Secret Government file on Intelligence-Supported Documentary The Red Under the Bed - Spy Culture

The 1973 ITV documentary The Red Under the Bed helped convict the Shrewsbury 24 by accusing them of being communists for their role in leading the 1972 Building Workers Strike. A file from the office of then-Prime Minister Ted Heath confirms that the documentary was not just encouraged by the government, but supported by the Foreign Office anti-communist intelligence unit the IRD.(Read more...)

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