[…] of the well known stories planted in the media by Information Policy, the Army psy-ops unit in Northern Ireland in which Wallace worked, we are told: ‘The propaganda war continued with a new committee chaired by Michael Cudlipp and staffed by representatives of the North Ireland Office, the RUC and the army; including Jeremy […]
[…] time criticising but little encouraging progress. (p. 1) Even at this early stage, before the dispute was formalised, clear political differences were revealed, on the nature of propaganda, the use of revolutionary rhetoric, the likelihood of state repression and so on. Meanwhile, debates which had continued beneath the surface about the NF’s future strategy […]
[…] Office of Strategic Services, who arranged for Prewett to work for NANA. In 1963 NANA was severely criticized in a Senate Committee Report, for syndicating pro-Chiang Kai-shek propaganda written by a paid American lobbyist. In spring 1963, seven months before the Kennedy assassination, Prewett was assailing the administration for its opposition to the raids […]
[…] Independent 1994-96 at the time Mandelson was an advisor. Jim Heartfield describes Geoff Mulgan and Jacques’ relationship as that ‘between the old Central Committee Chair and his propaganda officer’. Geoff MulganInitially worked at the Greater London Council, he was a 1986-87 Harkness Fellow (which reinforces Anglo-American links) at MIT, and has led Demos since […]
[…] he was declared persona non grata for suspected espionage activities. Kicked out of the Soviet Union, he went to work for Radio Liberty, a CIA-created and financed propaganda network based in Munich. There, he was Deputy Director of the Soviet Analysis and Broadcasting Section.(52) More recently, Lodeesen was recommended for work with a CIA […]
[…] policy that John Stalker investigated. Covert operations began in Northern Ireland following the failure of internment to suppress the IRA. Psychological warfare, including the use of black propaganda, an integral part of counter-insurgency operations, emerged in 1971 with the creation of Information Policy. In early 1972 the Military Reconnaissance Force (MRF) was created. Military […]
[…] prepared to support military action to resist tyranny or aggression.’ (9) For the next three years The Focus organised public meetings, and prepared and disseminated information and propaganda — what we might now call networking and campaigning — among Britain’s political classes, up to and including two serving Foreign Secretaries, Eden and Halifax. (10) […]
[…] was when he passed it on his way to work on the Army press desk further along the same corridor.” (Sunday News 12 June 1983) The ‘black propaganda’ operations were run from an office on the ground floor of the operations block at Thiepval Barracks in Lisburn, Northern Ireland. According to Holroyd the propaganda […]
The price you pay In his ‘Ministers’ justification for the banning of an alleged terrorist group is based on propaganda and an outright untruth’ in The Guardian , 19 October 2005, former UK Uzbekistan ambassador Craig Murray, who seems bent on making serious trouble for HMG, gave an example of why the British state […]
[…] the magazine Counterpoint, based in England and then in the United States. Self-styled ‘Monthly report on Soviet active measures (see Lobster 22, p. 23), Counterpoint was U.S. propaganda lightly dressed as analysis of Soviet propaganda; and after being spotted in Canterbury and written up in the now defunct Digger it moved to the United […]
