UK Prepared for Coup in Colombia by Training Military in Psychological Warfare

UK Prepared for Coup in Colombia by Training Military in Psychological Warfare

British involvement in the South American country’s counter-insurgency conflict thus began long before it became…

By John McEvoy

Recently declassified British files reveal how the Foreign Office prepared for a possible military coup in Colombia by secretly training the country’s armed forces in psychological warfare.

In 1970, Britain’s Cold War propaganda arm, the Information Research Department (IRD), secretly provided two weeks of counter-insurgency instruction to high-ranking Colombian military officials.

Part of the course was held at the Joint Warfare Establishment at Old Sarum in Wiltshire, where the Colombian officers were given special instruction in psychological operations.

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