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020 _a0750916680 (hbk.):
_c25.00 UK
100 1 _aLASHMAR Paul
245 0 _aBritain's secret propaganda war 1948-1977
260 _aStroud, UK:
_bSutton Publishing,
_c1998
300 _a223p.
520 3 _aDetails 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.
700 _aOLIVER James
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_sY
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