The Lord Feather | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Vic Feather, 1965 | |
| President of the European Trade Union Confederation | |
| In office 1973–1974 | |
| Preceded by | Heinz Oskar Vetter |
| Succeeded by | Heinz Oskar Vetter |
| General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress | |
| In office 26 February 1969 – 7 September 19731 | |
| Preceded by | George Woodcock |
| Succeeded by | Len Murray |
| Assistant General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress | |
| In office 1960–1969 | |
| General Secretary | George Woodcock |
| Preceded by | George Woodcock |
| Succeeded by | Len Murray |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 10 April 1908 Idle, Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England |
| Died | 28 July 1976 (aged 68) |
| 1 Acting from 26 February 1969 to 2 September 1969 | |
Victor Grayson Hardie Feather, Baron Feather, CBE (10 April 1908 – 28 July 1976) was a British propagandist and General Secretary of the Trade Union Congress in Great Britain from 1969 to 1973. During his time as assistant secretary of the TUC, he was secretly being paid to write anti-communist propaganda by the Information Research Department (IRD), a secret branch of the UK Foreign Office which dealt in weaponised disinformation, anti-communism, and pro-colonial propaganda.[1] Feather's book Trade Unions:True or False was published via Background Books, a propaganda front for the IRD.[1] British propagandists also used Feather's services to promote anti-communist propaganda from within the TUC.[2][3][4]
- ^ a b Lashmar, Paul (1988). Britain's Secret Propaganda War 1948-1977. Phoenix Mill: Sutton Publishing. p. 100.
- ^ Maguire, Thomas J. (8 May 2014). "Counter-Subversion in Early Cold War Britain: The Official Committee on Communism (Home), the Information Research Department, and 'State-Private Networks". Intelligence and National Security. 30 . no 5 (5): 650. doi:10.1080/02684527.2014.895570. S2CID 154278508 – via Taylor & Francis Online.
- ^ Deery, Phillip (1997). "Confronting the Cominform: George Orwell and the Cold War Offensive of the Information Research Department, 1948-50". Labour History. 73 (73): 220. JSTOR 27516511 – via JSTOR.
- ^ Wilford, Hugh (1998). "The Information Research Department: Britain's secret Cold War weapon revealed". Review of International Studies. 24 (3): 364. doi:10.1017/S0260210598003532 – via Cambridge Core.
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