Black propaganda is false material where the source is disguised. It is propaganda that purports to be from a source on one side of a conflict, but is actually from the opposing side. Propaganda is a concerted set of messages aimed at influencing the opinions or behaviors of large numbers of people It is typically used to vilify, embarrass or misrepresent the enemy. ^[1]

It contrasts with grey propaganda, the source of which is not identified, and white propaganda, in which the real source is declared. Propaganda is a concerted set of messages aimed at influencing the opinions or behaviors of large numbers of people White propaganda is Propaganda which truthfully states its origin. The term is also sometimes used as a synonym for particularly malicious wartime propaganda or falsification of information that is captured by an enemy.

Black propaganda may also be used on one's own side, generated by altering genuine enemy propaganda in such a way as to distort its message. This is a particularly powerful tool if the target audience has a poor understanding of the language of the enemy, and is often used to insult the intended recipients, leading to a rallying effect.

Contents 1 Black propaganda in World War II 1.1 British 1.2 German 1.3 Japanese 2 Black propaganda in domestic politics 2.1 Racist black propaganda 2.2 British media 2.3 United States media 2.4 Other black propaganda examples 3 See also 4 External links 5 References

Black propaganda in World War II

British

In Britain, the Political Warfare Executive operated a number of black propaganda radio stations. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located During World War II, the Political Warfare Executive (PWE was a British clandestine body created to produce and disseminate both white and Black propaganda Gustav Siegfried Eins (GS1) was one of the first such stations — purporting to be a clandestine German station. Gustav Siegfried Eins (G3 was a British Black propaganda Radio station during World War II operated by the Political Warfare Executive The speaker, 'Der Chef' purported to be a Nazi extremist, accusing Hitler and his henchmen of going soft. The station focused on alleged corruption and sexual improprieties of Nazi Party members.

Another example was the British radio station Soldatensender Calais, which purported to be a radio station for the German military. Soldatensender Calais (G9 was a British Black propaganda broadcaster during the Second World War operated by the Political Warfare Executive Under the direction of Sefton Delmer, a British journalist who spoke perfect Berliner German, Soldatensender Calais and its associated shortwave station, Kurzwellesender Atlantik, broadcast music, up-to-date sports scores, speeches of Adolf Hitler for "cover", and subtle propaganda. Denis Sefton Delmer ( May 24, 1904 - September 4, 1979) was a British Journalist and Propagandist for the British Hi and welcome to Wikipedia! Please understand that this article is frequently vandalized and vandalism is reverted immediately

There were British black propaganda radio stations in most of the languages of occupied Europe as well as German and Italian. ^[2]. Most of these were based in the area around Woburn Abbey.

David Hare's play Licking Hitler provides a fictionalised account based on the British black propaganda efforts in World War II. David Hare can refer to David Hare (philanthropist (1775–1842 Scottish philanthropist David Hare (artist (1917–1992 U

German

German black propaganda usually took advantage of European racism and anti-Communism. List of racism-related topics|Racism by country Racism, by its simplest definition is the belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that Anti-communism refers to opposition to Communism. Historically the word "communism" has been used to refer to several types of communal social organization and For example, on the night of April 27, 1944 German aircraft under cover of darkness (and possibly carrying fake Royal Air Force markings) dropped propaganda leaflets on occupied Denmark. Events 1124 - David I becomes King of Scotland. 1296 - Battle of Dunbar: The Scots are defeated Year 1944 ( MCMXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Kingdom of Denmark ( ˈd̥ænmɑɡ̊ (archaic ˈd̥anmɑːɡ̊ commonly known as Denmark, is a country in the Scandinavian region of northern Europe These leaflets used the title of Frihedsposten, a genuine Danish underground newspaper, and claimed that the "hour of liberation" was approaching. They instructed Danes to accept "occupation by Russian or specially trained American Negro soldiers" until the first disorders resulting from military operations is over.

The German Büro Concordia organisation operated several black propaganda radio stations (many of which pretended to broadcast illegally from within the countries they targeted). [4]

Japanese

The Tanaka Memorial, a document describing a Japanese plan for world conquest, beginning with the conquest of China, is now believed by most historians to be a forgery. The is an alleged Japanese strategic planning document from 1927 in which Prime Minister Baron Tanaka Giichi laid out for the Emperor Hirohito World domination (sometimes world conquest, global domination, or Colloquially taking over the world) in which a single political authority

The following message was distributed in black propaganda leaflets dropped by the Japanese over the Philippines in World War II. The Philippines ( Filipino: Pilipinas, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines (fil ''Republika ng Pilipinas'' RP It was designed to turn Filipinos against the United States:

Guard Against Venereal Diseases

Lately there has been a great increase in the number of venereal diseases among our officers and men owing to prolific contacts with Filipino women of dubious character. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the

Due to hard times and stricken conditions brought about by the Japanese occupation of the islands, Filipino women were willing to offer themselves for a small amount of foodstuffs. It is advisable in such cases to take full protective measures by use of condoms, protective medicines, etc. ; better still to hold intercourse only with wives, virgins, or women of respective character.

