[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] cited the visit to Fiji by Ambassador Vernon Walters, U.S. pressure on New Zealand over ship visit bans, and what they termed “the recent barrage of U.S. propaganda on growing Libyan interest in the South Pacific.” Other newspapers from across the political spectrum which carried or repeated similar articles on the Fiji coup included […]
[…] weak, demoralised and out of control – MI5 was clearly not regarded as much better. All this was positioned in the context of a history of simplistic propaganda that London had become a haven for Islamic extremists – the trite nonsense exemplified by Melanie Phillips’ too easy adoption of the French propaganda term ‘Londonistan’. […]
[…] this? Because Harris told them. Harris has a wonderful tale of Bollier’s role in Radio North Sea, a ‘pirate’ radio station which in 1970 was running anti-Labour propaganda. ‘It came on the air on January 23 1970. Its conventional medium wave transmitter was more powerful than any other pirate radio ship, and most European […]
[…] overcome their dislike of the further right and work together in the Anglo-Rhodesian Society (ARS). The ARS was the rebel Rhodesian government’s second attempt to create a propaganda body in Britain. The first attempt had been the Friends of Rhodesia, created by the Rhodesian High Commissioner in London in 1964, before the Declaration of […]
[…] was in fact forged by Leonard (now Sir Leonard) Usher, former mayor of Suva and editor of the Fiji Times, widely involved in production of Alliance Party propaganda. A Royal Commission of Inquiry was set up after the election to investigate Mara’s claim. It also looked at more substantive complaints from the opposition. Mara […]
[…] well not be the whole story. How many were ‘a few, a very few’, especially when ‘a lot’ of these had extreme opinions and were leaking black propaganda about their own government to the press? But despite the uncertainties still left in the wake of Hunt’s admission (what the American call a ‘limited hang-out’), […]
[…] can’t bring herself to state that they were fascist outrages.) Given the patience these absurd examples could be multiplied 10, 20-fold. This book is mostly junk, mere propaganda. I had it with me to read on the train when I visited Colin Wallace. I showed him the list of contributors and mentioned the Jonathan […]
