Historical notes on the four freedoms

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[PDF file]: […] in January 1941. Although the USA was not then a belligerent, Roosevelt was keen to help the struggle of British Commonwealth and Empire and Allied forces against Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, notwithstanding the existence of pro-neutrality legislation which limited what his administration could do to help. Already, in 1940 the US had provided […]

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Garrick Alder His name is Olaf Neitsch, and he was born on 18 November 1961, in the former East Germany (GDR).1 As an adult, he achieved his youthful ambition of serving as an officer in the communist regime’s secret police, the Stasi.2 Neitsch’s office defeated and silenced prominent local opponents of the GDR. The office’s […]

A tale of two Islingtons: How Blair opened the door for Corbyn

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[PDF file]: […] BBC from 1970, he reported for and then produced Panorama. He hit his stride in 1981 with Blind Eye to Murder: Britain, America and the Purging of Nazi Germany, an account of how, post-1945, various German war criminals were allowed to remain in situ and even flourish with the connivance of the UK and […]

British Writers and MI5 Surveillance 1930-1960 by James Smith

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[PDF file]: […] the West was ‘a lesser evil’ that he was prepared to help fight the Russians. This was the same stance that he had taken with regard to Nazi Germany. Whereas in Animal Farm, the Soviet Union is shown as being as bad as the West, by Nineteen Eighty Four, the totalitarian danger has become […]

Wall Street, the Supermob, and the CIA

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[PDF file]: […] 15, 1963, record identifier 124-10215-10313, Records of the JFK Assassination, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). On Brod’s later work investigating ‘Italian politicians and fascists, political parties, Nazi fugitives, CP activities and Soviet and Chinese activities’, see memo from Chief, Counterintelligence Staff to Deputy Director for Operations, September 5, 1975, 104-10310-10003, Records of the […]

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