The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] came from a Soviet disinformation operation.26 This is true. But as Garrick Alder commented: ‘The Permindex story appeared well after an emissary from RFK had met with KGB man Georgi Bolshakov and (through him) told Krushchev that RFK believed that (unnamed) US domestic opponents had killed JFK.27 Also, and more importantly, it appeared well […]

Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics

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[PDF file]: […] leaked him top secret information about U.S. foreign and military policy. In 1957, during a visit to the Soviet Union, the influential pundit was lured by the KGB into a homosexual ‘honey trap’ and photographed in compromising positions at Moscow’s Grand Hotel. At the urging of his friend and neighbor Frank Wisner, former head […]

The Atlantic and its Enemies: a personal history of the Cold War by Norman Stone

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[PDF file]: […] wounded hundreds, there is nothing. He also writes on page 336 of the Red Brigades: ‘For Moscow, Italy was therefore a soft target.’ Meaning what? That the KGB were running the Red Brigades? Has anyone seriously tried to claim this? I looked for other ‘hot buttons’. On Allende: ‘Pinochet was said to have overthrown […]

The View from the Bridge

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[PDF file]: […] admitted finding ‘the magic bullet’ in the presidential limo, says some of the Secret Service agents thought this. Jackie Kennedy and her mother. JFK’s secretary Evelyn Lincoln. KGB officer Oleg Nechiporenko. The KGB office in the USA. CIA officer E. Howard Hunt. Madeleine Brown, LBJ’s mistress. Barr McClellan, a Dallas lawyer. Republican presidential candidate […]

The miners and the secret state

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[PDF file]: […] are in control of the Labour Party! Part of the anti-subversion network took seriously claims from MI5 and CIA counterintelligence officers that Harold Wilson might be a KGB agent (though they had no evidence for this other than the suspicion of a Soviet defector). Thus among the network’s members there was the picture of […]

A Spy Alone by Charles Beaumont

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[PDF file]: […] his identity and I found it unlistenable. 1 ‘Don’t forget that this prime minister went straight from a NATO summit to an orgy hosted by a former KGB officer.’ p. 170 For reporting of the real world incident – minus the orgy claim – when Johnson was Foreign Secretary, see or . 2 1 […]

South of the Border

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[PDF file]: […] The material was to be dropped by plane in the area 23 Reams have been written about this specific subject, including Craig Unger’s American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery (New York: Dutton, 2021) Mary L. Trump, The Reckoning: Our Nation’s Trauma and Finding […]

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[…] The material was to be dropped by plane in the area 23 Reams have been written about this specific subject, including Craig Unger’s American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery (New York: Dutton, 2021) Mary L. Trump, The Reckoning: Our Nation’s Trauma and Finding […]

More on Hess

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[PDF file]: […] Flight conspiracies might well be described as historians, albeit with qualifying adjectives. John Costello, 1943–1998, author of Ten Days that Saved the West,2 with expensive access to KGB files in Moscow, was described as a ‘freelance military historian’. Peter Padfield, 1932–2022, author of three books on Hess, all surmising that Hitler knew that Hess […]

In The Thick of It: The Private Diaries of a Minister by Alan Duncan

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[PDF file]: […] Booth. 1 Taxation Poses to Liberty’, actually has our two authors seriously describing the Inland Revenue as ‘the moral equivalents of the Stasi, the Gestapo and the KGB’. The way forward is the ‘liquidation of the State’, although interestingly they are extremely wary with regard to the National Health Service, acknowledging that there is […]

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