Furthermore, in view of the increase in pro-American leanings, many Filipino women are more than willing to offer themselves to American soldiers, and because Filipinos have no knowledge of hygiene, disease carriers are rampant and due care must be taken.

US Army

Black propaganda in domestic politics

Racist black propaganda

• The Protocols of the Elders of Zion claimed to be the secret protocols of a vast Jewish conspiracy, and was often used as "evidence" by conspiracy theorists and anti-Semitic groups. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion ( Protocols of the wise men of Zion, Library of Congress 's Uniform Title; "Протоколы A conspiracy theory attributes the ultimate cause of an event or chain of events (usually Political, Social or Historical events or the concealment It is now proven to be a forgery produced by the Okhrana, the Tsarist Russian secret police. The Otdeleniye po Okhraneniyu Obshchestvennoy Bezopasnosti i Poryadka ( Отделение по Охранению Общественной Безопасности и Порядка The Russian Empire ( Pre-reform Russian: Pоссійская Имперія Modern Russian: Российская Империя translit: Rossiyskaya Secret police (sometimes political police) are a Police agency which operates in Secrecy to maintain National security against internal ^[3]
• Another example of anti-Semitic black propaganda was Eustace Mullins's book A Racial Program for the Twentieth Century, which purported to be proof of a Jewish/Communist plot against White Americans. Eustace Mullins (born 1923 is an American political writer author biographer and the last surviving protege of the 20th century intellectual and writer Ezra Pound. A Racial Program for the Twentieth Century (occasionally A Radical Program for the Twentieth Century) is an anti-Semitic hoax promoted by
• 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. Dreux is a town and commune in northwest France, in the Eure-et-Loir département. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Year 1982 ( MCMLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar) The National Front ( FN, Front national is a French Far right, Nationalist Political party, founded in 1972 by Jean-Marie The Mon cher Mustapha letter was an anonymous Chain letter distributed in Dreux, France in 1982 by supporters of the Far-right Algeria ( ar [[Arabic]] الجزائر, Al Jaza'ir ælʤæˈzæːʔir Amazigh: ⴷⵥⴰⵢⴻⵔ Dzayer) officially the People's These fake letters, which described immigration as a method of conquering France without war, were instrumental in the National Front victory in the 1983 local council elections in Dreux.
• In the run-up to the 2007 federal election in Australia, flyers were circulated around Sydney under the name of a fake organisation called the Islamic Australia Federation. Federal elections for the Parliament of Australia were held on Saturday 24 November 2007 after a 6-week campaign in which 13 The flyers thanked the Australian Labor Party for supporting terrorism, Islamic fundamentalists, and the Bali bombing suspects. The 2002 Bali bombings occurred on 12 October 2002 in the tourist district of Kuta on the Indonesian island of Bali. A group of Sydney-based Liberal Party members were implicated in the incident. The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party. ^[4][5][6]

British media

• In November 1995 a Sunday Telegraph newspaper article alleged Libya's Saif Qaddafi (Colonel Gaddafi’s son) was connected to a currency counterfeiting plan. The Sunday Telegraph is a British Broadsheet newspaper, founded in 1961 Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi ( سيف الإسلام القذافي, translation Sword of Islam) (born June 25, 1972) is a Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi 1 (معمر القذافي) (born 7 June 1942) also known as Colonel Gaddafi The article was written by Con Coughlin, the paper's chief foreign correspondent and it was falsely attributed to a "British banking official". Con Coughlin is a British journalist and author He is currently the executive foreign editor of the Daily Telegraph and is the author of various In fact, it had been given to him by officers of MI6, who, it transpired, had been supplying Coughlin with material for years^[7]. The Secret Intelligence Service ( SIS) colloquially known as MI6 is the United Kingdom 's external Intelligence agency.

• The Zinoviev letter was a fake letter published in the right-wing British newspaper, the Daily Mail. The " Zinoviev Letter " is a 1924 letter that was allegedly addressed from Grigori Zinoviev, president of the presidium of the Executive Committee of the Communist In Politics, right-wing, the political right, and the Right are positions that uphold traditional values and/or authorities The Daily Mail is a British newspaper currently published in a tabloid format It claimed to be a letter from the Comintern president Grigori Zinoviev to the Communist Party of Great Britain. The Comintern ( Com munist Intern ational also known as the Third International) was an international Communist organisation founded in Moscow Gregory Yevseevich Zinoviev (Григо́рий Евс́еевич Зин́овьев alternative transliteration Grigorii Ovseyevish Zinoviev born Ovsei-Gershon Aronovich The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB was the largest Communist party in the United Kingdom, though it never became a mass party like the Communist parties of It called on Communists to mobilise "sympathetic forces" in the Labour Party and talked of creating dissent in the armed forces. The Zinoviev letter was instrumental in the Conservative victory in the 1924 general election. The Conservative Party (officially the Conservative and Unionist Party) is a Political party in the United Kingdom. The 1924 UK general election was held on 29 October 1924 The Conservatives, led by Stanley Baldwin performed dramatically better in electoral terms than in

