Catalogue description Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Information Research Department: Registered files (IRD Series): Information Officers Reports from Beirut

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Details of FCO 174
Reference: FCO 174
Title: Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Information Research Department: Registered files (IRD Series): Information Officers Reports from Beirut
Description:

This series contains registered files of the Information Research Department (IRD) concerning the provision of anti-Communist information via British overseas missions and posts and other outlets.

The series covers the IRD role in reporting from the post in Beirut. Subjects covered in this series include British Embassy correspondence, the Arab News Agency, policy and progress reports, hostile propaganda (local and regional), counter propaganda (local and regional), staff administration and finance, current affairs, special information and journalists.
Date: 1973-1975
Related material:

See also:

Information Research Department: General Correspondence (PR and IR Series) FO 1110

Registered Files (IR and PR series) and Publications FCO 95
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: IRD series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Information Research Department, 1968-1977
Physical description: 35 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

In 2020 Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Selection and destruction information: In line with OSP 13 ('Britain's Diplomatic Relations 1973-1996)
Accruals: After initial transfer, no further accruals are expected.
Administrative / biographical background:

The Information Research Department was formed in 1948 to collect information concerning Communist policy, tactics and propaganda and to provide material for anti-Communist publicity. In 1968, the department became the responsibility of the FCO

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