Intelligent Warfare: The Memoirs of General Sir Frank Kitson GBE, KCB, MC and Bar, DL

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[PDF file]: A Work of Camouflage Intelligent Warfare: The Memoirs of General Sir Frank Kitson GBE, KCB, MC and Bar, DL Barnsley: Pen and Sword, 2024, £25 h/b John Newsinger What is most interesting about this posthumous memoir by General Frank Kitson is what it does not say, exactly how little it contributes to our knowledge and […]

The Spy Who Was Left Out in the Cold by Tim Tate

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[PDF file]: […] disappointed. Up to the mid-1950s the US intelligence services had gathered very little reliable information on the activities of their Soviet bloc intelligence opponents. Then an anti- communist intelligence officer, Michal Goleniewski, working with Polish intelligence, began leaking them information. Code-named ‘Sniper’ by the CIA, he was by far the most important source the […]

I helped carry William Burroughs to the medical tent

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[PDF file]: […] of these being regarded as important to the future political balance of Europe. The role played by the US in swinging these elections away from the Italian Communist Party and toward the 40 Summer 2010 Vatican-aligned Christian Democrats was seen as a substantial early success for this initiative. Following this, however, the Truman administration […]

More on Hess

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[PDF file]: […] the allegations that he knew Hess. What now appears to be the case is that Harry Pollitt, the defendant in the action (and secretary to the British Communist Party) had picked the wrong family member. When accusing the Duke of knowing Rudolf Hess before the war, he should have chosen perhaps the Duchess of […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] of law, and strong defence 2. To encourage strong transatlantic links between Britain, Europe, and North America 3. To assist and encourage the peoples of the former communist countries and other oppressive regimes across the world as they adopt democracy 4. To foster greater contact between Western nations and those of the Middle East […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] case that JFK wanted to withdraw all U.S. military personnel as soon as was feasible, but that JFK had no intention of abandoning South Vietnam to a Communist takeover on his watch. And, yes, JFK was prepared to continue economic and military aid for many years. This will not be the last word on […]

View from the bridge

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[…] of law, and strong defence 2. To encourage strong transatlantic links between Britain, Europe, and North America 3. To assist and encourage the peoples of the former communist countries and other oppressive regimes across the world as they adopt democracy 4. To foster greater contact between Western nations and those of the Middle East […]

The View from the Bridge

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[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Harold Smith RIP Harold Smith has died. In Lobster 24 I summarised Smith’s account of witnessing the outgoing British state rigging the pre-independence elections in Nigeria which, he argued, lead to the Biafran war and millions of dead. Smith’s story can be found by Googling ‘Harold Smith + […]

The Defence of the Realm

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[…] while trying to stay within their charter, and resisting the siren calls of ‘conspiracy theorists’. In the early 1970’s MI5 had concluded that the ‘threat’ of the Communist Party had declined; and switched resources to what Peter Wright sneeringly called the ‘far and wide left’ – the Trotskyist fragments. MI5’s lack of interest in […]

Historical Notes on Tom Nairn and the British State

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[PDF file]: […] Marx’s second blind spot was failure to appreciate the power and significance of nationalism. His and Engels’ call for workers of the world to unite in The Communist Manifesto was based on the conviction that, even by the late 1840s, the international expansion of capitalism including the working class without which it could not […]

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