Declassified documents show UK partnered w/CIA to discredit Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)

[Buddy]

Revealed: how UK targeted American civil rights leader in covert campaign

Secret Foreign Office unit distributed literature from fake sources to discredit Stokely Carmichael

www.theguardian.com

The British government targeted the American civil rights leader Stokely Carmichael and sought to weaken the Black Power movement with covert disinformation campaigns, recently declassified documents have revealed.

The effort was the work of a secret unit known as the Information Research Department, based in London and part of the Foreign Office, which created and distributed literature from fake sources as part of a broader effort to destabilise cold war enemies.
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The effort against Carmichael, a firebrand orator who travelled to west Africa in part to escape harassment by US law enforcement agencies, aimed to portray the prominent Black Power leader as a foreign interloper in Africa who was contemptuous of the inhabitants of the continent.

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The British were not alone in using such tactics. The KGB committed significant resources to disinformation campaigns throughout the cold war and achieved some significant successes. One pamphlet produced by the Soviet service reported accurate American statistics and real cases of race crimes in order to turn African audiences against the US. It was made to look like it had been written by an African-American organisation agitating against the Ku Klux Klan.


The full article is worth checking out. Talks about fake orgs being cropped up, Nkrumah apparently was apparently co-opted in it, etc. I just think it's... interesting

 

[Marks]

There was a doc on youtube put out a couple years ago around a UK intelligence office and it was wild how much psyops the UK was dropping on everybody. Even for shyt you wouldn't expect like satanic panic and church related stuff. The west really do exert their power in all types of ways, and great deal of it is subtler than ppl think.

Actually found it:

 

[Savvir]

....and after all this it turned out that white supremacy was the real threat to the government

 

[concise]

When he was born in Trinidad, it was still part of the UK. I'm sure they supplied the CIA with info 1st.

 

[bnew]

....and after all this it turned out that white supremacy was the real threat to the government

always was, they literally overthrew local governments with elected black officials.

 

[Voice of Reason]

A lot of y’all are agents

 

[get these nets]

@Buddy

Good post. We said THE ENTIRE TIME that people were using an old playbook. We shut down the old rehashed arguments that resurfaced via the same interests who promoted them in past eras.

.MFers who were running with that bullshyt are just stupid and gullible, and can never be taken seriously.

 

[Luke Cage]

And people still believe the so far undisclosed intel the fbi has on mlk when racist ass hoover was in charge

 

[Buddy]

@bnew

Good post. We said THE ENTIRE TIME that people were using an old playbook. We shut down the old rehashed arguments that resurfaced via the same interests who promoted them in past eras.

.MFers who were running with that bullshyt are just stupid and gullible, and can never be taken seriously.

Those who don't learn from history...

 

[get these nets]

Those who don't learn from history...

The thing is, people likely to buy into that don't have a clue about History. Or any genuine interest in learning anything.


That shyt has a natural appeal for low intelligence underachievers. And the interests promoting that propaganda know this very well. Which buttons to push, which insecurities to exploit.

Same way they exploit poor whites into doing their bidding.

 

[Geode]

The Uk was going through its own black power movement and just the uk being the uk, so none of this is surprising.

As much as the US had a hard on for defeating communist growth, especially in Africa, UK knew it needed to be right there beside them to keep benefitting.

 

[get these nets]

Posted this a few times during origin war era. From Malcolm Speaks.

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His letters from his trip to West Africa in 1964. Talks about the propaganda campaign.





I generally like this forum, but one of the negatives was finding out that most dudes here were cosplay activists and pretend scholars.

YTer filtered propaganda wouldn't have worked on anybody who was half-way knowledgeable about History.

 

[3rdWorld]

The Anglo Saxons

Whether British or American never actually stopped their war games against us, only the mediums, players and locations changed but their goal has remained the same.
They are so fearful and paranoid of us, they try to kill our spiritually and sense of worth in the baby carriage.

They lied about Stokely having contempt for West Africans whilst living with them

This was done to create a climate of Black on Black strife no one would know the origins of but somehow find themselves fighting it for no good reason.
The cia flooded Black communities with crack and guns for this very purpose. Today they use media to create a climate of Black on Black violence, hence why they ran to own and control hip hop and release for two full decades anti Black intellectualism and pro violence and debauchery teachings on cd with nice backing music to bop your head to..

 

[O³ (O cubed)]

And brehs wonder why there's a supposedly diaspora war. White man made concerted effort to keep black Africans and black Americans apart.

 

[Amo Husserl]