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 miners and the secret state

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[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 […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] understands the motive behind this deployment. 5G is a compartmentalized weapons deployment masquerading as a benign technological advance for enhanced communications and faster downloads. The globalist false propaganda falls away with one simple undisputed fact: their PCR test patent for Covid-19, which was filed in 2015, was never able to identify a live virus, […]

View from Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

[…] Under Golitsyn’s influence, Angleton came to believe that in 1959, the KGB had launched a massive deception operation designed to lull the U.S. government into believing Soviet propaganda about “peaceful coexistence” between capitalism and communism, with the goal of prevailing over the complacent West.5 The second KGB officer, Yuri Nosenko, arrived in 1964. An […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] Under Golitsyn’s influence, Angleton came to believe that in 1959, the KGB had launched a massive deception operation designed to lull the U.S. government into believing Soviet propaganda about “peaceful coexistence” between capitalism and communism, with the goal of prevailing over the complacent West.5 The second KGB officer, Yuri Nosenko, arrived in 1964. An […]

Unwinnable: Britain’s War in Afghanistan, 2001-2014 by Theo Farrell

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] against him. Published in 2022 is another study of the subject which focuses on the campaign against Corbyn by non-Israel lobby forces. In their ‘Anatomy of a Propaganda Campaign: Jeremy Corbyn’s Political Assassination’, Florian Zollman and T. J. Coles47 describe in great detail the campaign in the British media against Corbyn by the MoD-NATO […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 93 (2026)

[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay *new* FIMI YouTube is now littered with AI political propaganda. The material I have seen, mostly talking heads, is anti-Trump. And much of it is good, too. Indeed, the AI talking heads are more interesting – more coherent, better scripted – than their human counterparts. These films […]

White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa by Susan Williams

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[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 […]

Intelligence, Security and the Attlee Governments, 1945-51: An Uneasy Relationship? by Daniel W B Lomas

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[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 […]

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