British security services plot to smear politicians 1970s |
“The project was undertaken by members of the British intelligence services and the British Army press office in Northern Ireland, whose job also included routine public relations work and placing disinformation stories in the press as part of a psychological warfare operation against the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
“One of the project's members, Colin Wallace, who was the press officer at the Army Headquarters in Northern Ireland, also claims that in 1973, after MI5 became the primary intelligence service in Northern Ireland, the project [which?] began giving briefings to foreign journalists against members of Wilson's government. These briefings included distributing forged documents in an attempt to show that the victims[who?] were communists ;or Irish republican sympathisers leading a campaign to destabilise Northern Ireland[3] or were taking bribes.”*
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*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clockwork_Orange_(plot)