Bernard Renouf "Johnny" Johnston - Revision history

Matthew Pringle at 12:44, 21 January 2020

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David at 15:15, 31 March 2015

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David at 15:15, 31 March 2015

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James Gallagher at 20:54, 10 March 2015

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James Gallagher at 19:00, 10 March 2015

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Alex Doherty: /* PsyOps Committee */

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PsyOps Committee

Alex Doherty: /* Role of PsyOps */

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Role of PsyOps

Alex Doherty: /* PsyOps Committee */

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PsyOps Committee

Alex Doherty at 09:50, 5 April 2014

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Alex Doherty: /* Information Policy Unit */

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Information Policy Unit

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 [[Category:Hong Kong|Johnston, Bernard Renouf]]
 [[Category:Psyops|Johnston, Bernard Renouf]]
-[[Category:Saville Inquiry Witnesses|Johnston, Bernard Renouf]]
+[[Category:Saville Inquiry witnesses|Johnston, Bernard Renouf]]
 [[Category:State Violence and Collusion Project|Johnston, Bernard Renouf]]
 [[Category:Propaganda|Johnston, Bernard Renouf]]
 [[Category:British Propaganda|Johnston, Bernard Renouf]]

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−	[[Image:JohnnyJohnston.png~~\|1200px~~\|right\|thumb\|Johnny Johnston in Hong Kong, 1978. Image ©HKSAR Government]]	+	[[Image:JohnnyJohnston.png\|right\|thumb\|1000px\|Johnny Johnston in Hong Kong, 1978. Image ©HKSAR Government]]
	Lt.-Col. [[Bernard Renouf "Johnny" Johnston]] (died 23 March 2009, aged 88<ref>[http://www.royaltankregiment.com/en-GB/tothegreenfields.aspx To the Green Fields], The Royal Tank Regiment Association, accessed 12 June 2010.</ref>) was a British Army officer<ref>[http://www.royaltankregiment.com/en-GB/tothegreenfields.aspx To the Green Fields], The Royal Tank Regiment Association, accessed 12 June 2010.</ref> and in the late 1960s and early 1970s one of the British military's leading experts on psyops. After retiring from the British Army in 1975 he worked in PR for the Hong Kong government.		Lt.-Col. [[Bernard Renouf "Johnny" Johnston]] (died 23 March 2009, aged 88<ref>[http://www.royaltankregiment.com/en-GB/tothegreenfields.aspx To the Green Fields], The Royal Tank Regiment Association, accessed 12 June 2010.</ref>) was a British Army officer<ref>[http://www.royaltankregiment.com/en-GB/tothegreenfields.aspx To the Green Fields], The Royal Tank Regiment Association, accessed 12 June 2010.</ref> and in the late 1960s and early 1970s one of the British military's leading experts on psyops. After retiring from the British Army in 1975 he worked in PR for the Hong Kong government.

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−	[[Image:JohnnyJohnston.png\|~~900px~~\|right\|thumb\|Johnny Johnston in Hong Kong, 1978. Image ©HKSAR Government]]	+	[[Image:JohnnyJohnston.png\|1200px\|right\|thumb\|Johnny Johnston in Hong Kong, 1978. Image ©HKSAR Government]]
	Lt.-Col. [[Bernard Renouf "Johnny" Johnston]] (died 23 March 2009, aged 88<ref>[http://www.royaltankregiment.com/en-GB/tothegreenfields.aspx To the Green Fields], The Royal Tank Regiment Association, accessed 12 June 2010.</ref>) was a British Army officer<ref>[http://www.royaltankregiment.com/en-GB/tothegreenfields.aspx To the Green Fields], The Royal Tank Regiment Association, accessed 12 June 2010.</ref> and in the late 1960s and early 1970s one of the British military's leading experts on psyops. After retiring from the British Army in 1975 he worked in PR for the Hong Kong government.		Lt.-Col. [[Bernard Renouf "Johnny" Johnston]] (died 23 March 2009, aged 88<ref>[http://www.royaltankregiment.com/en-GB/tothegreenfields.aspx To the Green Fields], The Royal Tank Regiment Association, accessed 12 June 2010.</ref>) was a British Army officer<ref>[http://www.royaltankregiment.com/en-GB/tothegreenfields.aspx To the Green Fields], The Royal Tank Regiment Association, accessed 12 June 2010.</ref> and in the late 1960s and early 1970s one of the British military's leading experts on psyops. After retiring from the British Army in 1975 he worked in PR for the Hong Kong government.

