[…] 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 – […]
[…] 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]: […] – had there been any we would have heard about it – and Ireland-as-Cuba 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) […]
[PDF file]: […] more relaxed, with Roger Hollis recommending that he could be ‘left to his plays’. What of Koestler and Orwell? An MI5 officer assessed Koestler as ‘one th ird genius, one third blackguard and one third lunatic’, which seems pretty fair. His trajectory from Comintern agent to Cold Warrior is usefully documented, right up until […]
[…] the World Peace Council, was this: ‘In the United Kingdom, the counter-subversion arm of 18 19 < https://wikispooks.com/ISGP/First_ever_documents_of_Le _Cercle.htm> 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]: […] 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]: […] 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 […]
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 […]
