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Sir Stafford Cripps and the German Admiral's Orgy: The Gustav Siegfried Eins Controversy psywarorg.substack.com/p/sir-staffo...

From the Archives of the Political Warfare Executive, June 1943. Outline of Resistance Methods to be Encouraged amongst Belgian Workers in Germany: psywarorg.substack.com/p/outline-of...

Report on Kuching Psychological Operations/Propaganda Post April – November 1966: psywarorg.substack.com/p/report-on-...

A Review of the Activities of the PWE Sub-Mission (Bari) Jan to Oct 1944: psywarorg.substack.com/p/a-review-o...

The Story of Cornflakes, Pig Iron and Sheet Iron. A booklet produced and printed in Rome in April 1945 by the Office of Strategic Service Morale Operations: psywarorg.substack.com/p/oss-morale...

Final Report on the Clandestine Bulgarian Broadcasting Station New Europe, (Research Unit X.2) New Europe was a clandestine black propaganda radio station operated by the Political Warfare Executive.

New Europe was a clandestine radio station. The station pretended to be a German station directed to the Bulgarian population. It closely followed the style of the real German service to Bulgaria but presented news and talks in an arrogant and boastful way psywarorg.substack.com/p/final-repo...

From the Archives: Report on the WWI leaflet-newspaper Le Courrier de l'Air by Edward Heron-Allen psywarorg.substack.com/p/a-report-o...

SOE Covert Broadcasting. This report written by Ralph Murray of PWE's Middle East Mission outlines covert broadcasting by Special Operations Executive from Jerusalem to the Balkans.

psywarorg.substack.com/p/a-report-o...

PWE Forward Units
"The idea of ‘frontline propaganda’ is nothing new in warfare ...Political warfare in the field on the other hand, is a conception of rather wider scope and more recent date." psywarorg.substack.com/p/pwe-forwar...

Overview of several Psychological Warfare operations conducted in the early Cold War period, submitted as an annex to a British Defence Coordination Committee (Far East) meeting, re requirements of PsyWar equipment for Cold & Limited War in the Far East. psywarorg.substack.com/p/examples-o...

Remember that curious little object we teased earlier this week? 👀 It’s one of MI9’s brilliant escape tools! 🕵️‍♂️💡

Watch Assistant Curator Caitlin reveal its secrets 🎥✈️

Then help us move more RAF wonders into their new home: www.rafmuseum.org.uk/crate-escape 💙📦

#HistoryInMotion #CrateEscape

The man who tricked Nazi Germany: lessons from the past on how to beat disinformation The story of the British man who took on Hitler’s information machine offers valuable insights into the fight against the rise of authoritarianism

Sefton Delmer lead Britain's counter-propaganda against the Nazis. He didn't believe in lecturing fascists about democracy. He was a trickster who wanted to undermine the hold Hitler had on his followers. We can learn a few tricks, and mistakes, from him today. www.theguardian.com/books/2024/m...

Airminded at 0, 5, 10, 15, 20 Airminded is 20 years old today. That's a long time in blog years. Airminded at 0 I was an almost-young almost-PhD student. Airminded was going to be a place for me to talk about things I'd found duri...

At Airminded: Airminded at 0, 5, 10, 15, 20

👀 Detail from a wartime "CX" report circulated by SIS in February 1944.

✏️The agent, part of a network codenamed "W", drew this image of defences near Ghent. It was smuggled back to Britain by a courier and copied.

It's just one example of SIS's vital contribution in WW2.

PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS: Lecture given by Sir Leslie Glass to the National Defence College on 14 March 1973 psywarorg.substack.com/p/psychologi...

America’s Forgotten War in China: Psychological Warfare Against Imperial Japan’s Chinese Puppet Army | Small Wars Journal by Arizona State University The US executed a little-known World War II psychological warfare campaign against the Chinese Reorganized National Government. These "morale operations" targeted Chinese collaborationist forces—not t...

