[…] 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 […]
[…] (a) that he has exposed some (relatively minor) Soviet operations; (b) made a series of quite bizarre sounding claims to the effect that the divisions within the Communist bloc were a device to mislead the capitalist states in the West; and (c) that the KGB had achieved high-level penetration of all the West’s intelligence […]
[…] the Prosecution to present a list of prejudicial points and assertions which undermined my credibility and character in the jury’s eyes: I was a member of the Communist Party in the early 1970s. Oshchenko was a KGB officer in London in the 1970s and had defected in 1992. Oshchenko recruited me as a KGB […]
[…] India (Natraj Publishers, Dehra Dun) in 1992. (Thanks to MK for this.) But what does this signify? Briefly…. Christine Keeler now claiming that Stephen Ward was a communist, and that she ‘delivered stuff’ to the Russian Embassy. (Independent, 4 November). Assuming this version to be the truth, don’t I remember Peter Wright telling us […]
[…] progress – is political. They argue that the distinction between left and right isn’t meaningful any more. They want to reclaim the humanist, libertarian mantle from the communist movement of old. They hate consensus, have no desire to make common cause and love to provoke what they see as the stagnant agenda of liberal […]
[…] 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 […]
