[…] was set for the 1980 election in which the Reagan campaign took over the old John Birch Society line and denounced the Trilateral Commission as a pro- Communist conspiracy. The rest is history (and may be the last we’ll ever get.) But there’s more to the story Sanders has to tell. He traces names […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] nothing less than a counter-revolutionary cell, either to overthrow the democratic state (as several P2 members tried to do in the early 1970s), or to prevent a Communist take-over. The members included three cabinet ministers from the Arnaldo Forlani government; the heads of Italy’s three main intelligence services; the chiefs of staff of the […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] to both. One historian observed of Johnson: ‘His political world was ridden with conspiracies, false fronts and secret pacts and agendas. Everywhere he turned, he saw a communist or a Kennedy or, in his most hallucinatory moments, a communist Kennedy …at times Johnson seemed to know that this was all nonsense…But when Johnson slipped […]
[…] Sir John Whitmore.(16) They visited Warsaw in 1974 where they set up a radio receiver, supposedly to receive signals about an imminent alien invasion of Earth. The Communist bloc took a dim view of this, considering (correctly in the case of Puharich) that they were CIA agents and expelling them. Seifer does not dwell […]
[…] Generation membership in its early days a decade ago. SDP activists Other SDP activists receiving early invitations to join the Successor Project were Sue Slipman, the former Communist president of the National Union of Students; Penny Cooper, an old Communist party and NUS colleague of Slipman’s who, like her, was a founder member of […]
Inside the League Scott Anderson and Jon Lee Anderson (Dodd, Mead and Co., New York 1986) This is the only book I know on the World Anti- Communist League. Most of it is new to me but the few bits I am familiar with look accurate, and it is reasonably well documented. It is […]
