[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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) […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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.
[…] Knight, Biggs-Davison, Churchill, Soref and Amery (and possibly others) being members of the Monday Club. (And Onslow, of course, was/still is a spook, having worked for MI6/ IRD.) Other fragments of interest in these notes include: the story about Marcia Falkender refusing to be positively vetted; the story of the possible legal action by […]
[PDF file]: […] a more critical view see Peter Weiler, chapter 1. 18 6 loyally to keep an agreement. 19 In 1948, a member of the U.S. State Department, Th ird Secretary at the London Embassy, Herbert E. Weiner, reported from London on ‘Attitude of Trades Union Congress Towards World Federation of Trade Unions and American International […]