United States media

• During the 1972 U.S. presidential election, Donald H. Segretti, a political operative for President Richard Nixon's reelection campaign, released a faked letter, on Senator Edmund Muskie's letterhead, falsely alleging that Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson, against whom Muskie was running for the Democratic Party's nomination, had had an illegitimate child with a seventeen-year-old. The United States presidential election of 1972 was waged on the issues of radicalism and the Vietnam War. Donald Henry Segretti (born September 17, 1941 in San Marino California) was a political operative for the Committee The Committee to Re-elect the President, often abbreviated to CRP or CREEP (an acronym used derisively by critics of the Nixon administration was a Nixon The United States Senate is the Upper house of the bicameral United States Congress, the Lower house being the House of Representatives Edmund Sixtus "Ed" Muskie ( March 28, 1914 – March 26, 1996) was an American Democratic Politician The Democratic Party is one of two major Political parties in the United States, the other being the Republican Party. Muskie, who had been considered the frontrunner, lost the nomination to George McGovern, and Nixon was reelected. George Stanley McGovern The letter was part of a campaign of so-called "dirty tricks", directed by Segretti, and uncovered as part of the Watergate Scandal. In politics and business dirty tricks refers to unethical duplicitous Slanderous or illegal tactics employed to destroy or diminish the effectiveness of opponents The Watergate scandals were a series of Political scandals during the presidency of Richard Nixon that resulted in the Indictment of several of Nixon's Segretti went to prison in 1974 after pleading guilty to three misdemeanor counts of distributing illegal campaign literature. A misdemeanor, or misdemeanour, in many common law legal systems is a "lesser" criminal act

Other black propaganda examples

• The Dossiers Secrets is a collection of forged documents purporting dating back to the time of Christ, which were created and compiled by Pierre Plantard and Philippe de Cherisey. The Dossiers Secrets d'Henri Lobineau ("Secret Files of Henri Lobineau" in English) is a 27 page document that was deposited in the Bibliothèque nationale Pierre Athanase Marie Plantard ( March 18, 1920 &ndash February 3, 2000) was a French draughtsman, best known for being The marquess Philippe de Chérisey ( February 13, 1923 &ndash July 17, 1985) was a French writer radio humorist and actor (under Originally intended to authenticate Plantard's claims of his Merovingian heredity, they were subsequently used in the book Holy Blood Holy Grail as authentic sources of history, and as therefore demonstrating a plot by the Roman Catholic Church to hide the alleged fact that Jesus fathered children with Mary Magdalene. The Merovingians (also Merovings) were a Salian Frankish dynasty that came to rule the Franks in a region (known as Francia in Latin The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail (retitled Holy Blood Holy Grail in the United States) is a controversial book by Michael Baigent Jesus of Nazareth (7–2 BC / BCE —26–36 AD / CE) Saint Mary Magdalen or Mary Magdalene is described both in the canonical New Testament and in the New Testament apocrypha, as a devoted

See also

• False flag
• White propaganda
• Grey propaganda
• Information warfare
• Push polling
• Astroturfing
• Joe job

External links

• Sefton Delmer -Black Boomerang: Sefton Delmer was head of British Black Propaganda during WWII. White propaganda is Propaganda which truthfully states its origin. Propaganda is a concerted set of messages aimed at influencing the opinions or behaviors of large numbers of people Information warfare is the use and management of information in pursuit of a competitive advantage over an opponent A push poll is a Political campaign technique in which an individual or organization attempts to influence or alter the view of respondents under the guise of conducting a Astroturfing in American English is a Neologism for formal Public relations campaigns in Politics and Advertising which seek to create the impression Online a joe job is a spam attack using spoofed sender data and aimed at tarnishing the reputation of the apparent sender and/or induce the recipients to take action against His book Black Boomerang tells the story of his work.
• PsyWar.Org - Black Propaganda and propaganda leaflets database: A website with various articles on black propaganda and psychological warfare. The site has an extensive library of propaganda leaflets from WWI to the present day.
• WW2 propaganda leaflets: A website about airdropped, shelled or rocket fired propaganda leaflets. Has slideshow with many black propaganda leaflets of WW2.
• Gray and Black Radio Propaganda against Nazi Germany Extensively illustrated paper describing the Allied effort in WW II to undermine Germany through unidentified or misidentified radio broadcasts.

References

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