Unfree press A recent release of previously undisclosed documents reveals that J. Edgar Hoover ordered the FBI to carry out the illegal surveillance of newspaper labour activists during the 1940s. Also revealed is the fact that informants included journalists who wanted Communists removing from the leadership of the Newspaper Guild.(1) Only following orders Psychologist Stanley … Read more
[…] irresponsible acts”. Prewett called this “an all-time low in pronouncement of US foreign policy”, and mocked the notion that “unless we stop the Alpha 66 raids against Communist Cuba, there’ll be nuclear conflict.” Three weeks later, after President Kennedy ordered strong measures against would-be exile raiders, Prewett rushed to support the exile leadership and […]
[…] peace flight to Britain, six weeks before the Germans invaded Russia. Yet outside the pilots’ log books there exists no official record of their mission. In post-war Communist Czechoslovakia, many ex-RAF pilots were picked by the STB secret police and jailed or drafted down the mines. Stories of their exploits could not be published. […]
[…] which had been established by the Federation of British Industries, the Mineowners’ Association and the Shipbuilding Employers Federation the previous year to monitor – and counter – ‘Communist subversion’ in British industry. Sir George Makgill, Honorary Secretary of the British Empire Producers Organisation and Secretary of the British Empire Union, was employed as the […]
[…] Vice-President, a post from which I resigned and went back to my course. While living in Sheffield in 1977, I had been briefly a member of the Communist Party and Chairman of the Netherthorpe Branch. Pat had told me that Legg’s job was positively vetted; consequently I asked her whether my political background was […]
[…] a tour of duty in Europe, returned to South Vietnam in 1954 as an aide to the above-mentioned Ed Lansdale, to help organize the CIA’s secret anti- communist forces in North Vietnam. As a measure of his knack for deceit and deception, it is worth noting that one of Conein’s favorite ‘dirty tricks’ was […]
[…] a degree of scoffing by certain members of the literati at A. N. Wilson’s passing mention in his recent memoir that Iris Murdoch fed ‘information’ to the Communist Party when she worked at The Treasury in the early 1940s. The late Dame’s widower, John Bayley, has backed up the claim up to some extent. […]
[…] Great Betrayal Nicholas Bethel (London 1984) This is either a ‘snow job’, designed to discourage further research in this area (British intelligence attempts to destabilise Soviet and communist influenced regimes), or is just a poor effort on Bethel’s part. One can’t deny that it is useful – after all, it is the first book […]
[…] state police affidavits justifying a raid on a West Philadelphia warehouse used by convention protesters, troopers alleged that communists were behind the demonstrations. “Funds allegedly originate with Communist and leftist parties and from sympathetic trade unions”, the state police declared in the affidavits. Other funds reportedly come from the former Soviet-allied World Federation of […]
[…] view that looked to the ‘world beyond the grave, of life everlasting’ and the messianism that focused on ‘this world of material power and possessions’. The Russian Communist regime, Knupffer said, was now being forced ‘slowly but surely’ to adjust itself ‘to the wishes and needs of the Russian people’. Since Moscow ‘is no […]
