[PDF file]: […] than they admit in public. Behind the conservative is the protofascist. (The fascist menace.) In the mirror image, behind the social democrat is the revolutionary left. (The communist menace.)36 As well as being a reflexive response, ‘contamination’ or anathematisation is a tactic used by the left (and right) to attack opponents; and, within their […]
[…] Philby became the primary, if not only suspect as the ‘Third Man’. All three had attended Cambridge together in the 1930s, and Burgess and Maclean had expressed communist sympathies in the pre–World War II era, when it was fashionable to be anti-fascist and pro-communist. But being sympathetic with communists fighting fascism was not the […]
[…] essay I glanced at, US Army officer Michael Ferguson’s short piece ‘The Evolution of Disinformation: How Public Opinion Became Proxy’.69 (Proxy?) Ferguson reminds his readers that the Communist International ran propaganda against the West and that the KGB created the theory that AIDS was a virus engineered by the US military. But Ferguson doesn’t […]
[…] just more of the same. Similar – and more serious – 51 52 Just one example: . charges were made against Bill Clinton. That Clinton was a communist. In fact there are reasonably good reports that he was recruited by the CIA, while a Rhodes Scholar in Oxford, to report on American students in […]
[PDF file]: […] Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics (Costa Mesa, CA: The Noontide Press, 1962), pp. 421-22 15 in capitalist England not significantly better than, say, life in Communist Hungary? Did West Germany build a wall to keep its people from crossing over to East Germany? Were millions of Germans wrong to flee West at […]
[PDF file]: […] NAT. Socialist Bulletin. Frewin cites an appendix in my book Dreamer of the Day showing that Oswald clearly derived his information from a story in the American Communist Party paper The Worker.2 The article in question was penned by ‘Mike Newberry’, who frequently wrote about the far right.3 In June 1961, for example, Newberry […]
[PDF file]: […] who subscribed to Atlanticism and were more committed to détente with the Soviet Union, and the Southwestern ‘tycoon entrepreneur’ types, who tended to be more militantly anti- communist and were more deeply embedded in the oil and armaments industries. Similar formulations were offered by Kirkpatrick Sale in his book Power Shift (1975), which looked […]
[…] Richard Gott’s account (above) of the Guardian’s long-standing pro-American stance made me wonder, for the umpteenth time, if the Guardian had been part of the NCL (non- communist left) supported/penetrated/run by the CIA during the Cold War. In its attempt to regulate the entire Western media in those years, the CIA could take the […]
[PDF file]: […] because the older Dulles brother dies two-thirds of the way through the book. But he gamely calls Allen to his bedside in order to deliver rousing anti- communist words, urging his brother to not only keep up the fight but redouble his soon-to-be-solo efforts. From Allen’s furtive scuttlings around post-war Europe, David Talbot (former […]
[…] lobby of former and serving intelligence and security personnel had been asserting that there was a substantial Soviet threat to the UK in the form of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). Laughable though this may have been to anyone who had contact with the CPGB,12 people like Mrs Thatcher believed that Arthur […]
