Jonestown. The secret life of Jim Jones: a parapolitical fugue

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] 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 […]

The SAS, their early days in Ireland and the Wilson Plot

Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££

[…] 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 […]

Churchill and The Focus

Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££

[…] 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) […]

Kincoragate: parapolitics

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

[…] 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 […]

Re:

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] global media ecology….in the battle for hearts and minds…the impact of such operations at home may be their most important legacy. IO “blowback” occurs as surveillance and propaganda campaigns targeting foreign audiences spill back into the US because of the nature of the global media and information flows.’(21) The miners united… A former Bedfordshire […]

The big one? 9:11 Revealed. Challenging the facts behind the War on Terror

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Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] the Twin Towers were feeble and incompetent. If it was a fake, could they not have manufactured more plausible Iraqi links? Why give al-Qaeda such a massive propaganda victory? And even if blaming al-Qaeda made any kind of sense, why do something so massive and so economically destructive? The same propaganda effect, the same […]

How to Fix an Election

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

[…] 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 […]

Parallel development: the Workers Party and the Progressive Unionist Party in Northern Ireland

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] relation to this group. The UCA smear What is not true, but was latterly claimed, was that Elliot was leader of the mysterious Ulster Citizens Army, whose propaganda leaflets carried the Connolly Plough. The UCA was not a creation of Army Information Policy at Lisburn, though Colin Wallace has acknowledged that the Army gave […]

Re:

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

[…] the Allies against Germany.(10) Umaru Bah examines his theories of development communication research and its involvement in ‘promoting US foreign policy objectives in general, and Cold War propaganda objectives in particular.’(11) Another academic, psychologist Carl Rogers,also had links to the CIA-funded Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology.(12) Demanchick and Kirschenbaum provide the details […]

The Activity, Grenada

Lobster Issue 3 (1984) £££

[…] 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 […]

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