[…] destroy each other) the (deliberate?) failure of the assault on Dieppe, civilian bombing by the RAF and so forth. After WW2 we get the CIA in Europe, IRD, and the Korean war (US biological warfare). From the 1950s we skip to the 1980s and Reagan-era disinformation about the Soviets (shooting the Pope etc); and […]
[…] phone-calls to major newspapers in Washington and the U.S. from Intelligence sources, including the State Department’s Office of Public Diplomacy’. The latter is a kind of updated IRD, and ‘public diplomacy’ is a 1980s euphemism for disinformation and psychological warfare. Morgan found that ‘The same story was also being pushed by what the Pentagon […]
[…] Socialism. In 1998 Mandelson eased Matthew Taylor into Holtham’s old IPPR job.(14) Manager of Norwich Union’s £106bn ‘socially responsible investment’ strategy,(15) Holtham took part in the Th ird Way Nexus debate. He advises: ‘accept the inevitability of free market Capitalism and ask whether and how a shrunken state should use its residual powers to […]
[…] the Army and the Information Research Department. During my time at HQ Northern Ireland none of the staff belonged to Defence Intelligence. Pincher’s failure to mention the IRD involvement is very interesting because of the key input the department made to the unit and the fact that its presence there has been widely reported […]
[…] There are new accounts here of some of the major landmarks of British post-war decolonisation, Malaya and Cyprus; but, oddly, nothing on Kenya. The two chapters on IRD and the one on the covert support of the post-war European unity movement, contain both succinct and comprehensive syntheses of the extant material and a lot […]
[…] Retinger, van Zeeland, Averell Harriman, and Walter Bedell Smith in December 1952. But American interest was slight in the beginning and it was only at the th ird meeting in West Germany, September 1955, that the value of Bilderberg as a private forum for transatlantic exchange began to emerge. The collapse of the European […]
[…] then (unpaid) researcher Neil Grant, new (1987) MP Ken Livingstone put down hundreds of written questions in the House of Commons about the war in Northern Ireland, IRD, and the cases of Holroyd and Wallace. In Lobster this was discussed in issue 16. But I also wrote about this in the now defunct magazine […]
[…] 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 […]
