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2 unusual facts about Black propaganda


Black propaganda

It was also used against domestic opponents of the invasion of Vietnam, labor leaders, and Native Americans .

In Dreux, France, in 1982 the National Front distributed anonymous fake letters, supposedly from an Algerian living in France to a brother living in Algeria.


Radio 1212

Radio 1212 or Nachtsender 1212 was a black propaganda radio station operated from 1944 to 1945 by the Psychological Warfare Branch of the US Office of War Information (OWI) under the direction of CBS radio chief William S. Paley, who was based in London.

Roy Nielsen

Operation Derby initially focused on black propaganda directed towards German soldiers, but they also issued the undercover magazine Fritt Land, and distributed the bi-weekly magazine HÃ¥ndslag (produced in Sweden) and the monthly magazine Det frie Norge (from the Norwegian government in London).

The Terror Network

According to Melvin Goodman, the Head of Office of Soviet Affairs at the CIA from 1976-1987, the claims of a terror network were in fact black propaganda created by the CIA.


see also

Milton Bryan

Church End includes St Peter's Church and the remains of a radio station (Soldatensender Calais) built in the Second World War to broadcast 'black propaganda' into Nazi Germany.

Radio Luxembourg

Radio 1212, an Allied black propaganda radio station operated from 1944 to 1945