[PDF file]: […] Freedom. He was also cosy with the leaders of the Ku Klux Klan and, to round off his catholic enthusiasms, was convinced there was a big Jewish/ Communist conspiracy. On 9 November 1963 Willie Somersett (a name straight out of James Ellroy), a professional police informant and childhood friend of Milteer, met with him […]
[PDF file]: […] Furnival Jones, MI5’s Director, no previous Prime Minister had ever shown ‘such enthusiasm for regular up-to-the-minute reports during an industrial dispute’. Wilson was particularly pleased that the Communist Party headquarters was ‘comprehensively bugged’. And he actively encouraged rightwing union leaders to collaborate with MI5. One of the leading figures in the GMWU, Sir Harry […]
[PDF file]: […] important for the United States to put a stop to drug trafficking by some Central American leaders than it was to support them because they were anti- communist.’ 7 violations and relished exposing the hypocrisy of the Reagan administration’s war on drugs. Senators Kerry and Helms were ranking members of the Senate Foreign Relations […]
[PDF file]: […] of NuLab at the top of greasy pole in 1997 was just business as usual. Since the early 1950s America had programmes to talent-spot throughout the non- communist world and promote the rising politicians it thought would support its interests. That Uncle Sam would do this here isn’t surprising: this island was its most […]
[PDF file]: […] ‘gentlemen’ professional soldiers, who came to be exemplified by Mike Hoare. Demobbed at the end of WWII with the rank of Major, and an admittedly virulent anti- Communist, he led the mercenary force which fought in the Democratic Republic of the Congo from July ‘64 to December ‘65. In those intense 18 months he […]
[…] 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,2 people like Mrs Thatcher believed that Arthur […]
[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 […]