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	[[Image:JohnnyJohnston.png\|900px\|right\|thumb\|Johnny Johnston in Hong Kong, 1978. Image ©HKSAR Government]]		[[Image:JohnnyJohnston.png\|900px\|right\|thumb\|Johnny Johnston in Hong Kong, 1978. Image ©HKSAR Government]]

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 [[Image:JohnnyJohnston.png|900px|right|thumb|Johnny Johnston in Hong Kong, 1978. Image ©HKSAR Government]]
 Lt.-Col. [[Bernard Renouf "Johnny" Johnston]] (died 23 March 2009, aged 88<ref>[http://www.royaltankregiment.com/en-GB/tothegreenfields.aspx To the Green Fields], The Royal Tank Regiment Association, accessed 12 June 2010.</ref>) was a British Army officer<ref>[http://www.royaltankregiment.com/en-GB/tothegreenfields.aspx To the Green Fields], The Royal Tank Regiment Association, accessed 12 June 2010.</ref> and in the late 1960s and early 1970s one of the British military's leading experts on psyops.  After retiring from the British Army in 1975 he worked in PR for the Hong Kong government.
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	:: A. I do not think that there was a record of that meeting."		:: A. I do not think that there was a record of that meeting."
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		+	At another point during cross-examination INQ 1873 gave the following response to a question regarding the proposed committee:
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		+	::Q. My next question is do you know whether it [the psyop committee] was actually ever set up?
		+	::A. I do not, and - I just do not know, I do not know."<ref> [http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20101103103930/http://report.bloody-sunday-inquiry.org/transcripts/Archive/Ts239.htm#p089 INQ1873 under cross examination at the Bloody Sunday Inquiry], Bloody Sunday Inquiry, 26 September 2002 Pg. 89. Accessed 23 February 2014 </ref>
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	INQ 1873 was then asked whether the PsyOps committee had emerged in another form:		INQ 1873 was then asked whether the PsyOps committee had emerged in another form:

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 INQ 1873 took part in a meeting recounted by [[John Rayner]] on 8 June 1971:
 ::Major General [[Anthony Farrar-Hockley|Farrar-Hockley]] called in Lt.Colonel [redacted - INQ 1873] his Psy-Ops expert, who had already prepared a list of offending articles with cuttings, and I went over these with Colonel [INQ 1873] afterwards. Mr Mooney will take them as a basis for discussion with Colonel INQ 1873 today.<ref>[http://report.bloody-sunday-inquiry.org/evidence/K/KM_0006.pdf#page=112 Statement of Hugh Mooney, Bloody Sunday Inquiry], Bloody Sunday Inquiry, 21 June 2010.</ref>
 ====PsyOps Committee====

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 INQ 1873 told the Bloody Sunday Inquiry that there was a meeting to discuss this document in July 1971. Those present would have included the Commander Land Forces, the Chief of Staff and INQ 1873 himself, as well as a civil representative, probably from the office of the [[UK Representative in Northern Ireland]].<ref>[http://report.bloody-sunday-inquiry.org/transcripts/Archive/Ts242.htm Day 242, pp.56-57], Bloody Sunday Inquiry, 2 October 2002.</ref> He said that although there was no record of meeting, it concluded a PsyOps Committee was not necessary.<ref>[http://report.bloody-sunday-inquiry.org/transcripts/Archive/Ts242.htm Day 242, pp.56-57], Bloody Sunday Inquiry, 2 October 2002.</ref>
-After giving this evidence, INQ 1873, was asked whether the PsyOps committee had emerged in another form:
+Under cross-examination at the Saville Inquiry INQ 1873 gave a highly evasive response to the question as to whether the committee had in fact been set up contrary to his earlier claim:
 :: Q. You know that it appears from this document that the term "PsyOps" was never to be used, or should not be used, because of its sinister implications. Could it be that the committee that was set up was called the [[Military Information Policy Committee]]?
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 ::Q. It may have devolved from that?
 ::A. Yes.<ref>[http://report.bloody-sunday-inquiry.org/transcripts/Archive/Ts242.htm Day 242, p.61], Bloody Sunday Inquiry, 2 October 2002.</ref>
 INQ 1873 and [[Maurice Tugwell]] both testified to the Saville Inquiry that the Psyops Committee proposal was abandoned without ever having met.<ref>[http://report.bloody-sunday-inquiry.org/volume09/chapter178/ Psyops and military information activity], Report of the The Bloody Sunday Inquiry - Volume IX - Chapter 178, 15 June 2010.</ref>

