[…] Ibid. Ibid pp. 72 and 3. Ibid. p. 12. Ibid. p. 13. The American Security Council (ASC) Box 8, Boston, Virginia 22713, USA. ASC is militarist, anti- communist and right-wing. Formed in the mid-1950s, the Council acts as a right-wing think tank on foreign policy and lobbies for the expansion and strengthening of U.S. […]
Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire Anne Norton New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004 $25/£16 What’s the Matter with America? Thomas Frank The Resistable Rise of the American Right London: Secker & Warburg, 2004, £12 Most of us in Europe find it difficult to understand what happened in America on … Read more
[…] the cultivation of home industries, urban renewal and agricultural protection.(7) ‘National Self-Sufficiency’ has itself been the victim of misunderstanding. It was not a flirtation with ‘fascist or communist economics’.(8) It was not an aberration provoked by despair at the failure of the 1933 World Economic Conference to produce a co-ordinated global response to the […]
[…] to play a significant part in colonial life. Smith portrays MI5 working with the Colonial Office, bugging, tapping, intercepting mail — as well as producing inept anti- communist propaganda. Then as independence loomed, the Colonial Office/MI5 team were replaced by the Foreign Office/MI6 people. Smith’s encounter with colonial corruption climaxes with his discovery that […]
[…] 25, p. 342. John L. Wilhelm,’Psychic Spying’ in Washington Post (Sunday Magazine) 7 August 1977. Ibid. Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Radiation (Radio Waves and Microwaves) – Eurasian Communist Countries, Defense Intelligence Agency, Oct. 1976. One such recent device is called Elipton, of which Profesor Vlail Kaznacheyev said: Sensors of the Elipton act on eyes […]
[…] fronted material from MI5’s F Branch. Some of its preoccupations are really quite bizarre. There is, for example, nearly a page about a sculpture of the late communist MP, Willie Gallagher. To whom could this conceivably be of interest outside Gallagher’s patch in West Fife? Information on and other copies of both British Briefing […]
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke I.B.Tauris, London, 1992, £9.95. In his last paragraph the author concludes: ‘Books written about Nazi occultism between 1960 and 1975 were typically sensational and under-researched. A complete ignorance of the primary sources was common to most authors and inaccuracies and wild claims were repeated by each newcomer to the genre until an abundant … Read more
[…] the arms-for-hostages talks, fleshed out the alleged connection. “Drugs go to the bourgeois countries where they corrupt and where they kill, while the arms go to pro- Communist terror groups in the Third World.’ The DEA’s own deputy administrator, David Westrate, framed the ideological rationale for expanding his agency’s de facto jurisdiction when 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 […]
[…] Chapman Pincher subsequently stated the call was made by Victor Louis, the London Evening Standard’s Moscow correspondent; but the only evidence adduced was that Louis was a communist and therefore, one supposes, capable of anything.(5) Earlier this year my annotated examination of the JFK assassination paperwork generated by the FBI’s London office was published […]
