[…] David Phillips. Interestingly enough a similar claim was resurrected at about the same time the Clark article appeared, during the Garrison enquiry. Clare Booth Luce, ardent anti- communist and wife of Time-Life publisher, claimed that on the night of the assassination she received a call from New Orleans which informed her that Oswald had […]
Unfree press A recent release of previously undisclosed documents reveals that J. Edgar Hoover ordered the FBI to carry out the illegal surveillance of newspaper labour activists during the 1940s. Also revealed is the fact that informants included journalists who wanted Communists removing from the leadership of the Newspaper Guild.(1) Only following orders Psychologist Stanley … Read more
[…] was set for the 1980 election in which the Reagan campaign took over the old John Birch Society line and denounced the Trilateral Commission as a pro- Communist conspiracy. The rest is history (and may be the last we’ll ever get.) But there’s more to the story Sanders has to tell. He traces names […]
[…] given a dossier originating in the U.S. after the Nice raid. He told the CIA he had organised the Nice robbery and offered to blow up the Communist party headquarters in Paris. (128) Henrik Kruger supplies the additional information that Spaggiari came to Miami. (129) This detail, together with the AIP-Aginter connection to the […]
[…] Vice-President, a post from which I resigned and went back to my course. While living in Sheffield in 1977, I had been briefly a member of the Communist Party and Chairman of the Netherthorpe Branch. Pat had told me that Legg’s job was positively vetted; consequently I asked her whether my political background was […]
[…] nothing less than a counter-revolutionary cell, either to overthrow the democratic state (as several P2 members tried to do in the early 1970s), or to prevent a Communist take-over. The members included three cabinet ministers from the Arnaldo Forlani government; the heads of Italy’s three main intelligence services; the chiefs of staff of the […]
[…] which had been established by the Federation of British Industries, the Mineowners’ Association and the Shipbuilding Employers Federation the previous year to monitor – and counter – ‘Communist subversion’ in British industry. Sir George Makgill, Honorary Secretary of the British Empire Producers Organisation and Secretary of the British Empire Union, was employed as the […]
[…] stories about how he got into trouble for delivering guns to the Sandinistas in Nicaragua during the late 1970s. Once upon a time, the stories continued, the Communist Party invited him to join. But Ace turned them down ‘because they were too conservative.’ Ace was bright and articulate, in a gruff sort of way. […]
[…] a tour of duty in Europe, returned to South Vietnam in 1954 as an aide to the above-mentioned Ed Lansdale, to help organize the CIA’s secret anti- communist forces in North Vietnam. As a measure of his knack for deceit and deception, it is worth noting that one of Conein’s favorite ‘dirty tricks’ was […]
[…] a degree of scoffing by certain members of the literati at A. N. Wilson’s passing mention in his recent memoir that Iris Murdoch fed ‘information’ to the Communist Party when she worked at The Treasury in the early 1940s. The late Dame’s widower, John Bayley, has backed up the claim up to some extent. […]