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 ::c. Assistance, as required, with the dissemination of information and publicity matters generally.
 ::d. Co-ordination as necessary with other forces and agencies, including the RUC, when implementing psyops activities.<ref>[http://report.bloody-sunday-inquiry.org/evidence/K/KM_0006.pdf#page=112 Statement of Hugh Mooney, Bloody Sunday Inquiry], Bloody Sunday Inquiry, 21 June 2010.</ref>
 INQ 1873 told the Bloody Sunday Inquiry that there was a meeting to discuss this document in July 1971. Those present would have included the Commander Land Forces, the Chief of Staff and INQ 1873 himself, as well as a civil representative, probably from the office of the [[UK Representative in Northern Ireland]].<ref>[http://report.bloody-sunday-inquiry.org/transcripts/Archive/Ts242.htm Day 242, pp.56-57], Bloody Sunday Inquiry, 2 October 2002.</ref> He said that although there was no record of meeting, it concluded a PsyOps Committee was not necessary.<ref>[http://report.bloody-sunday-inquiry.org/transcripts/Archive/Ts242.htm Day 242, pp.56-57], Bloody Sunday Inquiry, 2 October 2002.</ref>

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 A draft paper prepared by [[Charles Henn]] of [[Defence Secretariat 10|DS10]] on 30 November 1971, described the role of the GSO 1 (Liason) as encompassing psychological operations.<ref>[http://report.bloody-sunday-inquiry.org/evidence/K/KM_0006.pdf#page=99 Organisation of Information Activity for Northern Ireland], 30 November 1971, Bloody Sunday Inquiry, accessed 21 June 2010.</ref>
-At the bloody sunday inquiry INQ 1873 confirmed that his initial official title in Northern Ireland was "Psyops Staff Officer" later changed to GS01 Liaison (presumably in order to furnish deniability regarding the execution of PsyOps in Northern Ireland and that he was knows as Major General Farrar Hockley's PsyOps expert. <ref> [http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20101103103930/http://report.bloody-sunday-inquiry.org/transcripts/Archive/Ts242.htm#p007  INQ1873 under cross examination at the Bloody Sunday Inquiry], Bloody Sunday Inquiry, 2 October 2002 Pg. 055. Accessed 5 April 2014 </ref>
+At the bloody sunday inquiry INQ 1873 confirmed that his initial official title in Northern Ireland was "Psyops Staff Officer" later changed to GS01 Liaison (presumably in order to furnish deniability regarding the execution of PsyOps in Northern Ireland and that he was known as [[Major General Farrar Hockley]]'s PsyOps expert. <ref> [http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20101103103930/http://report.bloody-sunday-inquiry.org/transcripts/Archive/Ts242.htm#p007  INQ1873 under cross examination at the Bloody Sunday Inquiry], Bloody Sunday Inquiry, 2 October 2002 Pg. 055. Accessed 5 April 2014 </ref>
 Under cross-examination at the Saville Inquiry, INQ 1873 said that this document was "misleading" adding that "The organisation, such as my post, were kept in case a situation developed when it might be necessary to consider use of further Psyops."<ref>[http://report.bloody-sunday-inquiry.org/transcripts/Archive/Ts242.htm#p062 Day 242, pp.64-65], Bloody Sunday Inquiry, 2 October 2002.</ref>