[…] had been promoted by the media as the ‘sensible’ people, had tons of money and some covert help from the British secret state in the shape of IRD. The only bits of interest are an entertaining account by Alan Sked of his career as a eurosceptic and this snippet from former Conservative MP Richard […]
[…] ‘Who Paid the Piper?’ and implied, rather than actually demonstrated, that the CIA was calling the tune. Over a much wider field than Saunders, with chapters on IRD, the New Leader, labor diplomats (American labor attachés), the European Movement and the creation of Bilderberg, the Congress for Cultural Freedom and Encounter/, Wilford questions the […]
[…] set up the strongest possible Communist cells within the Conservative Party ….’. This document, I suspect, is a product of the Foreign Office’s Information Research Department ( IRD). This impression is greatly strengthened by Braddock’s report of another document, called ‘MVD Information’ (MVD became the KGB) ‘which circulates to executives of the Soviet secret […]
[…] It includes a paper by ex ISC Peter Janke, now Director of Research for the MI6 operation, Control Risks. Editor Tucker is a former Deputy Head of IRD. No team like the old team. (Thanks to H. G. in Canada for the clippings,) Tugwell is a contributor to Contemporary Research on Terrorism edited by […]
[…] room wall. Dowling comments on the Information Policy/Public Relations relationship: ‘The Information Policy department was the cannon, Public Relations was merely the shell.’ (p62) He mentions the IRD officer, Hugh Mooney, seconded to Information Policy – ‘an Anglo-Irishman who liaised with the Foreign Office and the British Information Service outlets in foreign embassies.’ (p62) […]
[…] there were some peculiar letters from a Wilson enemy Hartley Shawcross. What the Tribunal did reveal was the involvement of the newly created Foreign Office propaganda unit, IRD, within the Labour movement. There was considerable press interest in 1962 in the East-West Traders who went to the Leipzig Trade Fair. Questions were asked in […]
[…] such operations, Peter Lunn, with the help of BIS agent D.Kujamdzan, gave the final touch to the brochures and printed them on Arabian presses, procured through th ird parties, in the BIS headquarters. BIS also used one of its other agents, formerly Iraq’s oil chief Abdulla Ismal, for undermining activities. Presently, BIS is activating […]
[…] charge of it. Fletcher Prouty discussed the same question in his 1973 The Secret Team and concluded that the politicians knew very little. This is an important contribution to the continuing reevaluation of the Cold War; and what with the IRD book and this, Lashmar must now be one of Britain’s more important contemporary historians.
[…] Knight, Biggs-Davison, Churchill, Soref and Amery (and possibly others) being members of the Monday Club. (And Onslow, of course, was/still is a spook, having worked for MI6/ IRD.) Other fragments of interest in these notes include: the story about Marcia Falkender refusing to be positively vetted; the story of the possible legal action by […]
[…] The second of the two documents refers to it never getting beyond the planning stages. Whose planning isn’t clear. The British state’s “security forces” are the th ird strand. They heard about the events at Kincora (presumably through their contacts with the Loyalist-dominated Royal Ulster Constabulary) and found it of interest (a) because of […]
