[…] second is the extracts from the 1974 diary of Peter Cadogan which describe his contacts with G.K. Young during the period when Young was machinating against the Labour Government with his Unison Committee for Action. PO Box 3069, London SW9 8LU; single issues (including postage) U.K. 1.60; U.S. $4.00, Europe 2.00. Undercover, the British […]
[…] noise ratio is pretty low at the moment. Peter E. Newell (p. 12) has contributed an important essay on the hitherto almost entirely unknown Cold War CIA labour front, the Confederation of Free Trade Unionists in Exile. Tom Easton’s review essay (p. 17) on the history of the SDP which follows, is another important […]
[…] computer-based information handling, only with the computer’s assistance can this kind of intensive information gathering be usefully handled. On Humberside, after a flurry of anxiety within the Labour Party, the Humberside Police Committee awoke briefly from its slumbers, and asked the Chief Constable to produce the Operational Requirements of the system. He refused, instead […]
[…] the pension she was due and resist SIS attempts to get her to spy for them in Parliament. She formed an unlikely long-distance alliance with the left-wing Labour MP the late Bob Cryer who, like her, was interested in the corruption of the parliamentary lobbying system. They never met. Just before their first arranged […]
[…] Outraged, the BBC’s Newsnight organised a studio debate. It did not explain that the person supporting the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee was a leading Labour spin-doctor, Matthew Freud, using the pseudonym Oliver Kamm.On a different subject, presenter Jeremy Paxman referred to ‘surviving a sustained barrage of astonishingly threatening lawyers’ letters and […]
[…] his links to the CIA and the Government didn’t appear to stop his taking on the title ex– CIA. But the biscuit is taken by the US Labour Party who seem to have survived the last decade peddling absolute garbage about Permindex – the conspiracy not only including the Kennedy assassination, but also the […]
[…] remake close relations with some of the leading trade unionists who left in ’57). If that had happened the New Left would have emerged as the non- Labour Party power base for left socialism. It would been not only less open to rightest propaganda but the fact that its organization was amorphous would have […]
[…] Centre for Education in Democratic Socialism in the mid-1970s; and that ‘Jack Hill’ and ‘David Williams’ were two pseudonyms of the same person, an agent for a Labour MP, now dead. But which one? Match me, Sydney! Vicky Woods in the Sunday Telegraph 30 November 1997: ‘I don’t understand why Jonathan Powell finds the […]
[…] the Cold War. Angleton became very important within the CIA. Not only head of counter-intelligence, but also CIA liaison with the Israelis and the FBI; he ran labour operations in Europe with Jay Lovestone; took responsibility for the surveillance of the American opposition to the Vietnam War; and, finally and fatally for his career, […]
[…] situation. In the final chapter there are also policy alternatives to the present shambles which are not a million miles away from the economic nationalism of the Labour left of the 1970s. Some form of economic nationalism, dressed up as ‘green’ economics or not, is the only viable alternative that I can see. But […]
