[…] Burke’s research shifted its focus and this book is the result: partly the original study of the pro-Soviet exile left in Britain and the formation of the Communist Party of Great Britain, and partly another go round the story of Soviet espionage in Britain, in which story Norwood is a minor element. Depending on […]
[…] the Czarevitch. Others who supported Goleniewski’s lineage included the John Birch Society (through its journal American Opinion), the Philadelphia-based lay Catholic Order of the Carmelites (an anti- communist organisation), the conservative journalist Guy Richards, the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, and the Sovereign Order of St. John of […]
[…] trying to ingratiate himself with Neave in order to get to Neave’s friend Lt.Col. Brush the head of Down Orange Welfare. Neave had much better contacts on Communist infiltration in Northern Ireland than Colin Wallace such as his links, that went back to his post-war work, with the security services. Are the British (mainland) […]
[…] has dug up mountains of new detail, and vividly conveys the preposterous arrogance of the Ivy League, button-down, white Americans who were trying to regulate the non- communist world in the 1950s. In his essay on the CCF in this issue, Giles Scott-Smith argues that Saunders – like almost everyone else who has written […]
[…] connection with narcotics. He was later a key figure in covering up Chiang Kai-sheck’s involvement in the heroin traffic from Asia to the US, publicly blaming the Communist Chinese instead. (He also recruited Jack Ruby as an informant in Chicago in the late forties before Ruby moved to Dallas.) Kefauver’s third mistake, his key […]
[…] into the ‘convenient deaths’ category. Arthur Gavshon (Obituary, Guardian 31 July 1995). Journalist, author, friend of this journal. Ian Greig (Obituary Glasgow Herald 4 November 1995). Anti- communist writer and propagandist; active in the Monday Club and Foreign Affairs Research Institute. Although I am still unclear of his precise role, I think he was […]
[…] extracted from the victims of the Holocaust), and the welcome given to hundreds and possibly thousands of Nazi war criminals into the U.S. to aid the anti- communist effort. Two prominent supporters of this post-war approach were well placed to keep the issue of the Bush family’s involvement as low key as possible. Brothers […]
Searchlight At the beginning of the essay on the Blairites above, I discuss the concept of political contamination, the denigration of people on the left by association – real or fictitious – with ideas or people on the right. The most enthusiastic users of the contamination device in Britain today are found in Searchlight magazine. … Read more
[…] this sect publicly called themselves the Chartists, thus promoting a clear historical connection with the Labour and trade union movement. Their real name, however, was the Revolutionary Communist League and they despised the Labour Party.(7) They had decided to ‘enter’ the Labour Party and work within it to seize political power. Like all ‘entryists’ […]
Turning up the Heat: MI5 after the Cold War Larry O’Hara Phoenix Press, London, 1994, £6 (p and p included) from BM Box 4769, London WC1N 3XX; cheques payable to Larry O’Hara. Since 1945 MI5 has had three main domestic targets: Soviet bloc espionage, the British Left and the IRA. With the Soviet target gone, […]
