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Secret British Black Propaganda Campaign Exposed
May 17, 2022
A campaign led by the Information Research Department (IRD), which was established by the British Labour government to spread secret black propaganda, was recently exposed after some documents were declassified.
From the mid-1950s until the late 1970s, a unit within the Foreign Office in London focused on cold war foes such as the Soviet Union and China, as well as leftwing liberation movements and leaders who the UK considered as threats to its interests.
The campaign also aimed to rally Muslims against Moscow by encouraging religious conservatism and extreme beliefs. To appear genuine, the documents promoted anti-Israel sentiment.
Hundreds of extensive and costly operations are revealed in recently declassified British government documents.
"These releases are among the most important of the past two decades. It's very clear now that the UK engaged in more black propaganda than historians assume and these efforts were more systemic, ambitious and offensive. Despite official denials, [this] went far beyond merely exposing Soviet disinformation," according to Rory Cormac, a subversion and intelligence expert who discovered the material while researching his new book, How to Stage a Coup: And Ten Other Lessons from the World of Secret Statecraft, which will be published next month.
The Information Research Department (IRD) was established by the Labour government after WWII to fight Soviet propaganda attacks on the United Kingdom. Its activities matched the CIA's cold war propaganda operations as well as the Soviet Union and it's satellites' extensive efforts.
Last year, the Observer disclosed the IRD's massive campaign in Indonesia in 1965, which aided in the encouragement of anti-communist murders that killed hundreds of thousands of people. There, the IRD prepared booklets ostensibly authored by Indonesian nationalists but actually written by British propagandists, urging Indonesians to exterminate the PKI, the world's biggest communist party at the time.
However, Cormac's analysis of hundreds of declassified papers provides the most comprehensive picture yet of the IRD’s deception activities.
"The British were only one actor among many, and a fairly minor actor too, compared with the quantity of material being produced and disseminated by the bigger players," said Cormac, professor of international relations at Nottingham University.
"The UK did not simply invent material, as the Soviets systematically did, but they definitely intended to deceive audiences in order to get the message across."
At its peak in the mid-1960s, the IRD employed 360 employees. However, the Special Editorial Unit, which was in charge of the black propaganda campaign, was significantly smaller. The squad deployed a range of strategies to alter public opinion from its base in a plain office in Westminster.
One was to write "reports" that were distributed to other countries, media, and think tanks to warn them about "Soviet subversion" or other threats.
The reports contained carefully picked facts and analysis, which looked to emanate from allegedly independent analysts and institutions that were in actuality set up and operated by the IRD. The International Committee for the Investigation of Communist Front Organizations was one of the earliest, founded in 1964.
Another strategy was to fabricate official Soviet institutions and agencies' statements. The IRD faked at least 11 statements from Novosti, the Soviet state-run news service, between 1965 and 1972. One came after Egypt's defeat in the 1967 six-day war with Israel, and expressed Soviet displeasure at Egypt's "waste" of so much of the guns and equipment Moscow had provided.
The IRD also forgeried literature appearing to be from the Muslim Brotherhood, a large Islamist group with a large following in the Middle East. One pamphlet blamed Moscow of instigating the 1967 war, slammed Soviet military equipment, and referred to the Soviets as "filthy-tongued atheists" who saw Egyptians as “peasants who lived all their lives nursing reactionary Islamic superstitions."
Please go to Great Game India to read more.
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Source: Great Game India
Secret British Black Propaganda Campaign Exposed
May 17, 2022
A campaign led by the Information Research Department (IRD), which was established by the British Labour government to spread secret black propaganda, was recently exposed after some documents were declassified.
According to newly declassified documents, the British government ran a secret "black propaganda" campaign for decades, targeting Africa, the Middle East, and parts of Asia with leaflets and reports from fake sources aimed at destabilizing cold war adversaries by inciting racial tensions, sowing chaos, inciting violence, and reinforcing anti-communist ideas.
From the mid-1950s until the late 1970s, a unit within the Foreign Office in London focused on cold war foes such as the Soviet Union and China, as well as leftwing liberation movements and leaders who the UK considered as threats to its interests.
The campaign also aimed to rally Muslims against Moscow by encouraging religious conservatism and extreme beliefs. To appear genuine, the documents promoted anti-Israel sentiment.
Hundreds of extensive and costly operations are revealed in recently declassified British government documents.
"These releases are among the most important of the past two decades. It's very clear now that the UK engaged in more black propaganda than historians assume and these efforts were more systemic, ambitious and offensive. Despite official denials, [this] went far beyond merely exposing Soviet disinformation," according to Rory Cormac, a subversion and intelligence expert who discovered the material while researching his new book, How to Stage a Coup: And Ten Other Lessons from the World of Secret Statecraft, which will be published next month.
The Information Research Department (IRD) was established by the Labour government after WWII to fight Soviet propaganda attacks on the United Kingdom. Its activities matched the CIA's cold war propaganda operations as well as the Soviet Union and it's satellites' extensive efforts.
Last year, the Observer disclosed the IRD's massive campaign in Indonesia in 1965, which aided in the encouragement of anti-communist murders that killed hundreds of thousands of people. There, the IRD prepared booklets ostensibly authored by Indonesian nationalists but actually written by British propagandists, urging Indonesians to exterminate the PKI, the world's biggest communist party at the time.
However, Cormac's analysis of hundreds of declassified papers provides the most comprehensive picture yet of the IRD’s deception activities.
"The British were only one actor among many, and a fairly minor actor too, compared with the quantity of material being produced and disseminated by the bigger players," said Cormac, professor of international relations at Nottingham University.
"The UK did not simply invent material, as the Soviets systematically did, but they definitely intended to deceive audiences in order to get the message across."
At its peak in the mid-1960s, the IRD employed 360 employees. However, the Special Editorial Unit, which was in charge of the black propaganda campaign, was significantly smaller. The squad deployed a range of strategies to alter public opinion from its base in a plain office in Westminster.
One was to write "reports" that were distributed to other countries, media, and think tanks to warn them about "Soviet subversion" or other threats.
The reports contained carefully picked facts and analysis, which looked to emanate from allegedly independent analysts and institutions that were in actuality set up and operated by the IRD. The International Committee for the Investigation of Communist Front Organizations was one of the earliest, founded in 1964.
Another strategy was to fabricate official Soviet institutions and agencies' statements. The IRD faked at least 11 statements from Novosti, the Soviet state-run news service, between 1965 and 1972. One came after Egypt's defeat in the 1967 six-day war with Israel, and expressed Soviet displeasure at Egypt's "waste" of so much of the guns and equipment Moscow had provided.
The IRD also forgeried literature appearing to be from the Muslim Brotherhood, a large Islamist group with a large following in the Middle East. One pamphlet blamed Moscow of instigating the 1967 war, slammed Soviet military equipment, and referred to the Soviets as "filthy-tongued atheists" who saw Egyptians as “peasants who lived all their lives nursing reactionary Islamic superstitions."
Please go to Great Game India to read more.
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