The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] as “the 6I” or “Sixth International”. This network operated as a private sector version of the Information Research Department (IRD), a Foreign Office unit focused on anticommunist propaganda. • The Pinay Circle: Lobster #17 (1988) discussed Crozier’s involvement with the “Pinay Circle” (or Cercle), a private intelligence gathering group connected to James Goldsmith and […]

British Writers and MI5 Surveillance 1930-1960 by James Smith

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[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

Lobster Issue

[…] 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. […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

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 […]

Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[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 […]

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 […]

Ukrainian Psyops

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[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 […]

The CIA and Radio Nord Simon

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[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

[…] 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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