View from the bridge

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay *new* IRD Rory Cormac is one of the British academics working on the Information Research Department (IRD), now that some of its official files are open to inspection.1 Cormac recently wrote an essay with the provocative title ‘In defence of the Information Research Department’.2 He writes: At […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] 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 […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] nationalism. So economic nationalism was deemed to be ‘communism’ and thus worthy of attack. Decolonisation in the 1950s and 60s 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 […]

The miners and the secret state

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 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, […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] that the Soviet Union might win the Cold War, he asserted: ‘In the United Kingdom, the counter-subversive 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.’4 Oh, really? I had a look at Crozier’s memoir, […]

The Atlantic Semantic

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the National Association for Freedom (NAFF), and Eden would go on to work with Crozier’s ‘Shield.’ 2 0 After the closure of the Information Research Department ( IRD), Shield worked to provide briefings on the alleged Communist threat for the leadership of the Tory Party. Crozier also stepped into the gap caused by the […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] that the Soviet Union might win the Cold War, he asserted: ‘In the United Kingdom, the counter-subversive 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.’4 At . Teacher writes that ‘the most important additions […]

The View from the Bridge

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[PDF file]: […] 20 7 populations across the world into taking a Covid-19 vaccine polluted with a nano antenna technology to hook victims up to the 5G network. (Emphases added.) IRD The opening of official files on the activities of IRD (the Information Research Department) is producing a steady stream of articles, as historians go through the […]

View from Bridge 87

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[…] unsuspecting populations across the world into taking a Covid-19 vaccine polluted with a nano antenna technology to hook victims up to the 5G network. (Emphases added.) *new* IRD The opening of official files on the activities of IRD (the Information Research Department) is producing a steady stream of articles, as historians go through the […]

View from Bridge 87

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[…] unsuspecting populations across the world into taking a Covid-19 vaccine polluted with a nano antenna technology to hook victims up to the 5G network. (Emphases added.) *new* IRD The opening of official files on the activities of IRD (the Information Research Department) is producing a steady stream of articles as historians go through the […]

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