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The Spy Who Was Left Out in the Cold by Tim Tate
[PDF file]: […] when the blockade of Cuba was mounted.) Where the Angleton-Golitsyn nonsense did matter was in British domestic politics. Angleton’s delusions spread to MI5 and thence into the Conservative Party’s right-wing, parts of the military and professional subversive-hunters like Brian Crozier and IRD. This produced a network which believed that Harold Wilson was a Soviet […]
Swedish echoes
[PDF file]: […] Hayward’s brother soon disappeared and all of the other people involved in the smuggling were arrested and convicted. Think of that what you will. John Gorst ( Conservative MP for Hendon North), who had previously met Captain Hayward in the early 80s, made a statement in the House of Commons regarding the situation.1 In […]
Reporting on Hitler: Rothay Reynolds and the British Press in Nazi Germany by Will Wainewright
The EU: A Corporatist Racket: How the European Union was created by global corporatism for global corporatism by David Barnby
[PDF file]: […] Union was created by global corporatism for global corporatism David Barnby Available from Amazon.co.uk for £8.99 The author of this self-published book is a member of the Conservative Party in Witney in Oxfordshire (MP David Cameron) and, more importantly, a member of that party’s anti-EU wing. This is centrally about the background to, and […]
When the Lights Went Out by Andy Beckett and Strange Days Indeed by Francis Wheen
[PDF file]: […] twenties’, ‘swinging sixties’ – irritates serious historians; but in the case of the 1970s it does make a a kind of sense, the decade being bookended by Conservative Party election victories in 1970 and 1979, heralding a return to the market: the half-hearted version under Heath, ‘Selsdon man’, and then the real thing with […]
Tokyo legend? Lee Harvey Oswald and Japan
[PDF file]: […] we will never know it. Postscript Angleton, Epstein, and the creation of Legend Some background on how Legend came about is worth noting since Reader’s Digest, a conservative publication known for its sympathetic coverage of the CIA, heavily bankrolled it. In 1974 Reader’s Digest published John Barron’s book KGB: The Secret Work of Soviet […]
The Clandestine Lives of Colonel David Smiley: Code Name ‘Grin’ by Clive Jones
[PDF file]: […] (SOE). He was parachuted into Albania in April 1943, on the flight out reading Horse and Hound and the Tatler! Jones insists that while he had ‘ conservative . . . leanings’, he was by and large ‘uninterested in politics’. (p. 83) Once again, this seems much too generous. In fact, his conservatism was […]
View from the bridge
[…] of the mid 1970s – control the money supply and you can control inflation – appealed because it was so simple. It took hold, particularly in the Conservative Party, where what became the Thatcherites adopted it and wrecked the British manufacturing economy with it between 1980 and 1984. Margaret Thatcher was a politician who […]
A comment on Simon Matthews’ ‘The Dungavel Handicap: Scotland, Churchill and Rudolf Hess, 1941’
[PDF file]: […] If so, whatever could be gleaned about Hess from this contact could be used against anyone trying to negotiate with him: i.e. Bevin thought elements in the Conservative party were trying to reach a deal with the Nazi regime, and wanted material that would discredit them. Another explanation might be that the enquiry to […]