[PDF file]: […] Soviet propaganda machine, led by the World Peace Council, was this: ‘In the United Kingdom, the counter-subversion arm of the Foreign Office, the Information Research Department ( IRD) was destroyed in a complex operation in which the CIA traitor, Philip Agee, played a leading part.’ Notice the misdirection: that IRD was the arm of […]
[PDF file]: Creating Chaos Covert Political Warfare, from Truman to Putin Larry Hancock London and New York: OR Books, 2018, £13.00, p/b 1 Robin Ramsay Hancock is an interesting figure. To me he is one of the very good JFK researchers. His Someone Would Have Talked 2 would be be on my list of serious JFK assassination […]
[PDF file]: […] much concerned to counter anti-British propaganda, much of it communist-inspired; and to this end established the Information Research Department. This was intended to covertly advocate a ‘Th ird Force’ approach, portraying Britain as a reforming alternative to Soviet communism and American capitalism. The man responsible for this initiative was Christopher Mayhew MP; and what […]
[PDF file]: […] the brother of former OSS man and later Washington Post editor the late Phil Graham, who helped the CIA by running propaganda as part of Operation Mockingb ird and by covering up the Agency’s failure at the Bay of Pigs, whose personal acquaintances included CIA Director Allen Dulles. (Phil Graham had also worked for […]
[PDF file]: […] This is the best account I have read of the campaign run by the pro-EEC lobby in this country. The state, including the Information Research Department ( IRD), the quasi-independent antisubversion, anti-communist propaganda organisation, co- 1 The ACUE/European Movement, for example, was first discussed in ‘How the European Movement was launched’ in Hirsch and […]
[PDF file]: […] counter-organise and the author gives us a pretty detailed account of this in 1974-6: the rise of the anti-subversion lobby (he mentions Brian Crozier’s ISC but not IRD); the so-called private armies, GB75 and Unison; the surveillance and bugging of many on the left; the smear campaigns 1 The author does not mention the […]
[PDF file]: […] I remember nothing about it at all. It is now available on Kindle at . The first allegations about LBJ were made in the 1966 play Macb ird!. On which see . 67 See for example and . 68 69 Specifically this piece of vintage 1963 Soviet boilerplate: ‘The assassination of JFK on November […]
[…] wholly unaffected by any treaty change. The financial services industry in Britain constitutes 7.5% of GDP and employs a million people; the City represents perhaps a th ird of that and, in turn, that part threatened – if it was threatened at all – some fraction of that. This is a tiny economic interest. […]
[PDF file]: […] lack of interest in the ‘Soviet threat’ triggered the formation of the anti-subversion lobby which gathered round Brian Crozier in the early 1970s – CIA, MI6 and IRD personnel who were not persuaded of the decline of the ‘Soviet threat’. (This was part of the wider debate about the reality of détente between NATO […]
[PDF file]: […] wholly unaffected by any treaty change. The financial services industry in Britain constitutes 7.5% of GDP and employs a million people; the City represents perhaps a th ird of that and, in turn, that part threatened – if it was threatened at all – some fraction of that. This is a tiny economic interest. […]
