Economic League

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An organisation set up in 1919 under the name National Propaganda. Its name was changed to the Economic League in 1924. Its main early functions were corporate propaganda and spying on the left. From about the 1950s its main role became blacklisting workers regarded as being 'subversives' in some way.

The League was closd down in the 1990s and a successor body, called Caprim set up.


Resources

Economic League publications

Economic League, Subversion in Industry, Economic League (London and South Eastern Region), February 1958

Notes

Mike Hughes SPIES AT WORK Printed version ISBN 0948995053, 1 IN 12 PUBLICATIONS, 1994.