[…] into children at summer camp, attempted behaviour modification on inmates at California’s Vacaville prison and collected powerful toxins from Amazon tribes. Terminal experiments were carried out on Communist defectors who were suspected of being double agents. Mind control proved a fantasy, but academic research on sensory deprivation opened the possibility of a revolution in […]
[…] 28 January 1973) At various times the UCA were said to have been in discussions with the Peoples’ Democracy group, the Official IRA, the British and Irish Communist Group and the Communist Party. The truth of these reports is impossible to evaluate. This is an extremely complicated episode in an extremely confusing period. The […]
[…] Phillips provides the first detailed examination of which I am aware of the various dock strikes during the period. Phillips concludes that the various charges of ‘ communist conspiracy’ made by members of the government and senior trade union officials were spurious, and probably known to be spurious at the time.(1) The one oddity […]
[…] the Labour Party of 1974 was under the influence of the Soviet Union: ‘It is estimated that between 20 and 30 Labour MPs are members of the Communist Party.” And there is a list of Labour politicians “who are belief to be communists and who hold positions of influence”; viz. Labour MPs Benn, Mikado, […]
[…] note at the scene of the murder “arguing that the publisher had been helping the CIA to create a climate of uncertainty in Greece.” The World Anti- Communist League The World Anti-Communist League (WACL) has had a lot of attention recently. Less attention has been paid to the Asian Peoples’ Anti-Communist League (APACL), the […]
[…] British Empire Union as the main enemy of socialism in Britain. (77) The Anti-Socialist Union, founded in 1908 (and, after 1925, known as the Anti-Socialist and Anti- Communist Union), although not directly involved in the strike-breaking of the 1920s, had on its executive committee several members of Baldwin’s Cabinet at the time of the […]
[…] Soviet regime. What had previously been a side-show of the IRD’s attempts to combat communism in the free world, was now the central tenet of British anti- communist propaganda policy.’ (p. 239) This books tells us the story we might have guessed in outline (had we given it some thought). There are no surprises. […]
[…] directors of the Rome World Trade Centre (Centro Mondiale Commerciale – aka CMC); that CMC was used as a conduit by the CIA for subsidies to anti- Communist groups; that CMC had links with the Italian Fascists; that CMC was affiliated with Permindex (Permanent Industrial Exhibitions); that Permindex had been expelled from Switzerland because […]
[…] and told her he could arrange for her to visit Czechoslovakia to see relatives. He painted a rosy picture of life in the country and of the Communist Party. She declined his offers and after some further efforts at persuasion she left the room to join the others. She learned later that he was […]
[…] approved by Searchlight, is allowed to talk to the nationalist /fascist fringe. You’d never guess that messers Gable and Atkinson of Searchlight were once employed by the Communist Party of Great Britain, would you? RR 2. Searchlight – an appreciation If Searchlight seriously wanted fascist activity to decline one might expect it to attempt […]