America’s Forgotten War in China: Psychological Warfare Against Imperial Japan’s Chinese Puppet Army by Samuel Hui smallwarsjournal.com/2025/06/26/a...

Sibs: What they are and how they work A PWE Lecture

A Political Warfare Executive Lecture on the spreading of rumours - Sibs: What they are and how they work psywarorg.substack.com/p/sibs-what-...

Great to see the incomparable @psywarorg.bsky.social back up and running - now on substack

The Unavowable Information Services of Her Majesty’s Government Overseas by Lord Strang

The Unavowable Information Services of Her Majesty’s Government Overseas by Lord Strang. A report on the early history, the function, costs and future of the Information Research Department, dated July 1963. psywarorg.substack.com/p/the-unavow...

Israeli warning call to top Iranian general: ‘You have 12 hours to escape’ An audio recording obtained exclusively by The Washington Post is a window into the covert campaign by Israeli intelligence to intimidate Iranian military officials.

“People working for Israel’s security services who speak Persian, Iran’s primary language, called [20+] senior Iranian officials on their cellphones and warned them that they, too, would die unless they ceased supporting the regime of…Ali Khamenei” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Voice of America: Hundreds of reporters fired as Trump guts outlet The majority of VOA - some 85% of the workforce - has been laid off since Trump ordered it dismantled.

‘Steve Herman, VOA's chief national correspondent, called the dismantling of the outlet, which was set up during World War Two to counter Nazi propaganda, a "historic act of self-sabotage"’ @newsguy.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ian Fleming, 007 - James Bond by Sefton Delmer The two immigration officers in the departure lounge at London airport were chatting together as I laid my passport on their desk.

Ian Fleming by Sefton Delmer: psywarorg.substack.com/p/ian-flemin...
Sefton Delmer reflects on his friendship with Ian Fleming - former PA to the Director of Naval Intelligence & James Bond author. " [A] man who never pretended to be a great artist, or intellectual, but nevertheless was both."

Ian Fleming, 007 - James Bond by Sefton Delmer The two immigration officers in the departure lounge at London airport were chatting together as I laid my passport on their desk.

Ian Fleming by Sefton Delmer: psywarorg.substack.com/p/ian-flemin...
Sefton Delmer reflects on his friendship with Ian Fleming - former PA to the Director of Naval Intelligence & James Bond author. " [A] man who never pretended to be a great artist, or intellectual, but nevertheless was both."

582 days to finally get a response to an FOI. Outcome: Please resubmit FOI with better proof of death 😕

Blaise Metreweli to be first female chief of MI6 The veteran intelligence officer will succeed Sir Richard Moore in the autumn

"Blaise Metreweli will succeed Sir Richard Moore in the autumn in what Sir Keir Starmer called a “historic” appointment. She takes over after a 26-year intelligence career at a time when Starmer says Britain faces threats on an unprecedented scale".

www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/a...

Intriguing comment in an SOE file regarding Swedish wartime cryptographic capabilities - all encrypted communications up to One Time Pads being vulnerable.

The (un)official logo for the WOYG (War Office Y Group) at Beaumanor Hall during the Second World War

Intriguing comment in an SOE file regarding Swedish wartime cryptographic capabilities - all encrypted communications up to One Time Pads being vulnerable.

From the Horse's Mouth: The Types of Research Units and What is Black, Grey and White Propaganda Secret radio stations operated by the Political Warfare Executive were given the generic code name of “Research Units”.

From the Horse's Mouth: The Types of Research Units and What is Black, Grey and White Propaganda: substack.com/@psywarorg/p...

From the Horse's Mouth: The Types of Research Units and What is Black, Grey and White Propaganda Secret radio stations operated by the Political Warfare Executive were given the generic code name of “Research Units”.

From the Horse's Mouth: The Types of Research Units and What is Black, Grey and White Propaganda: substack.com/@psywarorg/p...