[…] 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.
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] during the 1974 election campaign. The idea appears to have been to link the spying activities to the rise in industrial action including the Miners strike – Gold from Prague and Communist influence. But Heath, according to Pincher, was so confident of victory that the idea was dropped. Something along similar lines did appear […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] colony on Mars by 2027 (Isaac Asimov meets Keynes); LaRouche, referred to as ‘Presidential candidate and physical economist ‘ (what, a flesh-presser?) wants a return to the Gold standard; and Jesse Jackson’s ‘Rainbow Coalition’ is described as a “motley assortment of gays, lesbians, nuclear freezeniks, Qaddafi and Hitler admirers, ecology freaks, prototerrorists and other […]
