[…] wiped out and unemployable in their fifties! William Clark I’ve noticed a number of highly placed academics who use Jacques and Hall as representations of the ‘ Communist’ approach as regards theories of the state, Patrick Dunleavy of the LSE would be a good example. This closes off a lot of debate about the […]
The American boomerang In America, Mayor Bloomberg has banned smoking in public places, especially in restaurants, inadvertently turning New York into an unlikely but almost spook-free zone. (1) American intelligence officers may not smoke, but some of their overseas contacts will. If meeting in the West, they will prefer to do so in London; or, … Read more
[…] In 1985 Cathy Massiter a former MI5 employee revealed that the agency had kept files on Harriet Harman and Patricia Hewitt with the classifications ‘subversive’ and ‘ communist sympathiser’. Over the past decade there have been many structures put in place to ostensibly monitor the intelligence services as well as to give the public […]
[…] may explain what appear to be errors. The Pinay Circle is an informal group which meets twice a year in different locations. It includes conservative and anti- communist politicians, journalists, bankers etc., and occasional guests, all of whom originally gravitated around former French President Pinay. A meeting took place at the Madison Hotel, Washington, […]
[…] Challinor wrote that he spent an evening with seamen’s leader Jim Salter just before his death. Slater told Challinor that he had not been part of a communist plot and had never even met the CPGB industrial organiser, Bert Ramelson; and that he had later discussed the seamen’s strike with Harold Wilson who had […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] the historian James A. Nathan. This, says Kwitney, ‘contained sensational assertions’. Kwitney called Nathan to ‘seek documentation’ but ‘his only documentation ….was press clippings, including some from communist and other strongly partisan and unreliable publications, and from small-publication journalists I knew to be unreliable….. he had not tried to talk to the people involved […]
[…] 1956 The Times included Martell in a long list of groups working against ‘communism’, including; MRA, Common Cause, IRIS, Mosley’s Union Movement, and something called the Anti- Communist League of Great Britain. My point is that Martell was the public – publicity-seeking – campaigner. To a greater or lesser degree, all these other groups […]
Part 1 The world of ultra-right conspiracy theory is of interest to researchers into clandestinism for 3 reasons. First, because critics of research into clandestinism frequently attempt to bracket it together with ultra-right believers in The Protocols of Zion and similar fantasies.(1); secondly because the ultra-rightists, in the last decade, have been showing an interest … Read more
