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Haven't done a #FakeFriday for a couple of weeks, so here's a fun one about propaganda and the royals:
1977: The Palace didn't want Idi Amin to come to UK for commonwealth heads of government meeting during the jubilee year.
Shaking hands with the queen would be embarrassing
1977: The Palace didn't want Idi Amin to come to UK for commonwealth heads of government meeting during the jubilee year.
Shaking hands with the queen would be embarrassing
as an aside, the Queen had dismissed similar fears a few years earlier, quipping it would not have been the first time she had met murderers.
anyway, back to 1977.
🚨Parliament tried to prevent Amin from coming.
🚨The gov even developed a dramatic plan to use special forces to bundle him back into an airplane.
🚨The FCO passed a confidential warning to Amin via Saudi Arabia: do not come
🚨Parliament tried to prevent Amin from coming.
🚨The gov even developed a dramatic plan to use special forces to bundle him back into an airplane.
🚨The FCO passed a confidential warning to Amin via Saudi Arabia: do not come
In the mid-1960s, British propagandist forged Muslim Brotherhood leaflets to attack Indonesia’s President Sukarno.
Pigs meat, prostitution and sex trafficking
They didn’t hold back
A short #fakefriday thread
1/5
Pigs meat, prostitution and sex trafficking
They didn’t hold back
A short #fakefriday thread
1/5
Through 3 forgeries, the IRD (of @FCDOGovUK) aimed to:
💥 expose Sukarno’s desire to take over leadership of the Muslim world
đź’Ą antagonise Muslim leaders in the Middle East
đź’Ą discredit Sukarno 2/5
💥 expose Sukarno’s desire to take over leadership of the Muslim world
đź’Ą antagonise Muslim leaders in the Middle East
đź’Ą discredit Sukarno 2/5
Forgery one:
Prostitutes
Fake Muslims
Pigs meat
Coating lips with paint
“A great insult to the whole Islamic world” 3/5
Prostitutes
Fake Muslims
Pigs meat
Coating lips with paint
“A great insult to the whole Islamic world” 3/5
1968: mass protests, social unrest, opposition to Vietnam, assassination of Martin Luther King.
How did UK a propaganda exploit this?
With a fake “ultra-left” student group of course!
This week’s #fakefriday thread from the archives… 1/7
How did UK a propaganda exploit this?
With a fake “ultra-left” student group of course!
This week’s #fakefriday thread from the archives… 1/7
The 1968 World Youth Festival took place in Sofia.
The IRD swung into action to expose it as a Soviet front - using unattributed newspaper articles and even a reports by a fake thinktank
But they wanted to do more. 2/7
The IRD swung into action to expose it as a Soviet front - using unattributed newspaper articles and even a reports by a fake thinktank
But they wanted to do more. 2/7
Exposure was not enough.
Enter the “Committee for European Syndicalist Action”
The IRD put out a pamphlet in its name to “cause trouble” and disrupt the event.
The group did not exist.
3/7
Enter the “Committee for European Syndicalist Action”
The IRD put out a pamphlet in its name to “cause trouble” and disrupt the event.
The group did not exist.
3/7
Who wants to see a real British forgery from 1963?
This one was designed to “intensify indignation” of African students towards the Soviets
A #fakefriday thread 🧵 1/9
This one was designed to “intensify indignation” of African students towards the Soviets
A #fakefriday thread 🧵 1/9
First, some context:
In early 1963, African students in Bulgaria violently clashed with police after authorities banned their attempts to establish and all-African Students’ Union.
How could 🇬🇧 exploit this??
2/9
In early 1963, African students in Bulgaria violently clashed with police after authorities banned their attempts to establish and all-African Students’ Union.
How could 🇬🇧 exploit this??
2/9
By forging a World Federation of Democratic Youth response obviously
(WFDY being a Soviet front)
3/9
(WFDY being a Soviet front)
3/9
