[PDF file]: […] to Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC), offered him a bribe. Sniffing the political wind in Scotland three years later, Sillars recalls how when he told ‘virulently anti- Communist’ Labour National agent Sara Barker that we could lose to the SNP ‘she was incredulous’. Even before he was elected MP for South Ayrshire in 1970 […]
[PDF file]: […] know: very little is known about Meyer’s role in the CIA in this period.30 The few reports we have suggest that Meyer was an averagely zealous anti- communist (as were most of the Agency’s senior staff) and would have been opposed to JFK’s unstated policy of détente with the Soviet bloc.31 Meyer’s ex-wife was […]
[PDF file]: Robin Ramsay Big stuff or disinformation? The most interesting and important collection of new information that I have seen this year is at . The jancom bit of the URL refers to the Justice for Asil Nadir Committee and there is pretty convincing evidence there that he got screwed. But I was most struck by […]
[PDF file]: […] across the world and at home. Book publishing, art, psychiatry, academia, student organisations, political parties, newspapers, magazines, charities and motion pictures were all incorporated into this anti- Communist crusade.1 And so was anthropology.2 In the first half of his book Professor Price assembles what is now known of the CIA’s (and the Pentagon’s) activities […]
[PDF file]: […] American actions against Cuba, Che’s death and the American-sponsored coups in Guatemala and Brazil. The CIA’s people in the literary field believed they were promoting the non- communist left (NCL to use the Agency acronym), and nobbling those deemed to be too comm-symp (such as Neruda), with material aimed at the actual and potentially […]
