British Anti-communist Propaganda and Cooperation with the United States, 1945-1951
Author : Andrew Defty
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Page : pages
File Size : 35,43 MB
Release : 2001
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Author : Andrew Defty
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Page : pages
File Size : 35,43 MB
Release : 2001
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Author : Andrew Defty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 38,59 MB
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 131779169X
In the Cold War battle for hearts and minds Britain was the first country to formulate a coordinated global response to communist propaganda. In January 1948, the British government launched a new propaganda policy designed to 'oppose the inroads of communism' by taking the offensive against it.' A small section in the Foreign Office, the innocuously titled Information Research Department (IRD), was established to collate information on communist policy, tactics and propaganda, and coordinate the discreet dissemination of counter-propaganda to opinion formers at home and abroad.
Author : ANDREW. DEFTY
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Page : pages
File Size : 47,62 MB
Release : 2002
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Author : Stéphanie Roulin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 32,82 MB
Release : 2014-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1137388803
How was anti-communism organised in the West? This book covers the agents, aims, and arguments of various transnational anti-communist activists during the Cold War. Existing narratives often place the United States – and especially the CIA – at the centre of anti-communist activity. The book instead opens up new fields of research transnationally.
Author : Chikara Hashimoto
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 33,60 MB
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1474410472
A wide-ranging study of developments in global French-language cinema
Author : Paul Lashmar
Publisher : Alan Sutton Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,2 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN :
Britain's Secret Propaganda War is the first book to be written about The Foreign Office's Information Research Department (IRD) -- an important chapter in the history of the Cold War. The narrative is driven by actual accounts of IRD covert operations and includes a number of "exclusives." The IRD was set up under the Labour Government in 1948 and clandestinely financed from the Secret Intelligence Service budget. A large organisation with close links to MI6 -- with whom it shared many personnel -- it waged a vigorous covert propaganda campaign against Eastern Bloc Communism for nearly thirty years using journalists, politicians, academics and trade unionists -none of whom were "unwitting." Such famous names as George Orwell, Denis Healey, Stephen Spender, Bertrand Russell and Guy Burgess helped or backed the work of IRD.
Author : Loch K. Johnson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 903 pages
File Size : 42,41 MB
Release : 2010-03-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0199704694
The Oxford Handbook of National Security Intelligence is a state-of-the-art work on intelligence and national security. Edited by Loch Johnson, one of the world's leading authorities on the subject, the handbook examines the topic in full, beginning with an examination of the major theories of intelligence. It then shifts its focus to how intelligence agencies operate, how they collect information from around the world, the problems that come with transforming "raw" information into credible analysis, and the difficulties in disseminating intelligence to policymakers. It also considers the balance between secrecy and public accountability, and the ethical dilemmas that covert and counterintelligence operations routinely present to intelligence agencies. Throughout, contributors factor in broader historical and political contexts that are integral to understanding how intelligence agencies function in our information-dominated age.
Author : Giles Scott-Smith
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,5 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Cold War
ISBN : 9780714653082
The articles that comprise this collection constitute an evaluation of overt and covert influences on political and cultural activity in Western European democracies during the earliest period of the Cold War.
Author : Hans Krabbendam
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 15,48 MB
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1135763437
The idea of the Cold War as a propaganda contest as opposed to a military conflict is being increasingly accepted. This has led to a re-evaluation of the relationship between economic policies, political agendas and cultural activities in Western Europe post 1945. This book provides an important cross-section of case studies that highlight the connections between overt/covert activities and cultural/political agendas during the early Cold War. It therefore provides a valuable bridge between diplomatic and intelligence research and represents an important contribution towards our understanding of the significance and consequences of this linkage for the shaping of post-war democratic societies.
Author : R. Cameron
Publisher : Springer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,9 MB
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137274360
This book argues that the war on terror is a paradigmatic foreign policy that has had profound effects on domestic social order. Cameron develops an original framework which inverts the traditional analysis of foreign policy in order to interpret its impact upon subject formation through everyday practises of security and social regulation.