[…] a well-regarded Marxist author, trusted associate of Trotsky and key mediator between the Kaiser and the Bolsheviks who arranged, starting in 1915, for the flow of German gold into Russia that funded the propaganda campaign of Lenin’s little band of anti-war Marxists. Some Russian revolutionaries grew to distrust this erratic and ‘Falstaffian’ figure, with […]
[…] payments of £14,000 and £15,000 in 1978.’ In fact, as has been reported in these pages before, Falber’s role as the Soviets’ bagman was first revealed in Peter Wright’s Spycatcher in 1987. Falber’s role had been known by MI5 from the outset. MI5 for whatever reason chose to let the ‘Moscow gold’ continue.
[…] in recommending to Attlee that he make a statement in parliament, the document reveals that MI5 were prepared to allow Attlee to mislead the country.’ () Moscow gold According to a recent piece in The Spectator, ‘…any mention of the word “oligarch” the average Russian reaching for a gun. That’s because much of the […]
[…] R. Wrone’s The Assassination of John F. Kennedy: A Comprehensive Historical and Legal Bibliography 1963- 1979 (Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press, 1980): a volume worth its weight in gold and one that badly needs updating. Guth and Wrone also detail every relevant article in The New York Times relating to the Garrison inquiry. For more […]
[…] from the Holy Land; in Tripoli, in endless coils around the wrist, of pearls or coral; and, worn as a necklace, of silver in Damascus; jet or gold in Beirut and Istanbul.) Garden of Eden story: a brilliant example of layered protection of the status quo. If you get beyond the demonisation of Eve, […]
[…] if not the extreme right. W. J. West would seem to fit into this mould. He has been heard to say that Lobster is funded with Moscow Gold. Although he is a very capable researcher whose books contain some fascinating titbits, West is incapable of putting together the material in a coherent fashion. Often […]
[…] on the subject: ‘Those black boxes contain the names of people who voted communist. In intelligence terms that’s like knowing where there’s several thousand of tons of gold which can be stolen without anyone knowing. Can you imagine British Intelligence not scrutinizing those voting slips? They’d be stupid if they didn’t.’ I am sure […]
[…] and Vatican operations in the 1980s but a veil seems to have been drawn over the transmutation of the lead of national socialism and defeat into the gold of victory over communism and then the platinum of today’s neo-conservative assault on the 1945 settlement. Something happened in the way that political managers of the […]
[…] the post-war military and economic strength of the two superpowers. (41) The resulting pan-European ‘third force’ perspective is well captured in the following Nazi-fascist slogan: ‘Against the gold of America and the iron of the USSR, the blood of Europe’. (42) These radical neo-fascist elements also generally subscribe to a number of notions that […]
[…] are going to take away your enemy. The ‘terrorist threat’ in general, and this recent anarchist sub-theme, is being presented as a free-floating entity independent of Moscow Gold or control. The KGB line is close to being abandoned. The 1970s in Northern Ireland were really the last time our secret state seriously tried to […]
