Anglo-Russian Commission Explained

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]

Notes and References

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