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... the US from PO Box 597004, Department 608, San Francisco, CA 94164-9004. Coming In From The Cold: British Propaganda and Red Army Defectors 1945-52 Wesley K. Wark in International History Review February 1987 This is an interesting addition to what little information we have on the early years of the Information Research Department (IRD) and the uses to which IRD put Soviet defectors. It also contains a couple of names to add to the list of known IRD people. Wark states flatly that IRD's work fell between 'white' and 'black' propaganda - which I don't believe. One former British diplomat to whom I spoke about IRD (and who wouldn't thank ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 58 - 01 Feb 1988 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue15/lob15-10.htm
... -war economy would produce a return to the slump which that war economy had ended. The 'threat' to the US wasn't communism, or even socialism: it was economic nationalism. So economic nationalism was deemed to be 'communism' and thus worthy of attack. Decolonisation in the 1950s and 60 wasn't about communism (though the CIA and IRD could always be relied upon to fabricate a communist link if one was need): it was about nationalism. It is curious how this has just been forgotten. The Soviet 'threat' in the post-war years was minutely deconstructed in the 1960s and early 70s by the so-called 'revisionist historians' of the Cold War, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 56 - 14 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster64/lob64-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
... essays/jfkmed/How5Investigations/ How5InvestigationsGotItWrong_2 .htm>. themselves – as I have said above, it was film for making a basic home movie. There seems to be no discussion of this aspect of working with amateur footage/analogue film. * new * How the line changed on Wallace The late Hugh Mooney was an IRD officer who was in Northern Ireland while Colin Wallace was there in the 1970s. I have written about him elsewhere in this issue.6 When Mooney learned that Wallace was being expelled from Northern Ireland (and possibly faced disciplinary action for 'leaking') he wrote to a 'Mr Joy' in a letter headed 'Secret and personal'. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 51 - 17 May 2018 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster75/lob75-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
... INFO) AND PRESS ATTACHE BELGRADE 1946 BRITISH COUNCIL URUGUAY, CHILE, DENMARK 1959 ASSIST CULTURAL ATTACHE ISTANBUL 1960 SENIOR RESEARCH ASSIST FO, LATER FCO 1979 WROTE ISC STUDY ON CROAT SEPARATISM BOOKS ON LATIN AMERICA AND YUGOSLAVIA CLIVE , NIGEL DAVID CMG (1967) OBE (59) MCTD B 13.7 .17 CHRISTCHURCH COLL CAMBRIDGE, BROOKS IRD/MI6 (ST 2.6 .85) 1939 2ND MIDDLESEX YEOMANRY, MIDDLE EAST 1943 GREECE MI6 1946 FO, 2ND SEC (LOCAL) ATHENS 1948 VICE CONSUL JERUSALEM, FO 1950 2ND SEC BAGHDAD 1953 FO 1958 1ST SEC TUNIS 1962 ALGIERS 1964 FO 1966 COUNSELLOR 1968 HEAD OF IRD 1970 ADVISOR TO SEC GEN OF OECD 1981 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 49 - 01 Jan 1986 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue10/lob10-04.htm
... ) Neil allowed the Sunday Times to be used by all manner of spooks to run all manner of disinformation while he was editor and this spiel of his on Chile looks very much like an intelligence briefing - maybe even one of those distributed at the time of the Chile coup when Neil was working for the Economist, a regular outlet for IRD briefings. Tom Spencer MEP, RIP About a month before the political demise of the Conservative MEP and former leader of the Conservative group of MEPs, Tom Spencer, I was asked by a researcher at the European Parliament what I knew about him. 'Not a thing, ' I replied. 'Never heard of the guy. Why? ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 48 - 01 Jun 1999 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue37/lob37-07.htm
... party, and the second most important part of the NATO alliance, is in the hands of someone who has spent the post-war years going to and from Moscow as an East-West trader! The rise of the left in the Labour Party and trade union movement, symbolised by the ascent of Wilson, was being monitored by IRD and its satellites, the Economic League, IRIS, Common Cause - and by Brian Crozier, who raised the alarm in the 1970 collection he edited, We Will Bury You..(73) Working the same seam - presumably for different sponsors - was former Army officer and Conservative MP, Geoffrey Stewart-Smith. In Stewart ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 48 - 01 Jun 1996 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/caucus/lobcc-07.htm
... Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) – allegedly, says the author – began funding one of the Islamic groups in Pakistan to spread Islamic literature among the Soviet republics with large Islamic populations. (p . 225) And there were phoney radio stations, newspapers, pamphlets, faked printed material of every kind, with the Information Research Department (IRD), the propaganda/psy-ops unit which hovered between the Foreign Office and SIS, at the centre of it. 'Fake news' is nothing new: IRD generated mountains of it between 1945 and 1977. In IRD's last big operation, in Northern Ireland, the blizzard of 'fake news' stories it generated eventually produced the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 48 - 18 Jul 2018 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster76/lob76-disrupt-and-deny.pdf
... the three parapolitical essays; 36 pages on the Cointelpro, the FBI and the American Indian, for example - appears to be attributed. In the digestion process, bits have got scrambled. On page 67, for example (the first page I tried to read) we are told of a 'merger' between the Information Research Department (IRD) and the Institute for the Study of Conflict (ISC). A 'merger'? Not as far as I knew. I looked up Bloch and Fitzgerald from whom I guessed this section had been lifted. Yes, there was the material on page 98. Bloch and Fitzgerald had this: 'The staff of IRD was down to ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 37 - 01 Dec 1994 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue28/lob28-18.htm
... and losing); and fighting a 'Who rules? ' election (and losing). And so the return of Harold Wilson and the extraordinary events of 1974 - about which much more below. Arbitrarily we can locate the beginning of this in 1969 when the Labour Government pruned the Foreign Office's covert propaganda arm, the Information Research Department (IRD).(4 ) IRD had grown from its origins in the 1940s to employ hundreds of people and spend nearly 1 million per year on anti-Soviet and anti-Communist propaganda. (5 ) The next year some of the personnel of another covert propaganda operation, this one run by the CIA, Forum World Features ( ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 37 - 01 Apr 1986 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue11/lob11-02.htm
... and state officials in what we might call an anti-subversion network. In 1964, when Labour won the general election, this network consisted of: the Economic League and the Aims of Industry; MI5 and local police Special Branches; the state's anti-communist research/propaganda/psy-ops outfit, the Information Research Department (IRD); IRD's media assets; anti-communist groups in the labour movement, most obviously Common Cause and its offshoot, Industrial Research and Information Services (IRIS); US London embassy employees, usually labour 6 See <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1 /hi/programmes/ true_spies ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 36 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster58/lob58-069.pdf
