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Brainwashing and Propaganda
/ New York Times (30 October 1977) / The Guardian (21 August 2001)
Coverage of how the CIA’s cultural propaganda apparatus — the ‘Mighty Wurlitzer’ — was exposed
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The Unspoken War Part I-A
National Archives milestone-document page
Section 7: Far Right, Fascism & Irredentism
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The Royals
/ All That's Interesting (Caroline Redmond)
Flag: popular-history site — orientation; the Marburg Files themselves are the primary record
Section 3: Butler Britain
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House of Lords and Aristocracy
/ E.P. Thompson (Victor Gollancz, 1963)
Landmark social history of the formation of the English working class 1780–1832 — foundational text for understanding class, labour and political consciousness in Britain.
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Mirror Stage — Cold War Records
/ Timothy Garton Ash (archive.org lending copy)
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Contemporary Far Right (PROVISIONAL — pending framing decision)
Politico reporting on US administration plans to fund aligned European think tanks
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The Power Below — EU Social Rights
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EU Structural Failures
Left and far-left EP group — includes Die Linke, Syriza, La France Insoumise and Podemos. Historically critical of NATO and EU austerity; divided on Ukraine.
Section 4: Shadow Economies & Financial Crime
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OCCRP Investigations
/ Jake Bernstein (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017)
Journalist Jake Bernstein’s inside account of the Panama Papers investigation — documents the global offshore architecture and the journalists who exposed it.
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Allies of Convenience
/ University of Nebraska Omaha — Goldstein Center
Cited in Allies of Convenience
Section 2: Post-Soviet Transition & the New Russia
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Gorbachev and Perestroika
/ Reagan Library / NSA (declassified)
Record of the final session of the Reykjavik summit where Reagan and Gorbachev came close to agreeing total nuclear abolition before SDI broke the talks.
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US and the European Project
On the 2010 Deauville summit and US anxiety at being sidelined from Franco-German-Russian security talks
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Chile and Eurocommunism
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Butler Britain — SLAPPs and Law Firms
Foreign Policy Centre report on strategic lawsuits against public participation and their impact on journalism
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Russia — Political Development
/ Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1869)
Dostoevsky’s novel of a Christ-like innocent in corrupt St Petersburg society — one of the literary foundations for the Triple Edge moral register.
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Chernobyl — Documentary Base
Joint UN recovery-strategy report
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Chile and Eurocommunism
Section 1: Cold War Origins & Intelligence History
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Five Eyes Formation
/ Ian Cobain (Portobello Books, 2016)
Investigation into Britain’s culture of official secrecy — covers the systematic destruction and concealment of colonial and intelligence records.
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Denmark and Northern Europe — Cold War
/ Danish Institute for International Studies
DIIS research page (cited alongside the CovertAction ‘surveillance empire’ piece)
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Conservatives and Russia
/ The Guardian, 12 February 2025
Zelensky formally denies that Johnson’s April 2022 visit blocked a peace deal — documents the contested nature of the Johnson-Ukraine peace talks narrative.
Section 9: Corporate Power & Governance Failure
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Big Four Enablers
/ The Guardian (Ellie Mae O'Hagan), 13 June 2018
Guardian opinion piece arguing the Big Four’s structural conflicts of interest are irresolvable without nationalisation — published after Carillion collapse.
Section 9: Corporate Power & Governance Failure
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Big Four Enablers
/ Richard Brooks (Oneworld, 2013)
Investigation into corporate tax avoidance in Britain — documents HMRC’s systematic failure to enforce tax law against major corporations and their advisers.
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House of Lords and Aristocracy
/ Peter J. Conradi (Alma Books, 2012)
Study of how European monarchies adapted and survived into the modern era — covers the political strategies, scandals and reinventions that kept royal families relevant.
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Mirror States — NATO Enlargement Debate
/ National Security Archive
Companion NSA briefing book to What Gorbachev Heard