[…] 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 […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] Labour politics. George Robertson, whose slavish devotion to all things American Galloway ran up against early in his career, is one of them. John Reid, the ex- Communist who is now Blair’s leading studio casuist, is another with whom Galloway has regular done battle, occasionally physically, he tells us. Galloway also goes back a […]
[…] well known. Ron Gostick is the head of Butler’s League of Rights’ Canadian branch and is currently a member of the Canadian affiliate to the World Anti- Communist League.(3) As far back as 1967 Gostick and Butler were referred to as “associates” of the Candour League of Rhodesia.(4) Two of the other ‘associates’ mentioned […]
[…] for the World Wildlife Fund. Reuben Falber An obituary of Reuben Falber appeared in the The Independent 31 May 2006. Falber had been the contact between the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) and the Soviet Embassy in London. Falber collected and disbursed the Soviet government’s secret subsidies to the CPGB from 1958 onwards. […]
[…] and the last thing he would have wished on himself was another Cuban crisis in his first days in office. The FBI, the great seekers of ‘ Communist conspiracies’ may be presumed to be eager not to be revealed as having missed the big one, the only such ‘communist conspiracy’ worth a damn since […]
