[…] 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. […]
See also: Misleading Parliament – Appendices
[PDF file]: […] ‘Director of Psychological Operations’ and that ‘all operations will normally be approved by him’. However, political disinformation was normally carried out by the Information Research Department ( IRD) – part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office – and approval for such activities was given by the Director and Co-ordinator of Intelligence at the Northern […]
[PDF file]: […] Office (FCO) in a letter dated 4 December 1992 from Hugh Mooney, a former senior FCO official who had been in the FCO’s Information Research Department ( IRD). In the 1970s he, too, had been based at Army HQ in Lisburn operating under the cover title of ‘Information Adviser to the GOC’, but he […]
[PDF file]: […] in British domestic politics. Angleton’s delusions spread to MI5 and thence into the Conservative Party’s right-wing, parts of the military and professional subversive-hunters like Brian Crozier and IRD. This produced a network which believed that Harold Wilson was a Soviet agent in a Labour Party which was controlled by the KGB through the trade […]
