2. Don't pollute your publication list. Hiding a stellar publication amongst a parade of book chapters and book reviews isn't helpful.
3. If you have a Routledge/Palgrave book (everyone seems to), give a sense that it's been well-reviewed / made a splash.
4. Help the panel out with journals - there are so many and some sound really niche! How does the panel know your article is significant? This doesn't mean relying on impact factors but some context can help. & - wider point - choose your journals carefully.
How do you deal with an anti-West journalist who has academic credentials, is given a BBC platform “for balance”, but doesn’t write anything “factually and provably wrong”?
One who is a “ready made channel for motivated disinf.”?
Recent files from 1974 are fascinating:
- a word with the BBC to stop inviting him as an expert
- a quiet word with the newspaper editors to drop him
- publishing an anon letter to the editor
- “inspiring” a critical article somewhere else to discredit him
- set the US on him
The Information Research Dept considered all of the above.
- BBC eventually dropped him
- Guardian were not receptive to a quiet word
- warned the US (he was also writing for WSJ)
Who wants a 🧵of my top ten fake groups set up by UK for propaganda purposes during the Cold War?
Some were used multiple times, others just once.
Some were sophisticated, others, shall we say, less so...
All are revealed in the latest IRD declassifications at @UkNatArchives
10. International Committee for the Investigation of Communist Front Organisations
An entirely fake think tank with offices supposedly in Vienna, Stockholm, Rome, and Cairo. It was the most frequently used fake group and issued non-consecutive bulletins to expose Soviet activity
9. Centre d'Etudies Micro-analytiques
Another notional research institute also designed to expose Soviet activity. Its bulletin was called Microscope.
All of the focus in recent years has been on Russian/Iranian/Chinese ops
As per @stanfordio
"We believe this activity represents the most extensive case of covert pro-Western influence operations on social media to be reviewed and analyzed by open-source researchers to date"
ON SOURCES:
Actors created fake personas linked to fake - supposedly independent - media outlets.
This kind of thing happened a lot in the Cold War. Fake news agencies / think tanks / even liberation groups popped up. The aim was to ensure credibility of the message
"Ukraine now looks to be firing longer-range missiles it wasn't using before... According to one former CIA official, 'That would be the textbook definition of Western covert action assistance.'"