[…] Great Betrayal Nicholas Bethel (London 1984) This is either a ‘snow job’, designed to discourage further research in this area (British intelligence attempts to destabilise Soviet and communist influenced regimes), or is just a poor effort on Bethel’s part. One can’t deny that it is useful – after all, it is the first book […]
[…] almost anyone else..’ (p. 112) ‘He would have been the obvious choice removing communists from MI5 (p. 124) ‘There is another pointer to Hollis’s collusion with the Communist Party’ (p. 124) ‘Hollis also took the view, it seems‘ (p. 125) ‘Hollis would have known that there was already a file on Burgess…’ (p. 129) […]
[…] two bordering streets, and thus had two addresses: 531 Lafayette Street and 544 Camp Street. The building was part-rented by William Guy Bannister, a racist, violent anti- communist, and member of the John Birch Society. Bannister served in the FBI and had risen to be Special Agent-in-Charge of the Bureau’s Chicago office. After retiring […]
[…] are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures’. The speech was used to draw financial backing from Congress to Truman’s determination to support anti- Communist regimes in Greece and Turkey. These governments had been propped up by the British but the expense of the operation was by late 1946 too much […]
[…] he became Director of Mind in 1973, an anonymous document was circulated to some of the charity’s most eminent supporters alleging that Smythe was some kind of communist agent. I wrote to Mr Smythe who kindly supplied me with part of the document. The document looks like a pretty obvious bit of state (IRD?) […]
[…] pieces of research by Desmond Fernandes on the European-wide oppression of the Kurds. The first is ‘United States and NATO inspired “psychological warfare operations” against the “Kurdish communist threat” in Turkey’, published in the Glasgow-based magazineVariant no. 12: www.ndirect.co.uk/~variant The second is a monograph,The Targeting and Criminalisation of Kurdish Asylum Seekers and Refugee Communities […]
[…] peace flight to Britain, six weeks before the Germans invaded Russia. Yet outside the pilots’ log books there exists no official record of their mission. In post-war Communist Czechoslovakia, many ex-RAF pilots were picked by the STB secret police and jailed or drafted down the mines. Stories of their exploits could not be published. […]
[…] who theorised and rendered the process possible – in terms of a Gramscian war of position or construction of a hegemony – were former members of the Communist Party or members of the Demos think tank. Names like Peter Mandelson, Stuart Hall, Martin Kettle and Martin Jacques spring to mind immediately What particularly interests […]
[…] Gordon and Morgan-Witts, Max Pontiff, Grenada, London 1983 Whale, John The Pope From Poland, Collins, London 1980 General Books on the Italian Political Scene Amyot G. Italian Communist Party, Croom Helm, London 1981 Davidson, A Theory and Practice of Italian Communism, Merlin, London 1982 Earle J. Italy in the 1970s, David and Charles, Newton […]
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
