[…] 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 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 […]
[…] you could take, that is a matter for you… The following possibilities suggest themselves to me, and doubtless you will be able to think of other ones….. Propaganda for the Ulster Cause overseas… Joint political initiatives: pro-Ulster demonstrations in European capitals, speaking tours by your spokesmen etc… Exchanging information on the IRA and its […]
[…] to Nottingham, and in 1976 he took up a defence fellowship at King’s College, London, where he wrote a thesis on ‘The Problems of Dealing with Revolutionary Propaganda’. Tugwell’s job as Colonel General Staff (Information Policy) was, as described by terrorism ‘expert’ Richard Clutterbuck, ‘not merely to react to the media -or events – […]
[…] is now using several hundred academics, who, in addition to providing leads and occasionally making introductions for intelligence purposes, occasionally write books and other materials used for propaganda purposes abroad…these academics are located in over 100 American universities. Prior to 1967, the Central Intelligence Agency sponsored, subsidized, or produced 1,000 books… For example, a […]
[…] two interesting developments there: One is the presence of Maurice Tugwell. Tugwell now heads his own organisation, the McKenzie Institute for the Study of Terrorism, Revolution and Propaganda. This arrived in 1986 “to provide Canadians with a source of information” on psychological warfare. (Something the Canadians clearly need…….) The ‘Institute’ publishes papers, holds conferences […]
[…] otherwise is lying to you. Spelt out like this, this is a bizarre world view, but it’s surprisingly common. Its best-known exemplar is probably Noam Chomsky’s ‘ propaganda model’ of the media, which has the dubious merit of supplementing its critique of individual journalists with such a range of economic, political, institutional and cultural […]
[…] not as if there was an alternative that could command enough widespread support. As Ellwood described in the case of Italy, the site of the biggest ERP propaganda effort, the diffidence of the population and resistance from government and management was not enough to derail the process. The key question for the ERP in […]
