[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] upon the willing collaboration of the Establishment and the Counter-Establishment in all its forms and factions. The means for maintaining this collaboration are mastery of language and propaganda and an enormous capacity to reward support (witting or unwitting) and punish opposition. 5 All of the above are attainable because of the degree of organisation […]
[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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] on my computer. It was obviously written around 2004 and, as far as I can see, was never used. M ichael Moore’s film ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ is great propaganda but, like all propaganda, it isn’t about the truth. In a section mocking the so-called ‘coalition of the willing’ which supported the US invasion of Iraq, […]
[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. […]
[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 […]
