such techniques of control are merely the basic methods by which an individual or a group asserts its cuntocratic orientation — its power and […]

The CIA and Radio Nord Simon

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] covering both Enerström and Petré he noted how ‘Enerström has been called the biggest Palme hater in Sweden’ and that ‘together they traveled throughout the country spreading propaganda against Palme’. Enerström was probably borderline mentally ill and, when his son was taken into care in 1976, Enerström believed that Olof Palme was personally responsible. […]

Ukrainian Psyops

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] being treated as disposable ‘cannon fodder’ is always endemic in the lower orders of any army. What Mr Wallace had actually done was dust off an old propaganda story and sharpen it up for use in the new information war against Russia. The mobile crematorium had first trundled into public awareness in 2015, after […]

Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy by Matthew Alford

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Pluto Press, 2010, £13.00 (p/b) Robin Ramsay On the British right there is a widespread view that the BBC is full of lefties and puts out lefty propaganda. Here’s Melanie Phillips: ‘With a few honourable exceptions, the BBC views every issue through the prism of left-wing, secular, anti-western thinking. It is the Guardian of […]

Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy by Matthew Alford

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[…] Press, 2010, £13.00 (p/b) Robin Ramsay O n the British right there is a widespread view that the BBC is full of lefties and puts out lefty propaganda. Here’s Melanie Phillips: ‘With a few honourable exceptions, the BBC views every issue through the prism of left-wing, secular, antiwestern thinking. It is the Guardian of […]

Ukrainian psyops

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[…] being treated as disposable ‘cannon fodder’ is always endemic in the lower orders of any army. What Mr Wallace had actually done was dust off an old propaganda story and sharpen it up for use in the new information war against Russia. The mobile crematorium had first trundled into public awareness in 2015, after […]

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