Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[PDF file]: Creating Chaos Covert Political Warfare, from Truman to Putin Larry Hancock London and New York: OR Books, 2018, £13.00, p/b 1 Robin Ramsay Hancock is an interesting figure. To me he is one of the very good JFK researchers. His Someone Would Have Talked 2 would be be on my list of serious JFK assassination […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: […] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] much concerned to counter anti-British propaganda, much of it communist-inspired; and to this end established the Information Research Department. This was intended to covertly advocate a ‘Th ird Force’ approach, portraying Britain as a reforming alternative to Soviet communism and American capitalism. The man responsible for this initiative was Christopher Mayhew MP; and what […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] the brother of former OSS man and later Washington Post editor the late Phil Graham, who helped the CIA by running propaganda as part of Operation Mockingb ird and by covering up the Agency’s failure at the Bay of Pigs, whose personal acquaintances included CIA Director Allen Dulles. (Phil Graham had also worked for […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] This is the best account I have read of the campaign run by the pro-EEC lobby in this country. The state, including the Information Research Department ( IRD), the quasi-independent antisubversion, anti-communist propaganda organisation, co- 1 The ACUE/European Movement, for example, was first discussed in ‘How the European Movement was launched’ in Hirsch and […]
