Declassified Files
Exclusive: How Shell and BP financed Britain’s Cold War propaganda machine
Britain ‘immediately’ supported U.S. over shooting down of Iranian airliner
‘A possible coup’ against the Labour government?
Exclusive: Secret cables reveal Britain interfered with elections in Chile
Declassified Foreign Office files show that Britain conducted a covert propaganda offensive to stop Chilean leader Salvador Allende winning two democratic presidential elections – and helped prepare the ground for General Augusto Pinochet’s brutal military regime.
Exclusive: Why Britain wanted to ‘kill’ a United Nations ban on mercenaries
Following recent revelations that UK mercenaries fought on the same side as Vladimir Putin’s forces in Libya, Declassified exposes how Britain has blocked international efforts to ban private armies – partly to protect its own use of Gurkhas and other foreign fighters.
How Britain’s Labour government facilitated the massacre of Biafrans in Nigeria – to protect its oil interests
On the 50th anniversary of the end of the Biafran war, the world’s worst humanitarian crisis in the late 1960s, declassified British files show that Harold Wilson’s government secretly armed and backed Nigeria’s aggression against the secessionist region.
Torture ‘for your amusement’: How Thatcher’s government misled MPs and public about its dealings with the Pinochet regime
The British government under Margaret Thatcher misled the public and MPs about its dealings with the Pinochet regime in Chile while it tortured and killed thousands of people, declassified British documents show.
Britain’s hidden ‘information’ policy in the Middle East
British policy centred on maintaining internal ‘stability’ in the Gulf states and on retaining access to key resources upon which its global power relied.
