[…] German military had co-operated with the Soviet Union. Hitler had been much more reliable than this. He had stopped the military co-operation, he had crushed the alleged Communist threat in Germany and was regarded by many influential figures in Britain as the best bastion civilisation could have against Soviet expansion. The author puts a […]
[…] 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 […]
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
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, […]
[…] Soviet Union as ‘the evil empire’. They thus became useful, minor foreign policy propaganda assets for the Reagan administration. Supporting any movement which was perceived as anti-socialist/ communist, the FCS became cheerleaders for whichever bunch of murderous thugs happened to be getting support from Washington: Renamo and the Contras come to mind. About Mozambique […]
[…] “In most of the possible theatres of limited war…it must be accepted that it is at least improbable that we would be able to meet a major communist offensive in one of these areas without resorting to tactical nuclear weapons”… Official statements reflect a similar approach. The 1956 Defence White Paper remarked that while […]
Inside Intelligence Anthony Cavendish Palu Publishing Ltd. 1987 Although many hundreds of books have been written on British Intelligence, very few have tackled post-war intelligence in any kind of depth or with any degree of reliability. By contrast, we tend to believe that we know quite a lot about the workings of the CIA. But […]
John Diamond Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2008, h/b. No price is stated but it’s around $30 on-line. In The Guardian on 4 March 2009 William Dalrymple wrote: ‘Eight years of neocon foreign policies have been a spectacular disaster for American interests in the Islamic world, leading to the advance of Hamas and Hezbollah, the … Read more
[…] of the “Partnership for Peace Program”, which was established by NATO to strengthen ties with former Eastern Bloc and former Soviet states.‘ The courtship between the ‘ communist’ Shevardnadse and the capitalist James Baker from the days when the former was Foreign Minister and the latter Secretary of State would now end in wedlock. […]
[…] from the endless recycling of anarchy’s glorious past. The last two issues have been excellent, with hard original research on the Masons, the SAS, the World Anti- Communist League, etc. Available from the address above @ 50p plus postage. Author Jonathan Bloch has been refused permanent residence in Britain. A South African refugee, he […]
