[…] and that further speculative discussion only plays into the hands of the opposition. Point out also that parts of the conspiracy talk appear to be generated by communist propagandists. Urge them to use their influence to discourage unfounded and irresponsible speculation. To employ propaganda assets to answer and refute the attacks on the critics. […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Project BLUEBIRD, rechristened ARTICHOKE in 1951. To establish a cover story for this research, the CIA funded a propaganda effort designed to convince the world that the Communist Bloc had devised insidious new methods to re-shape the human will; the CIA’s own efforts could therefore, if exposed, be explained as an attempt to ‘catch […]
[…] place since publication.) After their soldiering days Walker and Kitson, who have pieces published in this book, became convinced that British society was facing subversion from ‘ Communist’ activities in much the same way that Malaya (or Korea) had in the ’40s and ’50s. Walker was particularly active in 19741976 in manoeuvres that aimed […]
[…] having the best of both worlds. We traced the original leftist influence to a pal of his at Cambridge when they were undergraduates. This chap was a communist sympathiser and remained in close touch with Mountbatten for many years. …He was not the only left winger engaged in work of national importance by Mountbatten. […]
[…] parties or terrorist groups are included. Similarly useful are listings for now defunct but historically significant groups like Sir Oswald Mosley’s Union Movement, the British and Irish Communist Organisation (BICO), Popular Propaganda (a libertarian conservative group) and the Committee for a Free Britain. Entries attempt to provide current addresses, dates of establishment, names of […]
[…] former LCPA secretary, active in Fiji before coup and in breaking the trade ban in Australia afterwards. John Whitehall – Australian chief of the US-based Christian Anti- communist Crusade, who claims to have been in Fiji during the coup, and was on a lecture tour of New Zealand after it. Colin Rubinstein – right-wing […]
[…] by President Carter because he publicly opposed the withdrawal of some ground forces from South Korea. This may be explained by his membership of the World Anti- Communist League (WACL) which is heavily backed by the Korean Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church. In 1980 Singlaub went to Central America with Reagan adviser and former […]
[…] and race issues into the CPGB and wider Labour Movement. ‘There was nothing Marxist about any of this. These issues were used quite deliberately to undermine the Communist Party and the Labour Movement in general.’ (emphasis added) This is an interesting claim which I have heard before; but, like the rest of the book, […]
[…] America during the early 1960s. In the course of that trip, Jones is found to have met with CIA officers (in Brazil), and to have given anti- communist speeches (in Guyana) – a peculiar stance for a self-declared leftist such as Jones. But the real reason that Dr. Moore battens me into the conspiracists’ […]
