[…] and race issues into the CPGB and wider Labour Movement. ‘There was nothing Marxist about any of this. These issues were used quite deliberately to undermine the Communist Party and the Labour Movement in general.’ (emphasis added) This is an interesting claim which I have heard before; but, like the rest of the book, […]
[…] 1958 FO 1959 TEHRAN 1963 1ST SEC FO 1968 SECONDED TO MOD 1972- 1ST SEC FCO RETIRED BAGOT, MILLICENT MI5 (W) IN PRE-WAR MI5. A VETERAN ANTI- COMMUNIST. HEAD OF E1 DIVISION DEALING WITH INTERNATIONAL COMMUNISM, 1945- BALFOUR, MAJ DAVID CBE (1960) B 20.1.03 UNIVERSITIES OF PRAGUE, SALZBURG, ROME AND ATHENS MI6 1939 KNOWN […]
[…] was ever off course, they assert that the crash was engineered by American agencies and foisted on the USSR as a way to discredit them, fan anti- Communist feeling and rally American opinion behind the Republican-hawk world view. In other words, “Providential?’ The first news most of us had of the crash came on […]
[…] America during the early 1960s. In the course of that trip, Jones is found to have met with CIA officers (in Brazil), and to have given anti- communist speeches (in Guyana) a peculiar stance for a self-declared leftist such as Jones. But the real reason that Dr. Moore battens me into the conspiracists’ […]
John Diamond Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2008, h/b. No price is stated but it’s around $30 on-line. In The Guardian on 4 March 2009 William Dalrymple wrote: ‘Eight years of neocon foreign policies have been a spectacular disaster for American interests in the Islamic world, leading to the advance of Hamas and Hezboll-ah, the … Read more
[…] ‘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 Union as ‘the evil empire’. They thus became useful, minor foreign policy propaganda assets for the Reagan administration. Supporting any movement which was perceived as anti-socialist/ communist, the FCS became cheerleaders for whichever bunch of murderous thugs happened to be getting support from Washington: Renamo and the Contras come to mind. About Mozambique […]
[…] struggle (and, presumably, give the Polish Stalinists time to organise the coup). Some Grey Wolves came to believe that if the infidel Pope would not inflame anti- communist revolt, it would be better if he was assassinated in a way that would make the KGB look like culprits. Poland would rise in fury, signalling […]
[…] the various forgeries which were going around: Ted Short’s phoney bank account and all the forged leaflets and letters trying to link Wilson and others to the Communist Party and the IRA. And here is the core of my complaint: it wasn’t just a plot against Wilson; it was a plot against the Labour […]
[…] our propaganda and study the Russian Intelligence Service (RIS) and local left activity. But Beck learns that by the 1960s RIS had long since ceased using foreign Communist Parties for espionage. In Havana he manages to identify the local KGB chief, but that’s about all, even after endless tailing. Because CIA chiefs are so […]
