[…] States.(6) The role of the O’Brien organisation in Britain is similar to that of Marvin Leibman in the U.S.. The first Secretary General of the World Anti- Communist League when it was entirely a lobby group for Taiwan, Leibman began in the China Lobby, went on to the Tshombe lobby (American Committee to Aid […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] dedicated to the preservation of ‘containment militarism’; its stated goal to ‘train young American Labour leaders in the critical issues that divide the Free World from the Communist states’. It received $6,000,000 from Richard Scaife, an ultra-right millionaire who “has made the formation of public opinion both his business and his vocation”. He also […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] conducted in Northern Ireland, is the weakest bit of the book. Based in part in the analysis in Lobster 11 and Smear!, Larkin correctly identifies the anti- communist, anti-subversion alliance formed by elements within Whitehall and a section of the Tory Party but oversimplifies it and makes many errors of detail. For example, on […]
[…] much point, therefore, in speculation on a suggestion that has sometimes been made — that, during the period of the Cold War, MRA’s services to the anti- Communist cause have been recognised by subsidies from official but secret, agencies in the United States or elsewhere.’ MRA certainly looks like an American operation after the […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
