News Department - Revision history

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 The News Department of the [[Foreign Office]] is responsible for managing news about British foreign policy in the UK as opposed to managing news overseas or dealing with policy questions and public diplomacy which are the responsibility of departments such as the [[Public Diplomacy Policy Department]].
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 ==Notes==
 #{{note|Pilger}} John Pilger [http://www.johnpilger.com/page.asp?partid=316 Iraq: yet again, they are lying to us] 20 Mar 2000
 [[Category:British Propaganda]]

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−	The News Department of the Foreign Office is responsible for managing news about British foreign policy in the UK as opposed to managing news overseas or dealing with policy questions and public diplomacy which are the responsibility of departments such as the [[Public Diplomacy Policy Department]].	+	The News Department of the [[Foreign Office]] is responsible for managing news about British foreign policy in the UK as opposed to managing news overseas or dealing with policy questions and public diplomacy which are the responsibility of departments such as the [[Public Diplomacy Policy Department]].

	==Lies and power==		==Lies and power==

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 *[[Rosemary Waugh]], 2002
 *[[Ian Whitehead]], 1989
 ==Notes==
 #{{note|Pilger}} John Pilger [http://www.johnpilger.com/page.asp?partid=316 Iraq: yet again, they are lying to us] 20 Mar 2000
 [[Category:British Propaganda]]

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 *[[Rosemary Waugh]], 2002
 *[[Ian Whitehead]], 1989
 ==Notes==
 #{{note|Pilger}} John Pilger [http://www.johnpilger.com/page.asp?partid=316 Iraq: yet again, they are lying to us] 20 Mar 2000
 [[Category:British Propaganda]]

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	==Notes==		==Notes==
	#{{note\|Pilger}} John Pilger [http://www.johnpilger.com/page.asp?partid=316 Iraq: yet again, they are lying to us] 20 Mar 2000		#{{note\|Pilger}} John Pilger [http://www.johnpilger.com/page.asp?partid=316 Iraq: yet again, they are lying to us] 20 Mar 2000
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−		+	The News Department of the Foreign Office is responsible for managing news about British foreign policy in the UK as opposed to managing news overseas or dealing with policy questions and public diplomacy which are the responsibility of departments such as the [[Public Diplomacy Policy Department]].
−	The News Department of the Foreign Office is responsible for managing news about British foreign policy in the UK as opposed to managing news overseas or dealing with policy questions and public diplomacy which are the responsibility of departments such as the [[Public Diplomacy ]].

	==Lies and power==		==Lies and power==

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 ::"The public got as much truth as we could squeeze out, given that we told downright lies . . ."
-:I went to the Foreign Office that same year, 1989, to interview Lord Brabazon, a junior minister. The subject was Cambodia. The Thatcher government was then supporting the Khmer Rouge-led coalition and the SAS was secretly providing training in mine- laying. Like its part in the arms-to-Iraq scandal, the Foreign Office was lying about it. (Two years later, the Major government owned up.)
+:I went to the Foreign Office that same year, 1989, to interview [[Lord Brabazon]], a junior minister. The subject was Cambodia. The Thatcher government was then supporting the Khmer Rouge-led coalition and the SAS was secretly providing training in mine- laying. Like its part in the arms-to-Iraq scandal, the Foreign Office was lying about it. (Two years later, the Major government owned up.)
 :I was met by a minder from the news department, [[Ian Whitehead]], who took me aside, as he was no doubt used to doing with journalists, and told me to "go easy" on the minister. With the interview under way, he began shouting that I had departed from the "agreed line of questioning". No "line" had been agreed. These days, the style is less obtuse, but the aim is the same. Senior broadcasters and commentators pop in to the Foreign Office without any material favours expected; for them, the flattery and "access" are enough. Thus, much of the world is represented in terms of its usefulness to western "interests".{{ref|Pilger}}

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 *[[Guy Burgess]], the Soviet spy, 1944-7
 *[[Kim Darroch]], 1997-8
-*[[Osbert Lancaster]]
+*[[Osbert Lancaster]], 1940-44
 *[[Rex Leeper]], 1929-34
 *[[Donald Maitland]] Head, 1965-7