[…] along the lines of sympathy to the Soviet Union or Red China. Those most hostile to Stalinism have tended to embrace Orwell, while those least hostile have tended to parrot Communist slanders from his believing the working class smelled to working for MI6. Scenes From An Afterlife is essential reading for anyone interested in Orwell.
[…] the Hun’. The Allies were, of course, being told a different story. From 1943 onwards one of the Pope’s great fears was that there would be a Communist takeover in Italy. He relied first on the Germans to prevent this (in October 1943, the Vatican actually asked for more German police to be stationed […]
[…] 1958 FO 1959 TEHRAN 1963 1ST SEC FO 1968 SECONDED TO MOD 1972- 1ST SEC FCO RETIRED BAGOT, MILLICENT MI5 (W) IN PRE-WAR MI5. A VETERAN ANTI- COMMUNIST. HEAD OF E1 DIVISION DEALING WITH INTERNATIONAL COMMUNISM, 1945- BALFOUR, MAJ DAVID CBE (1960) B 20.1.03 UNIVERSITIES OF PRAGUE, SALZBURG, ROME AND ATHENS MI6 1939 KNOWN […]
[…] ‘A direct consequence of the reorganisation of functions in 1931 was that the agency which had been employed by S.I.S. and had furnished them with information about Communist matters inside this country came under the control of the Security Service, where it was later known as the M Section .’ So he was working […]
[…] the Coalition of the Willing Catering and Communication Corps. TUCETU The reward to Labour Party chairman John Reid was not long coming once Baghdad fell. The former Communist who turned strongly pro-American is now Robin Cook’s successor as Leader of the Commons. How pro-American is Reid? Remember that after Blair’s 1997 victory he joined […]
[…] was ever off course, they assert that the crash was engineered by American agencies and foisted on the USSR as a way to discredit them, fan anti- Communist feeling and rally American opinion behind the Republican-hawk world view. In other words, “Providential?’ The first news most of us had of the crash came on […]
[…] on all sides of the Cold War, and seeks to disseminate new information and perspectives on Cold War history emerging from previously inaccessible sources in the former Communist bloc. This web site is the latest initiative taken by CWIHP to make available these docments.’ The CWIHP Virtual Library is a searchable collection of documents, […]
[…] the right and the state. But, boy, some of it is hard work. There is a 26-page article with the subtitle, ‘The Curious Case of the New Communist Party, Searchlight and the Nazi honeytrap….(run by a hermaphrodite)’, which is all but unintelligible to me because, as with his pamphlets, the information is obscured by […]
[…] CIA cover is bad journalism’, I argued. ‘It omits this important aspect of The Paris Review – that it was part of the propaganda effort against the Communist and Soviet influence in Europe during the Cold War.’ I went on to explain what I had learned about Plimpton. There was no response. In a […]
[…] the ‘Reagan Doctrine’ of aggressively attacking the Soviet Union’s third world allies and grew into the CIA’s biggest operation. But in parallel with guerrilla assaults on pro- communist regimes, the doctrine of pre-emptive nuclear war was also a gathering force. Reagan’s ‘Star Wars’ announcement of 1983, although presented as a defensive measure, was clearly […]
