Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire Anne Norton New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004 $25/£16 What’s the Matter with America? Thomas Frank The Resistable Rise of the American Right London: Secker & Warburg, 2004, £12 Most of us in Europe find it difficult to understand what happened in America on … Read more
An extraordinary claim in The Times by the Cambridge historian Professor Christopher Andrew, that Arthur Ransome has been identified in KGB documents as ‘the most important secret source of intelligence on British foreign policy’ for the Cheka, the terror organisation of Bolshevik Russia, has infuriated lovers of Ransome’s work. Unlike Michael Foot, similarly traduced, Ramsome […]
[…] 1983) In April 1982 Joseph Bennett, a ‘supergrass’, gave evidence about a conspiracy to import arms for the UVF in 1980. It involved negotiations with the neo- Nazi VMO (Flemish Military Order). The deal between Bennett and John Irvine of the UVF and Albert Eriksson, a leader of the VMO, was simple: the VMO […]
If Truth be Told: Secrecy and subversion in an age turned unheroic Stan Winer Newton (Wales): Superscript, 2004, £10, p/back ISBN 0 9542913 36 available from <www.gardners.com/> This arrived with a note from the publisher which began: ‘We are a tiny radical press operating from a council house in mid-Wales. We aim to make … Read more
[…] Soviet intelligence agent, The Oswald File, op cit, p. 65. I’m not sure what freelance means in this context, but for the Soviets? No. Osborne was pro- Nazi during the Second World War. There are frequent mentions of Osborne in Eddowes’ The Oswald File, but the key text remains Dick Russell’s The Man Who […]
[…] which deals with Irish affairs. He arrived in Northern Ireland at the height of the Kincora vice-ring. Bettaney is homosexual and while at Oxford was involved in Nazi politics, forming a right-wing student alliance at the University. He was charged with passing on British Intelligence assessments of a KGB network operating in Britain, and […]
[…] as Home Secretary, and responsibility for MI5, he had to deal with the IRA mainland bombing campaign. Two, he had a long record of seeking to bring Nazi war criminals to justice and was highly regarded in the Jewish community – strongly represented in his Leeds constituency – in consequence.(1) In his book on […]
[…] might like to surprise the organiser, Dr. Alex Hay, at 2 Popes Lane, London W5 4NA (0181 567 6772), by asking him. Lyndon LaRouche Jnr, please note. Information Wanted On: FBI smear campaign against American Nazi Frank Collin/Cohn (1970s) FBI investigation into the Silent Brotherhood (1983-4) Fort Smith Sedition Trial (1988) To the editor, please.
[…] to reform, they would say – the British legal-judicial system, tantamount in Evans’ view to the British constitution. He tells us that Britain under NuLab is not Nazi Germany but….. In this milieu Evans focuses on MI5. He is not a fan. He shows their expansion, their lack of accountability and their incompetence. He […]
Intelligence and the War in Bosnia 1992-1995 Cees Wiebes Munster, Germany: Lit Verlag, Studies in Intelligence History, 2003 ISBN 3-8258-6347-6 p/b, 34.9 euros, $39.95 from Amazon. The publisher declined to send me a review copy but I read one chapter sent by e-mail from the author. This isn’t my field but it seems to me … Read more
