Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

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[PDF file]: […] Arbitrarily we can locate the beginning of this in 1969 when the Labour Government pruned the Foreign Office’s covert propaganda arm, the Information Research Department ( IRD).(4) IRD had grown from its origins in the 1940s to employ hundreds of people and spend nearly £1 million per year on anti-Soviet and anti-Communist propaganda. (5) […]

Hugh who? (Hugh Mooney)

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[PDF file]: […] death2 describes him as ‘Journalist, Diplomat, Barrister, Teacher and Writer’. (caps in the original) The interesting bit is ‘diplomat’. Mooney worked for the Information Research Department ( IRD), notably in Northern Ireland in the 1970s; and IRD was formally a section of the Foreign Office – hence ‘diplomat’. Mooney was also part of the […]

The Clandestine Caucus: a minor update

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[PDF file]: […] (I was a member in the 80s and 90s.) I haven’t methodically revisited CC since but relevant odds and ends crop up. The latest are discussed below. IRD, Common Cause and IRIS At the Declassified site John McEvoy reported – as his essay’s subtitle has it – ‘A secret unit of the Foreign Office […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] has pulled together material from various official sources and inquiries in recent years to demonstrate the likelihood of it being the reason for the persecution of Holroyd. IRD and disinformation There was another snippet about the operations of IRD on the BBC website.60 ‘In 1969, Reuters agreed to establish a new office in the […]

South of the border

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[PDF file]: […] was denied.’4 Included in that message, Shayler provided a link to a page on Cryptome.5 That page is in four parts. The second part (about one th ird of the way down) is a reproduction of the MI6 intelligence report CX 95/53452, which is central to the nexus of MI6, the LIFG and Tunworth. […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] the Daily Mail website had reported on this article. See or . 1 of the President’s skull. . . .’ At one level this is just we ird because the author’s citation at that point does not support this.2 In any case, as Garrick Alder pointed out to me, Pierre Finck, one of the […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] because there was no cratered exit wound on the left and/or rear side of the President’s skull. . . .’ At one level this is just we ird because the author’s citation at that point does not support this.2 In any case, as Garrick Alder pointed out to me, Pierre Finck, one of the […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] has pulled together material from various official sources and inquiries in recent years to demonstrate the likelihood of it being the reason for the persecution of Holroyd. IRD and disinformation There was another snippet about the operations of IRD on the BBC website.60 ‘In 1969, Reuters agreed to establish a new office in the […]

The UK and the coup in Chile, 1973

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[PDF file]: […] in overseas commerce. It shifted from its historic function of servicing business mainly between Latin America states and Britain to one of financing international trade with th ird countries. This development owing much to the work of its chairman Sir George Bolton ‘in creating the Eurodollar market in London’.15 Unilever expanded its activities in […]

The View from the Bridge (updated 20 Sep 2022)

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[PDF file]: […] years ago, my co-author and I published our fourth book. It was called Going South (Palgrave Macmillan), and predicted that Britain was on course to becoming Th ird World in economic and social terms. or 10 11 12 4 Not everyone was a fan, and a rival school of thought suggested everything was going […]

[PDF file]: […] data uncovered by their app. The one for June 2022 included this The top five Canadian Green-rated websites in terms of their engagement during the first th ird of 2022 included CTVNews.ca, CBC.ca, GlobalNews.ca, ThePostMillennial.com, and Narcity.com. The top five Red-rated websites in Canada included RebelNews.com, JCCF.ca, TheNationalTelegraph.com, ThePulse.one, and GlobalResearch.ca. In the U.S., […]

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