[HIGHLIGHTS] A document reveals the involvement of the British Foreign Office in the coup against Ghanaian President Nkrumah

A document reveals the involvement of the British Foreign Office in the coup against Ghanaian President Nkrumah. A field agent from the Foreign Office's "Political Propaganda Unit", known as the "Information Research Department" (IRD) between the years 1962 and 1964, to conduct an assessment and send detailed reports.

The department participated in secret operations that went beyond “fighting the communist tide” to attempts to preserve the empire’s prestige “by distorting the image of its enemies,” the document reveals.