Britain assisted Australia in setting up a team modelled on the UK’s notorious Information Research Department to run influence operations in the Asia-Pacific in the 1970s, recently declassified files reveal.

JOHN MCEVOY is an independent journalist who has written for International History Review, The Canary, Tribune Magazine, Jacobin, Brasil Wire, and Declassified UK.
Britain assisted Australia in setting up a team modelled on the UK’s notorious Information Research Department to run influence operations in the Asia-Pacific in the 1970s, recently declassified files reveal.