[…] with material for years. Leigh describes how, when Coughlin asked his source for evidence, he was shown but not allowed to copy documents. This is the classic IRD disinformation technique, described in use in Cyprus in the 1960s by Charles Foley in his book Legacy of Strife (2) and, more recently, by Colin Wallace […]
[…] working for any intelligence agency. Counterpoint is nicely produced, and rather good – or would be if you are interested in Soviet disinformation chiefly within the Th ird World. (And its got to be a spook operation.) Available from Ickham Publications Ltd., Westonhanger, Ickham, Canterbury CT3 1QN. Executive Intelligence Review We recently received a […]
[…] a high-ranking Iraqi defector’, former Iraqi ambassador to Venezuela, now seeking asylum in London. Later on in the story, on page 2, the defector denies the story. IRD is dead! Long live IRD! Liam Clarke and Barry Penrose (see review of The Committee, below) co-authored the story ‘Syria paid IRA to kill Mountbatten’ in […]
[…] (and had the silliest title). David Floyd (obit Guardian 3 September 1997). Journalist, Soviet specialist, chiefly with the Daily Telegraph, later with Brian Crozier at Goldsmith’s Now!; IRD asset or employee – I don’t know which. Brigadier Michael Harbottle (obit Guardian 8 May 1997). Founder member of Generals for Peace and Disarmament, which was […]
[…] film ‘Scum’, which now obliges the IBA to vet potentially controversial programmes. Objections came from the Oman Government via Sultan of Oman’s propaganda adviser, Anthony Ashworth, ex IRD. Observer 29 July. See also Observer 26 June for events leading up to this. More police raids on bookshops reported in Rights (NCCL) Autumn 1984. Data […]
[…] nation and put his money where his mouth was.(2) He funded some of Brian Crozier’s operations, created Now! magazine, giving a platform to Crozier and other former IRD wallahs,(3) and set up the famous libel fund to enable the poverty-stricken British Right to sue their wealthier opponents on the Left. (That last bit about […]
[…] the Foreign Office: the second describes the formation of a world-wide network of news agencies and publishing companies created by MI6 to put out material created by IRD. These are essentially expansions of previous work by Fletcher – see, e.g. his piece in the Guardian 18th December 1981 – and are based on a […]
[…] responsible for the anti-unilateralist campaign in the Churches; Peter Blaker, Minister of State for Defence; Ray Whitney, MOD spokesman and formerly of the Cold War propaganda unit IRD (and also of the Institute for European and Strategic Studies (IESS) and the Council for Arms Control; Michael Heseltine (6) Secretary of State for Defence and […]
[…] the disinfo stories that were built around Kincora none of which (thus far) have ever amounted to anything, despite the possibility of considerable compensation for the victims. IRD reborn? On 17 October 2008 in ‘Paedophiles unite with terrorists online’, ‘an investigation by The Times’ claimed that examination of Jihadists’ computers showed that some contained […]
[…] of communist agent. I wrote to Mr Smythe who kindly supplied me with part of the document. The document looks like a pretty obvious bit of state (IRD?) disinformation, doctored with some clumsy spelling errors and typos to make it appear non-official: for example ‘legitimate’ for legitimate, ‘described’ for described and ‘conscious objector’ for […]
