[…] 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
[…] (a) harmless and (b) prevented tooth decay, it wasn’t helped by being adopted by the John Birch Society. Their belief, that fluoridation was part of the international communist conspiracy, was put into the mouth of the character Jack. D. Ripper, the demented commander of the US Air Force base in England, who had dispatched […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] a theoretical framework. He concludes: ‘With the Congress, historical context is everything. In the 1950s it was dedicated to forming alliances between the American and European Non- Communist Left in defence of cultural-intellectual values, and as ideological support for the Marshall Plan and the Atlantic alliance. The time was right, in other words, for […]
[…] AFRICAN CAMPAIGN, NORTH AFRICA, ITALY, FRANCE 1945-74 MP (CON) 1953 JT PARLIAMENTARY UNDER SEC OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS. HEAD OF COMMITTEE LOOKING INTO PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE AGAINST COMMUNIST REGIMES 1954 PARLIAMENTARY UNDER SEC FOR COMMONWEALTH RELATIONS 1947-50 CHAIRMAN BRITISH EMPIRES PRODUCERS ORGANISATION 1962-64 CONSERVATIVE COMMONWEALTH COUNSELLOR DONELLY, MAJOR FRANK MI6 (B) 1946 DEPT Q […]
[…] assassination In October he sent me an e-mail, of which this is an extract. During my research on the JFK assassination I received information that an anti- communist group called the Intercontinental Penetration Force (Interpen) was involved in the operation. Interpen was a privately funded right-wing group that received support from the CIA in […]
[…] this section from the memoir of senior KGB officer Oleg Kalugin, The First Chief Directorate: My 32 Years in Intelligence and Espionage Against the West: ‘In the Communist sphere outside of Europe, we [KGB) worked closest with the Cubans…….The Cubans’ ardour also spurred them to take chances that we, a conservative superpower (USSR), were […]
[…] were running students who pretended to be left-wing to attract recruiters – and presumably without success, since not a whisper of this has hitherto appeared. No more communist threat? If the MI5 brochure offers a very thing version of the organisation’s history, it does answer the question, ‘How have they responded to the end […]
[…] indefinitely, for various reasons, including: the emerging dominance of wealthy diaspora; the creeping commercial expansion of China and India; the eventual maturing of some post-Soviet and post- communist regimes; the emerging clout of some countries of the British Commonwealth; the sophistication of some organisations such as the Arab League; the expansion of the European […]
