The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council?58 or 55 or 56 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. […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] He is In this column in Lobster 87 I mentioned two of his recent essays which are online. They are ‘UK “Black” Productions: Forgeries, Fake Groups, and Propaganda, 1951–1977’ at and ‘The Information Research Department, Unattributable Propaganda, and Northern Ireland: Promising Salvation but Ending in Failure?’ at 1 . 2 1 self-described there as […]

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 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 […]

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 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 secret life of Bellingcat’s so-called ‘Timmi Allen’

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] 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 Fate of Abraham: Why the West is Wrong about Islam by Peter Oborne

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] the Moral Majority and its successors. The British involvement with the Muslim world goes back much further. Oborne sees the Venerable Bede as ‘the father of English propaganda against Islam’ but after the First World War ‘the UK had become the greatest Muslim power in the world, holding sovereignty over approximately half the global […]

The EU: A Corporatist Racket: How the European Union was created by global corporatism for global corporatism by David Barnby

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] account I have read of the campaign run by the pro-EEC lobby in this country. The state, including the Information Research Department (IRD), the quasi-independent antisubversion, anti-communist propaganda organisation, co- 1 The ACUE/European Movement, for example, was first discussed in ‘How the European Movement was launched’ in Hirsch and Fletcher’s 1971 Who were they […]

I helped carry William Burroughs to the medical tent

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] when the BBC – which was supposedly impartial and above politics – could not. Another benefit that flowed from using Radio Luxembourg as an organ of British propaganda on the status of the Sudetenland was that its broadcasts were clearly ‘deniable’ as representing the views of the Chamberlain government. In 1940 the powerful and […]

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