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[…] 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 – […]

In Spies We Trust: the story of western intelligence by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] well as betrayed by their friends, and misled, even turned against, their own democracies. In their favour, signals intelligence probably shortened the Second World War, and covert propaganda may have helped bring down the Soviet Union (Jeffreys-Jones doesn’t seem certain about this). The record is mixed, but it is far from reassuring. Hence the […]

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[…] that implied about the future geopolitics of Europe, the Integrity Initiative (II) was an attempt to more or less recreate the Information Research Department (IRD), the state propaganda outfit, which was closed in 1977.20 Funded by the Foreign Office, the Integrity Initiative created a network of sympathetic journalists and intellectuals – clusters, it called […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

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[…] from the point of view of reporting news, then yes, here, of course, the media will no longer have such relevance.18 Zekomanda saturated social media with electoral propaganda while telling potential voters almost nothing about what Zelensky stood for. This online astroturfing had been cued well in advance. In the first series of Servant […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] Parry’s excellent The Consortium on Facebook to be told by that site that this was a ‘fake news’ source. Add that to the US government’s Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act and we can see the totalitarian, information-management future. That act: ‘…. mandates the U.S. Secretary of State to collaborate with the Secretary of […]

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[…] that implied about the future geopolitics of Europe, the Integrity Initiative (II) was an attempt to more or less recreate the Information Research Department (IRD), the state propaganda outfit, which was closed in 1977.10 Funded by the Foreign Office, the Integrity Initiative created a network of sympathetic journalists and intellectuals – clusters, it called […]

View from Bridge copy

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[…] that implied about the future geopolitics of Europe, the Integrity Initiative (II) was an attempt to more or less recreate the Information Research Department (IRD), the state propaganda outfit, which was closed in 1977.2 Funded by the Foreign Office, the Integrity Initiative created a network of sympathetic journalists and intellectuals – clusters, it called […]

View from Bridge copy

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[…] that implied about the future geopolitics of Europe, the Integrity Initiative (II) was an attempt to more or less recreate the Information Research Department (IRD), the state propaganda outfit, which was closed in 1977.2 Funded by the Foreign Office, the Integrity Initiative created a network of sympathetic journalists and intellectuals – clusters, it called […]

The ‘Intentional Fallacy’ revisited

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the impression that Trotsky was the focus of all opposition to Stalin. The sympathy shown for the infamous ‘show trials’ coincides with the author’s view that their propaganda target was not domestic but foreign: namely that Stalin would not tolerate Western subversion, even if it meant sacrificing loyal communist dissidents to make the point. […]

Divine Rascal: On the Trail of LSD’s Cosmic Courier, Michael Hollingshead by Andy Roberts

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Dr John Beresford, with whom he formed the Institute for British-American Cultural Exchange, about which almost nothing is known.2 Shinkfield himself described it as ‘a semi-official British propaganda agency in the field of international cultural relations’. As to what it did: over the next few years Beresford and Shinkfield cultivated the widest possible social […]

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