[…] all critics of their defence policies as puppets of the Kremlin.’ (p. 3) Wilford shows that the relationships between the state and non-state forces in the anti- communist world of the early post-war years were more complex than simply the CIA running things, calling the tune. Had his text not been framed as a […]
[…] stories about how he got into trouble for delivering guns to the Sandinistas in Nicaragua during the late 1970s. Once upon a time, the stories continued, the Communist Party invited him to join. But Ace turned them down ‘because they were too conservative.’ Ace was bright and articulate, in a gruff sort of way. […]
[…] the media treat, for example, the crushing of the Turkish trade union movement under the military regime in 1981 versus their treatment of Solidarity’s repression by the Communist regime in Poland in the same year. Or how they treat the Polish Communist government’s killing of the Catholic priest Jerzy Popieluszko in 1984 versus the […]
[…] takes the reader on a tour of practically the entire spectrum of the American right, from the prosetylising end of the Born Agains to the World Anti- Communist League (as was). If the territory is familiar from other works, much of the detail and some of the perspectives are new. Doing this kind of […]
[…] network reviewed below, trace intelligence gun-for-hire Litvinenko’s activities with the so-called Mitrokhin Commission in Italy, the attempt by Berlusconi to use the Mitrokhin information to fabricate a communist ‘trace’ on his political opponents in time for an Italian general election. (And it seemed to have paid off, too: a communist smear was generated against […]
[…] remember where? And in the same part of the world in a piece in the Daily Telegraph (5 October 1984) there is reference to ‘Renamo’ an ‘anti- communist resistance force’ operating in Mozambique, ‘a movement organised by the old Rhodesian Central Intelligence Organisation in 1977… believed to have more than 10,000 men under arms […]
[…] is not helping Indonesia militarily. It is, however, permitting us to maintain some contact with key elements in Indonesia which are interested in and capable of resisting Communist takeover. We think this is of vital importance to the entire Free World.(2) A Defense Department official reiterated in 1998 that the training program was to […]
[…] rights campaigners, ecowarriors, roads protesters – to help replace the domestic Soviet ‘threat’. If Swampy and his chums didn’t quite make up for the loss of the Communist Party’s Industrial Department, they might help ensure that careers and pensions – the really important things, after all – stayed on track. The British security and […]
[…] industry moving in the crisis… the instant dismissal from all posts in the trade union movement of individuals with a record of past or present membership of Communist organisations’. (2) Later in the year, when coup speculation was more intense, the NF made clear that theirs was no ‘doctrinaire support of parliamentary government as […]
[…] theatre (some of the new information on this epsiode in Summers’ book is important and fascinating). All the constructed biographies of Oswald were in place – – Communist, pro-Cuba, defector to the USSR etc. — but their power and influence on events was diluted by his survival. One can only surmise at what might […]
