1. Rosenberg, ‘U.S. cultural history’ in May, E. (ed.), American Cold War Strategy: Interpreting NSC 68 (New York: Bedford Books, 1993), p. 163.
2. Brecker, ‘Truth as a weapon of the free world’, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 278 (November 1951), p. 4.
3. See Lucas, ‘Campaigns of truth: The psychological strategy board and American ideology, 1951–53’, The International History Review, Vol. XVIII, No. 2 (May 1996), pp. 279–302.
4. There is a growing literature on the IRD. See, for example: Smith, ‘Covert British Propaganda: The Information Research Department 1947–1977’, Millennium, Vol. 9, No. 1 (1980), pp. 67–83; Fletcher, ‘British Propaganda since World War II: A Case Study’, Media, Culture and Society, Vol. 4, No. 2 (1982),
5. Lucas and Morris, ‘A Very British Crusade: The Information Research Department and the Beginning of the Cold War’, in Aldrich (ed.), British Intelligence, Strategy and the Cold War, 1945–51 (London: Routledge, 1991);