TY  - BOOK
AU  - LASHMAR Paul
AU  - OLIVER James
TI  - Britain's secret propaganda war 1948-1977
SN  - 0750916680 (hbk.):
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Stroud, UK
PB  - Sutton Publishing
N2  - Details the covert propaganda operations against Communism which were waged by the UK Foreign Office's Information Research Department (IRD) for nearly thirty years. The IRD was set up under the Labour Government in 1948 and used journalists, politicians, academics and trade unionists in both international and domestic campaigns. In their conclusion the authors raise significant questions about the morality of covert propoganda in a democracy
ER  -