[…] many with horrific cruelty, even by the standards of the time. He successfully avoided any post-war difficulties, eventually arriving in New York as a bona fide anti- Communist in July 1951. Here, in less than a year, he achieved the remarkable feat of becoming not only a priest in the Romanian Orthodox Church, but […]
[…] Serb nationalist thugs were to blame for massacring civilians in Bosnia? Indeed the same. But wasn’t that lady a member of the central committee of the Revolutionary Communist Party, and specifically, secretary of its front Campaign Against Militarism? So we understand. I have been told that the status of ‘research associate’ is only honorary, […]
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, […]
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
[…] “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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] role in establishing the covert American role in Italian politics just after the war. The USA destroyed Italian democracy in order to save it (from the Italian Communist Party). As the major media celebrate the “triumph of the West’, Willan’s book shows that the USA’s only commitment is to US capital. Though a commonplace […]
Dick Russell Carroll and Graf, New York, 1992 This is one of the most interesting JFK assassination books to have emerged from the movie and 30th anniversary tie-in crop. Given the vast amount of attention paid to Gerald Posner’s ‘Oswald did it after all!’ apologia, Case Closed, it is unfortunate that Russell’s book still hasn’t … Read more
