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Documenting the history and techniques of political warfare, propaganda, and disinformation. Also on Substack under the same handle. Legacy TwiX will remain for now.

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PsyWar.Org @psywarorg.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Sir Stafford Cripps and the German Admiral's Orgy: The Gustav Siegfried Eins Controversy psywarorg.substack.com/p/sir-staffo...
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PsyWar.Org @psywarorg.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
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...
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PsyWar.Org @psywarorg.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Report on Kuching Psychological Operations/Propaganda Post April – November 1966: psywarorg.substack.com/p/report-on-...
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PsyWar.Org @psywarorg.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
A Review of the Activities of the PWE Sub-Mission (Bari) Jan to Oct 1944: psywarorg.substack.com/p/a-review-o...
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PsyWar.Org @psywarorg.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
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...
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PsyWar.Org @psywarorg.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
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...
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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.
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PsyWar.Org @psywarorg.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
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...
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PsyWar.Org @psywarorg.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
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...
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PsyWar.Org @psywarorg.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
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...
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PsyWar.Org @psywarorg.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
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...
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Royal Air Force Museum @rafmuseum.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
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
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Peter Pomerantsev @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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...
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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
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Brett Holman @airminded.org · 03/07/2025
At Airminded: Airminded at 0, 5, 10, 15, 20
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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...
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Dr. Dan Lomas @sandbaggerone.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
👀 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.
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PsyWar.Org @psywarorg.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS: Lecture given by Sir Leslie Glass to the National Defence College on 14 March 1973 psywarorg.substack.com/p/psychologi...
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PsyWar.Org @psywarorg.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
America’s Forgotten War in China: Psychological Warfare Against Imperial Japan’s Chinese Puppet Army by Samuel Hui smallwarsjournal.com/2025/06/26/a...
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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...
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PsyWar.Org @psywarorg.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
A Political Warfare Executive Lecture on the spreading of rumours - Sibs: What they are and how they work psywarorg.substack.com/p/sibs-what-...
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Sibs: What they are and how they work
A PWE Lecture
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Rory Cormac @rorycormac.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Great to see the incomparable @psywarorg.bsky.social back up and running - now on substack
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PsyWar.Org @psywarorg.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
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...
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The Unavowable Information Services of Her Majesty’s Government Overseas
by Lord Strang
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Gary Rawnsley @garydrawnsley.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
‘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...
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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.
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PsyWar.Org @psywarorg.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
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."
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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.
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PsyWar.Org @psywarorg.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
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."
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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.
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PsyWar.Org @psywarorg.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
582 days to finally get a response to an FOI. Outcome: Please resubmit FOI with better proof of death 😕
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Dr. Dan Lomas @sandbaggerone.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
"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...
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Blaise Metreweli to be first female chief of MI6
The veteran intelligence officer will succeed Sir Richard Moore in the autumn
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PsyWar.Org @psywarorg.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Intriguing comment in an SOE file regarding Swedish wartime cryptographic capabilities - all encrypted communications up to One Time Pads being vulnerable.
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NSIST @nsistuk.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
The (un)official logo for the WOYG (War Office Y Group) at Beaumanor Hall during the Second World War
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PsyWar.Org @psywarorg.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Intriguing comment in an SOE file regarding Swedish wartime cryptographic capabilities - all encrypted communications up to One Time Pads being vulnerable.
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PsyWar.Org @psywarorg.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
From the Horse's Mouth: The Types of Research Units and What is Black, Grey and White Propaganda: substack.com/@psywarorg/p...
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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”.
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PsyWar.Org @psywarorg.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
From the Horse's Mouth: The Types of Research Units and What is Black, Grey and White Propaganda: substack.com/@psywarorg/p...
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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”.
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