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  "path": "/global/2026/05/15/foreign-office-propaganda-unit/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-15T20:23:42.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.thecanary.co",
  "tags": [
    "Global",
    "Foreign Office",
    "UK",
    "Joe Glenton"
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  "textContent": "A British ‘black propaganda’ unit carried out a vast range of ‘anti-communist’ influence operations and even owned international news agencies. The Foreign Office ran the Special Editorial Unit (SEU) from the late 1940s to the 1970s. Declassified UK‘s Jon McEvoy, who has reported on the unit before, accessed a new tranche of files released from […]\n\nBy Joe Glenton",
  "title": "Declassified files reveal new details about UK Foreign Office propaganda unit"
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