Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
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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 […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[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, […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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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 […]