[…] ‘A direct consequence of the reorganisation of functions in 1931 was that the agency which had been employed by S.I.S. and had furnished them with information about Communist matters inside this country came under the control of the Security Service, where it was later known as the M Section .’ So he was working […]
[…] well known. Ron Gostick is the head of Butler’s League of Rights’ Canadian branch and is currently a member of the Canadian affiliate to the World Anti- Communist League.(3) As far back as 1967 Gostick and Butler were referred to as “associates” of the Candour League of Rhodesia.(4) Two of the other ‘associates’ mentioned […]
[…] McGovern wrote of this: ‘In early 1967, CIA analysts, led by a young analyst named Sam Adams demonstrated that there were more than twice as many Vietnamese Communist forces as the US military listed on its books. General William Westmoreland’s staff had reduced the numbers for political reasons. The general was adamant, so CIA […]
[…] ‘was a philandering drunk whose career was destined to be curtailed by the knowledge, acquired secretly by MI5, that he had once been a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain.’ (p. 557, emphasis added). Oh really? We are told (p. 542) that Peter Wright’s ‘initiation into molehunting’ was in May 1963, while […]
[…] Soviet power blocs was due in part to a number of the early Zionist leaders also having good connections with the leadership of eastern European left and Communist parties. Much early military assistance for Israel, in the 1940s, came from Czechoslovakia. The murder of Bernadotte was organised by a small group that included Yitzhak […]
[…] they were the Round Table. The ‘radical right’ in America attacked the Round Table’s various front organisations in the late 1940s, thinking they were attacking the ‘international communist conspiracy’. (15) More recently both Nixon and Mrs Thatcher have explicitly set themselves up as the enemies of the foreign policy ‘establishment’ without ever showing the […]
[…] in late 1956 on orders from William Casey……..Carone said that Paine was approached by the CIA to find and recruit an individual that (sic) was expendable, with communist ties and some type of anti-American background. Carone said that when Ruth Paine found the individual, she notified her CIA contact, identified as George de Morenschild, […]
[…] decided they would impose their childish notions about the world onto the Agency and get it to produce ‘intelligence’ to support their conspiracy theories about the ‘ communist menace’. The very idea of attempting ‘the politics of the CIA’, let alone getting as close as Perry has done to actually bringing it off, is […]
[…] of the time. Kennedy, it should not be entirely forgotten, followed Eisenhower/Dulles. Think of all those brave ventures designed to show the world the liberal-progressive (if anti- communist) face of American imperialism: the Alliance for Progress; treaties with the Soviets; and ‘opening to the left in Italy’; the Peace Corps. Interesting moves. Futile in […]
[…] still felt in the 1980s) when the Tory right, briefed by a section of the British spooks, believed that the Labour Party and the unions were a Communist conspiracy and were thus ‘a legitimate target’. Oborne’s idea of ‘political’ simply does not encompass activities by the state, let alone the secret state. In one […]
