[…] is impossible: events and the words of the players can be interpreted in different ways. Curtis takes as his starting point the fact that while the ‘ communist threat’ has disappeared, the actions of the US and its major flunkey, the UK, remain unchanged. In other words, whatever the diplomats at the time thought […]
[…] ‘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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
Did Churchill reveal the pending Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to Roosevelt two weeks before it happened? Below is what purports to a transcript of a telephone conversation recorded by the Germans during World War 2. If genuine, it shows, as has been alleged in the past, that Roosevelt was indeed warned of the impending … Read more
[…] link post-war anti-communism with the current anti-Muslim strategies in what the Bush regime has now designated as ‘the long war’ between ‘freedom’ and ‘totalitarianism. Once it was communist totalitarianism and now it is Muslim totalitarianism: same struggle, different enemies. This is clearly going to be the new line: the struggle against totalitarianism that has […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] German military had co-operated with the Soviet Union. Hitler had been much more reliable than this. He had stopped the military co-operation, he had crushed the alleged Communist threat in Germany and was regarded by many influential figures in Britain as the best bastion civilisation could have against Soviet expansion. The author puts a […]
[…] 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 […]
