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Formerly top-secret files show how the two oil corporations bankrolled British covert propaganda operations during the 1950s and 60s, John McEvoy reports. By John McEvoy Declassified UK “Handsome” sums were provided by BP and Shell to the Information Research Department (IRD), which was Br

Newly-released documents paint a picture of Britain as a fading imperial power in the 1960s, but one still capable of wreaking deadly vengeance on those who were perceived as threatening its ‘interests.’

A propaganda campaign orchestrated by Britain played a crucial part in one of the most brutal massacres of the postwar 20th century, shocking new evidence reveals. British officials secretly deployed black propaganda in the 1960s to urge...

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Newly declassified papers show shocking role played by Britain in slaughter

British spies played a part in the mass murder of Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) members in the 1960s, urging locals, including army generals, to “cut out” the “communist cancer,” declassified papers have revealed.

Declassified documents reveal how in 1965 a dirty tricks arm of the Foreign Office incited massacres that left thousands dead