[…] 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 […]
[…] off were not the same pilot and plane that arrived. Somewhere en route a switch had been made. In the diaries of Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda, there are a number of entries after Hess’s flight to Britain expressing his bafflement that no propaganda was being made with Hess. (Hess was bunged in […]
[…] 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 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
