PsyWar.Org
@psywarorg.bsky.social
Documenting the history and techniques of political warfare, propaganda, and disinformation. Also on Substack under the same handle. Legacy TwiX will remain for now.
Report on Kuching Psychological Operations/Propaganda Post April – November 1966: psywarorg.substack.com/p/report-on-...
October 3, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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...
September 29, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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...
September 27, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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...
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...
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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July 28, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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...
July 16, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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.
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July 13, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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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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...
"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...
July 11, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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...
"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...
July 9, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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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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
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
July 4, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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
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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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...
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
www.theguardian.com
July 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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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At Airminded: Airminded at 0, 5, 10, 15, 20
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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July 2, 2025 at 11:10 PM
At Airminded: Airminded at 0, 5, 10, 15, 20
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👀 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.
✏️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.
July 1, 2025 at 10:33 AM
👀 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.
✏️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...
June 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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 by Samuel Hui smallwarsjournal.com/2025/06/26/a...
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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June 27, 2025 at 5:01 AM
America’s Forgotten War in China: Psychological Warfare Against Imperial Japan’s Chinese Puppet Army by Samuel Hui smallwarsjournal.com/2025/06/26/a...
A Political Warfare Executive Lecture on the spreading of rumours - Sibs: What they are and how they work psywarorg.substack.com/p/sibs-what-...
Sibs: What they are and how they work
A PWE Lecture
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June 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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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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. 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...
The Unavowable Information Services of Her Majesty’s Government Overseas
by Lord Strang
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June 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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. 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...
The Unavowable Information Services of Her Majesty’s Government Overseas
by Lord Strang
psywarorg.substack.com
June 26, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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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“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...
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.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
“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...
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‘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...
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.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 21, 2025 at 9:53 PM
‘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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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."
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.
psywarorg.substack.com
June 17, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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."
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 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."
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.
psywarorg.substack.com
June 17, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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."
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 😕
June 16, 2025 at 10:19 AM
582 days to finally get a response to an FOI. Outcome: Please resubmit FOI with better proof of death 😕
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"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...
www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/a...
Blaise Metreweli to be first female chief of MI6
The veteran intelligence officer will succeed Sir Richard Moore in the autumn
www.thetimes.com
June 15, 2025 at 10:11 PM
"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...
www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/a...
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Intriguing comment in an SOE file regarding Swedish wartime cryptographic capabilities - all encrypted communications up to One Time Pads being vulnerable.
June 13, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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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The (un)official logo for the WOYG (War Office Y Group) at Beaumanor Hall during the Second World War
June 14, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The (un)official logo for the WOYG (War Office Y Group) at Beaumanor Hall during the Second World War