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A Tale of Two Factions: The US Power Structure Since World War II by Joseph P. Raso

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[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 […]

The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government by David Talbot

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[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 […]

View from Bridge copy

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[…] 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 […]

Gordon Brown: in the country of the blind…

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[PDF file]: […] a local matter which Scottish people alone should try and resolve. He also said that the dispute would fail. He was wrong; and Jimmy Reid, the ( Communist) shop steward, who led and planned the occupation, was proved right. The Treasury figures were not reliable; the amount of money needed to support the yards […]

Thatcher’s Secret War Subversion, Coercion, Secrecy and Government, 1974-90

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[…] ‘a strike-breaking force that included all sorts of disgruntled intelligence operatives, former soldiers and arms dealers who were preparing for a coup against what they considered a communist government led by a communist agent – the Prime Minister himself.’ (p. 47) But to my knowledge the personnel of GB75 were never revealed and Bloom […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] a very good 25 page paper, ‘Zersetzen: Some Precedents’.37 Of this paper Russell writes: ‘Zersetzen is a process of character assassination and threats developed by the former communist East German secret police, the “STASI”, to persecute dissidents. Shockingly, as our spy agencies morph into a secret police, they are using Zersetzen today to persecute […]

Wall Street, the Supermob, and the CIA

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[PDF file]: […] a CIA-backed union in France in the 1940s and then for the CIA’s Radio Free Europe. In the late 1950s he began working with the reformist, anti- Communist democrat José Figueres in Costa Rica. By the early 1960s, with funding from the Parvin Foundation and another CIA conduit, the J. M. Kaplan Fund, Volman […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] and world political and financial world, concluded with this: ‘I’ve seen this kind of intertwining of roles and relationships before. They are exactly what you’d find in communist and post-communist societies. The blueprint the players used in Russia is now being followed by the interlocking handful of Wall Street/government policy deciders to wield increasing […]

Thatcher’s Secret War by Clive Bloom

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[PDF file]: […] ‘a strike-breaking force that included all sorts of disgruntled intelligence operatives, former soldiers and arms dealers who were preparing for a coup against what they considered a communist government led by a communist agent – the Prime Minister himself.’ (p. 47) But to my knowledge the personnel of GB75 were never revealed and The […]

Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The diaries 1938-1943 Edited by Simon Heffer

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[PDF file]: […] ‘Maisky and Rab were closeted together for nearly two hours!’ (3 October 1940) and concluded with ‘Rab had a long conference with Maisky this afternoon; the filthy communist was rude, pessimistic and obstructive’. (27 November 1940) What were they discussing? Channon doesn’t say. He must have known, Zoia de Stoeckl and her husband Alfons […]