[…] psy-ops people in the state. The intimate relationship between a Peter Mandelson and certain journalists is a facsimile of the relationship that the state’s disinformation people IRD most notably had with journalists all the way through the Cold War. Oborne tells us that New Labour’s mendacity amounts to a ‘new epistemology’, a […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] Arbitrarily we can locate the beginning of this in 1969 when the Labour Government pruned the Foreign Office’s covert propaganda arm, the Information Research Department ( IRD).(4) IRD had grown from its origins in the 1940s to employ hundreds of people and spend nearly £1 million per year on anti-Soviet and anti-Communist propaganda. (5) […]
[PDF file]: […] death2 describes him as ‘Journalist, Diplomat, Barrister, Teacher and Writer’. (caps in the original) The interesting bit is ‘diplomat’. Mooney worked for the Information Research Department ( IRD), notably in Northern Ireland in the 1970s; and IRD was formally a section of the Foreign Office – hence ‘diplomat’. Mooney was also part of the […]
[PDF file]: […] (I was a member in the 80s and 90s.) I haven’t methodically revisited CC since but relevant odds and ends crop up. The latest are discussed below. IRD, Common Cause and IRIS At the Declassified site John McEvoy reported – as his essay’s subtitle has it – ‘A secret unit of the Foreign Office […]
[…] has pulled together material from various official sources and inquiries in recent years to demonstrate the likelihood of it being the reason for the persecution of Holroyd. IRD and disinformation There was another snippet about the operations of IRD on the BBC website.60 ‘In 1969, Reuters agreed to establish a new office in the […]
[PDF file]: […] was denied.’4 Included in that message, Shayler provided a link to a page on Cryptome.5 That page is in four parts. The second part (about one th ird of the way down) is a reproduction of the MI6 intelligence report CX 95/53452, which is central to the nexus of MI6, the LIFG and Tunworth. […]
[…] the Daily Mail website had reported on this article. See or . 1 of the President’s skull. . . .’ At one level this is just we ird because the author’s citation at that point does not support this.2 In any case, as Garrick Alder pointed out to me, Pierre Finck, one of the […]
[PDF file]: […] because there was no cratered exit wound on the left and/or rear side of the President’s skull. . . .’ At one level this is just we ird because the author’s citation at that point does not support this.2 In any case, as Garrick Alder pointed out to me, Pierre Finck, one of the […]
[PDF file]: […] has pulled together material from various official sources and inquiries in recent years to demonstrate the likelihood of it being the reason for the persecution of Holroyd. IRD and disinformation There was another snippet about the operations of IRD on the BBC website.60 ‘In 1969, Reuters agreed to establish a new office in the […]
