[…] the road to military action and became the dominant figure in the bomb plot, the recipient of Jordan’s meticulous intelligence.’ Ryan was originally a member of the Communist Party (as was Jordan) and became a Maoist, whereupon he was expelled from the CP in the 1960s. He was always suspected by them of having […]
Veterans of a notorious Miami-based CIA dirty tricks team have boasted that they were helped by British Intelligence officers to sink an East German ship loaded with British-built Leyland buses. Three years after the CIA-sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, the MV Magdeburg was hit by a Japanese ship in the River Thames. When […]
[…] Cubans, Contras) to fund-raise by dope-dealing. This essay focuses on Anslinger as manipulator of Congress, media and the American public, rather than the content of his anti- communist bullshit or his acquiescence in drug-running into the US by the KMT. US cover-up of Nazi scientists Linda Hunt in Bulletin of Atomic Scientists April 1985 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] described as ‘Retired as Director, Central Intelligence Agency’, White is described as ‘Formerly attached to Foreign and Commonwealth Office’. For a fictional account of the new post- communist threat world of MI6, see Murray Smith’s The Stone Dancer (Michael Joseph, 1994). Former soldier Smith dedicates his book to a whole crew of spooks and […]
[…] it was far better to tell what he knew than to keep quiet and allow even a small Soviet victory. A (agonised) patriot and a fervent anti- communist: how does this contradict what we know about Orwell, or lead us in any way to reappraise him? It’s certainly not as though he could have […]
[…] happening. In the light of current knowledge, the Cambridge spy Ring probably emerged gradually from an already existing Comintern operation/grouping, one in which Maurice Dobb, the openly Communist Cambridge academic, mentioned by Riley and then dismissed, was a central figure. Its initiator was Richard Sorge,on a trip to England in 1929. He’d been on […]
[…] threat in Europe, and rarely if ever criticized the Soviet bloc, some on the British right see Searchlight not as a Jewish or Israeli, but as a communist operation. The casual attribution of the labels like neo-nazi occasionally back-fires. In January the Sunday Express ran a piece headlined ‘Traitors: the ultra-right Tories who plotted […]
[…] Alister Watson. Wittgenstein was taught Russian by Fania Pascal, who was probably a Comintern agent and whose husband Roy, like Wittgenstein, lodged one summer with another active Communist, Maurice Dobb. Wittgenstein and Blunt both visited the Soviet Union in the summer of 1935. In the 1920s Wittgenstein wrote of his desire to flee to […]
[…] struggle (and, presumably, give the Polish Stalinists time to organise the coup). Some Grey Wolves came to believe that if the infidel Pope would not inflame anti- communist revolt, it would be better if he was assassinated in a way that would make the KGB look like culprits. Poland would rise in fury, signalling […]
