[…] In 1985 Cathy Massiter a former MI5 employee revealed that the agency had kept files on Harriet Harman and Patricia Hewitt with the classifications ‘subversive’ and ‘ communist sympathiser’. Over the past decade there have been many structures put in place to ostensibly monitor the intelligence services as well as to give the public […]
[…] Thatcher’s role after she became Leader of the Opposition in 1975. She was surrounded by spooks and ex-spooks who believed, or pretended to believe, in the Global Communist Conspiracy. What did she believe and do while so many of those around her were muttering that Harold Wilson was a KGB agent? This question is […]
[…] Soviet power blocs was due in part to a number of the early Zionist leaders also having good connections with the leadership of eastern European left and Communist parties. Much early military assistance for Israel, in the 1940s, came from Czechoslovakia. The murder of Bernadotte was organised by a small group that included Yitzhak […]
[…] McGovern wrote of this: ‘In early 1967, CIA analysts, led by a young analyst named Sam Adams demonstrated that there were more than twice as many Vietnamese Communist forces as the US military listed on its books. General William Westmoreland’s staff had reduced the numbers for political reasons. The general was adamant, so CIA […]
[…] of the time. Kennedy, it should not be entirely forgotten, followed Eisenhower/Dulles. Think of all those brave ventures designed to show the world the liberal-progressive (if anti- communist) face of American imperialism: the Alliance for Progress; treaties with the Soviets; and ‘opening to the left in Italy’; the Peace Corps. Interesting moves. Futile in […]
NB. Some of the statements about Colin Wallace in this article are false. Wallace did not set up the “school teacher named Horn”; nor was he having an affair with Horn’s wife. This article, remarkable at the time, was written before Dorril made contact with Colin Wallace. It is clear that there is a continuing … Read more
[…] Challinor wrote that he spent an evening with seamen’s leader Jim Salter just before his death. Slater told Challinor that he had not been part of a communist plot and had never even met the CPGB industrial organiser, Bert Ramelson; and that he had later discussed the seamen’s strike with Harold Wilson who had […]
[…] the Soviet/USSR apologisms, but at the cost of £1.00, this publication represents astonishing value for money. In case your ordinary bookshop can’t get it the publisher is: Harney and Jones, 119 Falcon Road, London SW11. The author, Denver Walker, is a member of the Communist Party and a journalist with “The New Worker”. John Clayton
[…] in late 1956 on orders from William Casey……..Carone said that Paine was approached by the CIA to find and recruit an individual that (sic) was expendable, with communist ties and some type of anti-American background. Carone said that when Ruth Paine found the individual, she notified her CIA contact, identified as George de Morenschild, […]
[…] the historian James A. Nathan. This, says Kwitney, ‘contained sensational assertions’. Kwitney called Nathan to ‘seek documentation’ but ‘his only documentation ….was press clippings, including some from communist and other strongly partisan and unreliable publications, and from small-publication journalists I knew to be unreliable….. he had not tried to talk to the people involved […]
