Anglo-Russian Commission

The Anglo-Russia Commission was an office of the British Department of Information established in Saint Petersburg in 1915 that was involved in arranging war supplies from the United Kingdom to Russia.[1]

It was tasked with "propaganda distribution, use of literature and art therefore, political intelligence, and, as agent for the War Office, the dissemination of military news to non-military and non-Dominion authorities"[2]

The office was closed in the early days of March 1918 when it was reported to have "left British propaganda in Russia almost at a standstill".[3]

References

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  1. ^ Phillip Knightley (30 September 2013). The Second Oldest Profession: Spies and Spying in the Twentieth Century. Random House. p. 19. ISBN 978-1-4464-4297-5.
  2. ^ Nicholas John Wilkinson (28 May 2009). Secrecy and the Media: The Official History of the United Kingdom's D-Notice System. Routledge. pp. 144–. ISBN 978-1-134-05253-0.
  3. ^ Great Britain. Foreign Office (1984). British documents on foreign affairs: reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print. University Publications of America. ISBN 978-0-89093-601-6.