[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 – […]
[…] the press might collude in keeping its existence (rather than its personnel) secret. This network has been operating since 2002 and has motive and means for anti-Islamist propaganda operations and for the laundering of Guantanamo and Arab states’ security and intelligence information. It is allegedly a Franco-US funded operation. Given what we know about […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] Box 76D, New Malden, Surrey, KT3 4BB, UK. In the US from PO Box 597004, Department 608, San Francisco, CA 94164-9004. Coming In From The Cold: British Propaganda and Red Army Defectors 1945-52 Wesley K. Wark in International History Review February 1987 This is an interesting addition to what little information we have on […]
[…] the case of ‘public diplomacy’, while public does mean open, diplomacy doesn’t mean diplomacy. ‘Public diplomacy’ is a recent term for a range of activities hitherto called propaganda, public relations, advertising and psy-ops. So while this book could have been been about the CIA, IRD, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and its little […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] of being a British spy chief. In September 1983 the RUC leaked to the Belfast Newsletter the information that a file on British Army psy ops (black propaganda) was missing when the Terry investigators went to look for it. They were told that it had been sent to the MOD in London and that […]
