Search Results for: agent
Moscow Gold: ‘the Communist threat’ in post-war Britain
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill
[PDF file]: […] Almost everyone who knew Whitson well believed he was working for some branch of the CIA, operating in various parts of the world as an anti-communist penetration agent and fixer. O’Neill writes, ‘Once he’d consumed me, I found myself fixating on possibilities that I would’ve dismissed as insane only months before.’ CHAOS and COINTELPRO […]
JFK, Chauncey Holt and the three ‘tramps’ redux
End Times: Elites, Counter Elites, and the Path to Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin
[PDF file]: […] discussion of the plot to kidnap the governor of Michigan on p. 209. It turns out that the idea was proposed to ‘the plotters’ by an FBI agent. ‘Nearly half of the paramilitary group that planned to kidnap, put on trial, and execute Whitmer (the governor of Michigan) were feds or informers’. 7 The […]
British Writers and MI5 Surveillance 1930-1960 by James Smith
[PDF file]: […] Koestler and Orwell? An MI5 officer assessed Koestler as ‘one third genius, one third blackguard and one third lunatic’, which seems pretty fair. His trajectory from Comintern agent to Cold Warrior is usefully documented, right up until the time that he became too hawkish for his new employers. Most controversial, of course, is George […]