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... growth of labour militancy. Symbolised by Harold Wilson, a nominal 'left-winger' becoming Prime Minister in 1964, this perceptible shift to the left alarmed one group in particular, the professional anti-communist network in Britain, at the heart of which was the Information Research Department (IRD). For a supposedly secret agency, we now know quite a bit about IRD- certainly a great deal more than we did in 1978 when the organisation was closed. IRD finally got partly exposed because of its curious position of working with the intelligence services ...
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... all this anti-Labour propaganda, Labour's total vote went up in the 1951 General Election. The Information Research Department In the labour movement the Trades Union Congress was working with the newly-formed, Foreign Office-based, political warfare executive, operating under cover as the Information Research Department (IRD), in an anti-communist drive. IRD was not an innovation. British politics since World War 1 is studded with clandestine propaganda operations involving the mass media of the day. The claims of massive post-World War 2 media penetration by Aims of Industry and the Economic ...
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... Publishing, Stroud (UK) 25.00 hb This is a really interesting and important book- perhaps the most important book about the British secret state since Fitzgerald and Bloch's British Intelligence and Covert Action in the early 1980s. The incremental uncovering of the Information Research Department (IRD) story has been one of the continuing threads of British parapolitics since Richard Fletcher's pioneering work on it in the mid 1970s; and for several years now a synthesis of all the extant material on IRD has been waiting to be done. But Lashmar and Oliver ...
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... Research Department. As I have shown elsewhere, he was throughly manipulated by the Foreign Office- just like his boss at the time, Ernest Bevin, come to that. This short (142 pages) book contains 47 pages of Mayhew reminiscing about his involvement with IRD. His recollections were taped and edited by Lyn Smith, author in 1980 of one of the first big academic articles about IRD. One or two passages, for example on pp. 27 and 29, seem to me to show signs of Smith inserting material ...
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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 11) April 1986 Last¦ Contents¦ Next Issue 11 Wilson, MI5 and the Rise of Thatcher Covert Operations in British Politics 1974-1978 Appendix 1: ISC, FWF, IRD The origins of the Institute for the Study of Conflict go back to the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) which was set up in West Berlin in 1950 as the CIA's major cultural offensive during the cold war. (1) CCF is believed to have originated in the fertile mind of Frank Wisner of the Office ...
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... for anybody: 'at all times I remained independent, executing only tasks that were in line with my own objectives.'(pp. xii, xiii) But on p. xii of the preface he tells us he 'worked with' the CIA, MI6 and IRD; on p. 20 he tells that briefings he had been getting from an MI6 officer secured for him the job as editor of the Economist's Foreign Report; on p. 51 he writes of a 'part-time consultancy for IRD'; and on p. 86 ...
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... . That such a relationship should exist is obvious enough, but now it has been illustrated. On March 7th Livingstone asked the Foreign Office "How many civil servants were engaged in the Information Research Department in each year since 1971." And got an answer. IRD is the one bit of the secret state, not officially a part of MI6, which the state can't refuse to answer questions on. The figures are: 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 117 99 91 91 88 85 85 (NB This is the ...
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... shooting was part of the demonization of Libya prior to the bombing of that country by the USA, with British assistance. Vialls' attempt to prove that he committed a murder everyone else thinks done by someone else is unique, as far as I am aware. IRD: new material, old lies Another flurry of newspaper articles about IRD's early years occurred in August based on the release of some hitherto secret government files on the department. The only new piece of information I noticed in the press reports was in the Times August ...
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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 38) Winter 1999 Last¦ Contents¦ Next Issue 38 George Orwell and the IRD John Newsinger In their recent history of the Information Research Department (IRD), Paul Lashmar and James Oliver discuss George Orwell's decision to collaborate with that organisation's anti-Communist propaganda operations. They write that 'George Orwell's reputation as a left-wing icon took a body blow from which it may never recover when it was revealed in 1996 that he had cooperated closely with the IRD's Cold Warriors, even offering his own blacklist of eighty-six ...
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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 46) Winter 2003 Last¦ Contents¦ Next Issue 46 Feedback From Garrick Alder Re: John Newsinger's 'Orwell and the IRD in Lobster 38 The appearance since Lobster 45 of further details of Orwell's dealings with the IRD has reminded me how very interested I was by Mr Newsinger's admirable reappraisal of the Orwell/IRD incidents. Two things have struck me that seems to have escaped comment anywhere. Firstly, that the March 1949 meeting between Orwell and Kirwan (during the former's tubercular confinement in Gloucestershire) ...
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