Declassified UK
Posted: 23rd November 2021
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After a BBC cameraman was murdered by Afghan fundamentalists, the UK government maintained contacts with the group’s leader. This ‘venomously anti-British’ militant was met by the UK’s foreign secretary and soon became known as the ‘Butcher of Kabul’.
The UK played a covert role in the landmark US-backed coup in Brazil that ushered in a brutal 21-year military dictatorship, newly released files show.
Britain in 1970 secretly trained Colombian military intelligence, a repressive force set up to eliminate subversives, declassified files show. The Foreign Office’s propaganda arm hoped to equip the Colombian military with a similar information warfare unit.
Sir Alan Duncan spoke off-the-record to the head of Vitol, the world’s largest petroleum trader, to “gather information on” Venezuelan oil as he was devising British policy to remove the country’s government
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In an unprecedented and controversial move, the Northern Ireland police chief wants to censor a watchdog’s report into a mass murder before it is even published.
A teenager maimed by explosives at a British army training ground in Kenya plans to take the military to court. It comes amid mounting anger at the former colonial power for keeping troops in the country where a soldier allegedly murdered a local woman.
Stop the War Coalition are joining forces with Declassified UK to present a special Q&A session responding to Matt Kennard & Phil Miller’s recent documentary Warton’s War on Yemen. The film investigates an arms factory in Warton, Lancashire making warplanes to bomb Yemen – the world’s worst humanitarian disaster.
We hope this Q&A will shine further light on the tragedy taking place in Yemen and the role the British government is playing supporting the destruction there.
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