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 […]

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 […]

Banana Republicans

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Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)

[…] £7.99   This is well written, detailed and documented. The authors describe how American business funds the American right and how that right operates: its think-tanks, its propaganda outfits, its hired hack journalists, its PR firms; and how it commissions and disseminates phoney research, runs smear campaigns and psy-ops, gerrymanders electoral districts, and steals […]

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) […]

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 […]

Notes from the underground part 3: British fascism 1983-6

Lobster Issue 25 (1993)

[…] that man must again learn to live in harmony with the forces of nature instead of waging constant war against them.’ (28) The practical (as opposed to propaganda) consequences were few, however. In 1985 one Michael Fishwick (later editor of NF News) was expelled from the Hunt Saboteurs Association. Enquiries made of the HSA […]

Who’s afraid of the KGB

Lobster Issue 6 (1984)

[…] pseudo-social science – ‘a longitudinal study’ etc, complete with graphs and diagrams – the authors repeatedly shoot themselves in the foot (feet?) by citing examples of Soviet propaganda ‘falsehoods’ which are, to anyone outside the ranks of the fruit-cake right-wing, manifestly true. For example, in the study of Soviet propaganda themes 1976-1979, they tell […]

Hess, ‘Hess’ and the ‘peace Party’ (Book review)

Lobster Issue 17 (1988)

[…] 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 […]

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