[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] ‘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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
