British Spooks “Who’s Who” part 2

Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££

[…] (G 17.2.69) 1970 FCO CHILD, CLIFTON JAMES OBE (1949) B 20.6.12 1940 ROYAL CORPS SIGNALS 1941 FO POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE DEPT. COVER FOR PWE. PART OF DELMER’S ‘BLACK’ PROPAGANDA TEAM. IN CHARGE INTELLIGENCE SECTION 1946 HEAD OF AMERICAN SECTION RESEARCH DEPT 1958 AFRICAN SECTION 1962 DEPUTY LIBRARIAN AND KEEPER OF THE PAPERS FO 1967 CABINET […]

Conspiracy: Plots, Lies and Cover-ups

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] 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 […]

The 1986 National Front Split, Part 1

Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££

[…] 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 […]

Afterword: the search for “Maurice Bishop”

Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££

[…] 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 […]

007: a new theory

Lobster Issue 9 (1985) £££

[…] that a Soviet plane had fired at something, and they knew a Korean airliner had crashed. Even if they thought the Schultz story was wrong, once the propaganda had started to flow (“This was the Soviet Union against the world and the moral precepts which guide human relations among people everywhere” – R. Reagan) […]

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 […]

Behind right-wing conspiracy theories

Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££

[…] automatically dismiss someone as paranoid, one 1964 account of the Kennedy assassination (Red Roses from Texas by Nerin E. Gunn) quotes, as an example of vicious anti-JFK propaganda, a rightist broadsheet headlined ‘Kennedy Keeps Mistresses’. I am well aware that there are left conspiracy theories as ridiculous as right-wing ones. The all-time ripe example […]

Briefly: Ideas. Blitz to Blair. Covert Network. etc

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Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] a useful overview of the subject and its problems – of which the chief one is the fact that many of the so-called think tanks are essentially propaganda operations – we get accounts of the Adam Smith Institute, the Social Market Foundation and the Institute for Economic Affairs. There is much interesting detail here […]

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 […]

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 […]

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