Demos

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] 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 […]

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Wallace on Pincher on Wallace

Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££

[…] 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 […]

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The Hidden Hand: Britain, America and Cold War Secret Intelligence

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Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] 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 […]

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Cold War stories 2

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] 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 […]

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Spooks and the House of Commons

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] 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 […]

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PSYOPS in the 1980s

Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££

[…] 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 […]

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Wallace: Information Policy in fiction

Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££

[…] 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) […]

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Five at Eye

Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££

[…] 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 […]

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Philby naming names

Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££

[…] such operations, Peter Lunn, with the help of BIS agent D.Kujamdzan, gave the final touch to the brochures and printed them on Arabian presses, procured through th ird parties, in the BIS headquarters. BIS also used one of its other agents, formerly Iraq’s oil chief Abdulla Ismal, for undermining activities. Presently, BIS is activating […]

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Spy Flights of the Cold War

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Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] charge of it. Fletcher Prouty discussed the same question in his 1973 The Secret Team and concluded that the politicians knew very little. This is an important contribution to the continuing reevaluation of the Cold War; and what with the IRD book and this, Lashmar must now be one of Britain’s more important contemporary historians.

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