Thread by @BillyBostickson

1. This is useful but not to be tried at home

Keep it Short and Simple (KISS)

"The simplest and most effective of all ‘black’ operations is to spit in a man’s soup and cry ‘Heil Hitler!’”

Sefton Delmer -Black Propaganda

image tks @thegrugq

World War 2 "Black Propaganda"

"This Book has been out of print and unavailable for far to long. For very similar reasons as to why Sefton Delmer wrote this book in 1962, I feel it is important that this information is available on the world wide web"

seftondelmer.co.uk/contents.htm

Some very expensive print editions can be found

biblio.co.uk/book/black-boo…

or try here for an electronic version

vdoc.pub/documents/blac…

"Trail Sinister", Volume 1 of his autobiography, is going for 238$ in New Zealand

biblio.co.nz/book/trail-sin…

I have not found an electronic version yet

Some background on Sefton Delmer if you don't fancy reading the second part of his autobiography

17 minutes - well researched

Secret Transmitter Code Name "Aspidistra"

500 KW + on AM

History:

1. danehillhistory.org/uploads/3/9/8/…

2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspidistr…

3. web.archive.org/web/2007092701…

Site visit:

subbrit.org.uk/sites/crowboro…

Analysis by @schneierblog

schneier.com/blog/archives/…

Photos: archive.ph/QkBzJ

The transmitter was crated up, shipped to the UK and installed in Sussex.

arizona-am.net/WLW/Docs/Aspid…

They named it after a song sung by the English music hall entertainer, Gracie Fields:

The Biggest Aspidistra in the World

A Good Example of Strategic Planning

Attack on Morale of German Forces in Norway

Memorandum by Sefton Delmer, circa late 1943/early 1944

seftondelmer.co.uk/memo-most-secr…

Lessons to be Learned and Adapted as Necessary

The "indestructible weeds of historical truth"

"Reeducation needs careful tending, like an English lawn. Even one moment of negligence, and the weeds crop up again ~ those indestructible weeds of historical truth"

Sefton Delmer

Reeducation = Natural Origin of SARS-COV-2 ;)

Voice of "the Chef" (mp3 in German)

Sefton Delmer broadcast to Germany, pretending to be a disgruntled German military man dissatisfied with Hitler's beliefs, on a programme called Gustav Siegfried Eins. His nickname was 'Der Chef'.

clutch.open.ac.uk/schools/emerso…

"H.M.G.'s secret pornographer" Sefton Delmer

seftondelmer.co.uk/hmg.htm

This annoyed Dick "Double Crossman" (pictured) who worked for Robert Bruce Lockhart in the Political Warfare Executive, running the anti-Nazi propaganda broadcasts for "Radio of the European Revolution"

"Grey" Propaganda Newspapers

Nachrichten für die Truppe, a 'grey' propaganda newspaper, was put together daily by a joint team of British and American journalists under the direction of Sefton Delmer.

bock-schroeder.com/sefton-delmer

US analysis of Britain's PWE

mikemcclaughry.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/the-po…

French Analysis (in French)

Sefton Delmer. Corsaire des ondes de sa Majesté

Sefton Delmer. His Majesty’s Black Radio Man

journals.openedition.org/lisa/919

One of Sefton Delmer's Books

"The Germans and I" (in German)

ulis-buecherecke.ch/pdf_berichte_d…

or

archive.org/stream/die-deu…

Warning, 800 + Pages!

Biography

biographics.org/sefton-delmer-…

Smithsonian Magazine Article

The Fake British Radio Show That Helped Defeat the Nazis

smithsonianmag.com/history/fake-b…

Crossman (Dick "Double Crossman") en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_C…
moved from the PWE after WW2 to The Information Research Department
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informati…
perhaps most famous for the "Orwell List" and translating, promoting and printing vast quantities of Orwell's Book "Animal Farm"

The Information Research Department (IRD) also funded, published & distributed several of Crossman's books, including "The God that Failed"

6 anti-communist essays by Fischer, Gide, Koestler, Silone, Spender & Wright

chinhnghia.com/the-god-that-f…

or

archive.org/details/in.ern…

If curious about the topic of subversive propaganda, its history & practical application, I recommend 2 resources:

1. Propaganda & Mass Persuasion
Historical Encyclopedia (1500-2003)

sipa.jlu.edu.cn/__local/6/6D/1…

2. British Subversive Propaganda during WW2

sci-hub.hkvisa.net/10.1007/978-3-…