View from Bridge 89

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[…] 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 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 […]

GArrick Timmi text

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[…] 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 Cuntocracy

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[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 […]

General Władysław Sikorski and the B-24

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

The British Gladio and the murder of Sergeant Speed

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] in 1978, and later at various MOD establishments where courses and seminars were held. It was on one of those weekends that I heard Hart advocate ” propaganda by outrage” as an extreme policy.’ In short: this speakers’ list makes no sense for people being trained to run a genuine ‘stay behind’ network – […]

Misleading Parliament – a case to answer

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

See also: Misleading Parliament – Appendices

[PDF file]: […] would be likely to become known by PIRA figures, as having the potential to make an impact on the republican target. However, whilst the focus of the propaganda was aimed at PIRA, it is also clear that the initiatives were not particularly focused or controlled. The initiatives certainly came to include within their scope […]

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