The UK and the coup in Chile, 1973

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[PDF file]: […] in overseas commerce. It shifted from its historic function of servicing business mainly between Latin America states and Britain to one of financing international trade with th ird countries. This development owing much to the work of its chairman Sir George Bolton ‘in creating the Eurodollar market in London’.15 Unilever expanded its activities in […]

The View from the Bridge (updated 20 Sep 2022)

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[PDF file]: […] years ago, my co-author and I published our fourth book. It was called Going South (Palgrave Macmillan), and predicted that Britain was on course to becoming Th ird World in economic and social terms. or 10 11 12 4 Not everyone was a fan, and a rival school of thought suggested everything was going […]

[PDF file]: […] data uncovered by their app. The one for June 2022 included this The top five Canadian Green-rated websites in terms of their engagement during the first th ird of 2022 included CTVNews.ca, CBC.ca, GlobalNews.ca, ThePostMillennial.com, and Narcity.com. The top five Red-rated websites in Canada included RebelNews.com, JCCF.ca, TheNationalTelegraph.com, ThePulse.one, and GlobalResearch.ca. In the U.S., […]

Disrupt and Deny: Spies, Special Forces, and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy by Rory Cormac

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[PDF file]: […] republics with large Islamic populations. (p. 225) And there were phoney radio stations, newspapers, pamphlets, faked printed material of every kind, with the Information Research Department ( IRD), the propaganda/psy-ops unit which hovered between the Foreign Office and SIS, at the centre of it. ‘Fake news’ is nothing new: IRD generated mountains of it […]

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[…] nationalism. So economic nationalism was deemed to be ‘communism’ and thus worthy of attack. Decolonisation in the 1950s and 60 wasn’t about communism (though the CIA and IRD could always be relied upon to fabricate a communist link if one was need): it was about nationalism. It is curious how this has just been […]

The miners and the secret state

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[PDF file]: […] network consisted of: the Economic League and the Aims of Industry; MI5 and local police Special Branches; the state’s anti-communist research/propaganda/psy-ops outfit, the Information Research Department ( IRD); IRD’s media assets; anti-communist groups in the labour movement, most obviously Common Cause and its offshoot, Industrial Research and Information Services (IRIS); US London embassy employees, […]

The View from the Bridge

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[PDF file]: […] nationalism. So economic nationalism was deemed to be ‘communism’ and thus worthy of attack. Decolonisation in the 1950s and 60s wasn’t about communism (though the CIA and IRD could always be relied upon to fabricate a communist link if one was need): it was about nationalism. It is curious how this has just been […]

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[…] that the Soviet Union might win the Cold War, he asserted: ‘In the United Kingdom, the counter-subversive 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.’4 Oh, really? I had a look at Crozier’s memoir, […]

The Atlantic Semantic

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[PDF file]: […] the National Association for Freedom (NAFF), and Eden would go on to work with Crozier’s ‘Shield.’ 2 0 After the closure of the Information Research Department ( IRD), Shield worked to provide briefings on the alleged Communist threat for the leadership of the Tory Party. Crozier also stepped into the gap caused by the […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] that the Soviet Union might win the Cold War, he asserted: ‘In the United Kingdom, the counter-subversive 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.’4 At . Teacher writes that ‘the most important additions […]

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[…] unsuspecting populations across the world into taking a Covid-19 vaccine polluted with a nano antenna technology to hook victims up to the 5G network. (Emphases added.) *new* IRD The opening of official files on the activities of IRD (the Information Research Department) is producing a steady stream of articles, as historians go through the […]

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