[…] International, on whose board he was for a while, he said: ‘Amnesty International is primarily motivated not by human rights but by publicity. Second comes money. Th ird comes getting more members. Fourth, internal turf battles. And then finally, human rights, genuine human rights concerns.’45 This is reminiscent of Colin Wallace saying that the […]
[PDF file]: […] Soviet propaganda machine, led by the World Peace Council, was this: ‘In the United Kingdom, the counter-subversion arm of the Foreign Office, the Information Research Department ( IRD) was destroyed in a complex operation in which the CIA traitor, Philip Agee, played a leading part.’ Notice the misdirection: that IRD was the arm of […]
[PDF file]: […] of the UK the Wilson government wanted to project, is it ‘propaganda’? And doesn’t everyone make promotional films like this?1 The Foreign Office’s Information Research Department ( IRD) is discussed in passing. They certainly played a substantial role in Cold War covert (and sometimes overt) propaganda. This was usually via the media, and occasionally […]
[PDF file]: […] centred on the plethora of CPGB front organisations such as the friendship societies. This is presumably the early influence of the Foreign Office’s Information Research Department ( IRD) in supplying anti-communist material. Focused on events in Europe, it was the the Soviet-run front organisations which struck IRD. But from the early 1950s, as the […]
[PDF file]: […] go wrong? While it’s true that there is still no absolute proof that the covid outbreak began at the Wuhan lab, can it just be a we ird coincidence that the source of the outbreak and the research lab were both in the same city? The reluctance of the western military to acknowledge this […]
[…] go wrong? While it’s true that there is still no absolute proof that the covid outbreak began at the Wuhan lab, can it just be a we ird coincidence that the source of the outbreak and the research lab were both in the same city? The reluctance of the western military to acknowledge this […]
[…] – had there been any we would have heard about it – and Ireland-asCuba was simply an invention by those creative amplifiers of the ‘red menace’ at IRD. (Bloom does not mention IRD.) Bloom then tells us that Neave met Wallace three times and ‘Wallace was dismissed with £70 for his information.’ (p. 53) […]
[…] question what Washington knows about the origins of Havana Syndrome, and what an appropriate Western response might entail. (emphasis added) The use of ‘may’ in the th ird line of that paragraph is striking. What they offer is much closer to ‘almost certainly is’ than it is to ‘may’. The incidents began in 2014, […]
[…] Crimea and all that implied about the future geopolitics of Europe, the Integrity Initiative (II) was an attempt to more or less recreate the Information Research Department (IRD), the state propaganda outfit, which was closed in 1977.10 Funded by the Foreign Office, the Integrity Initiative created a network of sympathetic journalists and intellectuals – […]
[…] and all that implied about the future geopolitics of Europe, the Integrity Initiative (II) was an attempt to more or less recreate the Information Research Department ( IRD), the state propaganda outfit, which was closed in 1977.2 Funded by the Foreign Office, the Integrity Initiative created a network of sympathetic journalists and intellectuals – […]
