[…] question what Washington knows about the origins of Havana Syndrome, and what an appropriate Western response might entail. (emphasis added) The use of ‘may’ in the th ird line of that paragraph is striking. What they offer is much closer to ‘almost certainly is’ than it is to ‘may’. The incidents began in 2014, […]
[…] – had there been any we would have heard about it – and Ireland-asCuba was simply an invention by those creative amplifiers of the ‘red menace’ at IRD. (Bloom does not mention IRD.) Bloom then tells us that Neave met Wallace three times and ‘Wallace was dismissed with £70 for his information.’ (p. 53) […]
[…] Crimea and all that implied about the future geopolitics of Europe, the Integrity Initiative (II) was an attempt to more or less recreate the Information Research Department (IRD), the state propaganda outfit, which was closed in 1977.10 Funded by the Foreign Office, the Integrity Initiative created a network of sympathetic journalists and intellectuals – […]
[…] and all that implied about the future geopolitics of Europe, the Integrity Initiative (II) was an attempt to more or less recreate the Information Research Department ( IRD), the state propaganda outfit, which was closed in 1977.2 Funded by the Foreign Office, the Integrity Initiative created a network of sympathetic journalists and intellectuals – […]
[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. […]
[…] 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. […]
[PDF file]: […] inflation and so forth.(3) Part 1: Edward Heath and the rise of the City ‘The Empire may have disintegrated and the UK may now be a th ird rate power, but the City of London has staged a comeback which would be the envy of any child movie star reaching maturity.’ – Professor Ira […]
