[…] known that was what was needed to get rid of him; of his days in the Communist Party when he acted as the courier who took the gold to Moscow, and about his subsequent anxious conversations with Harry Pollitt about Russian comrades who had disappeared since the last time he was over there – […]
[…] 25) was something of a bombshell. In the event it turned out to be a damp squib. However, Laurens Otter wrote to me: ‘Your comments on Moscow Gold seem basically right, but you don’t take them far enough. After Suez-Hungary, though in theory only a third of the membership resigned, it was the most […]
[…] the CIA. There is no parallel here; KGB aimed to ‘subvert the democratic system, where the CIA, even at its most heavy-handed, aimed to preserve it. The gold of Lanaley, Virginia, behind Encounter cannot be held to justify Moscow’s gold backing The Morning Star. Long before the end the myth woven in this book […]
[…] Wright Salmon whose directors include I.L. McKay — also on the board of NZFP. Late 1983: AMEX (SOCAL) gives Gulf Oil a share in the Martha Hill gold ripoff bonanza by selling 15% of its holdings to Brierley through Goodman. Oil Co’s say that only $870 million worth of minerals in Martha Hill while […]
[…] retired but a Treasury insider for many years (his experience stretched back to the aftermath of the First World War and the debates about returning to the gold standard, on which issue he sympathised with Keynes) felt that sterling was in fact undervalued and this was the reason for what he regarded as excess […]
[…] during the 1974 election campaign. The idea appears to have been to link the spying activities to the rise in industrial action including the Miners strike – Gold from Prague and Communist influence. But Heath, according to Pincher, was so confident of victory that the idea was dropped. Something along similar lines did appear […]
[…] colony on Mars by 2027 (Isaac Asimov meets Keynes); LaRouche, referred to as ‘Presidential candidate and physical economist ‘ (what, a flesh-presser?) wants a return to the Gold standard; and Jesse Jackson’s ‘Rainbow Coalition’ is described as a “motley assortment of gays, lesbians, nuclear freezeniks, Qaddafi and Hitler admirers, ecology freaks, prototerrorists and other […]
[…] democrats. At that time (in the early 1990s), as the ultimate ‘out’ group in a Thatcherite world, some of the revisionist Marxist net-works had grabbed the Moscow Gold and freed themselves from the ‘tankies’. They managed to get themselves secure if low paid jobs in the cultural studies departments of universities, in the TUC […]
[…] OBE 1951 CMG 1957 1940 Royal Artillery 1947 F.O. 1948 2nd Sec. Vienna (Operation Silver) 1950 2nd Sec. Berne 1954 Chief of Station, West Berlin (Operation Gold) 1956 F.O. 1957 1st Sec.Bonn 1962 1st.Sec. Beirut – Chief of Station 1968 1st Sec. F.C.O. 1972 Retired (wrote official – secret – history of MI6) […]
[…] in the Azeri newspaper Azadlyg of 6 January 2000: (1) John Sununu (ex-Chief of Staff under Bush snr. and shareholder in the US RV Investment Group exploiting gold mines in Azerbaijan) had been an adviser to the Azeri government, while doing his best to persuade US Congressmen to lift the Section 907 ban on […]
