[…] material, though 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 […]
[…] many books for the Glasgow University Media Group (Bad News, More Bad News etc.) and David Miller is the author of Don’t Mention the War: Northern Ireland, Propaganda and the Media (London, Pluto, 1994). However the book’s title is somewhat misleading. Although the book is partly about what the free market does, and has […]
[…] have been mentioned before now. CCF was one of the CIA’s most successful operations. Running virtually world-wide, undetected for almost 20 years, the CCF was both a propaganda operation and a rich source of recruitment access to a wide range of the political and cultural elites of other countries (This latter point is generally […]
[…] 5th January 1984). Wicks asked Baker to arrange for President Reagan to meet a group of businessmen he had put together under the banner ‘Project Democracy’, a propaganda effort to ‘support democratic institutions abroad’. They were to contribute $300,000, and the group included Sir James Goldsmith, Rupert Murdoch and a representative of Axel Springer […]
[…] the CIA. Meyer was head of station in London, 1975-76. IRD The Sunday Telegraph April 27 1997 carried an important piece about the IRD operation between 1970 and 1972 to put out propaganda in favour of British entry into the EEC. The piece lists a number of senior media figures, politicians and civil servants involved.
[…] kept, but this was part of a fairly continuous change that had been going on from 1970 as far as I can remember.” (quoted in Covert British Propaganda: the Information Research Department 1947-77, Lyn Smith, in Millennium, Journal of International Studies Vol 9 No 1) But Owen may be telling us more than he […]
[…] Malaya. The sentiments expressed are a stark contrast to those in most discussions of ‘Terrorism’, academic and otherwise, which amount to little more than exercises in the propaganda war. With an established reputation as a counter-insurgency specialist, with the likes of Richard Clutterbuck singing his praises,(8) Kitson was given a one year defence fellowship […]
[…] that parts of the conspiracy talk appear to be generated by communist propagandists. Urge them to use their influence to discourage unfounded and irresponsible speculation. To employ propaganda assets to answer and refute the attacks on the critics. Book reviews and feature articles are particularly appropriate for this purpose. The unclassified attachments to this […]
[…] promoting their particular reactionary policies? The book has certain problems which will make it difficult for some to read, not the least the constant repetition of Francoist propaganda regarding the Spanish Civil War; and it contains the following statement regarding the war in the former Yugoslavia, on p. 201 ‘Naturally, the Vatican feared Serbia […]
[…] CAIB is now at 1500 Massachusetts Avenue NW, room 732 Washington DC 20005. The Guardian (3 February 1992) reported on the discovery of yet another South African propaganda operation, the International Association for Co-operation and Development in Southern Africa (ACODA). The story was based on a 4-page briefing paper on Acoda. This can be […]
