[…] 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 […]
The price you pay In his ‘Ministers’ justification for the banning of an alleged terrorist group is based on propaganda and an outright untruth’ in The Guardian , 19 October 2005, former UK Uzbekistan ambassador Craig Murray, who seems bent on making serious trouble for HMG, gave an example of why the British state […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] which had been known to be a fraud for at least a year, had been ‘withdrawn’ by MI6.(2) The American-British-Australian relationship Michael Moore’s film Fahrenheit-9/11 is great propaganda but, like all propaganda, it isn’t about the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, […]
[…] of propagandistic sources as though they are respectable academic ones; and a related, if surprising, weakness, when it comes to considering BNP ideology and its provenance. The propaganda source referred to is Searchlight magazine, incessantly cited by Copsey as authoritative on fascist activity, strategy or simply factual developments. I have shown repeatedly elsewhere () […]
[…] 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 […]
