[…] it was far better to tell what he knew than to keep quiet and allow even a small Soviet victory. A (agonised) patriot and a fervent anti- communist: how does this contradict what we know about Orwell, or lead us in any way to reappraise him? It’s certainly not as though he could have […]
[…] 25, p. 342. John L. Wilhelm,’Psychic Spying’ in Washington Post (Sunday Magazine) 7 August 1977. Ibid. Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Radiation (Radio Waves and Microwaves) – Eurasian Communist Countries, Defense Intelligence Agency, Oct. 1976. One such recent device is called Elipton, of which Profesor Vlail Kaznacheyev said: Sensors of the Elipton act on eyes […]
[…] Alister Watson. Wittgenstein was taught Russian by Fania Pascal, who was probably a Comintern agent and whose husband Roy, like Wittgenstein, lodged one summer with another active Communist, Maurice Dobb. Wittgenstein and Blunt both visited the Soviet Union in the summer of 1935. In the 1920s Wittgenstein wrote of his desire to flee to […]
[…] to play a significant part in colonial life. Smith portrays MI5 working with the Colonial Office, bugging, tapping, intercepting mail — as well as producing inept anti- communist propaganda. Then as independence loomed, the Colonial Office/MI5 team were replaced by the Foreign Office/MI6 people. Smith’s encounter with colonial corruption climaxes with his discovery that […]
Gordon Carr Christie Books, 2003 p/b, £34 (inc. p and p) from www.Christiebooks.com This is a reprint of Carr’s 1975 book on the Angry Brigade (AB), done in an A4 format paperback, to which Stuart Christie has added dozens of photographs of the participants, the scenes of the various bombings, magazine covers and other graphic … Read more
[…] the arms-for-hostages talks, fleshed out the alleged connection. “Drugs go to the bourgeois countries where they corrupt and where they kill, while the arms go to pro- Communist terror groups in the Third World.’ The DEA’s own deputy administrator, David Westrate, framed the ideological rationale for expanding his agency’s de facto jurisdiction when he […]
[…] fronted material from MI5’s F Branch. Some of its preoccupations are really quite bizarre. There is, for example, nearly a page about a sculpture of the late communist MP, Willie Gallagher. To whom could this conceivably be of interest outside Gallagher’s patch in West Fife? Information on and other copies of both British Briefing […]
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke I.B.Tauris, London, 1992, £9.95. In his last paragraph the author concludes: ‘Books written about Nazi occultism between 1960 and 1975 were typically sensational and under-researched. A complete ignorance of the primary sources was common to most authors and inaccuracies and wild claims were repeated by each newcomer to the genre until an abundant … Read more
[…] Chapman Pincher subsequently stated the call was made by Victor Louis, the London Evening Standard’s Moscow correspondent; but the only evidence adduced was that Louis was a communist and therefore, one supposes, capable of anything.(5) Earlier this year my annotated examination of the JFK assassination paperwork generated by the FBI’s London office was published […]
[…] green credentials impress you when he was Bill Clinton’s vice-president and you were an eager young Guardian newshound in DC? Freedland’s fellow Guardian columnist Martin Kettle, the Communist turned great friend of Tony Blair and New Labour, has just discovered the City of London is not all it’s cracked up to be. As the […]
