Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££
[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 […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] – had there been any we would have heard about it – and Ireland-as-Cuba 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) […]