[PDF file]: […] republics with large Islamic populations. (p. 225) And there were phoney radio stations, newspapers, pamphlets, faked printed material of every kind, with the Information Research Department ( IRD), the propaganda/psy-ops unit which hovered between the Foreign Office and SIS, at the centre of it. ‘Fake news’ is nothing new: IRD generated mountains of it […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay *new* IRD Rory Cormac is one of the British academics working on the Information Research Department (IRD), now that some of its official files are open to inspection.1 Cormac recently wrote an essay with the provocative title ‘In defence of the Information Research Department’.2 He writes: At […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay *new* IRD Rory Cormac is one of the British academics working on the Information Research Department (IRD), now that some of its official files are open to inspection.1 Cormac recently wrote an essay with the provocative title ‘In defence of the Information Research Department’.2 He writes: At […]
[…] nationalism. So economic nationalism was deemed to be ‘communism’ and thus worthy of attack. Decolonisation in the 1950s and 60 wasn’t about communism (though the CIA and IRD could always be relied upon to fabricate a communist link if one was need): it was about nationalism. It is curious how this has just been […]
[PDF file]: […] network consisted of: the Economic League and the Aims of Industry; MI5 and local police Special Branches; the state’s anti-communist research/propaganda/psy-ops outfit, the Information Research Department ( IRD); IRD’s media assets; anti-communist groups in the labour movement, most obviously Common Cause and its offshoot, Industrial Research and Information Services (IRIS); US London embassy employees, […]
[PDF file]: […] nationalism. So economic nationalism was deemed to be ‘communism’ and thus worthy of attack. Decolonisation in the 1950s and 60s wasn’t about communism (though the CIA and IRD could always be relied upon to fabricate a communist link if one was need): it was about nationalism. It is curious how this has just been […]
[…] each from hedge fund boss Martin Taylor and Lord David Sainsbury, plus £200,000 from Gary Lubner, the boss of Belron, a firm specialising in vehicle glass repair.68 IRD Rory Cormac is one of the British academics working on the Information Research Department (IRD), now that some of its official files are open to inspection.69 […]
[…] each from hedge fund boss Martin Taylor and Lord David Sainsbury, plus £200,000 from Gary Lubner, the boss of Belron, a firm specialising in vehicle glass repair.51 IRD Rory Cormac is one of the British academics working on the Information Research Department (IRD), now that some of its official files are open to inspection.52 […]
[…] become available in the Philippines – China’s Sinovac inoculation.36 This resulted in a very low take-up of the vaccine in the Philippines and thousands of unnecessary deaths. IRD Rory Cormac is one of the British academics working on the Information Research Department (IRD), now that some of its official files are open to inspection.37 […]
[…] become available in the Philippines – China’s Sinovac inoculation.26 This resulted in a very low take-up of the vaccine in the Philippines and thousands of unnecessary deaths. IRD Rory Cormac is one of the British academics working on the Information Research Department (IRD), now that some of its official files are open to inspection.27 […]
