Declassified UK

Posted: 8th January 2024

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Documents obtained by Declassified show that senior British army officers have played key roles at US Africa Command, which conducts drone strikes and secret operations, and they effectively serve as US military personnel at its base in Djibouti.

Declassified speaks to army veterans using food banks and struggling with their mental health – and how they’ve been let down by the military, welfare system, and even charities set up to help them.

The government is blocking the release of all information about Andrew’s decade as a taxpayer-funded trade envoy. This culture of unnecessary secrecy needs to end, says royal biographer.

When Greek army officers seized power in Athens in 1967, Harold Wilson’s Labour government decided to do business with its repressive NATO and commercial ally, overriding human rights concerns, declassified files show.

Human rights group has “serious concerns” about secret deployment of elite British army officer to Nairobi.

Ten years after the UK overthrew the democratically elected government of British Guiana, it engineered a further, constitutional coup to ensure the same progressive leader, Cheddi Jagan, could not be elected again, declassified files show.

A secret unit of the Foreign Office monitored leftist journalists, intellectuals and trade unions deemed “subversive” and sought to discredit them during the Cold War, recently declassified files reveal.

Britain’s national press have been indispensable allies of Israel throughout its brutal war on Gaza.

The US and UK militaries refuse to tell Declassified if a US Air Force flight from Turkey to the UK’s Cyprus base was carrying weapons for Israel, as leaked American cables shed new light on Incirlik’s use by the US military.

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The legendary foreign correspondent who has died at the age of 84 was monitored and targeted by a covert British propaganda unit, declassified files show.