[…] much point, therefore, in speculation on a suggestion that has sometimes been made — that, during the period of the Cold War, MRA’s services to the anti- Communist cause have been recognised by subsidies from official but secret, agencies in the United States or elsewhere.’ MRA certainly looks like an American operation after the […]
[…] threat in Europe, and rarely if ever criticized the Soviet bloc, some on the British right see Searchlight not as a Jewish or Israeli, but as a communist operation. The casual attribution of the labels like neo-nazi occasionally back-fires. In January the Sunday Express ran a piece headlined ‘Traitors: the ultra-right Tories who plotted […]
[…] (a) harmless and (b) prevented tooth decay, it wasn’t helped by being adopted by the John Birch Society. Their belief, that fluoridation was part of the international communist conspiracy, was put into the mouth of the character Jack. D. Ripper, the demented commander of the US Air Force base in England, who had dispatched […]
[…] 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident (which laid the foundation for a wider war), and its commanders included John K. Singlaub, later a figure in the World Anti- Communist League and Iran-contra affair. So mysterious was the group that even its name causes uncertainty: for cover purposes, it was the Studies and Observations Group, but […]
[…] assassination In October he sent me an e-mail, of which this is an extract. During my research on the JFK assassination I received information that an anti- communist group called the Intercontinental Penetration Force (Interpen) was involved in the operation. Interpen was a privately funded right-wing group that received support from the CIA in […]
[…] a theoretical framework. He concludes: ‘With the Congress, historical context is everything. In the 1950s it was dedicated to forming alliances between the American and European Non- Communist Left in defence of cultural-intellectual values, and as ideological support for the Marshall Plan and the Atlantic alliance. The time was right, in other words, for […]
[…] ‘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 […]
[…] to be Regulated’, The Independent 31 July 2004, p.18 10 Established under the 1950 Internal Security Act, the SISS worked closely with the FBI to ensure that Communist Party members registered themselves with the Attorney General. It also conducted Senate hearings for 27 years to ensure that the register was kept up to date. […]
[…] this section from the memoir of senior KGB officer Oleg Kalugin, The First Chief Directorate: My 32 Years in Intelligence and Espionage Against the West: ‘In the Communist sphere outside of Europe, we [KGB) worked closest with the Cubans…….The Cubans’ ardour also spurred them to take chances that we, a conservative superpower (USSR), were […]
[…] indefinitely, for various reasons, including: the emerging dominance of wealthy diaspora; the creeping commercial expansion of China and India; the eventual maturing of some post-Soviet and post- communist regimes; the emerging clout of some countries of the British Commonwealth; the sophistication of some organisations such as the Arab League; the expansion of the European […]
