[…] all the signs were pointing in another direction. It was a sentiment which was strengthened by war against the common enemy of the USA and the USSR, Nazi Germany. Here was a country which many believed to be characterised by a malignant and evil form of capitalism in which cartels and big business had […]
An extraordinary claim in The Times by the Cambridge historian Professor Christopher Andrew, that Arthur Ransome has been identified in KGB documents as ‘the most important secret source of intelligence on British foreign policy’ for the Cheka, the terror organisation of Bolshevik Russia, has infuriated lovers of Ransome’s work. Unlike Michael Foot, similarly traduced, Ramsome […]
[…] Counter Intelligence) in the I.G. Farben building.” (John Loftus, The Belarus Secret Penguin 1984) Not surprisingly, Bethell ignores the evidence that the Albanians on the CIA-sponsored Free Albania Committee were principally recruited from those “who had previously been denied visas as Nazi collaborators and war criminals. “(Loftus, above). Hardly the stuff of freedom fighters. SD
[…] into a foam-flecked apoplexy, they have charged like a lynch-mob after a silly old Tankie, whose ‘betrayal’ turns out to have been negligible, ludicrously equating her with Nazi war criminals and demanding, effectively, a political show-trial. At the same time they have hypocritically called for the release of a real mass-murderer, General Pinochet. Disappointingly, […]
Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire Anne Norton New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004 $25/£16 What’s the Matter with America? Thomas Frank The Resistable Rise of the American Right London: Secker & Warburg, 2004, £12 Most of us in Europe find it difficult to understand what happened in America on … Read more
[…] Soviet intelligence agent, The Oswald File, op cit, p. 65. I’m not sure what freelance means in this context, but for the Soviets? No. Osborne was pro- Nazi during the Second World War. There are frequent mentions of Osborne in Eddowes’ The Oswald File, but the key text remains Dick Russell’s The Man Who […]
If Truth be Told: Secrecy and subversion in an age turned unheroic Stan Winer Newton (Wales): Superscript, 2004, £10, p/back ISBN 0 9542913 36 available from <www.gardners.com/> This arrived with a note from the publisher which began: ‘We are a tiny radical press operating from a council house in mid-Wales. We aim to make … Read more
A history of ASIO and National Surveillance Frank Cain Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2009, p/b, $39.95. ISBN 978 1 921509 322 Frank Cain was just a name to me but a little googling showed that he is Australia’s leading academic historian of intelligence and security history. This history of ASIO and its antecedents – more … Read more
[…] might like to surprise the organiser, Dr. Alex Hay, at 2 Popes Lane, London W5 4NA (0181 567 6772), by asking him. Lyndon LaRouche Jnr, please note. Information Wanted On: FBI smear campaign against American Nazi Frank Collin/Cohn (1970s) FBI investigation into the Silent Brotherhood (1983-4) Fort Smith Sedition Trial (1988) To the editor, please.
[…] as Home Secretary, and responsibility for MI5, he had to deal with the IRA mainland bombing campaign. Two, he had a long record of seeking to bring Nazi war criminals to justice and was highly regarded in the Jewish community strongly represented in his Leeds constituency in consequence. (1) In his book […]
