[…] 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 […]
[…] be presented with the drama of a showdown between democracy and totalitarianism which used the categories of individualism and collectivism in a slightly different way. The cultural propaganda developed for use in Western Europe took a shape not so different from that of Cold War Christianity, although the details were strikingly different. The early […]
[…] which had been known to be a fraud for at least a year, had been ‘withdrawn’ by MI6.(2) The American-British-Australian relationship Michael Moore’s film Fahrenheit-9/11 is great propaganda but, like all propaganda, it isn’t about the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, […]
[…] urging them to vote for Tony Blair. In the run-up to the 1997 general election, Blair’s win in this popular media event would have been a valuable propaganda coup, making this something of a ‘double whammy’ in the world of influencing the democratic process. (The coked-up monkeys, similarly, were a rigged sample evidently intended […]
[…] Capt. Charlie Borchini, of the unique 150 man Battalion from Fort Bragg (also home of the ISA), came to the island well prepared for winning the important propaganda battle. (Observer 18th December 1983) The Battalion contains experts on Central and South America, Asia and Africa, and counts on the help of academics throughout the […]
[…] CIA first plunged into this cesspool in 1950 with Project BLUEBIRD, rechristened ARTICHOKE in 1951. To establish a cover story for this research, the CIA funded a propaganda effort designed to convince the world that the Communist Bloc had devised insidious new methods to re-shape the human will; the CIA’s own efforts could therefore, […]
[…] to Covert Action that they waited until issue 33? 34? before referring to us at all. We certainly would not print anything we knew to be Soviet propaganda; and, to our knowledge, have never done so. Indeed, we would not print anything we knew to be anybody’s propaganda. We would be fascinated to see […]
