[…] sorts of disgruntled intelligence operatives, former soldiers and arms dealers who were preparing for a coup against what they considered a communist government led by a communist agent – the Prime Minister himself.’ (p. 47) But to my knowledge the personnel of GB75 were never revealed and Bloom offers no source on this. And […]
[PDF file]: […] admitted at the beginning of the inquiry – but impressive nonetheless. The list reminded me of a number of things. There was the comment by former BOSS agent, Gordon Winter that, ‘British intelligence has a saying that if there is a left-wing movement in Britain bigger than a football team our man is the […]
[…] who had contact with the CPGB,30 people like Mrs Thatcher believed that Arthur Scargill, though not a CPGB member, was part of ‘the enemy within’ – an agent of the Soviets. This idiocy climaxed with the murder of police sergeant John Speed in Leeds in a botched psy-op intended to blame striking miners for […]
[…] membership secretary of most left/peace groups in a few months simply because nobody wants to do those chores. The late Harry Newton, for example, an MI5-Special Branch agent, became the treasurer of the Institute of Workers Control. Newton is also said to have ‘penetrated’ CND headquarters.3 On the one occasion I visited the headquarters […]
[PDF file]: […] antics are not out of keeping with such an approach. On the other hand, he was never officer material and clearly didn’t operate as a spy or agent in any conventional sense. He was far too unreliable a character. As well as having a prodigious appetite for alcohol and a wide range of drugs, […]
[PDF file]: […] (see note 18) p. 608. 29 Robert Moss, Chile’s Marxist Experiment (Newton Abbot, Devon: David and Charles, 1973). 30 See McEvoy, (see note 18). Brian Crozier, Free Agent. The Unseen War 1941-1991 (London: Harper Collins, 1993), p. 115. 31 See Jennifer M. Piscopo and Peter M. Siavelis, ‘Chile’s Constitutional Moment’, Current History Vol. 120, […]
